Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. We have invested $17.3 Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. CincyTech today has $28.5

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris runs a popular web interview series on TechCrunch so is used to being the guy asking the questions. I think you’ll really enjoy this video , but as always I have summary notes for those with less time. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you.

Technical Review 281

Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

At Upfront, our partners have been fortunate enough to be part of 18 companies that have reached north of $1 billion and the average tenure of an investment that exits at this scale is more than 10 years. We have invested in every round and as a result our ownership has actually gone up over time. Why does that matter?

Venture Capital 223

Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Build an investor presentation and summary. Prepare an investment-grade business plan.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Or, as always, summary notes available below. My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. “My Brad on blogging.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. We are investing heavily in these changes. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Banner Ads. I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. You must invest in technology. If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web.

SEM 150

SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. And just when I thought I had the deal that was worthy of bringing to investment committee the world changed. Let’s review all of our existing investments. tl;dr summary. Eventually you have to invest.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. The web site caters only to people in the green space. Speaking of matching investments and entrepreneurs, do you run into any legal issues in that area?

Southern California 193

Southern California Startup eHarmony Sites 193

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Some summary notes are below. Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. AppDynamics.

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road. like Google.

Startup 96

Startup Social Media Content Paid Search 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Build an investor presentation and summary.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Executive Summary. Partners make investment decisions. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. ” In VC terms that means the key questions you need to answer are, is this investor: Geographically focused and have they invested in my geography before? Tell a friend!

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. If you don’t believe in your bones that you’re amazing then it’s no wonder you don’t want to sell them on making the investment.”

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

What follows is a summary which paraphrases Clark’s responses. However, from my understanding you might actually be the largest consumer website using "semantic web" technology – can you explain how that works? “In If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down.

Google 264

Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). One of these experts, David T. Cold calling.

Social Media 55

Social Media SEM Startup Advertising 55

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). One of these experts, David T. billion is being spent annually on direct mail, according to the U.S.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media SEM Advertising 99

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

I have found that one of the most useful role I can play as a VC is to meet with early-stage teams of the companies in which I’ve invested and have the debate with them about critical projects. In summary – I have been involved with software development for 25 years.

Software 344

Software Startup Design Course 344

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC. In Summary.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). One of these experts, David T. billion is being spent annually on direct mail, according to the U.S.

Custom 60

Custom Customer Marketing Social Media 60

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I’m often asked by people what investment areas interest me. I try to invest in things that I know and that I believe I might have better knowledge and relationships than the masses of VCs. But one theme in pervasive in all my thinking about investing in Internet-based companies: Deflationary economics. Here’s what I mean.

Startup 386

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 386

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

You can watch this week’s TWiVC episode by clicking on the link and my summary notes are below. {if Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. So common are founder tensions that my intervening is a weekly occurrence and it’s so common that if I ever write about it I’m sure that instantly every company I’ve invested in and every company in which I’ve been an informal advisor thinks I must be writing about them.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2013

It means you’ve anticipated what your customers will need as they move up the power curve, For example, Google is a one-stop source for your online needs, ranging from simple search to managing your e-mail, to analyzing your Web site. The selection is incredibly deep. Intelligence. An inelegant solution fights people. It looks right.

Funding 91

Funding Ideas Entrepreneur Summary 91

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. The video can be watched here , but there is a most excellent summary below provided by John Excley. So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about. So, he built an auction.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. See my interview a couple of years ago with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each. In summary, I see a historic shift taking place in the world today.

Startup 102

Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM Social Network 102

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A while back I received a frantic phone call from the CEO of a company in which I invested. We showed the journalist exact examples across 5 or 6 of the most popular web properties on the Internet. Summary Lessons? I decided to water down some details to protect the innocent. But both stories are still accurate.

Press 336

Press Blogging Journal News 336

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

The challenge is where to put those limited resources of every startup, to get the biggest return for your investment. It is search engines, web content, blogs, social media, e-mail direct, on one of many mobile-phone approaches? Every entrepreneur needs a strategy, and some metrics to measure what’s working and how much it costs.

Marketing 58

Marketing Startup Social Media Newsletter 58

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Why Invest? And while my relationship with Chuck was critical to my investment, so too was the leadership of Trevor Templar , the Chief Revenue Officer. In all my time investing I have never seen such a senior revenue officer join a company at this stage. Why Invest? Tact stated with a user-centric approach from Day 1.

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. See my interview a while back with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each. In summary, I see a historic shift taking place in the world today.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. That’s why investors invest in entrepreneurs, rather than ideas. Every entrepreneur should work first on his elevator pitch.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Blogging Social Media 96

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Today, there’s no need to invest that much effort when cheap connected devices are ubiquitous. Even if they could be field upgraded, why would the manufacturer invest in a security patch? They already got paid for those devices; investing in them would only further squeeze their minuscule margins. One Target, Many Victims.

Netflix 40

Netflix Services Outsource Development Outsource 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. Summary notes, as always, provide below. Bill doesn’t think you should over invest in them but he does believe in protecting ideas when you have a true invention and many of his companies have done so. It was a pleasure to write them myself.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Whether it be taking in information, learning, executing, or increasing our output, or investing it into relationships and health, this is the goal for the time we gained. Cunningham’s current business, a marketing agency, Polar Unlimited in Toronto, had expanded in growth through the last decade by embracing social media and web 2.0.

Startup 76

Startup Social Media Content Web 2.0 76

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Summary Version. I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka. I didn’t end up investing but I always loved the concept. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ 200 million views. Suck it traditional TV. means specifically one thing.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380