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. That’s a conference worth going to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Even before the recent pandemic, when more people began working remotely , I noticed the dynamics changing in many workplaces, both between employee interaction with peers, and interactions with customers. Building and maintaining a winning work culture is no longer just a function of the office.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I spent my week applying the new skills I obtained from attending conferences, reading and engaging in Twitter activities. Also, as you know, I launched my blog along with the rest of my team. You can read their blogs on my links. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. 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 domain.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I spent my week applying the new skills I obtained from attending conferences, reading and engaging in Twitter activities. Also, as you know, I launched my blog along with the rest of my team. You can read their blogs on my links. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place.

Technical Review 100

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. The reality is, most startups do not work. “I got talked into working on something because it was a big opportunity. Having the feeling for how the process works… will give you skills in whatever job you do.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Work on your elevator pitch. But working alone doesn’t get you very far. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply.

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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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Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

The conference typically focuses on early research and clinical work, not the big trials that can change the way doctors practice medicine and that compete for headline space at conferences like the American Society for Clinical Oncology. But AACR has its fair share of notable news, events, and reports.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. But this leads to organizational drift because staff will continue to produce “work.” Be clear on your mission.

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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. You’d see them speak at conferences using their favorite euphemisms for businesses that grow rapidly or for really profitable businesses. Possibly more.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

What exactly does Walmart Labs work on in San Diego? I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. The started looking at the Carlsbad group of engineers, who were working at Yahoo, in order to jump start something in Southern California. started in August of 2012.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

What exactly does Walmart Labs work on in San Diego? I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. The started looking at the Carlsbad group of engineers, who were working at Yahoo, in order to jump start something in Southern California. started in August of 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Practice being a good communicator.

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Xconomy

APRIL 1, 2020

Aspen Neuroscience, a biotech working to develop a therapy that would reprogram those patients’ own living cells in ways that would allow the cells to reconstruct their damaged neural networks, has raised $70 million in a Series A financing round. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

When Sam Teller first encountered Tracy he knew instantly he wanted to work with her. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

So if you have no money then get to work with a small bit of your time building relationships. This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with. OK, I’ve raised an A round and want to work with an external agency, but how?

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

The investment firm also had a high visibility partner in the form of Mark Suster, who has helped drive awareness of the formerly quiet investment firm via his extensive blogging, social media, and conference appearances. READ MORE>>. upfront ventures partners venture capital fund startup msuster suster launchpadla'

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. I travelled for a couple of days for work and decided to get some sleep on those days rather than staying up into the wee hours as I often do when I travel. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. The sheer volume / math doesn’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Allocate time for active participation in relevant outside industry conferences, and public panels or TED talks that look ahead. Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews. In the early days of the IBM PC, I had the opportunity to know and work with Bill Gates at Microsoft.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

Today, we don’t buy radio, we make it and we don’t just make it, we make it work. While my play on words may lead many of those that know me to chuckle, I’m very serious when I say we “make radio work.&# Our shows have Make It Work in their title, our call-in number is 877.MAKEITWORK,

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

There is obviously no black-or-white answer, but I’ve tried everything from working a large international agency, to hiring in-house people to doing it myself. All too often I’ve seen senior PR people from big firms come in and pitch for new business to startups while having 22 year-olds who do all the work once it’s won.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego has formed a partnership with Downtown Works, a new co-working space in downtown San Diego, which will give the local Plug and Play program a place to call home. Cohen described Downtown Works as a “hyper-connector.”. Downtown Works Interior. billion under management.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. If you don’t have much experience in working with law firms at a startup it’s a good primer. I specifically called out some of the best people I had personally worked with. It was very widely read. Startup-focused.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Practice being a good communicator.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Conferences. Every so often after a few weeks of go-go-go I work from home from a day. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? I was at the Lobby Conference a few weeks ago in Mexico.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

The lack of team cohesion and respect for individuals has probably been one of the biggest weaknesses of Zynga – at least from nearly EVERY employee I’ve ever talked to who worked there. A co-founder who started by working hard but gets sucked into the tech party circuit and has more interest in socialize than building cool s**t.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. But this leads to organizational drift because staff will continue to produce “work.&#. I love that saying.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But the two sides are still figuring out how to work together to capitalize on the potential for apps, devices, and other software-enabled technologies to have an impact on patients’ health. “Digital therapeutics” startups are starting to win more respect—and investment dollars—from pharmaceutical giants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Aspiring entrepreneurs are often impatient in rolling out the business, assuming the hard work was finalizing the idea, and that if you build it, customers will come. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking. Don’t make the mistake of relying on interns and family members to do the work.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

By the way, I don’t spell check my blog posts either. Sometimes when I speak at conferences I’ll stay and shake hands for 2 hours with anybody who wants to say hello. Some days I’m in back-to-back meetings and then I have a late night work dinner and an early morning conference call. I’m not an elitist a **e.

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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. I am not a lawyer nor am I advocating finding work-arounds to this legal requirement. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. ” Why?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books. It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain. The more you know, the more self-confident you will be to make your own leadership decisions.

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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. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Your Process Doesn’t Work. You could just outspend.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2017

The two companies described the work in a statement as a “breakthrough in algae biofuel research.” The research represents a significant step toward creating an algal strain that could produce green bio-crude oil at commercial scale, officials with both companies said at a press conference this morning, the first day of. See below. ]

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He has it on stage, too, at conferences. He is tireless and works his arse off. 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 has brought in a very talented team to work with him. My pal Dave has blogger Tourette’s. Not much more.

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Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 30, 2009

As promised, today’s blog entry will be about our culture at Make It Work… Make It Work is a very unique company. Our employees work in an environment that is fun, lively and productive. Make It Work is all about DELIGHTING our customers. Posted in Daily Diary, eric david greenspan, make it work.

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