Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now. Of course the concentration of capital in growth firms and the intense competition to fund the best deals leads to some risks. These are most notable in late-stage, D-round, investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Just back from vacation and also some work travel and want to get back to blogging so expect a few posts over the next couple weeks. I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. Have a listen and see for yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. So your goal should be a steady stream of news across many different news outlets and your own blog.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

near real-time automated intelligence gathering systems that scour public and private data sources like websites, blogs, social media and email to unearth information businesses can use for competitive advantage. Bitvore, led by Jeff Curie, said that it has developed a.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

Increasing competitive advantage? Check out our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? What does the role demand? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The answer is: it depends.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. On the one hand you can view their local stores as a competitive disadvantage because eCommerce companies can sell products with no physical retail stores.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs. We go through case studies like how Mint.com & Magento drove large audiences through great content marketing strategies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. In his blog posts & our in-person debates I find myself thinking 98% of the time – I agree with him or he’s got a more insightful perspective on this topic than I do. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

btw: xitca-web (bench code not including dependencies) does not do 2,3,5 and still remains competitive in micro bench can be used as a reference. synopse I have written a blog post about TFB and object pascal - yes, we added our object pascal framework in round 22! Context and use case determines how you optimize your code.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. A good compromise is “convertible debt with a cap&# meaning the conversion price has a limit.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2011

On this blog I’m often trying to combine lessons for entrepreneurs and market commentary. What matters is that this is a great team with two really hardworking founders that have always stayed positive about their competition. Yesterday it was my turn for the lesson. It’s my personality to do this.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Of course it’s a competitive market so MCNs competing for top talent not only compete on rev share to talent but also to services that they provide talent. I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. Industry averages for talent revenue shares are about 70% with top talent making even more. ” Don’t.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, is planning some direct competition to Michael Arrington's technology blog empire, TechCrunch , according to a report today from the Guardian. The new publication would not be a stretch for Calacanis--who, like Arrington, made his own fortune by selling his last company, blog network Weblogs, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s). He then brought her to board meetings so nobody could accuse him of not having a business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it as a way to learn, improve and increase my win rates. In business competitions the clock has rarely expired when you’re told you’ve lost – even in government tenders – key text below. I won, that is, until I lost.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

Most importantly, the community has been contributing some amazing test implementations and demonstrating the fun and utility of some good-natured performance competition. This is a longer-than-average TFB round announcement blog entry, but there is a lot to share, so bear with me. More on that later.

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TechEmpower

MAY 28, 2015

According to TechEmpower's Round 10 blog post: Competition for the top position in the JSON-serialization test within the Peak Hosting environment has heated up so much that Round 10 sees a more than 100% increase in the top performance versus Round 9 (2.2M versus 1.05M).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should. West Coast”).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Now, more and more, we''re extending our use cases into not just websites and blogs, but also to lots of web application use cases. So, for us, competition is good.

Software Review 238

Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. I believe that the high revenue share YouTube takes encourages platform competition. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. For me this was a simple market analysis.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="[link] frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The catalyst for Brad’s evolving view of marketing was THIS blog entry by Chris Moody in which he pointed out that much of Foundry Group’s thought leadership efforts are essentially a form of guerilla marketing. Just be you.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. My pal Dave occasionally presents “headline risks” for investors. I’ve been told so.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. It’s OK to push out extra ones on your website or blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

You can always tell during this discussion whether the entrepreneur has logged into their products, talked to their customers, read all the news stories and gotten all of the back channel info on the competition. You can tell if they have a deep-seated competitive spirit. Can’t go a mile deep on competition?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. Use that as a source of competition. My wife showed it to me.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are just five days left to enter the digital detox competition set up by Icelandic Yogurt company Siggi’s Dairy, which has pledged to give selected contestants $10,000 to spend an entire month “detoxing” without a smartphone or social media. Instead of abstaining from alcohol for a month, we challenge you to ditch your smartphone.”

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

When you’re in a competition and on the spot, answering questions to industry experts can be a nerve-wrecking process. This competition required the team to answer “…questions on a Food and Nutrition data set that contained 28 features and 30,000+ rows. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Of course, there was so little competition back then so it easier to find uncharted territory.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. They decided to re-open the competition for 3-4 more weeks. I don’t want to lose next time.

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