Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 27, 2012
David encourages entrepreneurs to stay away from the big tech firms (such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple) because they are hard to compete with. I believe entrepreneurs should, in David’s words, “build big businesses on the outskirts” but I don’t believe that Silicon Valley tech giants will outmaneuver startups.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. He was a really nice and personable guy who had deep domain knowledge in an industry that he’d worked in for 10 years that is in need of technological advancement.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. Slides, please.” I was wrong.
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
A look around technology industry, perhaps the heart of the global revolution, shows a happily working international community all pushing for the common goal of innovation. Even investors and experienced founders are caught in the same net as recently educated graduates looking to build companies. Take the U.S. and Mark Warner (D-Va.)
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 17, 2020
In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. You will have to hone your story well, down to fifteen minutes and perhaps fifteen slides in your presentation. Friends and family investors. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000.
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. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. Is the game over?
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
Let’s review all of our existing investments. Not just tech companies but industrials, too. I’ll bet many of them did a review of their “investment pace&# as in – how quickly should we be investing. And don’t think tech will remain immune. On Mar-6 it hit 6,626 or 53% off its peak.
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