Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). Very few people fund individuals. And a great product starts with the founder. If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies. I’ll make my next posting shorter.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Even the most diligent investors are often surprised by apparently solid business startups that fail, while others succeed, despite the odds. I found this perspective validated in a new book, “ Plan Commit Win: 90 Days to Creating a Fundable Startup ,” by serial entrepreneur and strategic consultant Patrick Henry.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2013

There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. where we totalled up $33.85M in funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

When the masses start all running one way without questioning “why?&# – and when it defies any logic I can figure out in my head – I call bullshit. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. “ Question Authority.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

When seeking the perfect pitch, in baseball and in the startup world, less is a lot more. Entrepreneurs seeking funding should emulate Addie''s efficient and focused pursuit of perfection. When securing funding, entrepreneurs must balance the desire for perfection with the urgent need to ensure the process is efficient.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding.

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Develop Development Product Startup 70

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd catch up with two of the co-founders of Marina Del Rey-based Telesign (www.telesign.com), Ryan Disraeli and Stacy Stubblefield. How did the company start? Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. What were you doing before?

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility. We've translated that into a screening test, which started offering out in October of last year.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead of equity, the company is aimed at profiting profitable small businesses with business debt funding from investors, to help those businesses grow and get to the next level. I studied finance, and worked on Wall Street as a credit analyst, so I understand debt better. How''d you come up with the idea for the site?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Bockerstette, Main Street Venture Fund As I outlined last week, trophy angel investors are always looking for trophy entrepreneurs. The result is that the Main Street Venture Fund consistently has more money available than good opportunities for investment. By Joseph A. Proposition. Participation.

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Funding Startup Entrepreneur Activity 106

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. Before booking a hotel I always check out Trip Advisor and read reviews. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. You should, too. (no, This is all explicit decision making.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

Although it may be comfortable to start a company with your friends, it is a mistake, unless your friend(s) happens to be ideally suited to their role in your venture. Steve Jobs – “So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us?

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Tips Startup Education Entrepreneur 279

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. was starting. You still need the presentation to back that up. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Or, as always, summary notes available below.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors & advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake. I think it’s important for enterprise startups to layer in professional services into your revenue stream. rollout support.

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Software Review Software Services Company 321

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans are a waste of time. Beyond the value to the entrepreneur, let’s take a look at how and when a written plan might add value, or even be required, by other people who may be critical to the success of your startup efforts.

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Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 109

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

This led to massive funding rounds at Bird, Lime and others. There was seasonality, theft, tough unit economics and slowing funding rounds. The company started the year with no revenue and at it’s peak had a run rate well in excessive of $100 million / year. I’d like to share some insights with you. The valuations were too high!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

It influenced a generation of tech marketers. The book popularized the technology adoption lifecycle curve that originally came out of Iowa State University shown below. So the early part of a technology company is about finding your hard core group of early adopters and making them passionate about your products.

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Marketing Customer Custom Technical Review 294

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Thus, while we maintain a healthy degree of optimism, we begin each funding discussion knowing that most nascent startups are not worthy of an investment, until we prove them otherwise. billion).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

But they also take on issues in science, technology and management. I haven’t read the book nor deeply reviewed Project Aristotle but the conversation on this morning’s show really resonated with me. I have a board meeting coming up this week and I just reviewed the agenda.

Coach 150

Coach Technical Review Framework Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

You have built a successful startup, and plan to use the same investors. You need funding, and plan to get it from friends and family. Although technically the major crowd funding sites today, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo , don’t request a business plan, they do require essentially the same information in a project format.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Writing Slides 100

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Jonathan, who was Founding CEO and President of AdColony (which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June of 2014), also told us why he got back in the startup game, even though he could be just sitting on a beach in Bali after his prior success. No one has ever been able to execute on that from a technology standpoint before.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

We caught up with one of the local teams competing in that competition, VOXearch (www.voxearch.com), to learn more about the prize as well as their specific approach to the competition. Mike Outmesguine: We''re one of about thirty teams left in the challenge, out of more than 300 that signed up last August.

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Startup Competition Software Review UCLA 262

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

According to one study, there were over 835,000 people working out of coworking spaces last year. The largest VC backed companies in this space have raised several hundreds of millions in funding to help expand their global footprint. In a coworking space, you have people working diligently all around you.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review Study Web Design Startup 90

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. He praised DARPA for looking to fund “safety first, rather than jumping to fund unsafe work with only a handful of potential applications.” Some see it as a way to eradicate malaria.)

Research 111

Research Technical Review Conference Software Review 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

That’s the right place to start, but real growth and scale requires attracting customers who are not like you. For example, Starbucks found initial success with professionals aged 25 to 40 in urban areas and with moderately high income but later looked to a new market of millennials who wanted a place to sit and chat, study or work.

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Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 55

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

Upstarts create a profile and await its approval, and as they promote their offer, they also review and approve backers who fund them in increments of $1,000 and at times mentorship. According to Girouard on his blog, two thirds of students in the US graduate with an average of more than $23,000 in school debt and end up jobless.

Startup 61

Startup Google Mentor Capital 61

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. Tim Grace: We all get our started at HNC Software in San Diego.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review San Diego .Net 124

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

Frustrated by tradtional recruitment agencies, Greg Schneider , came up with the idea for Hiringbounty.com. Hiring Bounty, based in South Africa is a startup that allows one to reccommend a friend for a job and earn bounty if the friend is hired. I studied a Business Science with Honours in Marketing at University of Cape Town.

Startup 71

Startup Incubator Marketing Seed Funding 71

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. People like Fred Wilson who say let all the small companies fund and bloom, create more jobs, etc.

Venture Capital 232

Venture Capital Slides Seed Funding Google 232

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. For more on Tsien and the rest of the week’s news, let’s get to the roundup.

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News San Diego Journal Technical Review 57

Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

government’s Precision Medicine Initiative is an ambitious effort to collect the genomic data of 1 million Americans, and tech giant Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG ) is deeply involved. That story and the rest of the week’s biotech headlines below. —The U.S. —David H. In the U.S.,

Google 40

Google Technical Review News Research 40

Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

The week started on a reflective note. And hellos: Third Rock Ventures brought in a well-traveled biotech veteran, Steven Holtzman , to run its hearing-loss startup Decibel Therapeutics. After last week’s revelation of three patient deaths in its leading cancer immunotherapy trial, the FDA suspended the study.

News 40

News Technical Review San Diego Startup 40

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees. He de-risked it initially by using it to set up client Time Warner cable boxes.

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IBM IBM Java Google 53

Xconomy

AUGUST 2, 2016

The New York Times reported last week that the NFL and USA Football had publicized inaccurate statistics about the efficacy of a training program called Heads Up Football in preventing concussions in youth football players. As more people are correctly diagnosed, the scale of this problem will become clearer.

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