Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

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MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. ” His argument is as follows. Rob does it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

Even if one disagrees with the premise, why would anyone feel the need to attack Mike for writing it? One beautiful thing about being a private company is you get to test your pricing, your packaging, your product roadmap, your executive team and your fund raising strategy without public scrutiny or competitors gaining this knowledge.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. Price creep hurts investors. But it also hurts entrepreneurs – Mike asked people about what they were doing to keep prices down. There is no way for people to keep prices down – it’s a competitive market.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Out of 41 companies who submitted their software for approval, only three were accepted--us, McGraw Hill, and Peoples Education. We've also been at a big discount to the other firms for the first seven years we were around, we were half the price of Kaplan and Princeton Review until last year, when they both dropped their prices to match us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product? I am a very big believer in education and especially higher education. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. Jamie’s ethos led him to price at just $3 / user / camera / month at a time when traditional home security companies’ monthly fees were so unaffordable.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com),

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

In my discussions with Korean friends they tell me that there is big pressure in Korea to work for large companies like Samsung over startups (this is similar to what I experienced in Japan) and that the more educated and hard working ones family was the more pressure to join a prestigious firm rather than starting a company or joining a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. Pricing information. A program manager would traditionally be responsible for: Writing the detailed specification for how the software should work. Communicating with the developers who write code.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Our marketplace is organized like a used item marketplace, like Amazon or eBay, or Craiglist, in that a seller lists an item, picks a cause, and sets a price. All of that is taught at UCLA by the more senior students and professors, a mix which provides an incredible education. We keep fifteen percent via fees to grow the marketplace.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

I am not writing about this out of the blue – this seems to be the topic of the day in my social stream based on blogs written, retweets rendered and attaboys handed out. But this often requires relatively large sums of money and it implies writing a check in a company whose future is uncertain. That might actually seem fair.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. Like Steve Blank, Dave McClure, Dennis Crowley, Evan Cohen, Gary Vaynerchuk, John Price, Angelo Sotira and many, many more. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es

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InfoChachkie

MAY 18, 2015

I am sorry to disappoint the MBA crowd, but estimating the value of your startup stock options is not something you can do using the Black-Sholes option pricing model. This variable is obviously an educated guess, at best. 7. What is the Exercise Price of my initial options? Questions To Answers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. Take us through your features?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Now the price is closer to $100 if you are willing to do the work yourself. Budding entrepreneurs and home-based businesses should be writing business plans before they start, so they understand and can manage the tasks ahead, but no outside investor need ever see the plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly. For example, everyone would agree that a cure for cancer is a worthy solution, if you can show evidence that it works, and can be replicated and sold for a rational cost and price in the market today.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. Can you talk about the pricing and how the business model works? For an educator, it helps to bring classroom training to life. But, it didn't seem scalable. We have patents filed on this process.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. Their platform helps couples improve their communication and interactions through their “LoveTips,” and will help support planning and executing activities such as ordering flowers and writing love notes. Price: $1.99

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Once you prove that a substantial, addressible market segment is willing to pay a price for your solution that exceeds your costs, you can consider a licensing strategy. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements. Thus, I will let my Big Dumb Company (BDC) partner write our agreement. 4) Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. And who cares, right? in their 20′s. What could be more capitalist than that? Chief Vesting Officers)? The Aqui-hire Business.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

My response was brief and straightforward, which is common of popular Quora answers (as discussed in How To Write An Effective Quora Answer ). Although my answer was off-the-cuff, the question caused me to consider the issue of raising entrepreneurial children in greater depth, which led me to write this series.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

This move is indicative of the possibility that the traditional ways of going about making a living through a college education, an entry-level position at a firm, and steady promotion through the ranks is a dead model. The caveat is that these young entrepreneurs have to drop out of college to do it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

In a bear market executives are paid to: consolidate the number of contracts and renegotiate prices. A seed deal hasn’t already been “priced up” to a range where a new investor might be concerned about the valuation relative to performance. Valuations may have changed and “price discovery” in private markets is harder to determine.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. Higher education. But it still is a major force and it ain’t going away. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls. Home alarms. Home gym equipment. Real Estate.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. MUST be on this list!!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money? Either this thing has legs and will grow fast and we’ll raise at a very large price or we’re going to ‘fail fast’ &# Me, “What? How do I know this?

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