InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. Brad Feld points out in his widely-read book Startup Communities , that business schools within universities are generally devoid of innovation and thus are not engines of entrepreneurship. Techpreneurs.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In most instances, an entrepreneur’s initial concept is only remotely related to the go-to-market plan that ultimately proves successful. Wise And Feld To The Rescue. Sean Wise and Brad Feld's Startup Opportunities, Know When To Quit Your Day Job is for students B and C. Able to access your target market.

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Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

And I realized that my place at the table isn’t always the opinionated guy debating company strategy but often it’s knowing the smartest people in the market and having close enough relationships with them and having put in sufficient time helping that that I know when I can call in favors. How did I get here? Roger Ehrenberg.

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Networking Startup CTO Coach Email 366

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2010

Well Brad Feld, who recently visited us in LA , quoted Mark Pincus in saying, “be the CEO of your own job.&# So to bring solutions you need to be the CEO of your own job. we are paying less than market. with the pickup in tech hiring we’re seeing a lot of our developers getting calls from other startups.&#.

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Slides Help Ideas Venture Capital 342

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. Our users are web develops, and technical people, who are the companies who are applying to TechStars, and who closely follow TechStars as a community.

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Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market. I’m sure others have, too.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2014

Rather than ask for my opinion on particular companies, he wanted me to do his market research for him, asking, "What''s going on in Santa Barbara? I was checking out your YouTube channel and I enjoyed your recent talk with Brad Feld. Are there any companies I should contact?". Suggest specific, potential referrals.

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Networking Santa Barbara Research Blogging 232

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. “VC and former entrepreneur Brad Feld also blogged about how many of his frat buddies at MIT had become successful entrepreneurs.

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Startup Statistics Entrepreneur Study 289

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? I like how Mark Suster handles the question in 10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups. Lots of thoughts here. " Ummm.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? I like how Mark Suster handles the question in 10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups. Lots of thoughts here. " Ummm.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. I’m on record all over place saying that 70% of my investment decision is the team & 30% is the market. And Austin Murray runs sales & marketing – a role he also held at JAMDAT.

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Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

And just as my gut feel about the likely success of startups is often determined by looking at their velocity of product development and market progress of their product, so too is recruiting a factor in my assessment. Brad Feld and I were discussing the topic at lunch at the most excellent Glue Conference this week in Boulder.

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Startup Technical Review Framework Entrepreneur 335

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

The fact that I invest less just means the company is earlier stage and needed/wanted less or without a product/market fit we weren’t yet prepared to invest more heavily. Like Brad Feld I’m syndication agnostic but I have a slight preference toward working with others. This is the nature of compromise.

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Seed Funding Funding Venture Capital GRP Partners 298

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Ultimately, we're build tools for marketers on top of that. We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. The other amazing thing, is getting access to people like David Cohen and Brad Feld.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. It got worse.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

In VC there are the obvious people including Bijan, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Josh Kopelman and Bryce Roberts. Something like, &# I was thinking about jumping into the demo first before discussing the market. Half baked ideas get refined, new ideas emerge and a two way dialoge develops where a one way monologue once was.&#.

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Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

.” “[Founders underestimate] how difficult it is to get a deal done, and how few deals get funded out of how many deals that are pitched,” said Thomas Flake , Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of bcause , and who has been on both sides of the table. It’s validating that there is a market for their idea. Know Your Stuff.

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Tips Help Slides Technical Review 70

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

This is the market that Wonga serves and they are killing it! Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Big market. Especially for their stage of development. LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C. What I like? What was I thinking?

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. Startup neighborhoods develop more readily in larger cities, like Boston, New York, London, or the San Francisco Bay Area. Institutional capital – markets, system of laws, stability.

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Resource Startup Capital Mentor 131

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. And Brad Feld. Here’s a hack for you. Most lawyers that work with startups are willing to work on a deferred payment schedule.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. Last to weigh in was Brad Feld whose blog post argues that the only 2 terms that should be negotiated are amount raised & valuation.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Blogging 252

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. They also avoid Reg D.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. I love reading Eric Reis, Steve Blank, Clay Christenson, Brad Feld and others. Often it’s not the best course. It globalizes.

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Class Writing Web 2.0 Offshore 334

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

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. This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. So you’re taking all of the pricing risk.

Startup 354

Startup Pricing Equity Venture Capital 354

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. So you developed a product for the mommy community? And then you need to market it.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. The scene will kill you. What went wrong?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2013

Brad Feld seems to write books faster than I can read and write about them. But Brad & Amy take it one step further than I have – they talk about the impact on your personal relationships – most notably with your spouse or partner. Brad was married and divorced in his early 20′s. I’m done.”

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Entrepreneur Startup Writing Social Network 370

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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