Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. It is clearly a ploy by hotels to cut costs but it also benefits the environment. No cookies for guessing which reason they use to market to us.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. Right now we're working on a multi-platform sales support program for Daylight Transport, a mid-sized LTL (Less Than Truckload) carrier and logistics company. Clients use our templates for things like sales sheets. Absolutely.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Revenue is driven by children’s parties, which cost $600-$4,000 for a two hour party for 15 kids, which apparently is the market price for kids parties in LA. Whereas most Christmas Tree vendors sell dead trees, the Living Christmas Company instead rents live trees and delivers them to local customers in Southern California.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Start-up costs are high, investors are keeping the purse-strings tied tight, and customers are not exactly spending with élan. Competitors have sprung up and one organization that represents these young businesses, the Southern California Mobile Food Vendors Association, lists 66 members on it’s website.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Start-up costs are high, investors are keeping the purse-strings tied tight, and customers are not exactly spending with élan. Competitors have sprung up and one organization that represents these young businesses, the Southern California Mobile Food Vendors Association, lists 66 members on it’s website.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Helmed by husband-and-wife team Stuart (Director of Sales and Marketing) and Emily (Managing Director, Board Chair, and Chief Ice Cream Inventor) Philips, during 2015 and 2016 Red Wagon is preparing for a big “regional-national” leap in production and distribution—in part by taking advantage of a new public investing program. “In

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www.startupspecialistnetwork.com

APRIL 29, 2013

Why You Need It – Form of liability insurance that helps protect professional advice- and service- providing individuals and companies from bearing the full cost of defending against a negligence claim made by a client, and certain damages awarded in such a civil lawsuit. Approximate Cost - $500-$2,500+. Key Person Insurance.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

The contract company would handle the other business aspects such as distribution, marketing, and sales. Alcohol production, distribution, and sales are all heavily shaped by laws. The current laws governing alcohol production, distribution, and sales evolved in the wake of the Prohibition era. Brewery Sales and Sampling Laws.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? You would then have been able to choose to grow another product that was in demand, or start your farm in Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. In sales we often call these USPs (I wrote about them here: Unique Selling Propositions ).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. Wacky, weird and low cost : Before diving into what I learned in the deck I want to share something crazy. As I mentioned, some pages unintelligible without commentary but well worth a read to get to the nuggets.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

If “Smucker’s” can be slapped on food and annually generate billions of sales, chances are that your company name, no matter how mediocre, will not preclude you from achieving significant success. However, if this is true, “Aardvark” would have been a more clever choice and equally as relevant to online book sales. Sales (13).

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. An example of the implication: Don't expect short term sales/revenue from any social participation. The serious point is that when we choose to invest in Social Media, it comes at a cost. The opportunity cost. There is no Do intent!

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