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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

.” And if aspiring investment teams are looking to get together the SBIC has come back with a new VC focused program to help non-Silicon Valley communities fund companies beyond their initial angel money. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

He launched our scout program as an example. Greg has always been clear that he loves investing the most and he’s been incredibly successful having led our investments in GOAT, Ring, ThredUp and now more recently in companies like Rally. Greg is part of our executive leadership team and already helps run the firm.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

HDI also focused on state Medicaid programs as well as private insurers. At the federal level HDI is responsible for auditing 22% of the US territory yet has been responsible for 41% of all US refunds or a whopping $658 million between the original pilot program and the current program.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Program Manager – This title almost sounds like a consultant’s job. My company never became Google but at $14 million in recurring revenue and $36 million in backlog revenue we certainly had enough big clients to necessitate a very solid program management function. CTO’s max out at about 3. In summary.

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JUNE 27, 2013

My partner Steven Dietz created an internship program with a few of the leading LA-based universities designed to get 500 internships with the thesis that if they start with LA-based roles they’re more likely to stay after they graduate. And there’s much more of this to come.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

The film highlights a nationwide school system called KIPP Schools (knowledge is power program) that teach only in lower-income neighborhoods. While affluent areas produce “on average&# better scores than other programs they do this by having really high calibre students at the top who bring the averages up significantly.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages.

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APRIL 17, 2016

The best leaders I work with are implementing programs like OKRs (objectives & key results) or a version of V2MOM (vision, values, methods, obstacles & measures) popularized at Salesforce.com. The best leaders I work with think about what the company culture is and how to foster it.

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MARCH 18, 2010

There is no cost but you must physically be based in or move to Los Angeles for the 6 months of the program. We decided that V2 would have a more formal education program taught by real practitioners rather than just hosting discussions on topics as we did in V1. Full press release with more details is here.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Traditional venture capital (A and B rounds) have stopped obsessing quite as much with competing on seed investing as they’re content to be patient and watch the best companies emerge.

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JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. So I did that kind of stuff. It was all technical.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

Turns out DailyBurn was part of the TechStars program in Boulder. They joined the YCombinator program and have raised a small amount of angel money. Then I found out that Dave McClure had already invested along with many others in a Silicon Valley seed round even though the company is in Alabama.

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MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.

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MAY 4, 2013

I know they will continue to produce great successes and that they have a team of great thinkings and leaders running their program. I also know that there are people close with the program like Sequoia that get access to the companies early and therefore have a proprietary advantage over somebody like me.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

He thinks even programming is vulnerable to being automated and reducing the number of available programming jobs. Mark also said that what happens in the next 5–10 years is just going to blow everybody away, especially in the field of automation.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

7 PM mobile viewing of movies, lighter scripted and unscripted programming, and daily news/sports/politics, in the kinds of 10-minute content chunks you can consume on your commute or waiting at the dentist. For example, she spoke about how Steven Spielberg wanted to create a horror-based program that viewers could only watch at midnight.

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JUNE 25, 2017

Please consider watching this very short 2-minute video that talks about a program called the Renaissance Scholars program that helps children who are going into their freshman year of college and are either homeless or graduating from the foster care system. If you want to know more about this great program watch this 60-second video.

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APRIL 20, 2011

One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. A few deals have been funded through this program. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. In the program we also talked about much debated topic of large VC’s and whether they should have seed programs. If you’re interested in the topic you should check out the program. Wildfire Interactive. Read more: TechCrunch. Other News: 1.

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MAY 4, 2013

I know they will continue to produce great successes and that they have a team of great thinkings and leaders running their program. I also know that there are people close with the program like Sequoia that get access to the companies early and therefore have a proprietary advantage over somebody like me.

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APRIL 18, 2019

At Bird, we have built in massive programs to reduce theft, including integration with law enforcement. But perhaps one of the biggest overlooked advantage of the incumbents is just how massively complicated it is to run a global or even national or even city version of a transportation company. Hats off to the teams that have done this.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

My philosophy emanated from my days of programming and later designing corporate software in the early 1990′s. I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0,

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APRIL 19, 2011

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program?

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MARCH 2, 2021

The first few days back on a program suck really bad. at least you’ve gotten the program going again. See if you can join a program like Noom or some other online program that addresses the mental aspects as well as gives you a step-by-step plan. You can’t beat yourself up for your slip or for your past. I promise you.

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MARCH 1, 2016

But both seed investors and LPs alike agree that as long as these programs are managed sensibly, their existence is useful. Of course, this raises a host of questions about conflicts of interest, valuations, and whether early-stage investors are well-suited to invest in later-stage deals.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

I seem to get so over programmed that if I ever want to have a “break-out” unplanned trip somewhere I seem to have to reschedule meetings. I wrote a version of this post four years ago but given the hectic nature of today’s tech markets I thought it was worth revisiting and updating. Not fun, but a reality.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Not least of which because my father immigrated to the US in the 1960’s for his residency program of medical school. When he had finished the program the US wanted more doctors due to the Vietnam War. So immigration policy has always been top of mind for me.

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JUNE 16, 2016

In the late 90s I began experimenting with voice as an input with a program by Dragon Systems called “NaturallySpeaking” but I was never quite proficient enough to make this work for me. Of course in recent years voice as I/O is becoming mainstream.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Most firms hire associates straight out of MBA programs and usually it is a “2-3 years and out” type of job. I’m a proponent of this ( provided the associates stay silent during board meetings ) because it gives the VC firm leverage and provides and extra set of eyes & hands to help support the company.

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OCTOBER 22, 2011

They are great at their respective fields whether they be marketing, sales, programming, PR, whatever. And leaders aren’t always right of when they are they don’t always win. But in every team you need the majority of people who excel at their job functions.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

As I alluded to in my post on our recent program in which we now invest $50,000 per company and have shared office space , Bill Gross (the founder of Idealab) was instrumental in convincing me to keep Launchpad LA running despite an over-abundance of local LA accelerators. Launchpad LA. Happy 2012 to all of you. Remember the Haimish line.

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MARCH 6, 2010

Running a local community / mentorship program – I run a group called LaunchPad LA. We’re gearing up to make big announcements about our second year program. Overall, I’m very happy on this side of the table. I try to get my entrepreneurial fix in other ways: 1. I’ll write about that in a couple of weeks.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

44:00 Thank you to Scott Walker of Walker Corporate Law for supporting the program. I saw a study out of the Kauffman foundation that said the rate of startups in LA is higher than anywhere else in the country. 39:00 Tell me a little bit about Gaikai and how you got involved. Everyone follow him @scottedwalker.

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APRIL 4, 2011

Do you have a customer referral program? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. How many adds came through organic SEO?

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APRIL 13, 2011

And we are just starting our first year in Seattle.”…” Of the Boulder companies there have been 41 companies that have gone through the Boulder program and there is some mortality…” “I guess it’s 5 or 6 that have failed. On the Startup Visa Program. We just finished the second year in Boston. All the results by the way are up on line.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

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JUNE 28, 2021

It’s therefore important to have enough deals in your program to allow for the 15–20% of amazing deals to emerge. The thesis is that before investing in an early-stage startup it is close to impossible to know which of the deals you did will break out to the upside.

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APRIL 3, 2014

But find a way where the bonus program is adjusted for any work that has a higher COGS due to dev work and they’ll sell around it – I promise. ” They’ll throw in extra storage, extra modules, extra freebies. Hold the line on any additional dev work. There will be times where you do need to commit.

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