Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

In case you missed all the kerfuffle this weekend, I posted this blog post originally on TechCrunch. I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. Isolated incident?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Just over a year later, Jurvetson led the Series A round of venture funding for Nervana Systems. As CEO Rao wrote in a blog post Monday , “Nervana started with the idea that we can engineer better solutions for computation by bringing together computer engineering, neuroscience, and machine learning.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Today I’d like to give that advice in more tangible terms and with a framework to think about your tasks – the funnel. VC meetings are easy to come by but money in the bank is the only thing that will fund your next 12 months. We all know the type of person who lives in the top end of the funnel.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. About how dismissive traditional print was about blogs or the airlines views the “peanut serving&# Southwest Airlines.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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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. I Be specific. The Application.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I funded them 8 weeks later. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy.

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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. And if it’s not I’m generally not that interested in funding it. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2011

We removed all of the features and bloat that plagues other forum software, and created an addon framework so the forum owner can use Vanilla as the basis on which they can build their vision of how their community should appear and function. Are you Funded? How did your company get its initial funding? We are funded.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

He says the partnership may ask—or fund third-party researchers to ask—“What are best practices for identifying biases in data and addressing them across the industry?”. He does see the opportunity for some broadly applicable frameworks though.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. VCs fund people all the time with no traction. They fund people with no customers. How do we measure success?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. But I also believe that the backlash that will happen against ICO fraud will likely burn some people to future participation until and unless there are some frameworks for oversight of the market.

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