Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

You want to send just enough to get the meeting (and of course a great deck sells better than a long email) and not so long that you don’t leave a chance to wow the person in your actual meeting. But what about the privacy / confidentiality concern? Compelling. Visually stunning (in this day and age this is becoming a sine qua non ).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

About $1 million. It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs. I hadn’t really thought about it. People seem concerned about valuation. We never thought about it. On the phone … Me: So, you raised venture capital? We raised a seed round. Me: At what price? Him: It wasn’t priced.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

Over the years I’ve written extensively about the downsides of convertible notes for startups such as here , here and here. The truth is that I’ve been warning about convertible notes since 2010 it was first declared that “convertible notes have won.” So how DOES a VC think about financings at early stages?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

.” If you don’t create the message about yourself, the market will. Of course you could start your own company. Of course you could start your own company. As I talked about in “ Is it Time to Learn or Time to Earn ” – overwhelmingly the best economics go to those that start successful companies.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For example, if I'm a competitor to the Citrix Virtual Desktop software, from Vmware, I might want to know all of the companies who are using Citrix, so I can talk to them about how my products are better, and meet their needs. It's all about matching up the capabilities with go-to-market, and looking at some new ways of selling HG Data.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. About a year ago I had lunch with a guy who I believe is an amazing entrepreneur. What about VC’s and Risk? He wanted to raise angel money.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I have started thinking about what the future might look like and I’ve started imagining what I call, “MMOV” or massive multiplayer online video. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

First, for our readers who are not familiar with the whole e-sports area, talk about what the big deal is with e-sports today? Part of it, emotionally, is it is something I really care about. I've been very passionate about e-sports, and very passionate about the interactive industry. That's what's exciting about this.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And of course, the fines are astronomical. Here’s something to think about just from my home: I have three Amazon Echo devices in various rooms, two Ring doorbells, “Hey, Google” on five devices, “OK Cortana” on three, three smart TV’s, one smart 4K player, three desktops and two laptops, two smartphones, and WHO KNOWS how much more.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 18, 2015

No one likes to talk about it, but the odds of an individual startup making it are pretty daunting. If you haven’t legally assigned the property rights to your company, you don’t own the IP even if your co-founder developed it while working on your business. Protect your IP : Patents are the gold standard. Startup Killers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2014

Signaling — An NDA puts other parties on notice that your IP is valuable, not lightly shared, and that you intend to defend it and your business. That said, NDAs should never take the place of solid IP protection. They are an extra layer of security, not substitutes. What’s been your experience with NDAs?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” I know this seems obvious but I promise you that even smart people forget this when talking about profitability. Understanding Profits.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in. if you have a good use for it and we’re excited about your company – fine. Of course a lot of this also comes down to investor trust.

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MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. I have written about the next phases many times. This is all about “leverage” which is the key to success. But alas I must scale with businesses and make money.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For example, if you see a TV spot for Toyota, and then Google it, or you see a display ad on CNN and then open up a tab in your browser, talk about it on Facebook, or even walk into the dealership, we're able to quantify, very specifically, what combination of what kinds of media drove that sale and how that activity interacted with each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Anyone who has ever been around me when I’ve lost at anything I care about will tell you I’m not pleasant. I replay things in my mind about why I lost and I try to correct my mistakes. I lose sleep.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

Whether it’s 10 minutes or an hour, there will be a moment in every meeting where you receive tough questions about your business. Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., Less Is More.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

How about this one? I write a bit more about how entrepreneurs can protect their ideas here: Spilling The Beans. Listing a variety of bread-and-butter IP protection tactics would not have been as compelling. In this particular instance, I was tired and about to sign off for the night. 348 votes by <redacted> .

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

“Many of our clients need help understanding the mechanics of trademarks on the Internet,” said Dr. George Edwards , a software and Internet IP consultant with Quandary Peak Research. “First, companies considering these new domains should get advice from their trademark attorneys about their specific legal issues.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

We spoke with Yan Hui, the firm's founder and CEO, to learn more about the company. What's the story behind how your company came about? Over the course of that, we thought about what the solution might be. What we wanted to do, was focus on the high IP content, where there is a high barrier to entry.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

This doesnt mean that you cant try, of course. Im just saying this so that youdont get your hopes too high about what you can actually achieve. Once youve located the entries that belong to the bot, look for the IP address and the user agent string. The IP address is a series of 4 numbers separated by dots. htaccess ".

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

If taking part-time evening courses is not possible, seek out an online curriculum. Most corporate attorneys can give you general guidance with respect to securing your Intellectual Property (IP) rights, especially with respect to trademarks, copyrights and other non-patent-related items. Money Is Time. Your Lawyer is not a Doberman….

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. And that is what is most disappointing about the feedback I’m getting about Seattle.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. This isn’t a story about Black Swan events. It is a story about the nature of deals themselves.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

As we did not require users to sign in, we were forced to correlate IP addresses with company names, which, in 1999, was an inexact and very manual science. In the course of a few months, despite the cumbersome sales cycle, we finalized deals with a number of former BuddyHelp users including CompUSA, Blackbaud and Cox.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

What is wonderful about this interview is that I got Tom on the record on: what angels look for and how they work? When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

This is of course, assuming we’re discussing console. Concurrently, Scot also sees an overall pullback on original IP’s. For younger gamers, it can be about acknowledgement, one of our most basic needs. She says the money is still in the “traditional” hardcore gamers, the profile of younger boys and men.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

First off, talk about SendLove.to and what is it all about? Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. For example, if you are writing about Barack Obama, you can, with a single click, vote him up or down in the article.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. Of course the sequence of steps is a generalization, so perhaps you’ll have to change it to fit your needs. from the IP address range 65.52.0.0

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