Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money.
Berkonomics
OCTOBER 20, 2016
In 2006, I gave a keynote speech at the Newspaper Association of America’s national conference in Chicago. I remember during one leadership meeting, our Operations Manager brought it to our attention that we were writing $80,000 in Channel partner checks that month and what were we going to do about that? By Kim Shepherd.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
They got us invited to the Fortune CEO conference in Paris held at Versailles. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today). Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. Not so much.).
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 5, 2010
I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).
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. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. And covered we did.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 13, 2009
I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. When I sent out 300 invites in early 2006 people thought I was crazy. I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately. These posts encouraged groups of people to provide their thoughts on these topics.
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 I know take 11pm conference calls. I read Andy’s post with a knowing smile on my face.
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