Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. Expect to hear a lot more about Maker technology in the next 18 months.

Networking 367

Networking Media Content Customer 367

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue. They need somebody bending their ears.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 319

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2010

I would take all of the one-on-one conversations that I have with entrepreneurs from the things I’ve learned and just write them up for anybody to read. It might be a VP of Sales, Marketing or Technology. I had a tactic of writing out the line of reasoning for the employee so they knew what to say. Tomorrow if possible.

Startup 294

Startup Press Course Writing 294

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

This was exactly the approach Steve took when he self-published Four Steps via Café Press, at the behest of his then star pupil, Eric Ries , Co-Founder of IMVU and the author of The Lean Startup. According to Steve, “The original version (of Four Steps) was printed on tree bark at Café Press. I have to thank him for that.”.

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Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

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. For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. Have the breakthrough technology. CEO transparency. It almost sounds uncontroversial. A CEO should tell her staff everything! It was not.

Startup 417

Startup Course Venture Capital Writing 417

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2013

Many first-time entrepreneurs have grown up digital natives so have a really good intuitive feel for technology & design but don’t yet have the business basics down. . Write your set of bullet points on paper before the call. How can I best help you?” ” It’s what we want. It’s what you want.

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Startup Writing Help Email 364

Berkonomics

JULY 3, 2024

Each new customer, each mention in the press or online adds to the feeling of early accomplishment. This moment is to celebrate every action, including shopping for supplies, furniture and technology to support the newly minted enterprise. And it is more satisfying because it is yours, from idea to execution.

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Startup Hollywood Writing Press 156

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Each new customer, each mention in the press or online adds to the feeling of early accomplishment. This moment is to celebrate every action, including shopping for supplies, furniture and technology to support the newly minted enterprise. And it is more satisfying because it is yours, from idea to execution.

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Press Hollywood Writing Startup 149

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

So I know I’m getting myself into a bit of trouble by writing this. I think when the company has the complexity of large customers, customer service & SLA management, well established sales processes, continual recruiting because you’re growing, constant press, etc.

Startup 325

Startup Technical Review Sales Report 325

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 15 million first checks but we also have three growth funds.

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

If I’m interested I get to spend more time with them, if I’m not I don’t have to – A few companies per month come in that have fascinating business ideas that warrant my spending more time trying to understand their people, company, technology and market. I’ll write about that in a couple of weeks.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Each new customer, each mention in the press or online adds to the feeling of early accomplishment. Email readers, continue here…] This moment is to celebrate every action, including shopping for supplies, furniture and technology to support the newly minted enterprise. Write your own Hollywood script.

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Hollywood Writing Press Startup 120

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? . ” **.

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 418

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” It was meant both as a call to those writing angel checks into other people’s companies that they ought to think about putting that capital toward themselves either by becoming a startup founder or (and this was my real point) by taking an under-market salary in a company where they can learn the right skills to do it in the future.

Technical Review 334

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 334

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. Mostly kidding. Another firm funded them.

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Snapchat Invest Technical Review Dollar Shave Club 214

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. I have watched so many companies go through massive growth and see the commentary in the press wondering how they’re doing it and then finding out from the inside that there is some slightly nefarious technique being employed. Simply write a great book?

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration. Gary Bishop: My background, prior to Network Automation, was in the financial technology marketplace. The traditional way to handle that is to write code.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

Read the opening quote from his initial press release on the program … “Warning that America’s long term economic prospects are uncertain without radical innovation in technology, Peter Thiel this week launched the Thiel Fellowship to foster the next generation of tech visionaries.&#.

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Education Startup Incubator Class 322

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. ” They prefer to sit in front of a computer doing spreadsheets or coding or writing emails and working on marketing materials than they do investing time in human relationships. I wanted to just write.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 281

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. I like to debate with them how they will land customers and how they deal with the press. ” Fair play. ” And so it goes with bankers.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this. I prefer to write the December 2010 post about what a great year I had. I’ve written about the technology to lose weight in this post.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. But my job is to understand technology and therefore you must use it to understand it. And we’re promoting apps like this in the tech press and funding it. Kill a fat person.

Technical Review 329

Technical Review Blogging Examples Startup 329

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 205

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I suppose I should have imagined that this line would get more press than all other comments combined. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# I believe that. Fair enough.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. I like to debate with them how they will land customers and how they deal with the press. ” Fair play. ” And so it goes with bankers.

Venture Capital 348

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 348

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President.

Venture Capital 286

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 286

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Press, Pause, Play ‘s message of mediocrity is one that musical hardware device maker of this year’s SXSW, Miselu , plans to overcome. We can honestly say that it couldn’t have gone better for us with the phenomenal response we got from artists, press and potential partners. What are your next moves?

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Press Ideas Product Activity 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

I received a press pass to DeveloperWeek 2015 last week in order to attend the “Advice to Live by from Women Developers” career panel moderated by the lead of Dice’s engineering team, Jennifer Petersen. Several Gamergaters have also stated that she must have gotten others to write the code for her.

Web 111

Web Software Engineering Press Design 111

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). In 2011, we had two of our patents approved. One was for our PhoneID product, which is extremely important to us.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Web 238

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. Finally, I made clear that there are ALWAYS exceptions to the rule. They come in the form of personal references. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 286

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. In terms of honesty and ethics, I’ve found over and over that at the leading edge of technology it’s as much about setting and meeting expectations as about raw functionality. Same everywhere.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

Michael Carney , a tech reporter for Pandodaily , taught how to craft a compelling press release. Following her experience teaching the class, she was inspired to write this article for Forbes where she expressed her amazement at the number of women in LA who are in tech or interested in making the leap into tech.

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Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2014

“The most exciting products on the market are set to disrupt what we know about technology and innovation, just as the iPod and iTunes changed the way the world buys and listens to music.” You can make calls right from the fridge, browse morning headlines from the Associated Press or search for a new favorite dish on Epicurious.

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Belkin Startup Google Press 93

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 23, 2015

Some models come with a remote to help you switch from port to port without getting off the couch, while others have a button that you press to indicate which connected device you want the TV to use. One end plugs into an existing HDMI port and the other provides two to five extra HDMI ports.

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Screening Media Entertainment Press 77