Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Even non-profits need money to scale, but their pitch should be to philanthropists, not equity investors. Target market sizing higher than $10 billion. It’s true that investors like large markets, preferably in the billion dollar range and growing, but sizing a startup market greater than the GNP of many countries is just not credible.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

Our intelligent data-driven marketing, seamless transaction engine and licensed REX Agents sell homes faster, create better experiences, and yield huge savings for buyers and sellers. Do they have positive equity in their home? Jack Ryan: One, is how excited the market is about this idea. How long have they livedin their home?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Len Short is truly an online marketing pioneer, heading up marketing at Charles Schwab, AOL and then (PRODUCT)RED. Before his career moved online, Len worked on major marketing campaigns for credit card companies and rolled out MCI’s highly successful “Friends and Family” marketing campaign.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii. So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii. See point 2 below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Professionals maintain that there is plenty of money for equity in qualified startups, and funding marginal startups via any source will only make more people unhappy. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. People who believe the former believe that you should see the market demand before too many people know you’re “in market.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

controlling your psychology ) you no doubt have heard me say that raising capital is a sales & marketing process. If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1?— ?controlling Building models to evaluate the deal and/or reviewing customer files, company financials, business plans, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. Line up an experienced team.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. Instead of advertising, their large, colorful screens are a direct result of these core values. By the way) They also send professional photographers food and products for their venues, then design these bits of media into collages for their clients’ screens.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

When companies come into our incubator, we take no equity, we take no stake in the company, it's completely free for the participant. Is there a screening process or criteria for firms to use the facilities? They screen and score companies based on their application, and if that looks good, they come in for a face-to-face interview.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Gamification.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money. But as the stock market edges ever higher and the wealthier feel healthier, there’s a good chance that American startups will also get their moment in the sun. By Monica Mehta. million in 2010.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. Instead of advertising, their large, colorful screens are a direct result of these core values. By the way) They also send professional photographers food and products for their venues, then design these bits of media into collages for their clients’ screens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The Gust Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. are eliminated during due diligence.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. If this will be a hands on role, then you need to conduct some kind of Technical Screening/test. There's a lot on my blog already around this topic.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 282

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The AngelSoft Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. are eliminated during due diligence.

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Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. If this will be a hands on role, then you need to conduct some kind of Technical Screening/test. There's a lot on my blog already around this topic.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 225

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: It was officially May 9 of 2012, when David and I and others within YP and AT&T decided that given where we were with AT&T, their core focus on wireless, we should figure out how to take the business out of AT&T, so that we would not be constrained on our investments, and we could go after markets in a more strategic way.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. I’ve always been a believer that new competitive dynamics are good for industries because they favor those that are most nimble in responding to the new market dynamics. For starters, what is AngelList Syndicates?

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

We also know we''re not a startup, and don''t have equity to offer. An example of that, is we have a product in alpha in a couple of our markets, where, in real time, a user can fill out a form and it goes out to the top five service providers who we already have vetted and screened. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

While Lift and Uber allow people to request a pickup and ride from screen tested drivers to transport them and their friends safely to and from their destinations, Buddytruck fills a void that the ride-sharing services are sorely lacking, hauling of items. Unlike the two ride-sharing services, Buddytruk isn’t a ride-sharing service.

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FAQ Startup Technical Review Santa Monica 98

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. And I had all the VCs play head games with me.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

I’m challenged getting developers to work with me when I can’t pay them market wages. Poor machine, screen, connection, chair. If your developers have a better machine, screen, internet connection, or chair at home than they do in the office, then there’s a problem. The market is great for developers. That’s correct.

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Develop Development CTO Coach CTO Hire 280

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. And I had all the VCs play head games with me.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

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. All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The goal of any cartel is to control production, distribution & marketing of a set of goods with the goal of maintaining high prices. We are entering the age of “second screen&# TV viewing. I would reduce my equity stake much further. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. He noticed their extremely social tendencies and the potential of a very large market. We talk about all of this in the video. I completely disagree.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy. Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, just like her fellow black turtleneck wearer Steve Jobs, will get the big screen treatment. The full data set has yet to be released.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The second phase was the emergence of influencer marketing, or connecting those influencers to brands to leverage their audiences … Now that influencer marketing has become an established part of the marketing playbook, we are in phase three: tools to help influencers further monetize their influence, like Cameo, and then manage their lives.”.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

billion market cap so he has a history of weighing in early and being right. I almost don’t want to tell you because I love the product and would love for them to stay under the radar screen from investors. 10:30 Question from the chat: How do you define the difference between traditional VC and private equity?

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