TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Software development companies tackling services for niche industries, like commercial real estate subcontracting, continue to find Los Angeles to be fertile ground for development. That sentiment is echoed by Liquid 2 Ventures managing partner and former National Football League superstar, Joe Montana. ”
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 14, 2019
In the entrepreneur world, it’s still a popular misconception that the “idea” is everything. Even though investors, like myself, have long made it clear that we invest in people, not ideas, new venture owners insist on talking about their latest “ million dollar idea ,” rather than their “ million dollar team.”
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 21, 2019
It’s encouraging to know that there are still great VC firms like KV that are looking to make these short of big bets on shaping the future. For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 27, 2011
I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. 26:44 Too much capital is not good. 27:45 Eric: The thing that is supposed to fail fast is your bad ideas, not your company. 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. Most people are working on failing ideas.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 22, 2010
So it was my great pleasure to host Chamillionaire on This Week in VC this week talking marketing, entrepreneurship, old media and, of course, music. There are many analogies here for software development. Raising Capital – The VC equivalent for musicians is getting signed by a major label.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
Dat Do: We produce valuation software that solves a lot of complex valuation issues for privately held companies, backed by venture capital and private equity. I came up with the idea, mentioning it to the PwC partners a few years ago. Probably the biggest is that it's not that easy developing software.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
This idea was first articulated by Paul Graham in an old essay, called “ Startups in 13 Sentences ” in which he talked about “making a few people really happy rather than making a lot of people semi-happy.” Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.
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