Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

Amongst the most often asked questions I get from founders is, “How much money should I raise?” Reflexively founders want to raise as much money as they can because they figure it will give them more resources, better chances of competing and a longer runways before they have to do the often painful job of asking, yet again, for money.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 14, 2022

Indeed, many firms even institutionalize the practice of providing help to portfolio companies through extensive platforms that may include PR, talent, marketing, technical, and other help (sometimes offered for free, sometimes offered ads a pay-for-service, but often at below-market rates for those services). The answer may surprise you.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Portfolio Venture Capital 150

YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2017

by Rebekah Epstein, founder of fifteen media. I get this question at almost every DIY PR workshop I do: “How do I know if a PR firm is the right fit for me?”. Finding the right PR firm can be a lot like dating; it could just be a gut instinct that tells you that you’ve found the one. Do you want traditional PR?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The sales professional.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Startup 144

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

Not just the $20 million round at Invoca, the $70 million I helped us raise at Maker Studios , but I was intimately involved with the earliest funding round at DataSift and every subsequent round which has recently announced $42 million led by Insight Venture Partners and $70 million in total.

Los Angeles 387

Los Angeles Intellectual Property LP Venture Capital 387

VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

While Metaverse rose to fame initially due to Facebook’s name change into ‘Meta’ to express their ambition to become a Metaverse company within 5 years (and perhaps deflect some of the negative PR), there are now many large companies, startups and brands working on their metaverse strategy. I will try to unpack this further on a future post.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

One of few ways to learn is by doing (or observing your own partners, or other senior investors). Read the tea leaves on CEO / Founder psychology The job of running a startup is incredibly stressful and as an industry we’ve started to note the importance of mental health / wellness in our industry. I try not to be.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. My action item – I will soon announce the GRP Partners CEO Summit. We learned this weekend that it was named after his East Hampton home.

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PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

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Cofounder Technical Review Social Media PR 239

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk.

Technical Cofounder 245

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Startup 245

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

She is the founder and CEO of The Grommet and the author of the book How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas Into Products That Build Successful Businesses. They have all the important tools you need for paid traffic, social media, PR, and SEO. Check it out at SEMrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing. Marketing Podcast with Jules Pieri.

Product 78

Product SEO New York Technical Review 78

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. The other pillar company CEO to speak closed the Summit — Niraj Shah, Co-founder and CEO of Wayfair: .

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Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

They''re building up their PR plans to make the financing announcements part of a larger story arc. Announcing your funding without a larger PR plan is the equivilant to George Costanza saying "I love you" to his date and not getting it returned--"that''s a pretty big matzo ball" to leave hanging out there. Are you looking to hire?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

You can’t be an effective founder or in the C-suite of a startup if you don’t hold any. You can’t be an effective founder or in the C-suite if you don’t have any. In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Partners make investment decisions. Also recognize that WITHIN a VC you have partners who focus on different areas. I now observes the fund raising process as a profession. Meet in person.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2012

He highlights the litany of woes including excessive demand brought about by a PR move, litigation, partner defections and component supply issues finally led to the company’s very public shutdown, destroying Latman’s – who then was known as Rick Latman – life in the process.

Software Review 164

Software Review Maryland Bankruptcy Seattle 164

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

by Andrea Martins, co-founder of GreenSocks. He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator.

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Cofounder Delaware Startup Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk.

Technical Cofounder 120

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Stock Options 120

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2011

The issue was that for the last two weeks in August, there were no VCs around to pitch, no distribution partners to meet with for biz dev deals, and seemingly no one else around actually working for me, the non-technical co-founder to push ahead toward milestones. Get your PR pitches out. Record some video.

Technical Review 121

Technical Review Software Review PR Cofounder 121

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Shira Sue Carmi, the founder of Launch Collective, reminds us that the business of launching a clothing brand is as important as the artistry: Fashion is amazing in the way it balances art and commerce, but it’s a business. There’s a terrific book about this from the founder of Nike, Phil Knight – Shoe Dog.

Small Business Administration 133

Small Business Administration Social Media LLC Technical Review 133

View from Seed

JULY 22, 2020

Proven founders? Traction is always a hotly debated attribute for founders and investors. Every time a founder tells me that they are not focused on traction, I pause for a second to really pressure-test that belief. You can negotiate better rates with suppliers or partners. Do you try to grow as fast as possible?

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Early Stage Retention PR Founder 254

Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

After seeing the negative effects of dehydration, both me and my co-founder, Ming, decided that we want to spread knowledge about hydration and create a product that could help with this problem. Hi my name is Raja Sahi, co-founder of Escapedom. My name is Zoltán Honti, co-founder of Escapedom. That’s how Ozmo was born.

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Entrepreneur Hungary Software Review Cofounder 102

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

I get on a whole host of these tech blogger lists where PR firms just spam a whole bunch of folks trying to get people to write about their book/startup/event. If you really knew me, you'd know that I write a personal blog and don't write book reviews off of pitches, interview founders for my readers, or cover events as news.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review PR Early Stage Venture Capital 87

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Of partner? Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. When you look at a deal so much of what you’re trying to understand are the skills, resiliency , work ethic, motivation and team dynamics of the founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. ” PR. When companies start the founder & CEO is often the only mouthpiece for the business. ” Of course I agree with this. He or she gets used to deciding what to say to the public and when.

Startup 150

Startup CTO Hire Sales Leadership 150

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He's the founder and CEO of marketing AI Institute, founder of PR 2020 HubSpot's first partner, agency HubSpots and sponsor of this show. Marketing Podcast with Paul Roetzer.

Artificial Inteligence 89

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Cofounder SMS 89

Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

A business in its early stages can often use a leg up, whether in the form of wise words from a mentor or an introduction to a strategic partner. Q&A with Joe Maruschak, co-founder of Fertilab Thinkubator . See Also How to Do Your Own Pr If You Can’t Afford an Agency. This is where incubators come in. Can you help me?”

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Incubator Cofounder Founder Early Stage 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. .” Across our partnership we will do 10-12 deals per year and with 5.5

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

We could either have the name represent our service, represent our values, represent us as founders, or just be a word without any other associations. (We We dug in deep looking for names that would somehow represent some part of us as founders. We began by creating multiple categories to start filling with ideas.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To grow a business, most entrepreneurs know that they should be implementing PR strategies. For this webinar, we were joined by Jennefer Witter, CEO and founder of the Boreland Group, and author of the new book, “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed.” The first one is define.

Public Relations 117

Public Relations Small Business PR Entrepreneur 117

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. .

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. .

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2014

80% of Your Culture is Your Founder | First Round Capital – crowdspring.co/1lk0ZGm. Startups Anonymous: Things founders say to investors that are complete BS | PandoDaily – crowdspring.co/1lSUyZ9. Interesting trend at VC firms … design partners | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1k67wjJ. – crowdspring.co/1ftv1Y3.

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