TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

” The financial terms of the deal to bring the franchise to Los Angeles, aren’t being disclosed, but they definitely run in the tens of millions of dollars. . “And can we do it in a way that we could have a female led group.”

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

To be considered for the contest, you will have to write a 100-500 word essay to enter on why you’d like to digitally detox and the positive impact it’ll have on your life – but that's all that's needed to apply. You’ll then be taken through to an online form.

Company 226

Company Companies Social Media Writing 226

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OCTOBER 20, 2013

So I thought I’d write a piece on how not to suck when you give a presentation. Don’t write sentences on them – only key words to help you remember what you’re going to say. If you write sentences you’ll read them and you’ll … suck. It definitely is an IQ test thing for me.

Slides 399

Slides Startup Conference Writing 399

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it. And when asked about the topic, I definitely don’t shy away from the topic as you can see in this 8-minute YouTube interview that Pemo Theodore asked me to do on the subject of Women in Entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneur 341

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. This post will provide links to participants as well as to readers. What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles.

CTO Coach 219

CTO Coach Metrics Framework Software Development 219

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

See definition: ad hominem. I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. Overwhelmingly people were harsh but avoided obscenities even when they made personal attacks on me. This is what many of the comments descended into. Ad hominem.

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News Tips Blogging Writing 258

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Why is this?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As an early stage investor you’re often planning around 10x your investment at the time your write your first check so in this case you’d be going into your investment expecting an exit of $800 – $1.2

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Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

But Jason is one of the smartest thinkers in our industry so while style points in his eye-poking post might be low, he’s definitely scratching at something important. If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2

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Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In some industries, lengthy pilot tests are required before an enterprise customer will sign a definitive purchase order. In a like manner, proudly profess your traction to your target VCs until they either write you a check or ask you to look elsewhere. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Venture Capital RSS Customer Custom 265

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. He writes about the fabric of American life, often from the perspective of his Jewish, New Jersey roots. The book is framed in the context of Balram writing a letting to the leader of China trying to explain how India works.

Class 334

Class Writing Web 2.0 Offshore 334

SoCal CTO

MARCH 10, 2010

In some cases, part of the definition of minimum is going after technical risk as much as you are going after market risk which is often the focus of lean startups. But what inspired me to write this post was his title “Perfection by Subtraction.” Challenge the group to find the most minimalist definition. Go to a blank page.

Product 150

Product Startup Customer Custom 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. Frankly, I enjoyed the community so much that I would have continued to come back more often but my blogging pace has been such that evening time commenting on an answer website was time away from writing pieces like this.

Blogging 301

Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

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. If an accelerator is writing you they’re also writing 25 other VCs. By definition this means others will doubt you. They worry too much about missing out on a deal. I don’t. Pay attention.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

I only have a cursory understanding of OpenSocial from reading various posts and from crawling through the API definitions, but it appears that OpenSocial has a long way to go before it's going to be useful for several of the applications we are working on.

Writing 150

Writing Platform Sites Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

She helps write press releases. In the most perfect sense of the definition. She runs a mom segment on the Today Show. million Twitter followers. Nearly all probably moms. She won me over at first meeting. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. She flies from LA to NY every two weeks. She debates manufacturing strategies. Kara as CEO.

Startup 398

Startup Design Downey Activity 398

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

about their marathon 4-hour sessions to get to zero inbox or somebody else claiming email bankruptcy ( definition if you don’t know it already ). You’re writing a freaking blog post! I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice. Nobody really enjoys it. “But WAIT !!!

Email 314

Email Product Startup Writing 314

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. If you haven’t read it you should definitely buy it – other people just like you did.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Mostly I just wanted to write this as a reminder to founders to be suspicious of people who constantly introduce you around. In modern society we’re all over-worked and over-loaded with information and tasks and to-dos and obligations. That’s why focus is critical. I introduce people constantly and it’s an important part of my job.

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Innocal Conference Help Study 255

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

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Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek. It’s not under the definition of crazy per Adam’s op-ed. The person writing things he or she is doing me a favor. They had to physically write a letter, address it, put a stamp on it (pay) and then put it in the mailbox. I’m not an elitist a **e.

Email 250

Email Writing Conference Mobile 250

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I don't know if it's because of luck or independence, or just the vertical we were in or the combination of all three, we realized early on that Wall Street's definition of real time was different from Twitter's definition. It's fun, I guess. Only a dummy would do it again.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 14, 2010

One of my favorite ones is “what you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail.&# The definition is kind of obvious. Or when I see somebody who is extremely “salesy&# in a VC meeting I often write them off too quickly. &# Ugh. That guy is never going to stop spinning.

Startup 343

Startup Examples Summary Venture Capital 343

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many.

Product 280

Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. Don’t write sentences on the – only key words to help you remember what you’re going to say. It is not sufficient to write yourself notes and read them before hand. It definitely is an IQ test thing for me.

Startup 362

Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This risk can be mitigated by finding a customer willing to purchase as soon as a proven model is completed, and willing to state this in writing. Here we expand the definitions a bit to encompass businesses that are still early stage, but perhaps beyond startup. Will the public respond in numbers to buy, license or rent your offering?

Outsource Development 294

Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 294

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

will definitely be handled. Do I have to write up the overview? If you can't tell us the details of what you are doing without an NDA, it won't make sense for us to talk. If we were to engage in paid services with you, then issues about disclosure, confidentiality, work product, etc. Can you help me get funding?

CTO Hire 264

CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 264

TechEmpower

MARCH 27, 2013

At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. It's definitely worthwhile to browse through the javadoc of that class. It is essentially another way of writing Collections.newSetFromMap(new ConcurrentHashMap ()). It performs better than RRWL when used as a plain read-write lock.

Java 560

Java Class Software Review Examples 560

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

will definitely be handled. Do I have to write up the overview? If you can't tell us the details of what you are doing without an NDA, it won't make sense for us to talk. If we were to engage in paid services with you, then issues about disclosure, confidentiality, work product, etc. Can you help me get funding?

CTO Hire 259

CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

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JANUARY 18, 2014

Sometimes those motives are positive (they really want the chance to work with you, they think you have unique skills) and sometimes they are less positive (their first-tier of “go to” referrals passed on the deal, they don’t want to write another check themselves, etc.). We did a seed deal this week that would surprise you.

Venture Capital 337

Venture Capital Invest Ideas Entrepreneur 337

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MAY 18, 2014

Great programmers are artists, for sure, but rock stars is about the last definition I’d choose. We live in interesting times where working at a startup is glamorized to the point that many founders even refer to their team members as “rock stars,” which to my ears is cringe worthy.

Startup 419

Startup Entrepreneur Design Funding 419

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’. My definition of a startup is, ‘a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.’

Startup 229

Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

And we all know that Ron Conway is considered the savviest of angel investors and yet by definition not all of his investments succeed. Lead investors and follow investors can both win equally but in each case you know why you personally are writing the check. Basically, I’m talking about being an angel leader and not follower.

Invest 288

Invest Angel Web 2.0 SEO 288

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As the authors make clear in the book’s preface, their goal is to create a “definitive guide to venture capital deals” and “demystify the venture capital financing process.” Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC.

Venture Capital 205

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Writing Guide 205

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. As of this writing nearly 50,000 versions have been created and uploaded and watched by some 200,000,000 people. Harlem Shake. million views).

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Her post is short & well written so definitely worth a read if you’re a startup person and want to hear some sensible views on sales. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319