Lowell Ness
Advisor
Lowell Ness is a partner and a founding member of the firm’s Emerging Companies Group in the Silicon Valley Office. He has considerable experience in securities law and corporate governance matters.
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Joseph Perkins
Advisor
Kent Goldman
Kent Goldman is a Principal at First Round Capital. Most recently, he was a member of the Corporate Development team at Yahoo, where he focused on M&A to support the company’s user-facing properties. In 2007, he led the company’s $350M acquisition of Zimbra. Earlier, Kent led business strategy efforts for Yahoo’s Front Page, Communications and Community products which included Yahoo.com, My Yahoo and Yahoo Mail.
Before joining Yahoo in 2004, Kent was an institutional investor focusing on early-stage consumer technology. Among the firm’s investments with which he worked most closely was Oddpost, one of the first web-based services to demonstrate the functionality of a desktop application. In 2004, Yahoo acquired the company. Oddpost’s technology now serves as the basis for the Yahoo Mail interface.
Dan Valdez
Advisor
Dan Valdez is currently a Partner with Enterprise Builders, LLC, a Venture Management company whose mission is to increase the value of underperforming organizations by creating a strategic growth pathway for clients.
Dan Valdez
by Dan Valdez, Partner, Enterprise Builders LLC
“Well, it’s the first of the New Year and I guess we have to make some plans”. Ever say that or hear it said by someone in your organization? It just seems like the right thing to do. But where do we begin? This could be an exercise that might just waste time. We probably won’t pay any attention to the plan after a few weeks anyway.
QUESTION:
I run a tech startup that does online inventory management. Does it really make sense for my company to use Twitter as a marketing tool? It seems like a lot of work to be tweeting all the time, and would anyone really care? Would they even read my tweets? And even if they did, would it translate into business? Bottom line is that I think my time could be better spent on building my business, or am I missing something?
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QUESTION:
My company runs a social site focused on food. Any suggestions for good marketing strategies?
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Nicholas de Wolff
by Nicholas de Wolff, founder of deW Process
Before naming your remaining executive management, you might want to think about how the organization plans to grow:
QUESTION:
What should I do if my employee is padding his expense account?
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QUESTION:
I’m an exec at a startup, and there’s a lot of talk about a possible merger. If there’s a merger, what will happen to my unvested options?
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