Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. When two out of four pitches in a session are from the same category, it most certainly makes me take notice. peerbackers.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. This slimming down has sent shockwaves through the startup world. Sure, $28 billion is far from being a “trickle” but consider this.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

The business plan was starting to look great and all the idea kinks were worked out. Opportunity & Compensation: We have done the heavy lifting in terms of the idea, how it will be implemented, and conveying this in a comprehensive and professional business plan. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. If you want to build a business that requires software, be prepared to invest a little money. After a few months, the demo site won a business plan competition. Newer Post.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. The course does not examine financing options or the composition of founding teams. Some people here are skeptical of spending time with MBA’s.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

External constraints or the lacks of resources (finance, skills, business idea) are relative minor reasons. Failure plagues those who believe in the traditional business plan; the long-term planning model; the belief that sales and marketing numbers are facts. Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Jeff Bezos. Hiten Shah.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Follow Mashable Business. Subscribe to the Business channel. More Stories in Business. Small Businesses Plan to Buy an iPad in 2012 [STUDY]. Money and Finance Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Become a fan on Facebook.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 18, 2014

Like many local businesses, the fitness and wellness industry has seen many new tools to manage backoffice/scheduling, demand generation and social media/community building. You were working in finance prior, right? Q: Founding Story – how did Glow get started? Q: How has technology played a role in customer acquisition?

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Planet Labs The San Francisco-based startup, founded by three NASA engineers in 2010, now has more than 200 tiny (10 x 4 inches) satellites orbiting the world, allowing the company to amazingly photograph the entire Earth every single day! Applications range from maps to predicting crop yields to security to transportation to finance.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 After Giants' World Series Win, San Francisco E.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. No investor cares about a business plan. If you’re not into business plans, as an investor, how would you decide if a startup is worth investing in (if you do in fact invest in startups)? . Other sources of capital. They care about real product.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Or what if a new brilliant idea that you hadn’t considered when you were planning emerges? Build in fluidity to your business plans. I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Think Again. This has been the case for decades.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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