Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m going to save that for a future blog post. So thank you, Greycroft, and especially Drew Lipsher for planning / running the event (and for the tips for improving my son’s baseball swing. Nail it before you scale it” – I missed who said this but I love this quote. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2013

And my friend Brad Feld & his wife had written a book on the importance of personal relationships which made me want to weigh in on that. I cut-and-paste the text and saved it to my Trello board where I store blog ideas. I thought I might some day dust it off and try to deal with it in a blog post. It just happened.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” said Rebekah Neumann, cofounder of WeWork, in an interview with Bloomberg. WeWork has plans to launch an elementary school inside their New York City office that will promote conscious entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

If you hadn’t read the book I’ll bet most of you (like me) had never understood the role that Coach Campbell played with the three execs but according to the book at one point they were having weekly sessions with him. EXECUTIVE COACHES. See there are tons of people who play the role of mentor in their own capacity.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Along the way, I co-authored three books on one-to-one marketing ( [link] ) to help marketers learn how to built and nature relationships with their customers. I've been following both of your blogs for a while. Blogs also make it easy for new people to find those interesting conversation. Thanks for the pointers.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. But it is just the top end of my user funnel and I need to convince audiences who visit my blog to sign up for my newsletter to have a “direct” relationship with them. And Twitter made that easy, so thank you).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

But no matter where you live in the world, you should use the opportunity to give thanks for the positives in your life and your business. High on my list is the joy and satisfaction of having helped many entrepreneurs face-to-face this year, and hopefully many more by my blog reaching out over the Internet.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

These days, thanks to code and community, we can productize almost any process done by humans. Other than giving back to the ecosystem, do you have plans to monetize your efforts beyond selling books? 3) If you were writing your book Pitching Hacks today, how would your advice differ ? AngelList is the productization of that.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I'm a glass half full kind of guy, and it's more of my personal blogging channel. I started to meet lots of people, and really got into this community around personal blogging. Adorian Deck: My channel is AdorianDeck, which is my name. It's mostly about the things I'm thinking about, style, positive messages, and motivational things.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

Plus, we have a typical, transaction based review, where after you've done your booking you can review the host and experience. There's also a similar, review of dogs, so a host can say, for examplethis dog barks a lot, so maybe you shouldn't book that dog if your neighbor complains. We try to make that transparent, as well.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

Plus, we have a typical, transaction based review, where after you've done your booking you can review the host and experience. There's also a similar, review of dogs, so a host can say, for examplethis dog barks a lot, so maybe you shouldn't book that dog if your neighbor complains. We try to make that transparent, as well.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2015

If you are a fan, and follow them on Twitter, listen to their music, read their books, it's way for you to build a deeper connection with them, support what they are doing, and also get an understanding and insight into the cool products they use and like, and would recommend to you. Zach Frechette: Pharrell is a good one. READ MORE>>.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I am anxious to see my blog post a month from now where I update my findings. Through CJ’s website, Publishers/Affiliates bring hits to Advertisers’ websites by using Google Adwords, blogs, email, Twitter, Facebook and other means. An example of this process is evident right here on my blog. Thanks in advance.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you're an expert in a certain technology--say, business process design--and have thought about publishing a book, this is a quicker, faster, and more comprehensive way to share it with the world. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Then I get people sending me Twitter comments, blog comments and tons & tons of email intros. Thanks for the tip – we’re now actively engaged in discussion.&#. Do you know him well enough that you’d mind an intro?&# And make sure you send a nice note later to that person as a thank you for the intro.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. Hire a part-time accounting clerk to do the data entry and prepare the monthly books. Thank you, Justyn, for bringing up this important topic.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

This Thanksgiving it might seem that there’s a lot less to be thankful for. How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Give yourself a month. Keep the day job.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 22, 2010

Seeing how you might work together is infinitely more impactful that trying to describe in text, even if you did write the best 6 th grade book reports. And they’ll even thank you for it. Embed this article on your website or blog with Docstoc. The tenth tip makes your better BD last. . 10 Tips for Better BD

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

Combine this with half a dozen books by investors like Bill Payne, Jeff Bussgang and Dermot Berkery explaining everything in painstaking detail, and there is enormously more information to help entrepreneurs achieve their funding goals. That’s a three order of magnitude difference!

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century put these questions in the spotlight three years ago, but they’ve been getting renewed attention thanks to Northwestern University economist Robert J. If you haven’t read the Gordon book or the McKibben article, well, you’re in luck: I’m about to summarize them here.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Kind of like a disarrayed choose your own adventure book about your life. As Alex points out in this blog post there’s a ton of options out there in a severely fragmented industry. Some homework for you all after reading this, give his blog post on communication trends a whirl. Thanks for your time Alex!

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

For example, for one day when you finish your book, you can submit it here, or there--and put those all on your wish list. They talk about us in their blogs, they give us feedback, and they're very vocal. We also didn't want to make it a time suck or a money waster, so we don't charge for membership, and it will always be free.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. And what I mean is, I told this story in a blog post I wrote called, “ Is It Time to Earn or Is It Time to Learn ?” Thank you for doing that!” So if you do want to read it on my blog, it’s called the “ Cofounder Mythology.”

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Blogs are getting re-blogged, Instagram being what it is and Vine being six-second videos. Reading a blog post and reading a book are two different things. I still hope people take time to read books. Thanks Vince for your time. Since Bedloo is a social media voting platform. Do I see it as a problem?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Thanks to foresight, luck, and no small amount of help from a nonprofit foundation, Vertex had a Plan B that turned into a lucrative Plan A. In August 2014—just six months after moving into its new glass towers —Vertex announced plans to take telaprevir off the market. Then it exited HCV research entirely. “It

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Thanks in advance! Don’t be shy. Go rant away. Sad but true.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). I think you’ll end up with a newer lawyer who’s trying to build her book of businesses. It’s an awesome service to entrepreneurs, thank you.

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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. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). Thanks for your time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. Mr. Christensen has published a new book, “ How Will You Measure Your Life. It will be the next book I read and a bit thank you to Derek Anderson for sending me a copy!

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Thank you eMinutes. Thank you @eminutes. . There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Carlo (formerly with HP) here, and thank you for the wealth of information in this post!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2013

Brad Feld seems to write books faster than I can read and write about them. This time he has written a book that is far more important than most management books you will read. Why do I think this is a “must own” book? The single best book ever written on this topic is Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. See the books I recommend to friends. This blog is to address these questions.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! A BIG THANK YOU. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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