Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

You can use this just internally for you and the people on your team helping you in the raise or if you have existing investors or advisors you can open it up to share with them. If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm.

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Funding Startup Venture Capital News 215

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

My team was responsible for all of their embedded projects, including TVs, phones like their Wi-Fi phones and video phones, anywhere Skype was embedded into products. My partner, Kaido Kert, also worked for nine years at Skype, where he was architect and lead of the engineering team of these projects together. How do you get to market?

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Demand Startup Southern California Marketing 258

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. they can build teams that really focus on building & marketing great products.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

Santa Monica-based Tala , backed by Google Ventures and Lowercase Capital, has developed a tool that allows anyone with a cell phone to build a financial track record, specially for people in emerging markets. It really goes into two categories, around capacity and affordability. How did you end up starting Tala? It took me 2.5

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Startup Santa Monica Customer Custom 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

In reality, you need to make these projections first as goals for your own use, to convince the team as well as investors that you have a business which is achievable. According to a recent Dow Jones VentureSource report, the average time to liquidity of an equity investment in a startup is now about five years.

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Startup Equity Entrepreneur Venture Capital 97

InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

In this way, you will build your confidence, contacts, and experiences incrementally. Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd. Structure each of your ideas into these six categories. There Is No Try. "You Product Name.

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Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Statistics 243

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Investors invest in people, not ideas. Thus, you become a more attractive investment once you have a proven track record of executing – even if the ideas you executed were relatively conscribed. This will give you more time to build your parachute in mid-air (see “The MBA Education And Other Oxymorons” ). Track Record.

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Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms.

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29