Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. how to market our products and company.

Startup 325

Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The app, dubbed HomeHero Connect, supports phone timesheet tracking, daily activity summaries, emergency alerts and automated payments between a user and an independent home caregiver. Careseekers can view caregivers by location on an inbuilt map, HD videos, social references and reviews. LinkedIn for Caregivers.

Software Review 77

Software Review Technical Review Southern California Summary 77

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

You will build out features or expend to platforms — often before you have enough market feedback to warrant it. My analogy was that there are markets where it’s relatively easier to raise capital and therefore you should take a little bit more but you should create a budget where you only spend 70% of what you raise on a pace of 18 months.

Startup 292

Startup Software Review Pricing Entrepreneur 292

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Naval’s responses. These days, thanks to code and community, we can productize almost any process done by humans. You can watch my interview with Naval below or on YouTube here: [link].

Startup 273

Startup Software Review Summary Technical Review 273

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. Brad on blogging.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. As I like to say, “If you’re really on to an enormous idea then other people in the market are going to spot that and want to compete with you. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!” ” The Details.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

Startup 95

Startup Technical Review Software Review High Tech 95

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

I kind of fell into it, after a period of diligence on the idea, and realizing it was a big opportunity. I also had built an Internet marketing company prior to Dealstruck. This was a combination of finance and practical knowledge of the Internet marketing business, and it seemed to fit well with what we were trying to do.

Startup 247

Startup Software Review Entrepreneur Equity 247

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Effective marketing. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions.

Ideas 110

Ideas Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 110

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

Startup 95

Startup Technical Review Software Review High Tech 95

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Effective marketing. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions.

Ideas 95

Ideas Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2010

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

Invest 50

Invest Technical Review Software Review High Tech 50

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

If you want to watch the show click the image above or this link , but if you want a quick read – here’s a summary: 1. The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). We will continue to do more of this. A: It’s not best.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

It isn’t written by them or any marketing department – so please take it for what it is. It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. Optimization technology is not new. What does it do? 2. &# What up with that?

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built.

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. We're looking to build out our investment portfolio. READ MORE>>

Southern California 100

Southern California Media Venture Capital Invest 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. We're looking to build out our investment portfolio. READ MORE>>

Capital 100

Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

The technically savvy reader, familiar with my attitude, has already figured out that I’ve read way too many raw logs. This malicious piece of code doesn’t obey robots.txt, and doesn’t cache results. That goes for HEAD requests just chasing for a 301/302/307 redirect response code and a “location&# header, too.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. But more broadly it got me thinking to one of the biggest mistakes tech executives get into in the first place. Guy Kawasaki said it best (paraphrasing), “you can’t do great marketing with a bad product.&# Robert’s article is worth reading.

Tips 307

Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2014

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Effective marketing. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions.

Ideas 108

Ideas Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 108