Capital Startup Technical Review 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. 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.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. Most of these are easy to avoid if you do your homework up front, but can cost you dearly if you get sucked in. No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in.
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OCTOBER 15, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. We had to ramp up our team quickly and ramp we did.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
So do you think the environment still tough for startups? Investors are very focused on diligence, on business models that make sense, and those companies that have a definite competitive advantage and defensibility to what they're doing. Mike Napoli: We've revised the way we review companies at the prescreening stage.
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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. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. It can be one of the strongest motivators.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. One of them is profitability.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
I think I’ve read Paul Graham’s post on “ Startup = Growth ” three or four times now. “The growth of a successful startup usually has three phases: There’s an initial period of slow or no growth while the startup tries to figure out what it’s doing. I talked about some of that here.
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