Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

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 sat down with Kati Morton (who does YouTube videos on mental health) to talk about ADD. I can’t write a blog post and then wait 3 days to publish.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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Jason Nazar

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

You can now Sell Your Documents in our Docstoc Docstore , the premier marketplace to buy and sell professional documents. Upload high quality professional documents. Embed documents you sell through Docstore on your own personal blog to make even more revenue. . Upload high quality professional documents.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

.&# From it, I learned about the Flip MinoHD video camera that I can carry around and video my life. The software is super easy to use and I can’t wait to build a library of content that I will use for future blogs. I began videoing right away ( here’s my first video , it ain’t much, but it is getting a lot of hits).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Stegmaier recommends that you start by writing a regular blog, joining a few related campaigns, building a high-quality video, and completing up to a hundred additional lessons before you even launch your own project. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. Let me be clear about this. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. The company filed registration documents in California in June 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

People cite sources like this Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. There is no crowd of successful entrepreneurs. Financial model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Stegmaier recommends that you start by writing a regular blog, joining a few related campaigns, building a high-quality video, and completing up to a hundred additional lessons before you even launch your own project. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2020

The company, which has set a preliminary target of about $86 million for its initial public offering, is looking to list on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol “ORIC,” according to documents filed with securities regulators late Friday. ORIC is an acronym for “overcoming resistance in cancer.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But it seemed strange to me that we would openly talk about stuff rather than waiting for a big announcement to the press. So I started thinking about the “Inside Out&# organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

These days, every business needs a blog, so sign up your domain names accounts on TypePad, Wordpress, and Blogger, or all of the above, before someone starts blogging in your name. Attorney fees start at around $5K, but provisional patents can be filed yourself for about $300. Trademarks. Trade secrets with employment agreement.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Jason’s inspiration for this 6 ½ minute talk was a blog entry he wrote in 2008, which went viral within the startup community. Always the serial entrepreneur, Jason is expanding Docstoc’s mission to include not just documents, but a variety of tools that help entrepreneurs run their businesses, such as ebooks and videos.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

This isn’t Dave McClure secretly taking over Mark’s blog. A term sheet is not a legally binding document. I have spoken with many VCs in the past about which VCs pull out of deals. Sorry for using f**k two posts in a row. I’m just writing verbatim what I wrote in a Quora response years ago. So, what can you do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Investors worry about a single entrepreneur getting overloaded, disabled or led astray, with no balancing and supporting partner. Also start a discussion on the wealth of business blogs frequented by entrepreneurs, where you can make your interests known. Negotiate and document roles early, including who is the boss.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

If there’s some issue they didn’t think about are they going to be beat up about it? Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. Read Document Your MVP for a Developer for all of the detail that you really need to provide.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital today with Jason Calacanis talking about the big VC deals at the moment and talking about the VC industry. It’s about a 30 minute video (or about as long as it normally takes to read my rambling posts! My blog and what it’s done for my deal flow. - Crazy valuation.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Purpose of an MVP and Defining the Right MVP I've really not talked as much about this in my blog even though its hugely important. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. They don’t love documentation. In fact, they are passionate about automating testing overall. But barely.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Remind me about your background Steve? I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. I also blog at [link] and you can find me on twitter: @gilbola. We just reconnected and so far, what is it we would have talked about if we got together in person?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2012

The company's app, which is free, runs on the iPhone and allows users to post information about their travels, document their movements, share photos, and more. HipGeo debuted its app in September of 2011; the firm is backed by Morado Venture Partners, a seed-stage fund run by former Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

Persuading a journalist to write about you rather than the 1,000 other companies bugging them. You can imagine how his proud Jewish parents felt about his giving up a job as a lawyer. Let’s then convene privately and rank the issues we care about and which we don’t. . Getting a recruiter to agree to work with you.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. Preliminary results showed RPS performance about 25% lower than with MySQL. March 28, 2013.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We thought we'd take a look at the trend, so we recently talked with Adorian Deck (https://www.youtube.com/user/AdorianDeck), an up and coming 22-year old Youtuber, who told us his story about how he's made Youtube his full time gig, and gives us some insight into the world of influencers and branded videos. It's a nice escape from reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

These days, every business needs a blog, so sign up your domain names accounts on TypePad, Wordpress, and Blogger, or all of the above, before someone starts blogging in your name. Attorney fees start at around $5K, but provisional patents can be filed yourself for about $300. Trademarks. Trade secrets with employment agreement.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Before jumping into the post I wanted to point out one thing about doing TWiVC and posting my notes here on BSOTT. In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

Investors worry about a single entrepreneur getting overloaded, disabled or led astray, with no balancing and supporting partner. Also start a discussion on the wealth of business blogs frequented by entrepreneurs, where you can make your interests known. Negotiate and document roles early, including who is the boss.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 5, 2018

I just returned from a week’s vacation in the mountains where I had almost no Internet access but was aware that Ronan Farrow had published a damning sexual misconduct article about Les Moonves, the Chairman & CEO of publicly traded company CBS Corporation. These weren’t simply flirtations?—?he So why speak up?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Let me be clear – I’m not talking about the old-fashioned “push” marketing, where you broadcast your message louder and more incessantly than others to get above the din. I’m talking about using the new digital channels of blogging, social media, and influencers more creatively to “pull” people to your solution, and make them advocates.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

The story on Uber has been written about ad nauseam, which is why I’ve been reluctant to weigh in. It’s not just about people like me who can (and do) turn up in nearly any city in the US and immediately book a ride. What about opposition research on journalists? Grievances – yes. But scandal? Is Uber evil?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

When you anticipate losses for the first year or two, it is more important to properly document all expenses, including tricky ones like business travel, business meals, and your home office. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Invoicing and payments.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2010

The Hidden Impact of Technology on our Everyday Lives … There’s an old (semi true) parable about frogs boiling in water. In times like these we reflect more about life in general and about the impacts technology has on our lives and on our society.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2010

But I do like to try and make time for some and I’ll admit I’m a bit random about it. But many well intentioned entrepreneurs are sloppy about how they ask so I’d like to give you some guidelines to help. Ask me something very narrow that I can answer without typing a whole blog post length response.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog post appealing to the industry to make these simplified term sheets standard. I talk about this in detail here.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. Luckily, some of the folks at TechEmpower just posted Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application. It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. And I see this extra dose of tenacity in only about 1 of 10 entrepreneurs that I see. I asked him to breakfast to talk about it.

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