Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2021

Brian Tracy, in his classic book “ Earn What You’re Really Worth ,” solidifies my ideas on how mentoring, as well as other personal development activities, can quickly increase anyone’s value and income in business. Remember, the best mentors are busy people, and they may be opposed to someone trying to take up a lot of their time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

You got your tech press and your parents are proud. You build a team, ship your product, more tech press, more funding. Your lead developer quit to join the new hot thing. And finally … Since I have this conversation private all the time … No. But reality sets in after the first few battles. Nearly every one.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

The center also asked the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. According to the new report, San Diego now has more than 104 private cybersecurity firms that employ 4,230 people in the region, according to the analysis. —In 2014, 27 percent of the companies reported a mix of government and private customers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Whether it was sticking with bitcoin and blockchain as a sector when naysayers abounded, working to develop talent on my team, or investing in travel and education as a vehicle for personal and professional growth, I find one generally reaps what they sow. Michael Terpin: Biggest lesson is that persistence and hard work pays off.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 29, 2015

rhubarb studios announced today a collaboration with Mayor Eric Garcetti’s #techLA Summer of Civic Hacking to marshal the best talents of LA’s technology sector to address some of the city’s most pressing challenges. Our efforts to engage the private sector and L.A.’s

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. The resulting credibility will help you establish future business development and customer relationships. Do Not Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. Allow the Other Side to Draft the Agreement.

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Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 170

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate. But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. And so you have great local tech press like Business Insider who covers the industry very well.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

No private head nods are given to small startup companies to help them prepare. Any company who develops products reliant on iOS spends weeks crapping their pants before WWDC. Actually, I wouldn’t consider all of them “group messaging” companies but ever since SxSW that seems to be what the press wants to talk about.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This was my second TCDisrupt conference, however my first attending as press. The visible press pass label is a people magnet – most people you pass want to talk, discuss, pitch. I received dozens of long emails each day with press releases, pitches, news and information. Most emails were nothing short of a report.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2012

We press them 24 hours later. He had been working in the 1990′s for a large global real estate developer called Hines ( which he has now rejoined ). We took several breaks for each side to discuss issues privately that were in contention. We take a half a day to agree the points and send them over. We get back our version.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2011

CapLinked , the online platform for private investment funded by members of the “ PayPal Mafia “—announced that it is launching a worldwide pitch competition for entrepreneurs to present their business ideas to a panel of all-star judges from Idealab, Rincon, Rapidfire, and Actarus. says CapLinked CEO Eric M.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2014

In 2014, Sodexo committed $1 Billion to creating a more inclusive global supply chain for its hospitality products, forming partnerships between its local operations and small to medium sized businesses run by women in the developing world. Partners(s): Iqbal Paroo; Andrew Adelson; Alan J. Click here to watch some videos from the event.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. The resulting credibility will help you establish future business development and customer relationships. Do Not Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. Allow the Other Side to Draft the Agreement.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 124

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

I can save tons of development time and I think I can buy it for all equity. It’s far easier (and sexier) to spend your time working on deals – the chase, the negotiation, the secret dinners, the combination of assets, the PRESS STORY! They always have big lovey-dovey press releases. Me: “Zero dilution.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2011

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. If you enter into a development or trial partnership for free, you are allowing the BDC to forestall its ultimate determination of the value of the partnership. As noted in Private Means Private , in order to ensure a healthy partnership, avoid becoming the BDC’s Corporate Beyotch.

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Outsource Development Entrepreneur Resource Press 244

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In fact, many really bright & connected people will privately tell you they’ve put much money to work and still don’t have many exits to show for it. And for some reason this seems like it is seldom talked about in the press as we celebrate every check written and every name attached to them. There is a downside.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The aim, according to the private college’s press release, is to provide “mentoring, advising and access to resources for up to 15 student- and community-run companies with a philanthropic twist.” Social Impact Incubator. Foodworks is expanding into Portland, Maine , and Providence, Rhode Island.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

However Gmail is only private email conversations. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. Alex Benzer: We're in private beta. We've built a tool like Gmail, for all of your public conversations, as a Chrome extension witin Gmail.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Yet the best and the strongest founders are able to overcome the stresses, the self-doubt, the sacrifices and the risks and they press on with optimism every day anyways. Good press and industry mojo wasn’t enough to overcome the financial metrics of the business and the offers came in at more like $10 million. It was not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Most estimates of the expense for compliance and accounting procedures of a public company are at least double, or maybe quadruple those of a private company. Higher administrative expenses. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Increasing government regulations. Disclosures of information.

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Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 89

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

I think this is so engrained in the psyche of many Americans that in times of great need many still won’t speak out publicly about what they say privately. I know what you all say privately — I’ve heard it. He has questioned why the US would develop weapons unless we were prepared to use them preemptively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Most estimates of the expense for compliance and accounting procedures of a public company are at least double, or maybe quadruple those of a private company. Higher administrative expenses. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Increasing government regulations. Disclosures of information.

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Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2013

Brian Tracy, in “ Earn What You’re Really Worth ,” solidifies my ideas on how mentoring, as well as other personal development activities, can quickly increase anyone’s value and income in business. The best approach is to ask for small focused blocks of time, maybe just ten minutes, in private, and be prepared with real issues to discuss.

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Mentor Startup Coach Entrepreneur 102

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

In order to do that, what we did is instead of focusing on the front end apps, we worked on developing our own, back end unified communications platform, which gives us a the ability to offer telephony and text messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing. Bryan Hertz: So far, we've been funded by private, family office investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I suppose I should have imagined that this line would get more press than all other comments combined. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. What I believe is happening is that private-market investors are getting ahead of themselves for fear of FOMO: fear of missing out. Fair enough.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

Most estimates of the expense for compliance and accounting procedures of a public company are at least double, or maybe quadruple those of a private company. Higher administrative expenses. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Increasing government regulations. Disclosures of information.

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Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2012

Brian Tracy, in his new book, “ Earn What You’re Really Worth ,” solidifies my ideas on how mentoring, as well as other personal development activities, can quickly increase anyone’s value and income in business. Remember, the best mentors are busy people, and they may be opposed to someone trying to take up a lot of their time.

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Mentor Coach Entrepreneur Press 94

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. I believe this makes Twitter the perfect ecosystem for development. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

This was a chance to blow open the story on their companies, to address a room full of potential investors, mentors, partners, customers, and press. They’re going to be huge for private e-commerce retailers. Honestly though, it was anything but. Look out for this company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2016

We have have the ability to handle private, off market selling, where people have to request access to view information, and we also have a broker portal, with a CRM system for brokers, where they can keep notes on buyers, see what proof-of-funds they have, and other information. How are things done now in the market?

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Technical Review Startup Mobile Marketing 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Sometimes it’s to brag to everybody else that they got the private invitation code. I think so many Silicon Valley firms skip this step because when you’re a developer your core competence is building product and not thinking about markets. As per Chris’s article, Techies will use your product.

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From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

Yet despite his ability to raise over $1 billion of private equity and to build an organization that is worth $5 billion as of this writing, Mason was shown the door. Groupon raised seven series of private equity before going public. Money raised from friends and family typically come with few constraints and very simple terms.

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Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

However, this is a huge mistake when overpriced and underperforming 3rd party agencies supplant core competencies and skills that need to be developed internally. Comparison Syndrome – Large companies often have a public superiority complex, and private inferiority complex. Many times this is a great use of capital resources.

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Entrepreneur Company Companies Outsource Development 55

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. I say that because that’s what I experienced in my private meetings with Troy as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

Here’s the thing: entrepreneurs who aren’t at all of our private meetings really didn’t know what do think about the situation. But having lived through 3 downturns in my working career I have developed a point-of-view. Just look at what happened with Yuri & Ron funding the YC deals. I read 95% of my email.

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