Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). There is one source that was always problematic for me – intros from investment bankers. What price? I attended events.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Thanks to Richard Burner, Goals Marketing ! #2- 2- Means investing in micro-influencers. Even non-tech companies will transition to a digital space. Photo Credit: Ben Reynolds.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Demonstrate your team’s unique unfair competitive advantage, whether it is technology, stellar management team, or key partnerships. Get Growthink's Proven Venture Capital Business Plan Template Here Industry Analysis Goal of the industry analysis section: Prove that there is a real market for your product or service. market research).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We didn’t approach a single VC until we knew the technology could play in the big leagues. They’re pitching the same investors that you are (and the same tech journalists for that matter!). When an investor asks you “How is your product different than other solutions on the market?”, Thankfully, it worked out.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. I recommend building a strong internal tech stack, to handle the deluge of requests for help you’ll get from companies as you scale. Fundraising. Celebrity Relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). There is one source I never liked and no early-stage VC should – investment bankers. What price? With which other investors?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We didn’t approach a single VC until we knew the technology could play in the big leagues. They’re pitching the same investors that you are (and the same tech journalists for that matter!). When an investor asks you “How is your product different than other solutions on the market?”, Thankfully, it worked out.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I gave a presentation at a legal technology conference last week. When I got back to the office, I reviewed some of the other accounts that we were currently working with, and I noticed some patterns emerge. by Ryan Gerhardy, CEO of Pitchly. Afterward, I met the CIO from one of our law firm clients who was in the audience.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). Given our backgrounds, we often get asked about what makes the tech scene in Los Angeles different from that in the Valley.

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Spencer Fry

AUGUST 20, 2018

It's like walking up to the investment banker or a lawyer at a party who’s wearing a light blue button up, dark slacks, and brown loafers -- just like every other investment banker I've ever met. Yes, we do review "mission critical" code, but for the most part, we don't. 2: Don't be deceitful.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." Money man and pundit Paul Kedrosky also spoke at the International Startup Festival and offered humorous, blunt advice about how to get what you want from investors and investment bankers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Carolyn Rodz. Take The Marketing Assessment: Like this show? 2:20] Why the Lewis Carroll reference? [8:31]

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Some, such as Chinese mobile company Xiaomi, were founded less than five years ago while others such as Good Technology have been around for more than a decade. One key difference between the late ‘90s tech scene and now are macroeconomic factors. Technology ubiquity. Which leads to…. Demand for late stage VC-backed companies.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets (Committee on Financial Services) hearing on “Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and the Need for Investor Protections” May 2021. IPO market. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e.,

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Buy And Sell Their Agencies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Amanda Dixon. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Amanda Dixon. Amanda is the Co-founder at Barney an M&A firm that specializes in the digital marketing space.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2017

The story of why I started an education business is mostly due to growing up in a household of educators. And in many cases, they have either a lack of willingness or inability to adapt to the realities of 21 st century’s employment market. A constantly changing curriculum: in the world of tech, things change VERY quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Startups are lucky that they can’t afford research, so they test in market and land upon on ideas that would never fly based on what we think or what focus groups would respond with. Technology Poverty – Every revolution has its downsides – those who miss out. The technology minimums are changing quickly.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

IN THIS EDITION Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it What’s inside your (mobile) bank? This trend is worrisome because investing in public markets has traditionally been one of the most important wealth creation mechanisms in the U.S.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Brian is the CEO of Coinbase, a successful tech company, and one of 2021's most successful IPOs. The company's market cap at the time of their entry into the public markets topped $100 billion dollars. I don't see any big tech companies that have great cultures that are doing fully remote. BA : Yeah.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 18, 2012

Nick Beim (Gilt, The Ladders, JBoss) was a consultant and investment banker. They may have more conviction around product or technical decisions, hiring, or even organizational structure. A few examples from our portfolio: Boundless Learning: John Katzman (Founder of Princeton Review and 2Tor).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

My last job prior to starting my own business was in medical device sales within the aesthetic space.This led me to start a digital marketing firm specializing in the aesthetic industry. So I decided to become an Entrepreneur and start my own company for people who wanted to learn about trading in the Stock Market.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

… … (And when a friend with a new startup called asking me to do some marketing for him) I said, I’m totally focused on on this truck idea. I’m not getting paid like an investment banker. I delivered newspapers at night … for the Las Vegas Review Journal. I’d do it again. Derek : Yeah.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2014

” Tariq Fancy, of the international tech nonprofit Rumie, points out that creating a business plan is step one to making sure you’ll have enough money to keep your doors open. Expert Tip: “Passion alone isn’t enough—I wouldn’t have done this had I not been convinced that the numbers make sense.”

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

Entrepreneurs and executives will do all sorts of things to improve themselves, from taking a class on a particular technology, to reading a book about venture deals, to practicing intermittent fasting. For example, if you haven’t achieved product-market fit, instrumenting every aspect of customer acquisition is overkill.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization.

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