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MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A refresh of their flagship smart fridge, this new four-door model with built-in Wi-Fi and an integrated LCD touchscreen incorporates compatibility with Samsung’s Galaxy S5 and Note 3, allowing you to mirror your smartphone on the LCD screen. “Neatly organized food items will be recognized and categorized via sensors.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

That users get the PIN code, enters it into the registration screen, and if they typed in the right code, they can complete registration and get access to all of what a service provider gives them. Another was for our product, Telebureau, which we were advised was approved in December, and which you'll see a press release coming out soon.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you’re raising a round where a new lead investor would invest $5 million the VC fund must have no less than $100 million and if you’re looking for them to write $15–20 million as the lead their fund realistically should be at least $400 million. The first meeting is usually with 1–2 people within the VC firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

They’re also good at screening candidates. I doubt they’d be willing to press harder in questioning and/or be more attuned to negative signals that the reference might be implying but not actually saying. This is the skilled bit that you can’t effectively manage. At least the great recruitment firms are.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I’m still planning to write some in depth pieces on the topic but I thought, “given that this is about how video will consume the Internet over the next 5 years, what better way to exemplify this than with a 10-minute video.” I recently gave a talk about the Future of Television. It’s not as easy as text.

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JUNE 29, 2014

” He was writing to people. To get on his radar screen. As my friend Brian Solis once told me “PR stands for ‘public relations’ not ‘press release’ ” On Tweetstorming. In the first 2 weeks I even saw a few people on Twitter say, “Is that the real Marc Andreessen?” Any people.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. There were also press and other senior executives from the sector. Next on the checklist.

Entrepreneur 338

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MARCH 6, 2011

I still think it’s best to take money from Dave when you’re also partnered with a more focused, hands-on seed-stage VC who brings different things to the table – like more ability to write larger checks in a downturn (for one) or solving a deep crisis that involves super hands-on involvement.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

It’s more like writing a Tweet vs. sending a Direct Message (DM) in Twitter, which feels more intimate and intrusive or a FB post vs. a Private Message. The starting screen every time is the camera. Look at the top of your screen in the middle and you’ll see the Snapchat ghost. Navigation. So, too, Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First, how did I handle things like unexpected surges in traffic to my site (let’s say after a major press release) and then the subsequent flattening of traffic as the crowd subsided? It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. This is where the rubber hits the road for us as users.

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