Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Products so innovative that they define a new category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products.

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MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, All of this has fundamentally changed the efficiency of the market, with prices anywhere from fifty to seventy-five percent lower.

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MARCH 2, 2011

We have an informed point of view. We might differ in opinion but not in information sources and knowledge of the issues. Let’s be honest – as professional investors we have ALL been to meetings with other groups of investors where we talk about whether there’s a bubble, price creep, etc. It’s over done.

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We break it down by a number of vertical categories, including Indulgent--all about food, wine, and alcohol; Active--outdoor athletic endeavors; and Creative, which is arts and crafts. Finally, we have an Eclectic category, which are interesting activities which don't fit into any of those other buckets.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. We like to be able to see the concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

In addition, consumers have traditionally been reluctant to share personal information with any non-human entity, fearing some misuse or privacy invasion. They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Norton, Ph.D., Context-comfortable consumers – 27 percent.

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MAY 26, 2011

The way brighter makes that dental care more affordable, is it empowers consumers to find dental benefits, and allows them to compare that by price and reputation. Donnelly is a large, yellow page publisher, and we found that one of the largest categories in the Yellow Pages is dentists. As you know, we sold Business.com to R.H.

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Short answer: no.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

We went a little too fast, and took on too many categories at first. That person would take your information, and either accept it and get back to you, and then place a bunch of phone calls to suppliers to see if could or couldn't be done. Then there was haggling back and forth about price. The results speak for themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Products so innovative that they define a new category.

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MAY 15, 2011

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MAY 6, 2012

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JUNE 17, 2017

I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective? Of course when you think about it it’s kind of obvious but when people make snap judgments about information they hear about companies or read about in the press they often don’t take the time to start to consider the details. The VC-backed businesses sometimes “blow up.”

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Despite winging it, his talk was both informative and delightful. I mean, that''s what entrepreneurs do every day. But that''s what entrepreneurs do everyday. There''s no business category. I was horrified, because I had all these people sending me money -- so I doubled the price, because I didn''t know what else to do.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

To make it easier to explain, we come from a part of the world where there's been email, display, retargeting, programmatic, and social advertising, which allows us to heavily leverage data, testing, and optimize real time results, so marketers can make good, informed decisions. We think that's really important. So, where's the company now?

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. Here are some representative rates that we’re seeing by category. But it still is a major force and it ain’t going away. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

This is not to mention the fight you’ll see if you want to bring in a new investor to lead the next round to set an objective price. Each VC came on with different information, at a different price and with a different risk appetite. And I always encourage entrepreneurs to do reference checking. The Pitfall of One.

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MAY 21, 2011

I can’t comment on its stock price – I’m not a public market analyst. When pressed not enough of these entrepreneurs can answer questions about why users would still be using this product in 5 years, about why their product is going to solve a consumer or business problem that isn’t being solved today.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In non-geek speak this means that there is so much information out there now it’s hard to separate the good stuff from the rest. I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past two years and bending the ears of any entrepreneur who will humor me to hear what I think the solution needs to look like.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

We all know Friendster was the trailblazer in this category allowing people to create personal pages and connect to other people in a LinkedIn style but without the “business&# and with a little more interactivity (let’s face it, for the longest time most users “friended&# people on LinkedIn but then never really did much else).

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APRIL 8, 2016

By doing this, and also by using primarily electric vehicles, we can provide this service at a price which is cheaper than using your own car. In 2011, the on-demand category didn't exist, but in the last four years, the fleet has gone from what was 0 vehicles, to an estimate of 2 million people in the U.S.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

You can search Technorati to find the most popular blogs on the web across various categories. This is a separate segment of referring traffic that warrants its own category. This is the hardest category to give specific “how to” advice. For example, Pricegrabber lets you find all the stuff you want at the lowest price.

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