Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The big price increase : 5 out of 5 stars. The remainder of this article will deal with this decision but it comes down to the different economics of DVD rentals due to “ the first sale doctrine ” which gives Netflix a complete library of films and the fact that the first-sale doctrine doesn’t apply to digital downloads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization. They help hiring managers raise the bar for every interview.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Who else can provide context if your portfolio isn’t growing as quickly as your peer group, if they believe you paid too high a price on a deal, if they question your due diligence in a given situation or whatever critique they might offer? The press don’t get your financials.

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Customer Custom Venture Capital Software Review 341

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. In some instances, it will be appropriate to grandfather ongoing payments due regional distributors for their past performance. Approve Unilateral Provisions. Surrender Arbitration. Accept Unlimited Liability. Serve up World-wide Distribution.

Outsource Development 193

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. As an early-stage VC I love this phase. were more distributed.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

I’m doing due diligence on a company of another entrepreneur in LA whose company was apparently doing very well. It’s far easier (and sexier) to spend your time working on deals – the chase, the negotiation, the secret dinners, the combination of assets, the PRESS STORY! Me: “Zero dilution. Your choice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What price? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” What kind of deals should I be doing?

Startup 361

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Berkonomics

MAY 30, 2019

Where content providers or publishers push back when seeing a press release, many will embrace a good story demonstrating a painful problem and a happy ending. But people still read, hear and see stories they can identify with, and content providers still need content. And as a result, more money is flowing into story-telling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Yet talk with people at Twitter these days and many seem to feel like they are part of a movement – and that doesn’t just come due to product success. Those are the easy cases.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What price? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” What kind of deals should I be doing?

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. New investors sometimes want early investors to put in money to “prove” they have confidence in the new price. Because tech companies are getting bigger more quickly than at any time in history.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally. The ingredients are all here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I suppose I should have imagined that this line would get more press than all other comments combined. But that doesn’t mean that people are paying rational prices as investors based on intrinsic value. Rational people can disagree and some may argue that today’s prices are rational and under-pinned by economic drivers.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

coast bearing the brunt of Hurricane Matthew, we send our thoughts and more to those who have more pressing matters to worry about this week. military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects.

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Technical Review Study Layoffs San Diego 77

Berkonomics

JUNE 30, 2012

Where content providers or publishers push back when seeing a press release, many will embrace a good story demonstrating a painful problem and a happy ending. But people still read, hear and see stories they can identify with, and content providers still need content. And as a result, more money is flowing into story-telling.

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Case Study Study Social Network Advertising 212

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2011

We answer these questions and really dive into the LG 4G Thrill in our review below. A sleep/power button on the top and finally a single button on the right side of the phone can be pressed to quickly enter the phone’s “3D Space” application. Sporting a 4.3-inch inch 800 x 480-pixel screen that can displaying both 2D and 3D content.

Software Review 77

Software Review Screening Orange County Mobile 77

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. This generally involves the BDC selling the startup’s technology under the BDC’s brand. Do Not Relinquish Press Release Capabilities.

Outsource Development 170

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 170

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict. Sometimes conflict comes because executives want to increase personal compensation and investors aren’t in favor of this.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Report 217

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

If you’ve been following the press about VC funds you’ll know this is no small feat. We also run annual CEO summits and topical discussions groups in marketing, technology, recruiting and the like. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million).

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Funding Santa Monica Venture Capital Startup 343

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. It was a surprise knowing these start ups have spent $1000s for the chance to be noticed by the right influencer, whether it be a venture capitalist, early adopter or the press.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. This generally involves the BDC selling the startup’s technology under the BDC’s brand. Do Not Relinquish Press Release Capabilities.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. They compete on features, price and execution. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Photo by Hope House Press - Leather Diary Studio on Unsplash It’s also true that there will be tough moments in your company’s journey where you will want to be able to carry people behind the tough decisions you want. Some members probably want most of the board meeting to be a review of financial information.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. This is probably because many founders are product or technology people. If this is you I think it’s really important to get over this hurdle.

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Sales Startup Technical Review Customer 346

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

How could Bird really be worth the reported $2 billion valuation that I read about in this press? People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. Not really.

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

The following guest post is from Eric Greenspan, Founder and CEO of MakeItWork, a consumer facing, in-home tech support service. Make It Work sold its services in pre-paid hours, at a discount from our pay-as-you-go pricing. Since 2008, the company has been forced to lower it’s prices, from $120/hour to $80/hour. It was over.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. It’s worth a quick read.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 17, 2016

Second, Samsung is working on including tech from other devices, such as Amazon’s Echo, for even more smart features. We’ve seen 4K TVs in our smart home automation reviews, and we’ve even seen 4K OLED TVs, but LG’s plans for 2016 unveil unique features that we haven’t seen on the shelves before.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

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Venture Capital Capital Marketing Seed Funding 150

Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. Gilead Sciences has been a target of drug-price criticism for its hepatitis C treatments, but it dialed back the price of its new one.

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Buzzfeed News Pricing IBM 59

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

Many business executives and entrepreneurs I know are convinced that business success is all about having the right solution for the right price. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Thus most investors I know claim to invest in the person, rather than the product.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Startup Press 57

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

Let’s be honest – as professional investors we have ALL been to meetings with other groups of investors where we talk about whether there’s a bubble, price creep, etc. Should entrepreneurs have convertible debt or priced equity? I wasn’t there so I don’t know whether the conversation turned hostile.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2011

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. It may be necessary to apply a portion of the Pilot Fee toward the ultimate license / purchase price, in order to obtain an up-front fee. Press Release Rights. Give up Branding. Approve Unilateral Provisions. Surrender Arbitration.

Outsource Development 244

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Resource Press 244

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft. Not what you read in the press. So winning means they’re paying the highest price. Press the flesh.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

One was simply yield management--that's an overused term, but basically it's the notion that you have to be able to have a basis for forecasting your available inventory, and adjust your prices accordingly. We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. Even users who are using AdBook don't have that.

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Advertising Startup Sales Tool 127

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2010

Before I start writing this review, I want to say how much I appreciate the web series' nominated for Streamy Awards. This review is not a reflection on the talents and abilities of those who pour so many hours and dollars into their passion projects. Nor is this a review of the show's hosts, Tubefilter , NewTeeVee or the IAWTV.

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