Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. If I write $9 million and you hit a bump in the road, I’m pretty f *d.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

But when I’m looking to write my check I need to look in the eyes of the captain — the maestro who brings the whole orchestra together. He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. But remember what you learned in your MBA course – less downside / less upside … risk vs. reward.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. Want to take a year pursuing your dream to write a screenplay, travel through Asia, run a triathlon or start your own fashion line?

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Scott Lahman: When we first put it out in early 2009, free texting was just a huge offering. Of course, it became a carrier driven business, as carriers started carrying color phones, and they needed products which would take advantage of those phones. We launched with the ability to offer free texting, launching with group messaging.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Your BBB has formed a strategic alliance to help save you money in your everyday costs starting immediately. I have been asked by your Better Business Bureau to help accredited businesses like you keep more of the money you earn. Please let me know if there is anything else we can help you with. 2009 Closed Complaints – 4.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. That’s OK.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

founder, Steve Cunningham, this is exactly the thought process he went through when developing a product to help you take in and use information faster. He thought, ‘of course they haven’t read them, when would they get time?’ In fact, many times they write a book to point you to these other tools.”. Readitfor.me

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2017

So last year I talked with my wife about how few “nuclear family” trips we had been able to take given all of the extended family trips that were so important to us and we committed to doing 2 nuclear family trips per year until Jacob is in college (and of course we plan to continue this for years after and we have Andy for 8 more years!).

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. Of course the sequence of steps is a generalization, so perhaps you’ll have to change it to fit your needs. It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009). Total: $41.0mm plus undisclosed Series A.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In fact, most early investor work hard to help their startups get to the next level so it makes no sense for the angel investor and founders to be at odds. So if I write you a $500,000 check into a convertible note with a $4.5 million cap I am assuming when I write the check that I will own 10% of your company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. ” Of course life is more complicated. I better roll up my sleeves and help my companies get funded.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He has set up an office, a process & people around him that are helpful to entrepreneurs in need of hands-on skills in a mass service way. Oh, and of course I shoot all of my videos at the ThisWeekIn studios which are located in the Mahalo offices. Jody self-funded the company and worked from his spare bedroom in February 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on. So get over it. Use Snapchat.

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