Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” ” Of course I agree with this. Of course we fancy ourselves as the best sales people in the company. And of course the VP of Sales had the ultimate call.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. It seems to me that we obsess too much with product features, sales pipelines, competitive pressures, fund raising and such.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We track which investment firms and which investment partners are a good fit for each company we have back so that we don’t have a scattergun approach to fund raising. The reality is the best angels, the best seed funds and the best A-round investors have choices about whom they will refer deals to and are very selective.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. If your closet is full of clothes and your credit card is full of debt – of course you’re going to trade clothes with other people rather than only buying new stuff. What are the Types of Collaborative Consumption Companies?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. From the article: Mithril had its best moment yet last week when a portfolio company, Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson for more than $3 billion — returning at least $500 million to the fund. All appears well. billion it has already coughed up.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. Of course a lot of this also comes down to investor trust. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

I don’t really care if I’m wrong as long as I’m not dogmatic if evidence later shows we need to change course. They over think the decision framework. Check your legal framework. The world is filled with people who don’t like having to put their neck on the line and say what they think. But here’s the thing. Take some chances.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2013

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. Make sure the inspiration that launched your vision isn’t lost in the course of a pivot or market change. Revisit your startup vision and values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2012

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. Make sure the inspiration that launched your vision isn’t lost in the course of a pivot or market change. Revisit your startup vision and values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

But you can’t secure the funding needed to scale. . Not that good old fashioned leg work isn’t still required of course.). Today, we have Ryan Feit, CEO of SeedInvest to give us a bit more insight on some important key points – useful for any founder who’s looking to raise funds. Introducing SeedInvest.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Of course, they could use new technologies that they are not familiar with, but is that really what you want?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. An investor called the founder, spoke for 30 minutes on the phone and committed to funding having never met the team. Most VCs fund companies with a degree of traction.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. And if it’s not I’m generally not that interested in funding it. So back to MBAs.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Simplistic as this framework is, it goes a long way to describing how we should think about drug pricing. In these cases, the government can help by funding basic research through the NIH, and the FDA must release the brakes on drug development. The third scenario is, of course, the most painful.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2011

We removed all of the features and bloat that plagues other forum software, and created an addon framework so the forum owner can use Vanilla as the basis on which they can build their vision of how their community should appear and function. Are you Funded? How did your company get its initial funding? We are funded.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Of course as a frequently traveler I know this, too. Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. They are there to help you correct your course when you want to make decisions that their history and wisdom tells them might lead you into a dark alley. Crowd funding now exists.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

While there is no right or wrong answer, having seen the extremes I’d like to offer you a framework for considering the right answer for yourselves. Plus, if you need more money it’s far less for each to dip into their respective pockets to fund you. These are all dumb reason to invest – of course. I love that.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. 10:15 Do you the LPs are more open-minded to single VC funds today?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. Nah, of course not. VCs fund people all the time with no traction. They fund people with no customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, including StartupAmerica , and CoFoundersLab. Of course, discovering your entrepreneur type is only the beginning. Ultimately, most get the best help from business advisors and mentors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain.

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