Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It was as much in reaction to my getting blank stares from entrepreneurs when I asked that question as it was for me to better understand the problem itself. Dave’s syndicated cable show: The Berkus Report. Here is my list. First: Planning. of going viral that makes all the difference between failure and success.)

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Viral Matching Syndicate Syndication 71

Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

B2B software can no longer just get away with crappy UI… it has to at least match the ease of use and aesthetics of all the consumer web products users love. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Pingback: silver philharmonic. Read More ».

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Software B2B Silicon Valley Acquisition 100

Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 30, 2012

Thanks to the Entrepreneur Enclave, we have compiled 22 unexpected places where you will find your next great employee. Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. I just sort through the list until I find the one that closely matches the requirements I have for the job I need done. Going To School? Your Hired!

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Employee LLC Non-Compete Utah 144

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped tens of thousands of small business owners, entrepreneurs, agencies and non-profits in the US and from 100 countries with professional logo design, web design, print design, product design , packaging design , and even naming businesses and products. Let me illustrate with an example.

Small Business 63

Small Business Marketing Social Media Lead Generation 63

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. Most share expertise as well as money.

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Angel Investor Accredited Investor Venture Capital Startup 120

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Investors say things like: “This founder is very fundable” or “This founder doesn’t pattern match” Ellen Pao talks about this explicitly in the excerpt of her new book. Just a couple of years ago, AngelList announced their syndicate feature. But syndicates are logistically challenging.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor 48

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Investors say things like: “This founder is very fundable” or “This founder doesn’t pattern match” Ellen Pao talks about this explicitly in the excerpt of her new book. Just a couple of years ago, AngelList announced their syndicate feature. But syndicates are logistically challenging.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 48

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Pre-money valuation was initially set higher but was adjusted to match the Ser B valuation. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. . $1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. General Catalyst & Sequoia participated. liquidation preference, 6% accumulated dividend. Series B Preferred. round closed Feb 2005.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the value of your expertise, insights and ideas. Every entrepreneur should count on at least a couple of adjustments or pivots before they get it right.

Startup 120

Startup Social Media Syndicate Syndication 120

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2012

In the article, I discuss why we think that smart early-stage investors should target women and diverse entrepreneurs, and why we think HBS Alumni Angels in particular is well positioned to be very successful. NAIC ‘s involvement in VCAP© insures that a robust pipeline of diverse entrepreneurs will participate. High quality.

Private Equity 133

Private Equity Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor 133

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. Tags: entrepreneurs startups. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL). Keyword research and budget forecasting. Popular keywords have higher costs. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Marty Zwilling.

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Search Engineer SEM Widget 225

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991. 3M TO PAY $230 MILLION FOR ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY FIRM ATTENTI. . the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc., in August 2010.

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United Kingdom Austria Global 96

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I’ve never written before about those other “potential business opportunities” that our team was exploring along with our prior investment syndicate, Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures, Greg Sands from Costanoa Ventures, and Brad Feld from Foundry. Any entrepreneur would be lucky to have one of these mentors in their corner.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

Being a good angel or VC has a lot to do with pattern matching. You need to see more patterns of success and failure than just the ones you experienced yourself as an entrepreneur. Great advisors help entrepreneurs come up with the answers themselves, versus just giving them all the answers as you see them from your own experience.

Angel Investor 133

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Portfolio 133

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 21, 2010

Interestingly enough, I thought more people started taking part in the conversation who weren’t on Hot Potato because they now knew their thoughts were being syndicated to an app where more people were talking about the event. A less product-focused entrepreneur would not have been able to make that call.

Product 68

Product Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Syndicate 68

Genuine VC

MAY 1, 2014

In the intervening years while I pursued a career investing in startups rather than creating them, Josh continued as an entrepreneur starting a handful of companies including early social networking site Sconex, successfully sold to Alloy Media. Back in those Web 1.0

Cofounder 118

Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Social Network 118

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Golazo is a slang word in Spanish used to describe truly special goals scored in a soccer match. But for us that can’t be the goal at the outset and we try to be up front with entrepreneurs that we meet that we’re not the right investment partner if that’s what they’re looking for. Filed under Uncategorized.

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South Korea Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 124

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process. AngelList is brilliantly designed to make it easy for investors to write checks to entrepreneurs. Every startup, entrepreneur and investor has a profile similar to a Facebook profile. Global Syndication Partners.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 13, 2012

What entrepreneur hasn't dreamed that our startup will experience the same magical beginnings as Google ? That's enough to jumpstart your company's development in a way bootstrapping and maxing out your credit cards simply can't match. Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim was one such angel. So what do angels want?

Angel Investor 128

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Exit Strategy 128

Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

Even the best entrepreneurs often hear “no” from potential investors. As a result, we frequently spend time with entrepreneurs before they’ve started fundraising or while they’re still contemplating various pathways for funding their businesses. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 100

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The classic entrepreneur builds the business — quite frankly, he or she probably just builds the product for a long time first, then the business. Starting about four years ago, for the first time, I felt like we had a great business to match our great company.

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Warrant Syndicate Syndication Matching 128

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2017

For many entrepreneurs and small business owners, it lies in creating content profitably and sustainably over the long haul. The best forms of CTAs are matched to your audience’s readiness to act and the type of content that you provide. What is the greatest marketing challenge in the digital age? 7 Measure, Monitor, and Modify.

Social Media 67

Social Media Syndicate Syndication Matching 67

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Rather these firms know that there are countless bright, hard-working entrepreneurs out there thinking 24/7 about the next big thing and so they remain open to these innovative ideas even if the firm hasn’t previously formed a specific investment thesis about that space. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Because every one can be matched or surpassed by any competitor, today or tomorrow, in very little time. As an entrepreneur who went through TechStars last year, I can vouch that these are some of the main points we needed to prove to get into the program. link] Justin and Andre Great article Jason. Simple, to the point and VERY true!

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Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Many firms do it in a way that can be more detrimental to entrepreneurs. We’ll probably end up paying more than we’d want to because we want to take the investment off the market and the entrepreneur will likely feel they should get a higher price if they shopped it broadly on the open market.

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Post-Money Valuation Term Sheet Warrant Partner 298

Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

According to the most recent annual Kauffman Index report , which ranks “the rate of new entrepreneurs, the number of entrepreneurs who started their companies when unemployed, and the number of startups per capita,” it’s neither New York City nor Silicon Valley. Women@Austin is an exemplary case of this collaborative environment.

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Silicon Valley New York City San Jose Texas 48

mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

But for many small business owners and entrepreneurs, the naming process is fraught with uncertainty and doubt. It sure is nice to have your company name match your web address. It is a good practice to matching as much as possible as the first goal, between twitter, domain, and other social media URL names. Clever irony?

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Naming Social Media Social Network RSS 97

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

17 core investments have been made, I’d say our investment model was, and continues to be, consistent with the type of firm we want to build but if you’re not constantly evaluating how to get better and serve entrepreneurs, you won’t last very long in the early stage venture business. No more, no less.

Cofounder 102

Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 102

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

You don't just get the entrepreneur--you get the team he puts in a position to succeed. When we first syndicated the seed round with other investors, some people didn't get it. I owe it in large part to finding great people whose skills were uniquely matched to the entrepreneurial challenge they were taking on.

Syndicate 151

Syndicate Syndication Viral B2B 151

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2017

She is an entrepreneur, a former college professor, professional speaker and communication expert and also an author of a book we’re going to talk about today called Dynamic Communication, 27 strategies to grow, lead and manage your business. Learn more at klaviyo.com. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Jill Schiefelbein.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 22, 2016

You can easily revamp and repurpose some of the content you have on your own blog and syndicate it out to those you think might be interested in it. Sit down with them and draft an article that you’re going to send to Entrepreneur, Forbes, or to some other publisher. Content creation and PR are a match made in heaven.

PR 28

PR Marketing Social Media Syndicate 28

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Entrepreneurs struggle to find investors and investors struggle to find the best start-ups. billion in 2009, which matches the amount invested by VCs. This is a brutal process for entrepreneurs and many have no interest in the angel groups for this reason. These angels invested $17.6

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Angel Investor Angel Groups San Jose Venture Capital 28