Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If you have a brand to build whether it be your company, yourself, or some affiliate product you market, there is room for you. While maintaining all the posts, tweets, opinions, blogs, and blurbs may seem like a full-time job itself, keep in mind that by doing this you remain dynamic and relevant.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver.

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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. By focusing on what he would do differently now, he was able to humbly convey a number of impactful lessons to a captivated audience of budding entrepreneurs. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. We started building 4 products so that our end-to-end, supply-chain services would be complete (MVP? We closed a $16.5

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

You know the truth: You are late shipping product, your potential investors are taking too long to decide, your team is fighting over strategy, not enough of your users are returning. Startups are filled with enormously talented people – often product people & engineers. A new career if not a humbled one.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I suffer from the “urgency addiction.&# I know it sounds like one of the falsely humble things like telling somebody in a job interview that your weakness is that you’re too much of a perfectionist. It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. I’m not. It’s hard to hide.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

He’s also candid, humble and helpful. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. BlockChalk.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2012

As any long-time reader of this humble blog knows, I am an ardent Beatles fan. They differentiated their product with subtle, unconventional techniques, such as the use of the B7 chord in I Want To Hold Your Hand. In essence, the Beatles offered a product with a higher value proposition as compared to many of their counterparts.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 17, 2014

A Humble Guru. define) your company or product views. Between all the blogging and the Twitter stuff that I do, none of my business comes from that. I go and I talk to people and I use my blog as an opportunity to meet really interesting folk and share ideas.". You can watch my 14-minute conversation with Steve below.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Product : You should build a product or a prototype. You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product. Great companies are built by having great products. And a great product starts with the founder. But for most businesses it is. Go research it.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. It’s brilliant, reflective & humble.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. It’s brilliant, reflective & humble.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Product Development: philosophie. Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

.” I want to do the best deals wherever they are, but I thought, most VCs I met didn’t have very good operational experience, so I thought, “Well, what if I created a blog called Both Sides of the Table and could emphasize the fact that I used to sit on your side of the table?” But you can create your own brand.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

For another perspective which I certainly agree with, check out Kevin Drum’s blog post on The Power of Single-Mindedness at [link] but keep in mind that anything taken to the extreme probably isn’t a good idea…”. 7) I loved the AOL disk “sculpture” you kept in your office at Citrix Online.

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Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Second, we talk about the product every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. People are much more likely to buy into you as a person and us as a firm when they’ve been involved in a discussion with you about their problems, your solutions, who else has been using your product, etc. They might even like to challenge some of your assumptions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Some investors are team focused, others market focused, others seems to look for product / market fit. Only then can I even care about product, market or their nebulous “fit.&#. I want somebody who can inspire you to produce great products but not know your trade better than you do. I love the design of your product.

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