Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

How do you find somebody that is exceptionally bright, driven and accomplished and yet still be humble enough to understand that the founders we back are the ones who have invented technologies and have to live with the day-to-day decision-making and hard choices. Watching him develop over the past 4.5 I mean this seriously.

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APRIL 10, 2014

One of the interesting things about being a VC is that you often see companies in transition. In a VC business when you raise additional capital you need to “level up” and act the round you are. I have seen many companies raise their first $3 million and still act like a company that has no resources at all.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

I know with a title like that I’m going to subject myself to people thinking I’m just being a grumpy, exclusive VC. I get emails all the time from people asking me on a first date and saying, “how about if I buy you dinner.” You become an easy second date to accept. That’s not the point.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

One of the least understood parts of the venture capital industry and venture capital firms is how investment decisions actually get made. The truth is that each firm is different and there isn’t one standard but over the years I’ve talked with enough of my peers to get sense of how many firms work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

One founder who gets more attention from a company’s success while one feels slighted and becomes jealous and resentful. One founder who gets more attention from a company’s success while one feels slighted and becomes jealous and resentful. Of course it makes no sense to have great people management and a crappy product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

Lots of discussion these days about the changes in the VC industry. The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

She learns how to ship product, how to deal with merchants, how to hire product managers. Note: if you’re a parent please check out their website. Kara called me on a Tuesday. She was leaving IAC to start a company. “Tasha, clear some space on my calendar tomorrow. Does that work for you?” ” Kara came.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

Most of the big VC funds just keep getting bigger and bigger over time, so it makes it hard for them to play in this kind of market, especially if they have to travel. This morning's interview is with Kevin O'Connor , a longtime investor and serial entrepreneur, who is now running venture capital investment firm ScOp Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

I’m enjoying being a VC. I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. I’m sure everybody has their own definition of the attributes of an entrepreneur. The obvious answer is yes. It’s addicting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. How do you get referenceable customers? How do you get referenceable customers? I believe it’s flawed.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2015

While every state has a slightly different definition of nexus, it is generally defined as, "a physical presence, employee, or products stored in the state." A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! which have a sales tax.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

about their marathon 4-hour sessions to get to zero inbox or somebody else claiming email bankruptcy ( definition if you don’t know it already ). It has become part of modern life. They become responsive to the priorities that other people set for them rather than their own important tasks. ” Brilliant!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. You can read Brad’s views of how to do it in his book. You can read Brad’s views of how to do it in his book.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I definitely don’t rule out first timers – I just invested in one to be announced soon who I am really excited about – but I greatly prefer experience. I definitely don’t rule out first timers – I just invested in one to be announced soon who I am really excited about – but I greatly prefer experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Sometimes these markets never appeal to “normals&# (Chris Dixon’s definition) and other times it needs to be more effectively marketed to normals. If you didn’t read that yet it might be worth having a quick skim as a primer. It influenced a generation of tech marketers. We are evangelists. It looks cool, but I can wait.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2019

We caught up with Randy Saaf , the CEO of Lucid Sight, to learn more about how exactly the company is doing that, and why. Lucid Sight recently announced a $6M funding round from such investors as the ML, Salem Partners, The Galaxy EOS VC Fund, Digital Currency Group, Breakaway Growth, Frontier Venture Capital, and Animoca Brands.

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Examples Startup Platform Venture Capital 157

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I have talked about this publicly a great deal – how I prefer “missionaries” over “mercenaries.” It becomes an extension of self rather than a job. How could these statements live in the same sentence? *. I know because I marked the occasion with a blog post on how to have a great VC meeting.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

How did you decide to found the Alliance? However, every time I'm in Silicon Valley, I'm reminded on how saturated its is becoming here, and how it's a victim of its own success. We sat down with Steve to chat about what the Alliance is working on, and why he decided to champion the growth of the technology industry here.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2015

Most of us party less often, almost never cart off last minute to some island for frolicking and almost definitionally become less narcissistic. Why do we do all that we do? Is it for the money? The recognition? Is work a part of life and life a part of work? These aren’t generally the thoughts of 20-year-olds. “Of course I work!

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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. This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. I wonder how the shunned three are going to feel when you make your millions? I know that people have an allergy to lawyers out of fear of being screwed. the link is here.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The largest VC backed companies in this space have raised several hundreds of millions in funding to help expand their global footprint. The largest VC backed companies in this space have raised several hundreds of millions in funding to help expand their global footprint. Coworking has exploded globally over the past two years.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

How we do that, is for each of our participants, we create a dense, dynamic data cloud. How is this different from other DNA testing startups and services out there today? There's been a revolution in the amount of information that can be gathered about our genetics�driven by automated gene sequencing equipment and advancement.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. Those are broad areas, but we are not doing some deals like we have in the past, in biotech and other areas.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. Last month they turned the tables on me. What I enjoyed was that Derek did his homework on me and allowed me to talk about a lot of personal topics, which I rarely have the chance to do.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

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APRIL 22, 2010

I’m not staying become a lifer. I’m not staying become a lifer. The next quick thing I look for is how long people stayed at their jobs. This is part of my startup advice series. This post isn’t going to be popular. I’m sure of that. That’s OK. And it’s important because it’s true.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

So sticking to my definition of “attributes for success&# it had to be my Top 11 +1 rather than a Top 12. I started with a Top 10 list for Nivi (at VentureHacks), but I couldn’t cram it into 10 so it became a Top 11 list. Made ME laugh, anyways. It will be controversial – I know. Are you launching a mobile application?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

How much dilution should I take for it?&# My friend’s company was pre-revenue. He has raised (and spent) a ton o’ VC money. There is a telltale sign of an inexperienced startup entrepreneur. They get premature merge elation. I understand this. I was a premature merge elater once. Here’s what I learned: 1.

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Technical Review Startup Press Pricing 276

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

How does Carpooling work and where can it be used? Users can choose who they want to travel with, how much space and comfort they need, where they want to meet and what they’re willing to pay. With over 1 billion cars in the world, Carpooling says it should be possible for everyone to have access to affordable transport.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? does make it seem like it's a lot of work.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work. As a fourteen-year veteran of the venture industry I have often heard the phrase, “value added investors”, which is usually touted by certain VC’s as their biggest differentiating quality.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I must say I’ve become a regular user of ShopperSeeks every since this interview. Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? Which got me thinking about how I would go to a store and find something I liked, only to be disappointed when they didn’t have it in my size or color. That was half-true.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Lately I have seen a number of deals announced on TechCrunch in which 5 or more different VCs were participating in the deal. When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&#

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Pricing 314

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. Raising money is hard. Of course much of it is conflicting. Executive Summary.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

*. What is the role of a VC for entrepreneurs? I suppose it can be different for every founder and for different VCs but I’d like to offer you some context on what I think it is and it isn’t. They become obsessed with why the problem exists and they start chipping away at ideas for solving the problem.

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