rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

She received the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university licensing, and is currently a member of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Deputy Director of Intramural Research. Send an email to terri@kandsranch.com describing your entrepreneurial journey. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. He’s been at it since 2005. And importantly you start thinking about your next gig.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. Meet early. Not so much.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

I lived through this again September 2001. I’ve offered to fund an early stage company where I promised cash in bank in less than 30 days. I always made them commit in an email to the day they would ship documents and then I’d hold them too it. I’d send them their email and point out the docs were late.

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entrepreMusings

APRIL 29, 2010

After I get home get the kids fed, bathed, homework-ed, piano-ed, put to bed and caught up on emails, it’s almost 10:00 pm and I’m sapped or is that zapped…oh whatever. This year marks the 10 year anniversary of I2P and I remember being part of the early discussions when the competition was forming.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

million for the year, which is the first time it has been below $5 million since 2001, a sign that capital efficiency will be even more important than it has. Email This BlogThis! I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. Dinners were consumed with customers or in hotels and often past 10pm.

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