Occam's Razor

JUNE 8, 2006

I am often asked what we look for when we hire Web Analysts or what quality do good Analysts possess or how to measure if a resource that already exists is optimal or how to mentor / motivate / guide our more junior Analysts to propel them to become great Analysts. This blog post is an attempt to answer all those questions wrapped into one. We all agree that reporting is not analysis.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 28, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « How to assure yourself that no professional investor will ever want to invest in your venture: | Main. | Managing Investor Relationships » June 28, 2006. Podcast: Having A Candid Conversation with Angel Investors.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 24, 2006

I met with a 10 person company the other day and once I got to Slide 2, I immediately started having questions about the opportunity. What struck me was a company that had a CEO, COO, and a VP of Marketing and a VP of Sales. You have probably heard this many times before but I will reemphasize the point – companies have different personnel needs at different stages of development (start-up, first customer sales, rapid growth, maturity).

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 26, 2006

Kevin Menzie. Slice of Lime, Inc. CEO Kevin Menzie, who I have known for years, writes a good summary of his thoughts on the early days of getting a startup off the ground and growing fast!

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Spencer Fry

JUNE 30, 2006

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Tim Keane

JUNE 22, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? | Main. | How to assure yourself that no professional investor will ever want to invest in your venture: » June 22, 2006. Testing to Increase Valuations.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « How do you present your venture to an investor? | Main. | If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? » June 13, 2006. A budget discussion with an entrepreneur. When you get to the point in the discussion where projections are relevant, there is a drill-down method here used by virtually every investor.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 7, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Its always the People!! | Main. | Do you know how a banker looks at your business? » June 07, 2006. Advisors are People Too. "OK, so its all about the people, you say," writes Bill. "But dont your criteria include the investors and professional advisors, too?

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BeyondVC

JUNE 5, 2006

While the Motorola Q phone got delayed in its release, I went out and got the new Cingular Blackberry 8700c a few months ago. Since then, my hands down favorite application has been Google Maps for my device. Call me cheap, but I have always hated using 411 service and getting charged exorbitant rates for getting a phone number. That is also why services like Free411 (one of Josh’s investments ) have taken off so rapidly.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 5, 2006

Congratulations to Greenplum (full disclosure: portfolio company) as it announced its first referenceable customer, Frontier Airlines, last week. To refresh your memory, Greenplum develops software that allows customers to deploy terabyte scale datawarehouses leveraging PostgreSQL at significant price/performance advantages over exsiting solutions. Building credibility is an important step for startups and getting referenceable customers and hiring industry talent are two surefire ways to do tha

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BeyondVC

JUNE 3, 2006

I recently sat in a presentation which a portfolio company CEO gave for a potential strategic partner. He first started out with a two minute explanation of the business and then insisted on diving into the demo. I wasn’t sure if that prospective partner really got it and before we knew it, the CEO said it was much easier to just dive into the demo to explain.

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Spencer Fry

JUNE 29, 2006

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