Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. OK, before you all tell me about Google Voice, let me say the following. Unfortunately I was wrong.

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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. Crazy, huh?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Per the email below, Jeff leveraged his discussion with the industry expert to enlist his help with future investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. Reading what people have to say about us like how we changed their lives and helped them find a job is a rewarding experience. So if you send out cover letters with typos and resumes that are misaligned, that will definitely not help you.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Horvitz, is pictured above at left with founding members of the partnership, Francesca Rossi, IBM; Yann LeCun, Facebook; and Mustafa Suleyman, Google/DeepMind.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) And being populist helps that.

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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. I better roll up my sleeves and help my companies get funded.” But let me be even more clear.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. And you can have ulterior motives like helping people or being involved with “cool stuff.&# If you’re investing other people’s money you’re a professional money manager. We picked up activity aggressively in 2009.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Share Buttons Work… In A Way Share buttons on your post help your content reach a greater audience by creating easy channels to social networks. do you need help? What I write here is protected by a Creative Commons License. We’re going to do this by hard-coding share buttons into your theme. whats the process?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group. But the problem with being all in – all in for me, let’s say I can write $10 to $12 million per company. And they transferred me in.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Back at that time, I had people ask my--why would I ever want to read what other people are writing, isn't that what professional authors and journalists are for? Johnson: We launched in April of 2009, so it's coming up on almost a year. By contributing content, they're helping someone else in the world. That's obvious.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

Beginning with hip hop in 2009, they’ve since included different genre verticals into their model with rock, poetry, news, even bible. More recently, a conflict with Google over SEO practices saw heavy penalties on their search results, but ultimately led to a resolution between the two parties. What Gives? The Future of Genius.

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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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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009. We'll even write a half a million check. The objective is to provide more mentoring for startups, and actually getting in and helping them. Outside of Google, they've been one of the most successful companies over the last five or six years, in my opinion.

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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. And Google badly messes up your URIs for click tracking purposes. It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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