Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. He instructed me to call the potential customer instead and ask for a meeting. It felt like heresy. It would be rude!?!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If they did they would be in constant violation because VCs often see 3-4+ companies in every market that they operation. If they say yes you get a term sheet and once this is signed it is usually 3-6 weeks until your legal docs get signed and you’re funded. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you exist).

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. By mid-2011 he noted, “As seed accelerators have exploded in number world-wide, it’s become nearly impossible to keep this (Google Doc) working.” This growth led Jed Christiansen to base his master thesis on the impact and efficacy of the phenomenon.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers. It's little known, but we were going to sign the docs on a Series A two days after we got the LOI for TeleNav. You've got to listen to the market and provide the solution that resonates. We had more customers, and more repeating.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 19, 2016

The California-based team plans to use the new round to grow their team, marketing efforts, and further grow the company. CapLinked is founded by two successful entrepreneurs: CEO Eric Jackson, former marketing lead at PayPal ; and COO Christopher Grey, two time founder including Crestridge Investments. Gigs and gigs of data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

According to Michael Tasner, in his book “ Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. are appearing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Others schedule long and exhaustive practice and coaching sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone tells the most positive and consistent story. Set up an interview room, stocked with current docs. Update reference customers, partners, and vendors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

According to Michael Tasner, in his new book “ Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. are appearing.

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Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It’s a fun company, but customer acquisition is the biggest challenge we face. We have 34,000 customers already, but we need more more more. Throughout the day, I typically refresh our new customer tracking to see how many new customers have been booked for the day. That’s all the doc could tell us.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

But knowing so many people who were there I would find it VERY hard to believe that it was anything other than people BS’ing about trends in the market. They don’t have market power. A large percentage of my inbound email is what I consider “customer service&# and I dedicate as much time as I can to that.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Plus, when compared to the other laptops on the market, Chromebooks tend to offer the most features for the lowest prices, making them a sweet deal. This works if you base much of your work on online platforms or cloud software like Google Docs, Dropbox, etc. Google Chromebook Pixel.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

What the entrepreneurs were really saying is, “I don’t want to take a lower valuation now, while I don’t have customers or a full team. Can you imagine investing in the stock market where your price was determined at a future date and the better that company performed the HIGHER the price you paid for that investment.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. Additionally, the site allows lawyers to market their legal services by sharing expert advice and engaging in discussion. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! We hear they might bring something special to this event….wonder

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Golfers won’t have as many injuries and for golf courses, it gets people through the course earlier resulting in more customers. Besides using excel sheets and word docs to organize, there was no other easy way. There are 4 golfers to 1 trainer and it’s only $12 per person. This was Nick Lumpp’s problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

They know what is “market&# for your recruits in terms of base, bonus & stock options. But as it goes to the legal docs naturally 20 issues arise the require negotiations. Very customer focused. This is the skilled bit that you can’t effectively manage. They’re also good at screening candidates.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

API call could handle shortening the URL for you, I prefer to create one before I post and add it as a custom field. Scroll down to the bottom of your post to a section called “custom fields.&# Though a Bit.ly This lets me track click-throughs for Twitter in one place (for me, on the bit.ly You’ll be given a short URL.

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