Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Often board members themselves don’t do the work to say “what metrics would we like to see.” Any great board member should tell you, “please don’t create any performance metrics or materials that analyze the business that you’re not already creating for your own management’s use.” Sometimes they don’t even know.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. Price creep hurts investors. But it also hurts entrepreneurs – Mike asked people about what they were doing to keep prices down. There is no way for people to keep prices down – it’s a competitive market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

The minute you try to monetize now they have metrics with which to beat you up and say you’re business has limitations.” Should I write off my $2.5 But know that unless we do gain the traction we hope for it may make it harder to price the next round as a big up round. As an investor that’s a no brainer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. Ask them for a meeting to review your pricing strategy with you. .” I know it sounds obvious. Trust me – most people don’t do it. Rob does it.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. in Physics who talks passionately about starting a business producing nuclear powered batteries. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Our marketplace is organized like a used item marketplace, like Amazon or eBay, or Craiglist, in that a seller lists an item, picks a cause, and sets a price. It's just like Craigslist, except the money goes to support causes. The buyer pays KarmaGoat, and we forward the proceeds to the seller. Where did the idea come from?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. They all offer a list of requirements that might take 50 pages to address, but of course they ask you to write concisely. Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Keep control by writing every check personally, and manage receivable and payables tightly. Smarter entrepreneurs don’t wait for a crisis to drive change, by defining key milestones and metrics for tracking progress. Don’t wait for that worst case scenario where the customers aren’t buying, and hope to fix it by cutting prices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

We spent a lot of time talking about what type of company we wanted to create, how many employees we’d eventually have, whether we would take funding, our lifestyle, and a dozen other things that had nothing to do with writing software. Semick: We’re a very metrics driven company, and we have been from the beginning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2011

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. They all offer a list of requirements that might take 50 pages to address, but of course they ask you to write concisely. Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. . * Im constantly frustrated by conversations that take place in discussion groups that cant cross the border into the blog world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Smart entrepreneurs have metrics for assessing their progress against milestones and regularly communicate new insights to the team. Write every check personally, rather than relying on a bookkeeper or administrative help. Startups are all about change, but entrepreneurs can be slow to change, due to passion and stubbornness.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

A lot of what we've been looking at are the metrics. We can roll in there, and we tell them we're willing to pay a very fair price to you for this app, so that instead of those monthly checks, we can give you a much more substantial check right now, which they can use to build their next app or take a vacation to the Barbados.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Writing down key parameters will force you solidify the specifics, and mentally commit to them. This is the point where you must manage to metrics, work on the culture of the organization, and look for partner-based growth. Others may be so exciting that you will find multiple competitors fighting for the same space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. They all offer a list of requirements that might take 50 pages to address, but of course they ask you to write concisely. Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one?

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

After, it’s a balancing act for many in the industry, who rely on the same location that’s pricing them out. Writing in March, the New York Times’ Kevin Roose had an answer that will hit Bay Area-bound tech workers where it hurts: Their wallets. ” But Who’s Leaving?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! We write and create our own content for the game. We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! Price: $25 (Early Bird). Event Details. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. If you’re going to play in the big leagues you need to be writing checks from a $700 million?—?$1 Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m of the fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You likely are writing your first one of these. In fact, let me provide an important warning: If you create these documents, don't have input from a technical resource, take it to a development shop and they provide you a price. So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As I have pointed out in previous posts , 91% of VCs surveyed believe prices are declining (30% believe substantially) and 77% believe that funding will take longer than it has in the past. Remember those party rounds that became so popular over the past few years because they allowed higher prices and more favorable terms for entrepreneurs?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Market Size.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

I’ve tried over the years to write many times about the realism of the downsides of being an entrepreneur because there is a complete cognitive dissidence between what you read about yourself in the press and what you feel internally about where you’re at in the journey. . — Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Erin Chase – Favado , combining price comparisons with grocery shopping. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Erin Korogosky – Beckon , Performance management for marketing companies. Susan Etlinger – Altimeter , research and consulting company for business disruption.

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