Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? There is a difference between a Conference Ho and a successful entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2010

I hear many executives and professionals in large corporations talking about their dream of jumping ship, and becoming an entrepreneur. Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. Training courses are available. There is a difference.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. In the original version of his post, Andy writes. The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. And Coach Campbell. But VC is like congress.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. Entrepreneurial lawyers like Don Lee , Dave Young or Ted Wang are good at sussing out which entrepreneurs are high potential. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I attended events. I hustled.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” I remember writing about online video nearly 5 years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. Entrepreneurial lawyers like Don Lee , Dave Young or Ted Wang are good at sussing out which entrepreneurs are high potential. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I attended events. I hustled.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. We try to hire people who we believe will be upfront and respectful of entrepreneurs and know that it’s far easier to judge ones decisions on the outside than it actually is to have to make the tough decisions inside of a startup every day. Know what you believe is important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. The result is a startup with an exorbitant burn rate, and a very unhappy entrepreneur. Training courses are required. So if you really want to be an entrepreneur, there is no time like the present.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you have or are thinking about a business in the video space you’ll enjoy hearing from Gregg but even more broadly this is a great conversation for entrepreneurs, investors or industry analysts. Sure, of course I am. Any takers in a trade for helping do some write-ups against whatever you want? Advice, coaching, intros?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Of course labels are all too easy to throw out and simplify or stereotype the beliefs of other people. he coached me and my 3 siblings in basketball and soccer and more. I also felt I couldn’t just start writing about entrepreneurship again with writing a transitional post like this to turn over a new leaf.

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JULY 19, 2015

Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. Of course that’s true. The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors. But needed to be seen. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. And the immediate reaction was obvious – that failure can be pretty lonely, too.

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JUNE 29, 2011

.&# Surprisinly, this strategy works well with many entrepreneurs. It’s as though we forgot the management mantra of the 90′s about “core competencies&# or the most common VC advice to entrepreneurs: Focus. I doubt this will end well for those VCs or for the entrepreneurs they backed. Funny, that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2011

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. The result is a startup with an exorbitant burn rate, and a very unhappy entrepreneur. Training courses are required. So if you really want to be an entrepreneur, there is no time like the present.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2017

Leaders in an enterprise soon forget how to write contracts, manage cash flow, or even how to schedule their own time and events. Entrepreneurs need to enjoy being a generalist, rather than a specialist. Rely on training courses and coaching for new roles. Relish being the expert within a limited vertical domain.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

By the way, I also strongly advise that entrepreneurs reference VCs. In this instance my personal style is to have entrepreneurs in whom I’m considering investing to call my good references and those where we have gone through some tough times so in that sense I end up in the 0.05% but I tell entrepreneurs I’m doing this and why.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Do you have any advice for emerging entrepreneurs regarding how they can be frugal without compromising their company’s value prop? Bootstrapping requires that the entrepreneur go out and talk to their users or clients. Write it down…. We subscribe to the same philosophy.”. You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The integration of massively open online courses (MOOCs) makes strategic sense, which is likely why LinkedIn acquired Lynda for $1.5 The average cost per webinar ranges from $39-59 with longer online courses (2-8 weeks) landing somewhere between $99-799. making connections, looking for jobs, staying up on news, etc.)

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. Some entrepreneurs make the mistake of never devolving power. Naturally the countries reacted negatively to reporting to a centralized figure in the UK (and of course to no longer reporting to the CEO).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. You can certainly get coaching from your VC on how to play the negotiations since they do it more often than you do. As an entrepreneur I have one company to sell. Recruiters. Real Estate professionals.

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