SoCal CTO
JANUARY 18, 2008
Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. It was a really good event with lots of interesting folks in attendance. I would guess that there was about 100 people - on a Saturday in Pasadena. That shows some interest in the topic. The presenters had some interesting things to say on a wide variety of topics. A post by Elrend Wilhelmsen discusses some of what was discussed.
Professor VC
JANUARY 17, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, January 17, 2008. Touched by an Angel. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. Well, you can certainly peruse The Funded for some descriptive terms for investors.
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BeyondVC
JANUARY 17, 2008
I got a call before the holidays from a prospective customer that I introduced to one of my portfolio companies. He said he loved our product, saw it fitting in perfectly into their platform, but that we were not responsive enough to their needs. I was able to get a second chance for our team but since deals are momentum-based, I knew that it would be an uphill struggle to win.
Jason Ball
JANUARY 16, 2008
Like I do with every Apple iTunes new feature, I buy immediately to help promote the format. The introduction of Movie Rentals is no different… If you rent a movie through iTunes, a new source appears in iTunes “Rented Movies” I decided to watch Pirates of the Carribean (one of our portfolio companies’ software has been used in the various Pirates films).
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Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in
Professor VC
JANUARY 17, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, January 17, 2008. Who does this ProfessorVC think he is? Ok, so I think Im the last guy in Silicon Valley to start a blog. Ive thought about it for the past 5 or 6 years and finally decided to do it this afternoon. Im so late hopping on the train that we are probably pulling into the station.
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Jason Ball
JANUARY 16, 2008
I posted last year’s figures from Icon Corporate Finance, showing how exit valuations were 1.5x -2x sales. I use figures like that as 3rd party data when discussing valuations. This year’s data focuses on one of the same two metrics used last year price/EBIT (no price/sales data was provided). What’s clear though is that the multiples for 2007 are trending down from those of 2006… If you’re an entrepreneur out fundraising, you need to keep these multiples in mind.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 16, 2008
I am helping a friend who has the most popular books on baby naming bring it all online. Our development on the backend is close to complete, and we are looking for a great web designer who can create a few templates and themes for us. This is a database driven site and the homepage will include some social elements in it as well. If interested please send me a note with some samples of your sites you helped design.
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