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Entrepreneur tips from the trenches

by Reena A Jadhav, May 22, 2010 | Comments

Tip #2 - The KISS principle

What principles will you adopt to design your solution and your business? I'm a big supporter of the KISS principle. "Keep it Simple, Stupid." Tip#2: KISS-Keep It Simple, Stupid Wikipedia offers memorable quotes for KISS at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle My favorite is from Antoine de Saint Exupéry's "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is ...

Top 10 tips from an entrepreneur

by Reena A Jadhav, May 4, 2010 | Comments (1)

	Series of tips from the trenches I've been an entrepreneur since 1998. I've been a retired entrepreneur fighting my addiction to new ventures since 2008. You would think I have more than 10 tips to share with you! We'll start with 10 and see where it takes us. I am counting on you, the readers, to share your tips so we can build out a library of Tips ...
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IPO market looking less robust to this VC

by Reena A Jadhav, May 4, 2010 | Comments

Claremont Creek Ventures Randy Hawks on his outlook for exits in 2010

In the latest episode of "Cashing Out: Exits and Valuations with Reena Jadhav," Reena talks to Randy Hawks, a venture capitalist at Claremont Creek Ventures, a VC firm based in the East Bay with $3 million under management and focusing on clean tech, healthcare and security. (See previous interview with Claremont partner Nat Goldhaber.) In this segment, Randy says he's ...

Liquidity events, is 2010 the year?

by Reena A Jadhav, April 21, 2010 | Comments (1)

Keiretsu Forum's Randy Williams on his outlook for exits

Reena Jadhav talks to Randy Williams, founder of Keiretsu Forum, about the exit markets on her new show, "Cashing Out: Exits and Valuations with Reena Jadhav." In this segment, Randy talks about the activity at Keiretsu, what kind of exits he's seeing and the valuations of those exits. He also talks about his view on secondary markets as a ...

ReTargeter on running a lean startup machine

by Reena A Jadhav, February 16, 2010 | Comments (1)

Arjun Arora CEO ReTargeter talks to Reena Jadhav about how he keeps costs down

Reena Jadhav, CEO of nuAlerts, interviews Arjun Arora, CEO of ReTargeter on lessons learned while bootstrapping. ReTargeter is an online solution that allows you to show display ads to people who have just left your website. Their customers include celebrity sites such as Bill Cosby to ecommerce sites and more. Arjun raised a small round in May 2009 from family ...

OpenView embracing social media companies

by Reena A Jadhav, February 9, 2010 | Comments

Social analytics, social monitoring, social gaming should continue to attract capital

At Vator.tv's first-ever Vator Splash event on Thursday, February 4 at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, Reena Jadhav, founder and CEO of NuAlerts caught up with Kobie Fuller, a venture capitalist at OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion-stage venture firm based in Boston. OpenView invests between $5 million to $50 million in companies that typically have recurring revenue and are ...

Scoble at VatorSplash on iPad, Facebook, Siri

by Reena A Jadhav, February 6, 2010 | Comments

Prolific tech blogger predicts war between Google and Facebook, touts Siri

At Vator.tv's first-ever Vator Splash event on Thursday, February 4 at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, Reena Jadhav, founder and CEO of NuAlerts caught up with prolific tech blogger Robert Scoble. Scoble, who was also co-host of the event - which drew an audience of more than 350 attendees -talks about his predictions for the social media and technology ...

Building a successful long-tail business

by Reena A Jadhav, December 13, 2009 | Comments

Interview with long tail expert Adam Boyden, President Conduit

Reena A Jadhav interviews Adam Boyden, President of Conduit which has crossed 200,000 long tail publishers and successfully monetized their customers in less than 5 years. According to Adam, building a successful long tail strategy starts with addressing a big problem faced by large number of businesses. The key is to deliver an incredibly easy to use solution that is also easy to ...

So, where's the money?

by Reena A Jadhav, November 29, 2009 | Comments

Revenue models that work and monetization tips for entrepreneurs

Reena Jadhav interviews Adam Boyden, President of Conduit on monetization tips. Conduit has exploded over the last few years and now supports over 200,000 publishers and more than 60 million active users. But that's not the interesting part. What's fascinating is that they are effectively monetizing their user base and generating significant revenues. I sat down with Adam Boyden, President ...

Get to profitability now

by Reena A Jadhav, March 12, 2009 | Comments

Angel investor Hamid Rezepour speaks with Reena Jadhav

Angel investor Hamin Rezepour shares with nuResume founder Reena Jadhav his top industry picks for investing in 2009 along with a tip for entrepreneurs. He believes that 2009 is going to offer opportunities in Real estate and Green Tech. After all, there's significant inventory of distressed and undervalued commerical properties for cherry picking by investors sitting on cash. Who has ...

Is this why you're not getting funded?

by Reena A Jadhav, February 11, 2009 | Comments (2)

John Matthesen shares why eight out of 10 fail to get funded

Keiretsu Forum member and angel investor John Matthesen give Reena Jadhav, Founder, CEO of nuResume.com his top 5 reasons that 8 out of 10 presentations fail to get funded. Every month he sees great ideas fail to raise money since they're unable make a solid convincing presentation. It's a frosty climate to begin with, so entrepreneurs need to make a "super compelling business case" to ...

The upside of fear, uncertainty and doubt

by Reena A Jadhav, February 6, 2009 | Comments

Soaring Venture partner Steven Elefant says today's tough times are great for entrepreneurs

I recently caught up with Steven Elefant, a partner at Soaring Venture and an angel investor, at the Keiretsu holiday party recently. The interview sheds light on the investor mindset these days. It's no surprise that he predicts a challenging year coupled with long recovery. Elefant thinks the economy will turn a corner in 2010, given than this time a ...

Tim Draper gives Survival 2010 tips

by Reena A Jadhav, January 26, 2009 | Comments

Crisis is an opportunity to grab huge markets

Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, shares with Reena Jadhav, CEO nuResume, his perspective on the impact of the current economic crisis on venture backed companies. Bottom line: this is a crisis you can take advantage of and an opportunity to grab huge markets! He draws a clear distinction between the current economic crisis and the 2000-2001 downturn by saying ...

Valuations are down 50%, get profitable now!

by Reena A Jadhav, December 23, 2008 | Comments

Collin Wiel shares tips and predictions with Reena Jadhav

How refreshing to finally get a number on the new valuation metric - it's down 50%. So now we know. Collin Wiel, Partner at Keiretsu Forum San Francisco Chapter, shares with Reena Jadhav, CEO nuResume, his top tips for Survival and predictions for 2009. Tip 1: Forget about building a sales team, the CEO or founder needs to sell. Conserve resources on sales team ...

Are you the next billionaire?

by Reena A Jadhav, December 18, 2008 | Comments (4)

Nat Goldhaber tells Reena Jadhav why now's the time for billionaires

Reena Jadhav, CEO nuResume, interviewed Nat Goldhaber, Venture Capitalist, in between drinks to hear his tips for Survival 2010 and predictions for 2009. Nat was inspiring enough that I came home and put in a couple more hours of work. He believes this is the time for billionaires, not millionaires, to be born. As he puts it, there are so ...

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