SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. 10 Blogging Tips. Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2015

From a practical standpoint, there are many ways to learn about business change, and the opportunities that may spring up at any moment. The common term for this is networking, but I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs like to do all the talking about their latest new idea and fail to listen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Relationships need to be two-way, and can’t be just all about you. Studies show that as much as 50-90% of communication is body language. Nominate someone as your mentor. Give and you will receive.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. The second most referenced author on my blog, after Kawasaki, is Robert Cialdini, co-author of Yes! Anything that you are passionate about and are willing to expend energy to motivate others to support, qualifies as a cause.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. By the way, I don’t spell check my blog posts either.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I began our discussion by asking Brad what motivated him to co-author Venture Deals , rather than continuing to share venture capitalists’ secrets via his Ask The VC blog. Writing a book is very different from writing a blog. We spend a lot of time… talking about negotiations, negotiation theory and how to think about it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Relationships need to be two-way, and can’t be just all about you. Studies show that as much as 50-90% of communication is body language. Nominate someone as your mentor. Give and you will receive.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. .” “….I

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Relationships need to be two-way, and can’t be just all about you. Studies show that as much as 50-90% of communication is body language. Nominate someone as your mentor. Give and you will receive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Relationships need to be two-way, and can’t be just all about you. Studies show that as much as 50-90% of communication is body language. Nominate someone as your mentor. Give and you will receive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As an angel investor, I routinely toss business plans that focus too much on today, and don’t talk about tomorrow. I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, “ Start a Successful Business ,” by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

Through one lens, it looks like a way for aspiring twenty-somethings to raise capital and find mentors that can help them pursue their dreams”. According to Girouard on his blog, two thirds of students in the US graduate with an average of more than $23,000 in school debt and end up jobless. Upstart received a $ 1.75

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. But VC is like congress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Relationships need to be two-way, and can’t be just all about you. Studies show that as much as 50-90% of communication is body language. Nominate someone as your mentor. Give and you will receive.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in the late 1970s, to her 30 years working in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office. Just about nothing, one or two courses— Ed Roberts had one—on entrepreneurship.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Who are your mentors, role models? We don’t have mentors at the moment. Students have to register with their matriculation numbers, and supply upon registration, their course of study, faculty, department, mode of entry, year of entry etc. This includes contents like Videos, Photos, Blog Posts and Forum Threads.

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