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APRIL 8, 2010

I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! I’ve already written about why I invested in this company so won’t go on and on again. Also in the video: - Is it a good idea for VC’s to pay stratospheric prices? - now (or ever). Burstly ( Led by … me! - IPO market is back.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. First, over time Salesforce.com’s technology got better and better yet the price didn’t shoot up dramatically relative to Siebel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. That would mean 6 firms drive $24.5 billion in returns. Yeah, true.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

But being in the public eye has its price, and when the bubble burst, The Globe shattered as well. Only problem is, investors have their own short term agendas and generally tend to get awfully loud when there’s a slight dip in the stock, just ask Yahoo, or me, when I took TheGlobe.com public. Is Paternot jaded?

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Social Network Yahoo Media Networking 110

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. I think this classifies as a “crack filler&# and I’m not sure I would have done the investment for that reason. We had a big discussion about DST and why these investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook.

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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. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Course Invest Yahoo 91

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Startup Course Yahoo Invest 97

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Such cultures, those industries, are what drives investment, talent, and success to those locations, as the entire ecosystem is designed to foster growth therein that very culture. Retail pricing intelligence provider Blacklocus ; who was picked up by Home Depot, making ATX the home of their innovation center.

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Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

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MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! Each of your angels or seed investors may have 20-30 investments. What Rob wrote in his post is right.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

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JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. That’s healthy.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. in Computer Science.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2016

In a survey published this summer by digital health investment firm Rock Health, respondents were generally positive about sharing their health records and genetic data. It even has a price guide.). Those concerns are shared by the public. But they did not view tech companies as trustworthy stewards.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

No matter how much large clients tell you they want transparency in pricing, they always seem to fall for the same old trick. Competitors price low to get in the door and then nail them with scope control, change orders, product extension costs and other hidden items. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. As shown at left, Google’s initial go-to-market strategy included syndication of its search capabilities to third-party sites, including Yahoo and AOL. Forgo Change of Control or Agree to a ROFO or ROFR. Serve up World-wide Distribution. Relinquish Joint Intellectual Property Rights.

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Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 170

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Median single-family home price increase, Jan.-Aug. NAME Facebook.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. As shown at left, Google’s initial go-to-market strategy included syndication of its search capabilities to third-party sites, including Yahoo and AOL. Forgo Change of Control or Agree to a ROFO or ROFR. Serve up World-wide Distribution. Relinquish Joint Intellectual Property Rights.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 124

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Name Your Price: Influencing Customer's Purchasing Decisions. Understanding the effect of perceived discounts, multiple product levels, price anchoring, and other. Entrepreneurism / Monetization economics, human behaviour, pricing. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Abolish The Hourly: How Value Pricing Wins Clients.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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MARCH 11, 2011

He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? So he launched a company with exclusively paid search.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. History repeats itself.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! We will white label the system, and not only that, we’ll allow you to set your own pricing.” were doing. We can do better.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302