Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

My rationale is simple: everything goes wrong and only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. Final startup grind from msuster. Don’t hire a homogenous team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

Especially today, when more companies are willing to work through outsourcing, freelancing, and contracting. These programs don’t usually ask for equity, and they are particularly targeted to the early stages of your business to facilitate growth and survival. In these cases, you both win by expanding the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. We spoke about what succeeds early in technology market evolutions. As markets grow, the more open and modular systems win.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. In order to reasonably assess the size of your addressable market, you must perform a bottoms-up analysis which is based on a number of elemental assumptions. Evaluate their sincerity by asking them to accept equity in exchange for all or a portion of their overall compensation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Many of the growth equity firms have had outbound dialing programs for years. Growth equity firms typically target profitable businesses that are often not technical in nature. Perhaps outbound dialing / emailing programs worked well for growth equity firms in their core business. These kind of companies were seldom startups.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2015

Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , a provider of technology and payroll services to the entertainment industry, said today that it has acquired by private equity investor Silver Lake. Debt funding for the deal came from RBC Capital Markets, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities and Societe Generale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Most of the solutions in our market are for lots of doctors, and are on-premise solutions, and are really designed for bigger physician groups and hospitals. We''ve raised around $72 million now in equity capital. How did you determine this was the market to tackle, and how did you get into this?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend a small fortune to protect it before I perform any market validation. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The first thing to remember is that banks only do loans – they don’t do equity investments like angels and venture capitalists (and vice versa). Include any empirical evidence--including market research or technical analysis, if that''s appropriate--in order to bolster your case about why you believe you will succeed. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

For example, at any given moment in your business, you may be limited by development, marketing, or sales. Evaluate outsourcing as a quick solution to break the constraint. Of course, they all prefer cash, but some may work for future revenue or startup equity. Investigate strategic alliance alternatives. Think outside the box.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The newest equity model was passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability in the USA, waiting for the rules to be defined by the SEC: Startup equity crowd funding. This is not a get-rich-quick vehicle for consumers. Good-cause crowd funding. Debt-based crowd funding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The newest model was passed into law recently via the JOBS Act , and won’t even be available until the end of this year or maybe mid-2013 in the USA, while waiting for the rules to be finalized: Startup equity crowd funding. This new model will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to fund early startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing.

Satisfaction 61

Satisfaction Startup Customer Custom 61

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The first thing to remember is that banks only do loans – they don’t do equity investments like angels and venture capitalists (and vice versa). Include any empirical evidence--including market research or technical analysis, if that's appropriate--in order to bolster your case about why you believe you will succeed. Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Advisors Startup Equity Ideas 80

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

What if you could combine the flexibility of outsourcing with the quality level of highly skilled strategists? Today, we have Stephen Robert Morse, Head of Marketing and Communications at SkillBridge.co. are reflected in their stable of on-demand, hourly paid consultants and freelancers for a number of business roles: Market Research.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. John Tomich: We've been around for five years.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

While it is impossible to know what the future holds, startup business owners can bank on the fact that potential future buyers will be evaluating their financial statements in addition to the value of their corporate team, working partnerships, marketing efforts, patents, and reputation. Key functions should not be outsourced.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

Evan Britton: I''m an Internet market guru. I love the web and love Internet marketing. We also sold one of our largest sites to a private equity firm in the real estate niche, and narrowed our focus down to FamousBirthdays.com. We never have to worry about monetization, and outsource that to Google. Our revenue is solid.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

The founders could reinvest this in growth (0% tax, focus on future equity growth) or take the profits of $12 million and divide amongst the founding partners. In a booming tech market like 2011 it’s easy to think your business will always expand. In a down market IP can become a huge differentiator.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Clarify who gets equity , and how much. Marketing & PR. Plan your marketing strategy. Decide on a target market and conduct a market analysis. Master social media marketing. Look into relevant trade shows and conventions to market your product. Building a Team. Recommended. Recommended.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Recently, I have been looking very closely at the online advertising market. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits. As an undergradudate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights. Dave McClure. .

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. It results in a lack of focus and diluted brand equity. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. It could take only one moment of negativity to ruin months or years of positive equity. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary!

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

equity debate. A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 9, 2010 This is Part 3 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.? Novel and creative campaigns like the recent YouTube campaign from Old Spice purportedly demonstrate the power of social in marketing. Kudos to John for an excellent pitch.

Startup 191

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. " 34; To which I say "we don't think we can time markets." It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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