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Nothing negative about Positive Food’s meal expansion plan after $7M investment

TechCrunch LA

In January 2020, the company was in discussions with Whole Foods about launching a pilot of its meals in a few stores. He and Chan had to make some tough decisions, including streamlining a lot of the business and costs, and unfortunately letting staff go. However, there was a silver lining for Positive Food.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

” But I went back to the office and talked with Stuart Lander & David Lapter and said, “no prizes for guessing which job Ethan’s going to take.” When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. What do we like about OpenTable? We like to be able to see the concept.

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The most important person on the startup team

Berkonomics

entrepreneur” and by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel”, David is a former Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries. By David S. Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak?

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

And for some strange reason entrepreneurs didn’t share this information. I’ve started from day one trying to build total transparency into my process with entrepreneurs. This starts with understanding how VCs and entrepreneurs often see valuation differently. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. Investors demand more than that.

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

socalTECH

We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. Can you talk about those businesses? The nice thing about those two businesses, is they feed each other nicely. It''s much more about quality, than quantity.

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Startup Software Developers

SoCal CTO

you can get to know Mark a bit more in my post Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller ). Mark tells us: there is a lot of demand for developers right here in L.A. Just saw a great post by Mark Geller - Developers wanted… in Los Angeles, U.S.A. who would love to talk with you. who would love to talk with you.