Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

The company is all about data solutions which combine meaningful application frameworks together. The CFO requires financial acumen driven from metrics, which can be had from sales and operational information, however, they're often locked into these silo'ed application stacks. How did you get into this?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. When times are bad many cease investment activity all together. Investing is our core business. One month after investing the guy who invested left his firm.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Companies should be concerned about more than attacks on their actual information systems. Deliberate, malicious hacks aimed at compromising sensitive information are a huge problem—but so is user error that takes systems offline. What information absolutely cannot fall into the wrong hands or be made public?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. Not an investment philosophy “ I understand the sentiment of this post and it’s how I view AngelList (like email), but I feel like it loses a nuance about AngelList.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. We're applying that same platform and are now using it for information, commerce, and advertising in vehicles. How did you end up working in the whole area of automotive AI?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

It’s pretty tricky to make money without understanding where that money is coming from and what kind of cost investment it will take to become cash-flow positive. This insight gives you valuable information that you can use to improve your business model. Presumably you’ve started a business with the goal of making money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, it is only from the perspective of future orientation that the decision to re-invest profits, versus distributing them, makes any sense. Test the quality of information available for analysis. Don’t allow information paralysis to delay reaching a decision. Evaluate alternatives through a future-oriented lens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Fred Wilson also wrote on a similar topic in his usual more succinct manner , with a great quote being: “One thing I know for sure is that those who advise and invest in startups cannot and should not meddle in the day to day decision making. Let information flow up but direct your staff and execute through hierarchy.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It’s a very personal topic and I’d like to offer you a framework to decide for yourself, based on the following factors: How Long is it Taking to Raise Capital at Your Stage in the Market? In our best deals we hope to invest $10-15 million over the life of the fund. Is that a lot for them? How risk averse are you?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Although the article is informative, it is the accompanying sidebar that has remained with me over the succeeding years. The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.’

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. Of course websites like Reddit and HackerNews try to weed out such behavior. So, yes, you can buy a best seller.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2011

We know that social media is an investment. So we want to show our customers how to invest correctly in it and grow with it. Then you have the management of profiles and make sure you’re up to date with any framework changes that might be going on. Which of the coming technologies are you most excited about?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software. So back to MBAs.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

Daryl is also an angel investor, and has invested in such companies as MindBody Software and YouMail. and most other countries around the world which follow a general framework, making online agreements every bit as legally binding as paper ones. Explain to me how your service works? and the E.U., I was itching to get my hands on them.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

We have a number of other strategic media companies investing in this, as well, and we're now gearing up for next fall. com and in the GarageBand, user-generate kind of world, is if you give a good tool to the crowd and share it, the information coming from it will be accurate at scale.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

We have a number of other strategic media companies investing in this, as well, and we're now gearing up for next fall. com and in the GarageBand, user-generate kind of world, is if you give a good tool to the crowd and share it, the information coming from it will be accurate at scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. Use something like, “I noticed you invested in a couple of companies in the x,y,z space. In today’s world without our solution they have to enter this information in 3 separate places, which is both time-consuming and leads to errors. It’s subtle.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

I am often asked how we make decisions on investments at Upfront Ventures. A typical investment discussion is not a bed of roses. ” In other words, just because you liked my last investment is no reason for me to be nice now. He took two words where I take 1,000! A company presents. I want “ benevolent dictators.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

For example, if I were to have a room full of bouncing balls, we couldn't share that today because of the amount of information involved. The win is we don't have to exchange all that information. If you have a bunch of bouncing balls, they all bounce identically, and you don't have to exchange information. It's all working.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. This investment would give Uber ATG a valuation of between $5 billion and $10 billion, WSJ reported. billion investment in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

While there is no right or wrong answer, having seen the extremes I’d like to offer you a framework for considering the right answer for yourselves. So why else would they invest if not as an option to re-up in the next round? These are all dumb reason to invest – of course. I love that. And it’s kind of true.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I promised to do this post as a follow-up to the session to provide additional links and information. Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? If the startup lasts into a few rounds of investment, the rounds get larger, and the team grows. What technology research is required? What technologies will we use?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

With today’s overload of information from digital as well as conventional sources, even the best new solutions and services won’t get traction without real marketing. The challenge is where to put those limited resources of every startup, to get the biggest return for your investment.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. John Busher, Harry Balls – a humorous site offering reviews and information about mobile apps, primarily indie games. Mobile first is becoming an important part of our daily lives.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’m in the team centric sphere so every investment decision I make first & foremost centers on this plane. I made an investment in a company with deep domain knowledge. How come you guys only invest when you have proof of success?&# Lately the topic of leadership & teams has been coming up a lot in my daily life.

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