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? I’m enjoying being a VC. I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. ” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” for $565 million to Excite.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I was an entrepreneur for years. I must have pitched 40-50 VCs over the years. As I talked about on many occasions when I was an entrepreneur – and blogged publicly about - I learned a lot about my business and myself in these meetings. What surprised me was how seriously many VCs took themselves. Possibly more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. However, a number of them wanted to vicariously experience the startup world through John and Kyle''s venture. February of 2001, Inc.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. A decent showing, but well below a number of larger schools, as the ranking is based on the number of graduates who secured VC funding. Techpreneurs.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. However, a number of them wanted to vicariously experience the startup world through John and Kyle''s venture. February of 2001, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. But I guess you could say the same about VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. In the past century, curators for business information were specialized news magazines like Forbes and Inc., Both Sides of the Table , by Mark Suster.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I need to take some VC meetings. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week. Of course I have.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur. But needed to be seen. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. And the immediate reaction was obvious – that failure can be pretty lonely, too. Of course that’s true. On what it feels like during the struggle.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Then they read about you in the American Airlines magazine or Wired or Recode and they think to themselves, “we should really reach out to that company.” Fund Raising – No self respecting VC would admit (even to themselves) that they are influenced by what they read about you in the press. ” You get the call.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. If you need VC, no better time than the present.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

A profile of the state of the Bitcoin industry and its presence of female entrepreneurs. Pinguino Kolb – Owner of Spelunk.in , an online crypto currency magazine. A clear distinction our female entrepreneurs have made here has been their active decisions to hit the ground running. Bitcoin’s PR War.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Entrepreneurism / Monetization.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. What is Aggregage? Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2016

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2016 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, February 11 from 7 p.m. We will have amazing panelists from Crosscut Ventures, Machine Shop Ventures, Techstars, and more to be announced soon who will share their insights and forecast for startups in 2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. The same Online Dating Magazine estimates that there are more than 2,500 online dating services online in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

When I first got into VC I decided I better have some investment themes. My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. Early online newspapers and magazines were merely digital versions of their physical self.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The size of magazines seems to be expanding, marketing seems to be up and the number of tech announcements per day is dizzying. I was reminded of all this this when I read a blog post by one of my favorite thinkers on the VC market, Bryce Roberts, who talked about “ unfundable companies.&#. Who can keep up with all this stuff?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. I thought, my photos would be photos of women, and be more of a fashion magazine about cars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. The same Online Dating Magazine estimates that there are more than 2,500 online dating services online in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Kind of like a law firm (or VC firm) with four partners but shortened to just two, people dropped off his second two words. It’s the new magazine. Using the fashion-sharing example, imagine turning your shared fashion photos into beautiful magazine-like collages that can be scrolled through, Pinterest style.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. We will have amazing panelists from March Capital, Greycroft, Machinima, Silicon Valley Bank and Amplify who will share their insights and forecast for start-ups in 2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital. “Choosing to bootstrap over raising venture capital has forced us to build a profitable business,” he said. An integral part of CallFire’s success lies in its entrepreneurial roots.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Today Blodget is running one of the most successful financial online magazines, Business Insider. Blodget’s story provides a great insight into the changing landscape of the three world’s that intersect at Blodget’s desk: financial analysis, on-line magazines and journalism. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

My husband is Mark Suster and before he was a VC and blogger he was a startup entrepreneur like you. ” So while I admit that when you aren’t traveling as much the thought of getting on a flight to go somewhere fun and have real downtime with a magazine sounds or a movie sounds so tempting.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Today Blodget is running one of the most successful financial online magazines, Business Insider. Blodget’s story provides a great insight into the changing landscape of the three world’s that intersect at Blodget’s desk: financial analysis, on-line magazines and journalism. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

Online Dating Magazine estimates that there are more than 2,500 online dating services on the Internet in the USA with 2-3 new services opening every single day. Online Dating Magazine says that maybe one in ten will succeed, which is about the same ratio as for startups in general. So are customers. Let’s give it them. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

The ability to objectively critique ones creative output is vital to an entrepreneur. For instance, when a venture capital partner votes for a follow-on investment in exchange for the future support of one of her investments, idea cronyism is at work. Tags: Corporate Culture Entrepreneur The Fringe. Meredith Publishing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm. And as a result their competitors were able to raise a considerable VC round from well-known firms. Their competitors took it seriously.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

From there, I did a couple of internships in the venture capital world, including with Hummer Winblad in San Francisco. Then, we got written up by Time Magazine as one of the Top 50 sites of 2010. I kept making the rounds of Silicon Valley, talking to VCs. There was just some good hype around us. more) READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Richard dropped out of school at the age of 16 to begin publishing a magazine targeted to young people, called Student. Virgin executives describe the company as a “branded venture capital company.” Similar to Tony Hsieh’s parents, Richard’s mom reinforced a self-sufficiency in her son that has been critical to his success.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

Eden Jarrin: We're privately funded, at this time not by venture capital. We were constantly on the Today Show, CNN, Entrepreneur, Time Magazine. Like any entrepreneur, so much of your time is spend raising money. For the first six months, it was in testing and under radar, just among friends and family.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses.

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