Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk) January 24, 2015. It’s an online relationship and I actually believe that as of 2015 I’ve met more of my close connections in the past 5-7 years online before offline. years before… — Shafqat Islam (@shafqatislam) January 24, 2015. I write lots of people on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

Tuvia Elbaum (@Tuviae) July 14, 2015. I just write. I told her I need “20 minutes” to write a blog post. Keep on writing. I took 2 of those morning to write blog posts and then read. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 14, 2015. Why do I write all of this? I don’t write perfect blog posts.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

As I write these words I already imagine my next deposition in which I’m asked to read this out loud. I started writing about problems when founding a startup years ago but the problem has gotten worse. Be very careful with everything you write in an email or send in a text message. *. Lawsuits. It is insanely common.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Stegmaier recommends that you start by writing a regular blog, joining a few related campaigns, building a high-quality video, and completing up to a hundred additional lessons before you even launch your own project. Startups need to build a large passionate group of fans before the campaign.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

I received a press pass to DeveloperWeek 2015 last week in order to attend the “Advice to Live by from Women Developers” career panel moderated by the lead of Dice’s engineering team, Jennifer Petersen. Now you’d think we’d be a bit farther along today in 2015, right?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

billion that was invested in 2,559 deals (2,545 companies) in the third quarter of 2015. billion that venture firms invested in 2015, according to PitchBook records that began in 2000. billion that venture firms invested in 2015, according to PitchBook records that began in 2000. That would be second only to the $78.9

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

Yet from my own years of experience in the startup community, here are 10 common steps that have worked for other entrepreneurs: Write a "job description" for that ideal partner. Take a hard look at your own business strengths and weaknesses, and write down what partner skills and experiences would best complement yours.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2015

That’s why I believe the process of writing down your plan is more valuable than the result. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 3/6/2015. If something totally new is not your forte, you can always buy a franchise, acquire an existing business or be a consultant. Have you mapped out a complete plan?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Develop an efficient and effective writing style. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/15/2015. New and relevant content on a regular basis is a major driver in search engine optimization, as well as the inbound and outbound links that blog comments generate. Start today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Write these down, and build a new plan which capitalizes on every insight. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/16/2015. Here are some key elements to look for and plan to capitalize on for the next iteration: A deeper level of understanding of the market. New levels of business acumen for startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Write every check personally, rather than relying on a bookkeeper or administrative help. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/23/2015. Almost every startup underestimates their costs, and waits too long to raise more money or implement “Plan B.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Stegmaier recommends that you start by writing a regular blog, joining a few related campaigns, building a high-quality video, and completing up to a hundred additional lessons before you even launch your own project. Startups need to build a large passionate group of fans before the campaign.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Otherwise find an inexpensive class on grant writing. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/3/2015. If you still have any connections at the local university, look for some guidance from related subject-matter professors. Seek funding from multiple sources concurrently. They don’t ask for equity either.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It’s one thing when you provide a blank space to write your goals when you are in a classroom and there’s a teacher who can help you. More on this Topic EPSS and ePerformance E-Performance at Work: Self-Service Action and Development Planning Performance Support in 2015 eFollow-Up Performance Support Performance Support

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

Everyone must know how to listen, talk and write. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/12/2015. Startups can’t afford two or more people for every task -- one to do work, and others to communicate results to all constituents. Look for existing skills and a demonstrated ability to learn.

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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. In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. But let me be even more clear. The result?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

In 2015, LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com for $1.5 I had problems with reading and writing and comprehension and a lot of social abilities. Under Bruce’s innovative guidance, the company was an early adopter of the Internet, creating online videos long before platforms such as YouTube became ubiquitous.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

In 2015, a worker in the San Francisco Bay Area earning $100,000 a year would need to put their entire post-tax salary into renting a three-bedroom apartment. Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017. But, you’d be wrong, according to a new report out from LinkedIn.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

In November of 2015, Citrix announced that it will spin out the “GoTo” Division, of which GoToMeeting remains the flagship product, as a standalone public company. I was writing them multi-seven figure checks each month, because they were generating tens of thousands of customers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

Curtis is the former publisher of the Robb Report, which he sold back in 2015, and has a long history of operating media companies that have published such titles as Home Office Computing, Home Theater, Mobile Computing, Worth, and many others. That's what we want to be here. You have to make every minute special.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

” They prefer to sit in front of a computer doing spreadsheets or coding or writing emails and working on marketing materials than they do investing time in human relationships. This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season. I wanted to just write. I like writing.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

If such write-downs only impacted the faux unicorns and their avaricious investors, there would be little need for alarm. According to Pitchbook , during the first half of 2015, “M&A exits valued at less than $100 million made up the majority of exits or about 65% of the total number of deals, which was up from about 60% in 2014.”.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. 5) It is 2015. “By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do. Some of the deals that worked out best for me as an angel were those companies I was telling my cash guy one year that this will be a complete write off. What was appealing to you about the mobile app area?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. —

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio. Jim Armstrong: Things are definitely down, and valuations are down at the late stage fifty percent from 2015. With this fund, we do not have a cap limit on late stage investments. But, that's just ebb and flow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, with an estimated contribution of $30 billion in 2015, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Startups need to build a large passionate group of fans before the campaign. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Fifty-six percent of retailers surveyed in a 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research repor t say apps aren’t a key component of their mobile marketing strategy, even as 58 percent placed mobile at the top of their priority lists. RetailNext data shows that sales over the 2015 Thanksgiving weekend were down by 4.7 98 percent for mobile sites.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. By 2008, I was only a couple years away from the brain damage I suffered at CallWave, after the executive team turned down acquisition overtures from Google and Yahoo (I'll write about this colossal mistake in a future confessional article).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” I’m not a morning person; in fact, it’s 2pm as I’m writing this and I’m still in sweat pants, but for this, I’ll gladly be there. Then the message in the inbox arrived… “Hey, we have a request to sit down and interview Jim Farley, Ford’s CMO.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. I wrote a post in 2015 that memorialized at the time how I felt about all of this, titled, “ Why I F **g Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed.”

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. They bought Periscope in 2015—a live streaming platform with an appealing and easy user interface. Dear Twitter, I have always loved you and I always will. Everyone is saying #RIPTwitter , but I still believe in you.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Don’t be fooled by the slight dip in 2015 – the size of funds & timing of deals in market in any year can skew the data set. 61% of VCs said valuations were “marginally down” in Q4 of 2015 but 91% expect price decreases in the next two quarters. ” How seriously is the “lower your burn message?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

In stead of just writing operating and funding advice Fred also talks about industries. When I write about topics that are relevant suddenly anybody with a startup solution in that field will approach us. ” I applied this advice and started writing about SaaS and about Online Video and have found Fred’s advice spot on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2015

If you don’t have the time to write things down, or your writing skills leave something to be desired, don’t be afraid to get some help. No executive I know writes all his own contracts, but every smart one owns every one that is written for him, and understands every element.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. sometimes I’m just in that mood and when I am my writing style takes on my inner grumpiness. why do I write p.s.’s sometimes?

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