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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges? Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m That never would have happened 10 years ago.

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8 Tasks To Prepare You For Starting Your Own Business

Startup Professionals Musings

These are necessary to attract customers, investors, and give you a line of defense with competitors. Even if your plan seems simple and intuitively obvious to you, writing it down and having it reviewed by experienced friends will moderate your passion and assure you that all key elements are addressed.

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Interview with Scot Lawrie and John Rhodes, Coverfly

socalTECH

For those not familiar with the writing process in Hollywood works, fill us in? We saw that there were a lot of talent discovery programs out there, such as screenwriting fellowships, labs, film festivals, workshops, and writing competitions. That's been our focus, on centralizing talent discovery on the platform.

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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. They really want metrics, not a product.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

That was a really fast stint, we started with only a couple of small customers but ended up taking it to $120K MRR and sold it to Home Depot at a significant multiple above revenue. I didn't really set out to write a book. They got a bunch of investors, including some from Austin. The answer is almost always NO.

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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

Both Sides of the Table

how should you organize teams in a startup? 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. when is the right time to go big with PR?

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience, the key steps I look for always include the following: Testing the idea against customers who have money to spend. Writing down key parameters will force you solidify the specifics, and mentally commit to them. Prepare your marketing story for customers and investors.

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