Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. The picture above is from the actual event courtesy of Dan Farber who was writing for ZDNet.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words. You still need the presentation to back that up.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

And when they walk in my office and present you can tell that they know what they’re talking about. You can practically hear the “voice of the customer&# when they’re presenting their concept. I often tell people that I’m looking for people that weren’t born with a silver spoon in their mouths.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies. We write and create our own content for the game. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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Companies Company Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And I hope the output is that you get a glimpse into the people shaping our tech present and a sense of the kinds of conversations we have when the cameras aren’t around. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. 5 companies presented and all were talented. WakeMate has you record things like the last time you had caffeine before sleeping, your last meal and when you last had computer or TV screen time. We’ll see. Enter Withings.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Southern California 278

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

They’re also good at screening candidates. Negotiate directly with your VC or acquirer with lawyers present in the room. But when they’re trying to get David Pogue, Walt Mossberg or Kara Swisher to write a story for you, they’re also thinking about their other clients – now and in the future.

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Steve Reich

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

They have to be aggressive, and they have to be willing to write a check. When you present to the Angels at any level, work to find out who informally leads the group. You need an Angel partner who can successfully “herd the cats” to a successful conclusion. How do you find that Angel partner?

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Tech Coast Angels Angel Pasadena Angels Startup 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. Why the name? African ICT Achiever Awards – OVERALL WINNER (Annex.13).

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Software Review Social Network Technical Review Platform 92

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. The “Triple Play&# of VC Presentations. Be ready to map your presentation to their preferred method. Do not be put off by direct questions that are fired at you as you present.

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Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You likely are writing your first one of these. See User Story is Worthless - Behavior is What We Need although you don't need your behavior description to be as formal as what is presented. So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP. Don't stress over format.

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Development Develop Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? At JAMDAT he designed the most successful mobile games – (Bowling, Bejeweled Multiplayer & Solitaire) and knows what drives engagement on “the small screen.&#

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Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

As I write this article, Crash Course stands at 83% of its pledge goal, with nearly 10,800 fans funding the show''s production costs for its upcoming season. This sponsor-driven presentation had the makings of a boring, self-serving talk. Filling The Screen. Border Run. Next up was Nick Tran, Taco Bell''s "Social Media Lead."

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

What we found is that there was no present solution to do this. OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen. How can they go to the movies? Skip classes.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy. Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, just like her fellow black turtleneck wearer Steve Jobs, will get the big screen treatment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

I registered it in my mind at the time, “hmm, a screen cast while you’re on Skype, that’s pretty clever.&# CloudShare as a product also sounded like a great idea to me. The very next week I organized a call with Babak Nivi of VentureHacks to present to the Launchpad LA class. And we had full screen video.

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