Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

“I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. ” So it’s now March 2014 – 5 years since I started investing. At a minimum, I’m glad to have the “exit question” off my back in 2014. This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010. None have exited.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Here I make the case that entrepreneurs must stay focused on the prize, not the doubters. Entrepreneurs. ” **. It can be one of the strongest motivators.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

.); the actors Uzo Aduba, America Ferrera, Jennifer Garner, Eva Longoria, and Lily Singh and former US Women’s National Team players including Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Rachel Buehler, Shannon Boxx, Amanda Cromwell, Abby Wambach, Lauren Cheney Holiday; social media stuntman Casey Neistat, and more. “We’re venture capitalists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2014

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Nothing is more discouraging to aspiring entrepreneurs than the high failure rate. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/29/2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. billion by 2014. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. To comment on the rocky state of Bitcoin affairs in the last 30 days, does Dan believe we’re past the worst of a media firestorm? The ultimate plan?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. If you want U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Oh, and of course Bono popped by for a little while. Paddy Cosgrave was a young entrepreneur in Dublin and a couple of years after the crash was talking with a mate of his who had a brand new hotel opening but had no clue how he was going to attract visitors. There were senior members from Facebook and Google. It will not.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This year’s TZ #startupforecast (Jan 28, 2014) was no exception. Peter Csathy – CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures, accomplished media and digital media entrepreneur. 2014 looks to be the year of emerging technologies (wearables, bitcoin, etc.) Summary of Topics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business. You may have raised money across multiple rounds of investors from 3-4 different VCs and of course most of them would like board seats or at a minimum board observer rights.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After a successful run through NYC-based Kaplan Edtech accelerator program (powered by Techstars), the team at MentorMob have been gearing up for a 2014 re-launch; same MentorMob name, but as Vince tells us, with a more community-based focus (don’t worry, a little more on that later). “It’s insanely hard to run a startup.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

Like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre use rap lyrics, Seth and I use social media instead. ” So we launched schoolofbookkeeping.com in 2014 and it grew and achieved and became a brand name in the industry. This silent feud between Seth David and I had been pretty one sided, until now. We recently parted ways and agreed to do so amicably.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Splunk Fastpitch – Auto tech Entrepreneur pitch hour. How Entrepreneurs Will Change the Automotive Industry. We’d believe offering consumers as many options as possible is a benefit of course, but it’s worthy to consider just how far this gets us towards the reality of the connected car. Audi Press Conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Most new entrepreneurs don’t anticipate the burdens of being the leader, including the sense of loneliness and isolation at the top. Even in a single entrepreneur startup, the leader carries a heavy weight. Of course, that only leads to antagonism and further isolation. burden business entrepreneur leadership startup'

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. None of these. It’s just a market. Not so fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 4, 2014

” I spent the entire day yesterday in a deposition so I was offline from the world around me – a rare day of no email, no social media and even no news. John Green (@johngreen) December 4, 2014. And of course we know this isn’t an isolated incident. “It stops today.” I could not. It has to stop.

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