Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? In 2008 I started VC blogging.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

About a year ago I had lunch with a guy who I believe is an amazing entrepreneur. I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009). He had built and sold his first company and had good ideas for his second company. I Practice What I Preach.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

Either lemming behavior is taking over or I’m out to lunch. The industry did that in 2007. Here’s what I believe, but won’t claim to “know” because every time I think I know something the market seems to do something entirely different. We’ll see in time. Everyone I know is raising 10 these days.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

2) I remember one time I was eating lunch in Atlanta and a group of guys at the table next to me were talking about how great GoToMyPC was. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Focus and excellence are always rewarded in the marketplace. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School. Meredith Publishing. All rights reserved.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

In 2007, we did five bowl team venues the same way. Anyway, Kent and I went to lunch, and started throwing ideas around. We made one announcement that year, in the first quarter, and had a huge adoption. The game consisted of a string of questions during the game that people could make predictions about. I think of it as a Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

SXSW is where Twitter broke out in 2007. It wasn’t an efficient tool for telling people which bar you were at or where you were eating lunch. These are tech launch events designed to see new startups unveiled. I’m talking about big, garden-variety, industry-wide, schmooze fests. It’s where FourSquare first broke out.

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

After a few lunches, dinners and drinks, it turned out that they were all ready and eager to get the "old team" back together, jump back in and do something big in the Internet advertising space. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre.

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