Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

PR is an insanely valuable activity in early-stage companies. Of course you need a new angle to get a journalist interested because they don’t simply want to write what everybody else has covered. In the write up of our success I was quoted as saying, “If I had $1 dollar left to spend on marketing I would put it to PR.”

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Press Google Course Writing 415

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Every time I think to write a post about this I figure the most recent board meeting I’ve attended will think it’s about them so I don’t bother. So I’m going to write a series of board meetings posts unrelated to anybody or maybe an amalgamation of them all. Ineffecient Board Meeting.

Writing 337

Writing Venture Capital Help SaaS 337

TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

For each of the founders, activism and community engagement is as important as the business of setting up a new sports business in Los Angeles. Over the course of a few games, Nortman brought Uhrman on board to lead the Angel City efforts and the combination of three women propelled the Angel City launch.

Writing 171

Writing Los Angeles Equity Startup 171

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. But you do need to find a way to do activities that are more scalable. You can do them all yourself, of course. But at what cost?

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Startup Resource Venture Capital Activity 381

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Here is my edited summary of their ten principles, which I like and may convince you that you don’t need a business plan at all, or at the very least will help you write a better one later: A new venture is a means, not an end. You will never remove all uncertainties, so accept them, and plan your activities in an incremental fashion.

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Writing Startup Entrepreneur Capital 102

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Plus, show my you can write! I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. Contributing overall with marketing and community outreach activities.

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Venture Capital Technical Review GRP Partners Email 290

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. As the CEO you need to realize that doing PR is part of the piechart of activities called “your job.” I have no money?

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Press Startup Writing Training 319

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# I started by writing 3-4 times / week. I’ve kept it up for 2 years.

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

AngelList Syndicates 101: While “AngelList Classic” was ‘each angel for himself’ – syndicates allows an active angel to form a group of like-minded investors to invest together in a deal or deals. If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests.

Venture Capital 356

Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. If you look at many of the companies we invest in, sure they have traditional marketing activities, but most of their growth and momentum comes from delighting their users. Write Your Own Playbook. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group.

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Marketing Blogging Startup Venture Capital 233

TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

A : Activation - What % have a "happy" initial experience? Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Startup Metrics with Dave McClure Dave McClure has a great presentation on Startup Metrics where he points to some additional metrics that are useful to consider: A : Acquisition - Where / what channels do users come from?

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Metrics Startup Slides Technical Review 260

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Lawrence) both helped me master the rules of writing and tap into my creativity. I know that I make grammar and spelling errors in this blog but I promise it’s through speed of writing, typing and publishing and not through a lack of knowledge. Wolters) and high school (Mr. I’m forever grateful for this. It was pathetic.

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Class Education Technical Review Writing 340

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2019

The challenge is to adequately define leadership in terms of everyday activities. Thus I’m always looking for more practical guidance on the right activities to be perceived as a business leader. These authors bring a wealth of experience in this domain from their workshops, writing, and lecturing on business leadership worldwide.

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Activity Entrepreneur Mentor Writing 92

Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2017

By smoothing the utility’s signal into a very sensitive AC current wave (sine wave), my sensitive equipment and energy star certified electronics are actively protected for the first time. Do you want to wait until that day to reform, and later write your own love letter to a battery backup? But enough gushing about the features.

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Software Review Screening Writing Activity 266

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network? As part of that, I built a ton of relationships at Active. Our project manager, a couple of our advisors, and a couple of our sales people, our head of business development--we're all from Active. It's similar to a franchise.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

I got a call from a VC friend of mine who said, “we’re looking at this deal but can’t write the full check. I decided to write a $2+ million check along with my co-investor who offered $750k. They have been a very active and an awesome partner. I think you should look at it.” ” We closed the deal.

Venture Capital 356

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Writing 356

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2013

The startup''s service revolves around finding music that helps users concentrate on work, studying, or other intensive activities, with the idea that the right kind of music can help extend the concentration of users. The company claims its service helps increase attention span up to 400 percent while working, studying, writing and reading.

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Study Writing Mobile Services 145

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2010

“Thank you for writing to me – it’s nice to hear from you (or meet you) via email. Schedule sometime right behind the meeting - the easiest way to make sure that your meeting doesn’t over run is to simply schedule a meeting or other activity behind it. I suggested something like the following. I totally agree!

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Startup Venture Capital Writing Conference 305

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

And don’t allocate two months of each year to “hardcore funding activities&# but allocate a regular amount of time each month to it like any other job function. Investors are writing checks for dots. Like it or not – finance is a major job function in any company – startup or public company.

Invest 411

Invest Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 411

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

monthly actives), I thought I should come here to represent. With all these companies vying for attention & others just here to soak up the vibe I thought I’d write a much broader piece on how startups can make the most of their attendance at conferences & events. Write them in advance and request meetings.

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Conference Startup Technical Review Writing 289

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. Meanwhile, this year’s deal count is declining sharply, a sign that venture investors are still writing bigger checks for fewer deals.

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Venture Capital Activity Report Funding 86

TechCrunch LA

JULY 2, 2020

As Mucker Capital co-founder Hsu writes, “There are far more great companies than there are venture dollars here in LA. How do you think COVID-19 will change entrepreneurial activity in Los Angeles? Investors in other cities should continue to see LA as an underserved ecosystem with huge opportunities.”

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Los Angeles Venture Capital Capital Invest 277

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

Have you found a way to best link your potential marketing leads in social media into activity that leads to more business?”. Write down the customer pains so you’ll have them for later. The best form of sales is “active listening” where you’re engaged in what the customer is telling you. Ask questions the whole time.

Sales 367

Sales Slides Startup Customer 367

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Demand said it will start offering health care options to active, "tenured" writers working for the firm as of November 1st. Demand uses freelancers to write how-to articles, produce videos, and other content to attract Internet traffic to its web sites. READ MORE>>.

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Demand Media Santa Monica Content 157

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. Being active, engaged, present, knowledgeable and having earned trust from the core team can make a huge difference on the eventual outcome of the companies. They worry too much about missing out on a deal.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2010

It reminded me of my first resume writing attempts in undergrad where, in a desperate attempt to look like I had more experience than I did, I would cram every part-time and after school job or activity onto the page. I assumed that people would view my worth as the literal sum of the activities listed.

Activity 140

Activity Writing Sales Entrepreneur 140

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. Tell us about the new fund?

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Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

Berkonomics

MAY 22, 2014

Bill Payne has been actively involved in angel investing since 1980, funding over 50 companies and mentoring over 100 more. In most cases, those entrepreneurs choosing to raise capital using PPMs retain specialists (many of whom are lawyers) to write their PPMs – a rather expensive undertaking. By Bill Payne.

Writing 199

Writing Invest Entrepreneur Equity 199

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2013

As has been pointed out by Dan Primack based on FLAG Capital data, there are fewer than 100 “real and active” tech VCs in the country. .” or whatever simply won’t erase the “something is wrong” psychology. But here’s the kicker. If we count seed funds and large angels maybe that number goes up by 2x?

Pricing 302

Pricing Seed Funding Invest Venture Capital 302

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. Any other angle is just sour grapes.

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Snapchat Invest Technical Review Dollar Shave Club 214

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The organization, active in the Bay Area and New York City, is announcing new chapters in Los Angeles and Boston this week, as well as a new director of engagement, Domonique Fines, formerly of Y Combinator, and a new chief of staff, Jack Dorsey’s former chief of staff at Square, Alicia Burt. “We

Venture Capital 184

Venture Capital Ideas Los Angeles Tool 184

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2016

The TCA said, if a TCA member had participated in all of its 305 investments, with a $25,000 investment in each of the companies in those investments (a total investment of $7.7M), that member would have received $12M in cash liquidity, have taken $2M in tax deductible write-downs, and still have $4.1M in active investments.

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Tech Coast Angels Angel Truecar Southern California 133

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We are doing what we do – writing larger checks and playing an active role at the company. Let me give you a real world example from this week. We led an investment round in a company a while ago in which we wrote a seven-figure check and have taken a board seat.

Venture Capital 352

Venture Capital Seed Funding Email Blogging 352

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 149

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

By the time of my second company MySQL was a much more robust solution and worked well when you had to read a lot of information but was less performant on “write&# activities. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres.

Startup 308

Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

None of the angels in my group is likely to write a check without hearing and believing a story about how something dramatic is about to happen. He is an active angel investor, and he manages several angel funds in Texas. . They wanted to come to pitch to my angel network. I told them they lacked an inciting incident. Raising money'

Invest 237

Invest Examples Networking Writing 237

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Trust me – your chances of selling are much lower if you’re talking rather than actively listening. You should be actively listening the whole time (actively listening as in listening, writing important things down and asking relevant questions as they talk about their problems).

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Sales Startup Venture Capital Customer 314