CTO Demand Venture Capital Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 22, 2010
Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. I just want to figure out what a fair valuation is.&# I figured all the VC’s talked so we should. This starts with understanding how VCs and entrepreneurs often see valuation differently.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 11, 2013
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." Investors demand more than that. What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
Today I’m handing her the largest A-round check I’ve ever written as a VC as we lead her $10 million A-Round at uBeam. As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.
Tech Zulu Event
MAY 28, 2013
Dave’s industry experience includes tenures as CTO and CEO of several successful software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies. He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. CTO at SOA Software.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 13, 2011
They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands. Here are a few that I aspire to: Venture Hacks , by Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant. Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups.
InfoChachkie
JULY 14, 2011
9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Performance marketing also demands accountability. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 5, 2011
There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. Not to mention they have the highest profile VC / blogger Fred Wilson of AVC.
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