Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. On Being an Entrepreneur. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. Long hours.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

Your entire process should be about “testing” whether your prospect has Interest Authority to make a decision Budget Is willing to continue spending actual time with you and analyzing you. Today I want to talk about the process and how to allocate your time. Remember, I was an entrepreneur for 10 years before a VC).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Now there are some firms that have strict rules about not funding pre-revenue companies – that’s different. Traction really is about building a relationship with a VC over time and showing them that you can move the ball forward. Funding is about developing a relationship over time. VC’s are the same.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. Here are some of our top recommendations to get you started: Email Finder Tool – Voila Norbert. Sign up and start using this solution’s simple search interface.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

Alex tells us about how the startup had to reinvent itself during the pandemic, and how it's now taking advantage of the resurgence of the economy to build its business. For example, we'll go to the University, and say hey, Panera Bread has an offer, which you can also add to an email and can go out to your student base.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. My Skype address is bradfeld.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

I spoke about the topic on Fox Business News yesterday in a great session with TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon and will post it along with my other VC Videos when Fox puts it on their website. It’s about building long-term relationships and showing traction over time. ahead of thinking about you). ENTREPRENEUR NEXT STEPS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. He found creative ways to politely stay on my radar screen. He sent me a few nice emails. He was polite about it. Jordan Hudson.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

The problem is that most people in this situation know they are stuck in the position and never try to change or to do anything about it. My boss and my boss’s boss made me all sorts of promises about how quickly I’d be promoted. And from email we added IM, Facebook and LinkedIn where people contact us.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2012

Now that I think about it, I remember when we relaunched Myspace last year and the Pinterest team accused us of basically ripping off their layout. Of course, there has been no shortage of articles about Pinterest lately. While both of those things are relevant to my interests, this article is about neither. Evan Sharp.

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Tech.Co

JULY 31, 2017

After being disrupted with an email notification, an average person will need 23 minutes and 15 seconds to regain their focus again. Yet as an entrepreneur, you can rarely hide under the rock and pretend there’s nothing else happening around you and no one is demanding your attention. According to Fundera survey , only 6.7

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

My friend and fellow SoCal venture capitalist Peter Lee wrote a post about the different roles within a VC and spent much time on the role of an associate. Then there is the EIR (entrepreneur in residence) who is usually at a VC for a temporary period of time and other individuals such as venture partners or operating partners.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

If you have content, APPLY to screen your < 10 min video made in the past year. Email mfgorman@gmail.com if you’d like to demo your gadget, hardware, accessories, etc. If you want a booth, email wonji@nearwoo.com, including a fun activity for the public. SBF attendees should be able to attend for free or at a discount.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. Offline / Online Integration: Think about it, when you shop at Nordstrom they should know as much about you as Amazon does when you’re shopping online.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. We then sorted these email addresses by company and initiated targeted sales campaigns wherever we identified a critical mass of users.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

It’s good advice; the theory being that entrepreneurs can discover the flaws in their business models sooner, make course corrections and move in a more favorable direction. In my case as a young software entrepreneur, I had a different approach: Fail Locally, one customer at a time. I became an entrepreneur by default.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Idea Mensch.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We caught up with EcoMom CEO Jody Sherman , to learn more about the company. Jody--an experienced entrepreneur who was most recently co-founder of a firm he sold to the Virgin Group, and has been involved with such firms as Lycos, Buydirect.com, and Xoom--told us the story of EcoMom, plus how he connected with McClure on the investment.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 19, 2016

CapLinked is founded by two successful entrepreneurs: CEO Eric Jackson, former marketing lead at PayPal ; and COO Christopher Grey, two time founder including Crestridge Investments. You can’t just go into the vault, you need permission, be screened and supervised when you’re in there,” said Jackson. They are great filing cabinets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. You should, too. (no,

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. But, with this kind of an event, you're actually worried about restricting access to only the right people at an event.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The app does: Alerts users before they fall out of touch with important contacts, across email, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter. Surfaces and notifies users about key events in their contacts? MyPeople works as a personalized email digest set to update the user on a weekly or daily basis. See Reminder screenshot].

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

TechZulu recently sat down with east coast transplant Olenka Polak to talk about startup life in Los Angeles. OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 1, 2013

The great thing about beginning your pitch in an awkward manner is that you can alienate the majority of your audience quickly, making the fact that you are unprepared (as outlined in next suggestion) much less relevant. You are an entrepreneur – go for it. Turn your back to the audience and read each slide verbatim from the screen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

If your confidence is low about starting your own business, and you are tempted to “reduce the risk” by signing up for one of the many “work at home” startup offers you see, think again! If there is only an email address, they are likely not a legitimate business. The problem is getting worse. Test the contact info. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Google Social Network Screening 95

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

In his premier film appearance in the blaxploitation send-up “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” Chris Rock inadvertently addresses a key pricing challenge faced by most entrepreneurs. Despite the relatively large-percentage increase, our conversion rate of trail-to-paid customers rose substantially, from about 35% to around 50%.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 10, 2013

I was making about $900 a month, and my rent was $850 a month. Meridian is proof that the skills Joe honed as a YouTuber translate aptly to the big screen. And you have your screening, and you know afterwards everyone comes down. They''ll be mean about it, but they''ll tell you what you''ve done.". Guitar Impossible.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

Yet too often, entrepreneurs embrace giving away their products and services for the wrong reason - they are simply reticent to ask for payment. In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we encouraged usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

First of all, let''s talk about Tillster, for those who haven''t heard of what you''re doing. The vision early on was about fundamentally changing the restaurant ordering experience, by developing a more engaging experience on a kiosk. You received some significant amount of funding last year, can you talk about that?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Loudie allows you to communicate about your favorite artists and concerts on your phone regardless of your location. The Spotlight is shining down these amazing LA companies!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. If you haven’t spent time over there you should.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

That’s right… just about the same amount of time it takes to sell out a Radiohead show at the Forum. Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor).

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Berkonomics

MAY 14, 2020

Even if we were safer at home as we became experts sharing screens in Zoom. But it is easy to envision some entrepreneurs and senior management wondering whether we go overboard for safety as a balance of cost and labor efficiency. How about the tiny startup? How about the extra risk when traveling out of the country?

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