Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2016
In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 3, 2010
Paul explains the rationale behind HackerNews this way : “We wanted to try to recreate the way reddit felt back in 2006, when the users were mainly hackers. I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. Ad hominem.
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? Another unabashed proponent of fan fiction is N.K.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 13, 2009
When I sent out 300 invites in early 2006 people thought I was crazy. The power to me was that I had already been blogging about my personal life and my children as well as separately about my startup. This is exactly how Rajat Suri uses Facebook as he outlined in his comment here on my blog. I read almost all of these.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 22, 2010
It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - I think Robert’s right.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog post appealing to the industry to make these simplified term sheets standard. Last to weigh in was Brad Feld whose blog post argues that the only 2 terms that should be negotiated are amount raised & valuation. 2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital.
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