Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2013

This is sad, since “how to write a business plan” is a frequent topic found in every business journal, and a common title in the business section of every book store. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. What is the definition of a good business plan?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2012

This is sad, since “how to write a business plan” is a frequent topic found in every business journal, and a common title in the business section of every book store. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. What is the definition of a good business plan?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. Understand that for every article they write they need “an angle&# and if you can’t help shape that you’re not likely to get inches. A funding announcement is a stand-alone event.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

According to CEO and co-founder Ariel Diaz speaking to the Boston Business Journal Boundless Learning materials are customised for use on tablets,iPads and can be read like the print materials. The post Boundless Learning Wants to Replace the College Textbook for Free appeared first on TechZulu.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

With top-ranked accelerators Lauchpad LA closing its doors and Y Combinator rebranding itself as a seed fund, it seems fair to ask the question, “Are Accelerators Dead?”. My Forbes co-contributor Geri Stengel concurs that something is happening in the Volunteer State, writing last month about that state’s emerging women entrepreneurs.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

At Pepperdine, I co-founded the Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law -- only the fourth scholarly journal in the history of the Pepperdine School of Law. I'm impressed that you got a journal created at the law school. You are writing about the essentials of business. That's great.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. Journalists aren’t going to write about you all the time unless you’re Facebook. You wasted that opportunity with that journalist and that journal. Use it as an excuse to get a journalist to write about you.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I have talked extensively about “social proof&# in fund raising in the past. Lead investors and follow investors can both win equally but in each case you know why you personally are writing the check. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Gabe Grifoni: I had actually transitioned to the writing side, and focusing on tech. That got me to CES for some technical writing and journalism, and I started checking out the scene. It's kind of the two halves that got me here. How did you go from marketing and advertising to a hardware startup? That's how we got our start.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. It is such an under-discussed issue as we spend our time in startups mostly talking about products, marketing and fund raising. Both are basically people businesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

We had users, and even when people wanted to give us money – they wouldn’t even have known how to fund us. In addition to running operations, Mahbod is an avid editor of the site as the highest rated editor in “Poetry Genius” He writes poetry regularly and makes it a point to annotate his work as he composes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2010

I wonder if more college students ought to take a journalism course for a semester or do an internship at their school newspaper in investigative reporting. FUND RAISING: I was once in a fund raising meeting. I’ll likely write about other question strategies at a later time. Some quick stories.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Andrew Lih (@fuzheado) - Author of The Wikipedia Revolution; journalism prof. Barry Schuler (@BSchuler) - former CEO of AOL, Ex Producer of LOOK, Managing Director DFJ Growth Fund. Bruce Sallan (@BruceSallan) - I'm a former showbiz guy who writes a dad's column. Adam Zbar (@Tap11) - CEO, Tap11. Ali Cobrin (@AliCobrin) - Actress.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

started working on improving US politics joining Lawrence Lessig’s group Change Congress in its efforts to get the US Congress to pass a bill that would make it mandatory for every major political candidate to have an equal amount of funds for their campaign. In 2011, Swartz was indicted on federal charges of illegally downloading over 4.8

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

Do you intend to modulate growth based on organic cash inflows or do you plan to seek outside funding at some point? Short term it will be based off of organic cash inflow, but we’re not against taking funding at some point if strategically it makes sense.”. 5) Your adVenture has been cash positive from the outset. Build an elite team.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

Do you intend to modulate growth based on organic cash inflows or do you plan to seek outside funding at some point? Short term it will be based off of organic cash inflow, but we’re not against taking funding at some point if strategically it makes sense.”. 5) Your adVenture has been cash positive from the outset. Build an elite team.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Fund Raising – No self respecting VC would admit (even to themselves) that they are influenced by what they read about you in the press. It’s much hard to get funded as a company nobody has heard of. There is no attribution on that inbound phone call. PR pays dividends in Biz Dev. Give your champions ammunition.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We were 6 months away from our next fund raising cycle. The story ran in the print edition of a major news journal. There were no follow-on articles in the tech press or even other online mass media journals. I felt it was a hit job on us and didn’t refer to anybody else in the industry. This wasn’t great.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. MUST be on this list!!

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Venture Capital Funding 7. ► October (1) New Video! . Relaxing 2. Incubation 3. Go-to-Market 5.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. UFA Widows and Childrens Fund The Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York distributes donations directly to the families of fallen firefighters. It’s all dumped from memory without further thoughts and didn’t face a syntax checker. Thanks for your time.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This post was originally published in a shorter (more sensible) format in the Wall Street Journal online. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy.

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