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It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” 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.
On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.
Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs.
I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. I look forward to incorporating Enchantment into my Selling classes’ curriculum. .
The topic I chose to speak about was “lessons on starting a company&# but I created the sub-title in class “a Silicon Valley heresy&# since my goal was to slay many of the myths I believe exist right in the heart of Silicon Valley! Afterward, I came and spoke to her (and Steve’s) class on entrepreneurship. True, that.
We know that if you start with ho-hum founders you’re less likely to assemble a world-class team. Find people to “punch above their weight class”. I wrote an entire blog post about this in the past highlighting my belief that you should hire people who “punch above their weight class.” Don’t sacrifice. It’s a mistake.
Yet being in a fraternity was one of the most transformative experiences I had in college and prepared me better for becoming an entrepreneur than any class that I took. By the end of my sophomore year I had taken on the role of education for our new freshman pledges and by the first quarter of my junior year I led the pledge class entirely.
Experiences way beyond any hack-a-thon, startup blog or your current company engagement can enrich your thinking and challenge you to think more broadly about the solutions you offer in the market. But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. Don’t get me wrong – I loved economics.
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. 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.
It has long been believed that people from lower-income neighborhoods can’t learn as well as middle & upper class ones due to environment issues such as problems at home and trouble in the neighborhood. I poured myself into planning and I won the class-wide competition. To say I found this engaging was an understatement.
So suck that every teacher who scolded us for not paying attention to boring classes or making people with ADD feel less accomplished. And actually if you have ADD you may just want to watch the videos I’ve embedded below because it’s easier to concentrate on that than reading a blog post. I finished work early in class.
It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. 15:00 Hire somebody who will punch above their weight class. It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. 10:00 Selling eyeballs & selling audience.
This is why I am such a big fan of General Assembly both because they’re teaching more tangible skills but also because they’re working directly with employers to fund classes as well as to onboard the more successful GA students directly. His class reading lists could be a primer for any entrepreneur, not just MBAs.
But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Email updates frequently.
I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. He was in the inaugural class of 500Startups and became chief evangelist as far as I could tell. Months later I did agree with Christine Tsai that I would come out and talk to the class. Sam had different plans.
Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Leverage: with teachers not having to have in-person classes you can build a more cost-effective model and teaching can be targeted more to your individual needs. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great.
We thought we'd get the pitch from Tim Sae Koo , the founder of the company, on how he took the idea from his business class at USC and turned it into a company, which is now part of one of the local startup accelerators in town, StartEngine. What is interesting about this, is I came up with this idea from my entrepreneurship class.
Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. The biggest motivator for starting brightblu was John Greathouse’s Entrepreneurship class.
It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. “Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” 5 years ago. The monkey on my back. ” Yup. Heard that knock many times.
This free class is an orientation to help newcomers to the startup scene get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in Los Angeles. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. After class you are welcome to network with a number of prominent folks in the ecosystem.
I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.
Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. What is a founder to do?
During the late 1800’s, American author Horatio Alger wrote 129 novels, most of which recount the deeds of impoverished young people who overcome their modest means to establish independent lives as self-sufficient, middle class citizens. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. _. —
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.
Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.
This free class is an orientation to help newcomers to the startup scene get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in Los Angeles. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. After class you are welcome to network with a number of prominent folks in the ecosystem.
This free class is an orientation to help newcomers to the startup scene get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in Los Angeles. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. After class you are welcome to network with a number of prominent folks in the ecosystem.
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. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. My pal Dave occasionally presents “headline risks” for investors. I’ve been told so. Sounds obvious. I’m one of them.
But I’m also sending this to a couple of class-action lawyers. See this article talking about previous class action lawsuits. … should I avoid blog posts like this that might be outside my normal remit? I hope you’re OK with that. I was pleased when Michael Arrington wrote his Scamville series.
In case you missed all the kerfuffle this weekend, I posted this blog post originally on TechCrunch. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. Still, as I’ve written in the past, what I love about blogging is the ability to have a public debate where we can all learn. The post is balanced and worth reading.
Today, however, the inaugural class of the 40th program—Techstars Anywhere—is graduating after completing an online Demo Day that capped the past three months of the program’s first “virtual accelerator.”
But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Most of my MBA classes were a waste (since I had studied economics as an undergrad) but one totally changed my thinking. It was an investment management class. We’ll re-compare notes then. Investors are conformists by nature.
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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I recently read a book I'd highly recommend to every reader of this blog called "Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive” by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. If you are not already a subscriber of Mark’s Both Sides of the Table blog , you need to be.
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. I was used to being allowed to fly business class and staying at nice hotels. Using Balsamiq instead of SnagIt, Website Optimizer over just Google Analytics and FTP).
I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I thought through the steps: Get a class of interesting companies. The Urgency Addiction – Deep down I’m a procrastinator. I’m not. Get VCs to agree to join.
great Yahoo blog post here). Last week, after a quick trip to Dallas and back, I had the privilege of speaking in front of a high school class at Dos Pueblos High in Santa Barbara, California. I had a blast co-hosting that event with Jeff Pulver and it was a huge success thanks to Yahoo!
great Yahoo blog post here). Last week, after a quick trip to Dallas and back, I had the privilege of speaking in front of a high school class at Dos Pueblos High in Santa Barbara, California. I had a blast co-hosting that event with Jeff Pulver and it was a huge success thanks to Yahoo!
In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. So his Twitter handle is @infoarbitrage and his excellent (must read) blog is Information Arbitrage. When I chose a name for my blog, I spent days thinking through what I wanted to represent.
Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” I know because I marked the occasion with a blog post on how to have a great VC meeting. Jonathan shared that experience in his blog post so I won’t repeat it.
Reading it felt like read a university book for an economics class and no wonder since he’s a professor at Harvard Business School. About how dismissive traditional print was about blogs or the airlines views the “peanut serving&# Southwest Airlines. It is not a beach novel to be sure. Sony, the iPod.
Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. Trying to work without this person is like wanting to build a world class sky scraper but not having a great lead architect and civil engineer. I have much experience in this domain.
It wasn't just a keyword for BMW or Mercedes, it was finding content specific to the BMW 3 Series, or Mercedes C Class. In the past, companies were just blogging, or just creating content. What we found, was we were trying to get really specific content that matched up with a much granular level of topics.
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