Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. We chose the word “upfront” to represent our culture.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. Therefore, I’ll posit one possible path for a startup founder – the dysfunctional family theory.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology. From this crowd of 12 I believe you’ll see 4-5 companies with the potential to rise to prominence.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2013

500 startups went from strange idea to an integral part of the world startup ecosystem. Angel Investor CEO Succession early stage founder Hawaii Launch Revenue Growth startup CEO Tom Nora angel investor CEOing CoFounder first revenue google scalability Silicon Valley startups tom nora'

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter and Jonathan discuss startup incubators, and our guest Caroline talks to us about the “F” word and 10 reasons why startups fail. Startup Incubators – (2:13). Learn more about Techstars , a startup accelerator program. 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail – (9:31). Take your idea there.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Hawaii Angels. Speaking with many angel leaders , I believe we have identified several possible explanations for group-to-group variations: 1) Clearly, startup ventures in some business verticals command high pre-money valuations that others. Fargo/Morehead Angels. Maple Leaf Angels. Toronto, ON. New Mexico Angels. Albuquerque.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In the startup world, it seems to be winning over the bits and bytes style. Meetup.com and Eventbrite , founded on this principle of meeting in person as a response to too much Internet meeting, has helped to spawn, grow and change thousands of startups. He had on a name tag, I didn’t. We couldn’t move.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 4, 2012

is a funny place but I love the startup scene here. Thursday Night Meetup with Consulting giveaway - “ How can SoCal Startups Leverage Silicon Valley success? Next Year - Many possibilities – basic web design training, a 2 day conference in April, another 2 day conference in Hawaii in May. “ at ROFL.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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Scalable Startup

JUNE 13, 2013

Angel Investor Business Development early stage Hawaii Hiring Jobs Scalability acquisition Cash Flow first revenue hiring jobs Leader leadership tom nora' The way computers and social media and machine learning are used to streamline the hiring process must change and augment reality as it is today, not try to alter it.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Take Boulder, Colorado as a model, they’ve successfully created their own very strong economy for startups. There’s a startup for every 50 or so people there. They have all the pieces and they are heavily connected to Silicon Valley without envying them.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Being the CEO of a startup is crazy, fun, very hard work, inclusive, humbling and of course can be quite rewarding. When you’re the CEO of a startup, a real startup with product and some cash in the bank and/or revenue, there are 3 FULL TIME JOBS. Selling – The CEO of a startup must ABS, always be selling.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 1, 2013

Audacity is required to build an innovative startup, to invent something new, try to do things others say you cannot do, and Southern California needs many more audacious people in its tech and media startup ecosystem. Risk Taking. So Cal is a perfect environment for innovation and bold risk taking. Not a conservative approach.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 28, 2013

One of the top 3 to 5 worries when launching a startup is is “Who gets how much stock upon start or joining? They call it STARTUP ECONOMICS. They call it STARTUP ECONOMICS. Here it is… https://www.smartasset.com/infographic/startup. Founders, Co-Founders, next employees, Investors, Etc. TN @tomnora.

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2013

What are people doing now because your product doesn’t exist, what is the pain you will solve? What is it that you know about your specific niche that other companies do not? How and when does this make revenue and profits? What is the growth graph? tomnora.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 19, 2013

Most startup entrepreneurs focus on one thing throughout the lifecycle of their company: bringing in CASH. All of these things are magical words to early stagers. I attend and host many meetups and conferences for startups, and consult to several startups, and every founder is inevitably talking about Cash. Tom Nora.

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