Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s the story of what’s broken with the education system in the US. They are often raised by single moms, grandparents or under-educated immigrant parents who want the same thing for their children that we do for our own. Yesterday I went to see the film Waiting for Superman. Wasn’t that the American promise?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2009

A patent lawsuit against educational software provider Blackboard , which was spawned by the acquisition of Sherman Oaks-based NTI Group last year, has been settled, according to Texas-based TechRadium. TechRadium also has a similar lawsuit pending against micro blogging site Twitter.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. ” His argument is as follows. Rob does it. On steroids.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. It has also coincided with the kickoff of our Launchpad LA educational series which has taken some of my time. It has also coincided with the kickoff of our Launchpad LA educational series which has taken some of my time. Blog comments. I live in email hell.

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Xconomy

APRIL 27, 2018

Gates dropped out of. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

We first met five years ago through serendipity as I described in this 2009 blog post and elaborated on again in more detail 2010. He told me about how he grew up in the projects in NYC with a single mom and even though he had done extraordinary well in school and thus had a great education – those were still his roots.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

But something happened during my Thanksgiving break that has me so extremely pissed off at the predatory practices of a financial institution the preys on the elderly, less educated and lower-income people that can least afford it. Preying not only on lower-income, less educated people but on the elderly. check to me.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

And now, they’ve decided to pay it forward with a few education initiatives that could really make a difference. The coworking company has announced two meaningful education initiatives that could help people get a leg up in the tech community. Kids don’t get to enjoy all the educational fun at WeWork though.

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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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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. If I write about online education, I''ll see 25 online education plans. Tell us about the new fund? It''s the single best.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="[link] frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The catalyst for Brad’s evolving view of marketing was THIS blog entry by Chris Moody in which he pointed out that much of Foundry Group’s thought leadership efforts are essentially a form of guerilla marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. university in math or science — instead of subsidizing their educations and then sending them home&#. Subsidize their education and then send them home. Crazy, huh? He covered the topic again in June 2009 titled Invent, Invent, Invent.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 1, 2011

Thursday, July 7, 2011 -- LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: New Media Training. The power of a video of you speaking or your own words in a blog introducing your product, service, a key event is tremendous and every CEO should leverage it. The potential for missteps and misinterpretation is huge.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I am a very big believer in education and especially higher education. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2011

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. I talked specifically about it in the context of raising VC / establishing credibility over on the Sales School blog where there’s a video & a transcript.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. Your customer blog probably won''t morph into an international bestseller. We started sending out the newsletter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

In my discussions with Korean friends they tell me that there is big pressure in Korea to work for large companies like Samsung over startups (this is similar to what I experienced in Japan) and that the more educated and hard working ones family was the more pressure to join a prestigious firm rather than starting a company or joining a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

His blog is even called SaaStr (a bit too close to Suster if you ask me ;-)). One with a company that produces games and educational products for children that we will announce in the next few months. If I were an entrepreneur in that space I think I would seek them out as a starting point because their interest seems authentic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The problem is that to really fix education you’d need to reform incentives and pay in addition to better teacher training. Udemy is an online education platform similar to EduFire and others. It’s always great to meet somebody in person that you’ve interacted with on blogs and on Twitter. Pretty cool.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

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.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 29, 2011

Thursday, August 4, 2011 -- LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: Free Traffic From the Search Engines Do you have a beautiful startup or established website for the world to see. Whether you have a personal blog or e-commerce website, search traffic is a crucial aspect for you to grow your business.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 4, 2014

It’s the New Year, and there’s no better time to get educated on all the blogging, podcasting and Web video tools to help you become an active content creator. Likewise, if you’re looking to learn how to market through online channels for your business, this is also for you.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 15, 2012

The folks at Campus Explorer believe everyone deserves a fulfilling education, no matter the name or place. Their philosophy is that anyone shopping for college or continuing education can find the perfect fit, if they have access to the proper tools. Email The Explorer Blog. LISTEN to everything they say. Ask questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Michael delivers field-tested guidance on how to create the core elements of great content for your announcement, your webinars, blog posts, Facebook contests, newsletters, Internet TV, and other initiatives. Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. 2) About 18-months ago, on your Startup Boy blog, you wrote a post entitled “ Why You Need to be in Silicon Valley.” 6) Naval, why does the startup world need AngelList and Venture Hacks? . “As AngelList is the productization of that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Kanye West. Let's recap. " Sponsor.

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

New medicines, devices, and diagnostics produced by the life sciences community in California are giving clinicians better tools to fight disease and improve quality of life for patients around the world. Emerging technologies, such as stem cell and gene therapies, are beginning to make their mark.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Clear attribution by Snoop would have educated the young staff person, and millions of others, regarding classic, old-school funk. Like music, movies and blog entries, startups are a remix of that which came before. As we talked, it was clear that he assumed Snoop had written the song.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2013

Their influence is strongest in the area of child education, products aimed at children or parents, parenting, and many other family oriented industries. Social Marketing mommy bloggers Mommy blogs' Their stamp of approval can put the spotlight on any product or service and can open doors to new markets and opportunities.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

You can make educated guesses. Who should read my blog? Who's blog should I read? It was a lot of data that they was distilled down into a fairly complex matching algorithm. Many of the startups that I talk to don't have any of that kind of data. You can maybe find a researcher or something to use as a proxy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Content is still king, so do the proper homework on what you blog, and the quality of the messages you deliver via social media. Factor in the fundamental shift to ‘pull’ marketing taking place across the world in media and advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

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. It’s not always the obvious sources of education that shape you the most. Don’t get me wrong – I loved economics. Fight monoculture.

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