Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. It’s why I wrote this article about Invoca (formerly RingRevenue) that the most obvious mobile Internet ad unit is, in fact, a phone call. Enter phone calls. We love to streamline and text people. Google knows it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I spent time on college campuses.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In this article you’ll discover how to start a blog that makes money. There are four types of blogs; written blogs, video blogs, photo blogs and a combination of these. We’ll primarily be discussing written blogs. There are two different components to make money blogging. Let’s discuss. Not really.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

I have to admit when I first walked through the doors of the Los Angeles Convention Center to attend Blog World I asked myself why I was wasting my time. Haven’t I learned by now that it’s better to be disciplined, focused in my office, at the computer, than “on the go” in a daze at a conference. Yet “another networking event”.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

We’re expected to be at conferences, events, sales meetings and be publicly visible. People expect blog posts, Tweets, panels, speeches. I have written about this before and often recommend to executives that they do less, but complete more by avoiding the shiny objects and distractions stop us from living up to our true potential.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Or more directly – they are likely narcissistic resuscitations of your newest features or bragging points that nobody but your marketing team and your mom care about. But mostly they’re thinking, “Will my audience even care about this topic?” Think about Luma Partners. I am a VC. I hand out money.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 17, 2018

At the National Retail Federation’s three-day conference, which ended Tuesday, the discussion centered on both the disruptive effects and potential promise of e-commerce technologies. Technology took center stage this week as the nation’s retailers made their annual pilgrimage to New York. How that identity expands will.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

As I talked about on many occasions when I was an entrepreneur – and blogged publicly about - I learned a lot about my business and myself in these meetings. I wrote about it all in that post. I was an entrepreneur for years. I must have pitched 40-50 VCs over the years. Possibly more.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

and FAIL Blog web sites, apparently was spawned out of an introduction at last year's Twiistup technology conference, according to investor the Foundry Group. The $30M funding deal for Seattle's Cheezburger , the web publisher best known for its LOLcats-themed I Can Has Cheezburger?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Just not the kind you would initially read about on TechCrunch. And that’s what I love about her narrative. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. Here’s what I learned about Tracy: 1. That may soon change.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

It’s easy to find yourself caught in the trap of just GSD (getting s**t done) and not stepping back to be thoughtful about whether you’d benefit from doing fewer things but doing those things truly well. So many CEO’s just carry on being … CEO’s → fund raise, get media attention, attend conferences, hire staff, “set direction”, whatever.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Business Etiquette Tips for dealing with VCs and Corporates at Conferences. With the LeWeb conference about to start in Paris I thought the timing of this post would be appropriate. Right after Techcrunch50 Michael Arrington wrote this great post on how to interact at business events and conferences.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

This blog started from a series of conversations I found myself having over and over again with founders and eventually decided I should just start writing them.It Last week’s obsession was about obsession itself. But the film has my brain buzzing all week about obsessive and competitive people. Think about Kobe Bryant.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately. I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. I got to thinking more broadly about social networks and the real-time web. It’s also how Jason Nazar and I started communicating.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

Some through blog comments – your place or mine. I was reminded of that when Shafqat Islam weighed in: @msuster @marshallk I built relationships via twitter and blog comments with both of you well before we ever met! I knew Shafqat as a reader on my blog and then I was introduced to him on a trip through New York.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2020

EQRx launched in January during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference with an audacious pledge to create 10 new drugs in as many years and then sell them at “dramatically” lower prices than existing medicines. But it offered few specifics about how it would achieve those goals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. But first you need to know about Reg D filings. If you believe you have a market-leading position in your product space I would worry a bit less about it.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

About three years ago, we found we were doing lots of manual testing of our code. Claude Jones: In the last six years we've grown about 80 percent. Walmart is not the first thing most people think of when you talk about a technology companyand you have lots of competition in the area against both startup and big name companies.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

About three years ago, we found we were doing lots of manual testing of our code. Claude Jones: In the last six years we've grown about 80 percent. Walmart is not the first thing most people think of when you talk about a technology companyand you have lots of competition in the area against both startup and big name companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm. I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post. What is said about you publicly matters. There is one carve out.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. And you need to be careful about giving up control to cofounders as much as VCs. I don’t think VCs care as much about co-founders & economics as people think. Be careful about board construction.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. I closed one deal (I’ll talk about that soon) and issued one term sheet (I hope to talk about that soon, we’ll see!). And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. But what has really killed me is email. I live in email hell.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2010

You read about Mark Zuckerberg or the guys at FourSquare, Twitter or Zynga. But that’s a bit like reading about your state lottery winner and feeling bummed out because you haven’t won despite years of trying. I have a friend who I estimate is worth about $500 million. Startups are hard. I have sympathy.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 14, 2019

Morgan Healthcare Conference started out as a clubby get-together hosted by investment bank Hambrecht & Quist. Back in the days of H&Q, bankers and entrepreneurs flocked to San Francisco to get information about biotech companies that was otherwise hard to come by. The massive life sciences meeting now known as the J.P.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Give and you will receive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He has it on stage, too, at conferences. We all could learn a bit more about balance , as Brad Feld has outlined. 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. If you haven’t read his latest missive about himself, you should.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I speak at conferences where I might meet 75-100 people and have conversations. I have Twitter chats, respond to blog comments, trade emails, respond to comments on This Week in VC. I spoke briefly to you about my startup in the x,y,z space. I remember! &# You’re the guy who built the Twitter plug-in for blogs.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. You could just outspend. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Contributing to industry blogs, or starting your own, is an ideal way to express your positive values, and build a reputation that can save you later if your product stumbles, or you receive some negative challenges. Every future entrepreneur should start by networking. Make your lifestyle a model of the online reputation you want.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. I always start my answer to this question with, “you’d have to be a pretty big baby to complain about being a VC.&# People come into my office several times per week and tell my about their plans for changing the world.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

Morgan healthcare conference in San Francisco (see full letter below). One of the events sparking the industry’s current discussion about its lack of gender diversity was an infamous cocktail party held during last year’s J.P. The letter was published Wednesday , on the second to last day of the annual J.P.

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Xconomy

MARCH 23, 2017

Morgan conference. There has been plenty of talk since about closing biotech’s notable gender gap. Morgan conference, for example, a group of 100 life science executives and others pledged to follow a list of gender diversity “best practices.” At this year’s J.P ” There has also been some action.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Earlier this month, GM CEO Mary Barra told the crowd at a financial conference that her company was on track to unveil a ridesharing service in 2019 that would be powered by autonomous vehicles.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The European Society for Medical Oncology meeting has wrapped up in Barcelona, the last major clinical cancer conference until December’s annual ASH meeting for blood diseases. We’ve highlighted a few top stories for you. PARP Progress Several PARP inhibitors, known so.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

This is our most special event of the year—the eighth year we’ve held it—and it’s limited to about 100 VIP guests. The conference kicks off with a dinner at Brix Restaurant & Gardens in Napa, on Thursday, June. The program is interdisciplinary and highly interactive.

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2020

A year ago about 40,000 people gathered in Chicago for the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Today a virtual version of the ASCO conference, the cancer field’s largest, kicks off, with oncologists and others tuning in from throughout the country and around the world to check out the latest in cancer research.

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