Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Of course, customers love free, but investors hate it. Sales projections are less than one percent market penetration. Even Google, one of the most successful recent companies, only achieved $85 million in their fifth year. Not highlighting people is as deadly as not highlighting the solution.

Funding 98

Funding Startup Innocal Entrepreneur 98

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Heather Wilburn – Founding Member of AdWords Program & Biz Dev Manager for Channel Sales team at Google. Of course, when you’re talking about enabling/emerging technologies, as Brock Pierce puts it, “Market timing is critical to success.” Peter Csathy jumps in to answer questions about content.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Time will tell. Competitors: Knewton.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Google doesn’t know if they’re going to honor our contract? Not all VCs want to be entrepreneurs, of course.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

They cite Quara, Google, Twitter & Facebook as obvious examples. Besides, why call when you can use Google, or send a Twitter message?” Google doesn’t seem to ever take calls from ME when I have a complaint! Google, Facebook & Twitter all provide free services to end users and we eat them up.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Google doesn’t know if they’re going to honor our contract? Not all VCs want to be entrepreneurs, of course.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! If Avesta sees someone drinking Coloft coffee (organic of course), he quickly asks if they’ve sold anything. Stay tuned for the upcoming Ming.ly

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Through having communities center themselves around common interests (genre, artists, even outside interests like Minecraft) content would naturally be screened for relevancy. We saw eye to eye on a lot of things; how we wanted to see a company built, its culture, and of course, our shared love for music. ” Plug.DJ

Startup 107

Startup Product Sites Tool 107

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Of course much of it is conflicting. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. .

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

They monetize via high-priced advertisements during the prime-time airing on TV, via syndication to international audiences or less-watched channels after the original series has run and via DVD sales in retail channels. Of course it’s their right to do so and there is so much money involved you can hardly blame them.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292