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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST

Eric Greenspan

Lisa is an a skilled public speaking coach. Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. I of course agreed to get involved. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, A great trade! YouTube and many others.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

Lisa is a skilled public speaking coach. Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. I of course agreed to get involved. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Oh, the conferences. Web Summit. Fortune Brainstorm.

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Interview with Lane Soelberg, WePlay

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He saw the power of user generated content, and the power of building a passionate community online, which certainly led to a good thing with Yahoo. Over the course of a year, I got to know Steve, the team, and the board, and when Russ moved on to other products, they needed someone with experience in monetization.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

But of course all of these things are intertwined. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles.

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

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And Coach Campbell. I’ve heard directly from top executives that Jeff Bezos (in my opinion the most talented person in the tech industry) has received his fair share of VC coaching in the early years. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo!