Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

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. As an entrepreneur, my greatest lesson learned here was how difficult it is to find capital for a services business.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

Entrepreneurs are inundated with success stories, but far less is written about ventures that do not succeed. Most entrepreneurs do not have the guts to publicly discuss a venture gone awry. Make It Work sold its services in pre-paid hours, at a discount from our pay-as-you-go pricing. The company was always seeking capital.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market.

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MAY 21, 2011

They get marketed as such. Will that be enough or will high churn rates creep in, new toys be introduced into the market, new time sucks pulling user attention away? Why had it endured though market machinations and become this year’s darling IPO? Not improving your life or business. Not solving a real problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.”

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JUNE 1, 2011

.&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. As a market we seem to be incapable of temperance. I hope to offer experiences from being an entrepreneur and being a VC.&#. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. It’s marketing. So which is it? Feast or famine?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica. commercial real estate market. Here, prices can climb higher. million, it is the highest sale price of the year. The weather’s not too bad, either!

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MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). And if I were an entrepreneur I’d rather find investors who understood “my space&# so that in tough times they felt comfortable about “doubling down.&#. Not everybody agreed.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. But it +is+ an anti-entrepreneur stance.&#

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 – 7-9pm. Tickets: $10.00

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APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

I thought it would be interesting to understand the challenges and concerns of entrepreneurs who began selling online for the first time in 2016, so I sat down with Heidi Muther, COO at Z S upply , LLC. Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 – 7-9pm. Tickets: $10.00

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). People want to invest in people they trust – once you’ve made money for someone you can always go back, and even get better pricing. o Everything is for sale but it’s the price that moves the timing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. to 9:30 p.m.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

Where is the technology now, and is it on the market yet? We're doing our development in El Monte, and we think we'll be operational by the beginning of next year, and full scale by the end of 2010, with product launch in 2011. We hopefully will have our first production year in 2011. Dina Lozofsky: It's not quite there yet.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

2011 and Wherecamp 2011 just happened this past week. It brings together entrepreneurs, CTOs, marketers, developers, technologists, researchers, geographers, startups and business developers. The main discussions included: Location & Mobile development, Marketing and Business & Strategy. Both Where 2.0

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Build your own Startup Death Clock - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , November 1, 2010 A few months ago I created a fun device at WPEngine to focus everyone's attention the most important thing. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." If nothing changes, when will you run out of money?

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

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APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

2011 and Wherecamp 2011 just happened this past week. It brings together entrepreneurs, CTOs, marketers, developers, technologists, researchers, geographers, startups and business developers. The main discussions included: Location & Mobile development, Marketing and Business & Strategy. Both Where 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I looked at my skills and past experience and noticed a need in the online clothing market. Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? Andrea: Anybody who’s looking for clothes, shoes or accessories can come to our site and put up a post of what they’re looking for with the size, price range, etc.,

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It was 2011, so these were valid questions. Through this process, they asked themselves repeatedly those dreaded questions that entrepreneurs go through on the daily: is it the right time? Vidzey is a revenue share and affiliate marketing platform. What price point works the best? Is the technology even possible?

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. It’s why opt-in marketing databases can be so incredibly valuable for companies like Gilt Groupe, One King’s Lane and AdoreMe. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down. There are 2.9

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. raise money now to weather any storms). Such is the case with advanced batteries. We took $2.3

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AUGUST 9, 2011

My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. The market had tanked. The market was actually off 40% from its Oct ’07 peak.

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2011

Let’s dive into the interview and find out what sparked the idea for iGottaGuide and get a few helpful tips from a fellow entrepreneur. What is the market opportunity? I am Keith Petri, lifelong entrepreneur, lover of travel and hater of tourists’ traps. Give Us the Fast Pitch. How big is your team?

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