Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Nowhere is this more apparent than working in a startup where you are definitionally under-resourced and trying to make big accomplishments in compressed periods of time. It starts seemingly innocent enough. A person at a board meeting starts listing all the people they know at companies a, b and c.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2014

For all those entrepreneurs and startups who can’t yet afford a new age marketing agency, it’s impossible to keep up with “best of breed” marketing activities and strategies. I found some help in catching up via a new book “ Sell Local, Think Global ,” by marketing message expert Olga Mizrahi. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

After listening to hundreds of startup pitches, and reading even more business plans, most new venture investors develop their own favorite list of “red flags” that signal the beginning of the end of their interest. Every startup needs focus, due to limited resources, so setting irrational goals implies overall poor business acumen.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Lime told TechCrunch that 90% of its fleet in Paris is used everyday, and a scooter trip starts every four seconds in the city. They muck up the air , driving climate change and health issues alike. Plus , a driver in an SUV once hit me while I was standing on the sidewalk, innocently looking for a nearby ramen joint.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. In these many exchanges similar questions crop up. Either you’re not a good leader and he shouldn’t be investing at all, or he has no clue what it takes to build a startup.&#. They speak up on every topic. I guarantee this is a bad VC. One quick example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. It’s no fun for either side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

Due diligence is going the next step, to meet and interview all key members of the team, visit the business location and follow-up with early customers and advisors. In fact, it’s really just an in-depth common-sense analysis of key success parameters of any startup to assess the risk before final commitment. Skeletons in the closet.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2010

A lot of us have been in situations where we've shared various things with people--and usually, innocently, have them forward it around, reposted it, and done a lot of things you wish they hadn't done. It's a lot more contextual, and something as innocent as making a comment that you're not happy with your job at the moment can be an issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. It’s no fun for either side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

Other writers, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent over-enthusiasm or over-confidence that can kill your deal. Sleeping giants do wake up. A startup's projections should never be conservative. Our projections are conservative.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The bad news is that patent trolls can squeeze the lifeblood out of innocent and unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the current mess around Lodsys patent No.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2010

Other writers, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent over-enthusiasm or over-confidence that can kill your deal. Sleeping giants do wake up. A startup's projections should never be conservative. Our projections are conservative.” Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2010

In the spirit of highlighting new startup opportunities, I think we need some new companies who can track down and remove unwanted content on the web. I assert that assistance in removing unwanted content is a big business opportunity for more new startups right now. Tags: entrepreneur startup malign internet business.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2014

Whatever your perception may be, an estimated 15,000 attendees showed up for this year’s DefCon 22 , an annual event with talks, contests, vendor-booths, charities, workshop training areas and more. Must show judge before starting and when completed.). ” In addition to a paper list, teams were also given a 3.5″

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and Innocal. I started looking at sensory networks and RFID systems, and saw that there was great market pull for something that gives people better visibility of sensors. We spoke with Dr. Sadr about the firm. Tell us a little bit about your products?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Johnnie Cochran was an effective, albeit smarmy, defense lawyer who would say or do anything to defend his clients (anyone up for a glass of OJ?). A startup-oriented lawyer may not be able to convince a jury of a guilty man’s innocence, but they can guide your adVenture through the menacing legal shoals it will no doubt face.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I decided to water down some details to protect the innocent. Make it clear to him that a narrow attack on us was both factually inaccurate and that it would be damaging to our tiny little startup if he did a “hit job” on just us. And by the next week our user numbers were up. Do other outlets pick it up?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2016

If you haven’t read Diamond, though, I’d recommend starting with “Guns, Germs & Steel” & then “Collapse” but all three are worth reading. 60% of African American men who don’t graduate high school will be incarcerated and 75% of African American men grow up in a household without their father.

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