Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

The researchers taped 29 hours of people working in a typical office, and found that they were interrupted on average four times each hour. This comment and blog post prompted me to write a post that has been in my queue for a long time. “A study by Microsoft showed just how lethal interruptions are to productivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. how much research should you do before a sales visit? It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. What is your sales process? call high or call low? how do you forecast?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2014

If he had spent any time reading my blog, he would have learned that I am not a fan of consultants, especially at startups. Research? – I do not expect everyone I speak with to be a fan of my humble blog. – I do not expect everyone I speak with to be a fan of my humble blog. Lesson: Succinctly state what you want.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I read this story on Ivan Kirigin’s blog that shows that Quora was posting which articles you’re reading to other people without your consent. I even had some reservations about writing this blog post this because I have no desire to p**s off other investors or great entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2012

Demonstrating in dramatic fashion why BlackBerry maker Research in Motion seems to be in so much trouble these days, Irvine-based YouMail , which develops personalized voicemail services and related applications, said it is saying goodbyte to the BlackBerry platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. He researched his market, he thought hard about how he thought it might ultimately monetize, he built a prototype and he created a very compelling vision for where he thought his market would head.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

What about opposition research on journalists? Clearly the press don’t want to have rich, powerful companies researching their private lives. Case in point, “ Why Your Uber Driver Hates Uber ” is a blog post dressed up as journalism. If Uber continues to grow and innovate this will be a storm in a teacup.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The National Stem Cell Foundation (NSCF) is funding the study, which is the result of a bi-coastal collaboration between the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute and Aspen Neuroscience, a San Diego startup developing personalized cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

People spent a ton of time researching which gadgets to buy. My blog and what it’s done for my deal flow. - Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. Plus, maybe they’ve got some mega Facebook deal in the works? sites still dominate. Burstly ( Led by … me! -

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

She did a bunch of research on it and finally found a small number of safe brands. 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. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

San Antonio — Life science groups, city officials, and research institutes in San Antonio are organizing an effort to commercialize more scientific developments coming out of the city’s military organizations.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog. I know many people think I blog all day long. Research & Development. So I ask you – if you’re being reactive to somebody else’s emails are you really being as productive in your company as you could be?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack.

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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. There is nothing wrong with researching an idea yourself, getting it started yourself, validating the idea yourself and then asking people to join you.” I started with three. Make sure it is somebody you know really well.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

In another post I’ll talk about how PR has changed dramatically in the past 10 years or you can just read Brian Solis’s blog or buy his book on the subject. Most notably you need to understand Earned Media and how blogging, public speaking and social media play an important role in the new PR landscape.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

As the quest to find treatments for Alzheimer’s disease keeps crashing against rocks, a group of researchers in the field want their peers to pay more attention to the part of the brain where Alzheimer’s disease first wreaks havoc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. BUT … try doing proper restaurant research on a mobile device.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I had to put in a bit of web research to uncover an intricate web of ownership that leads to the Avis Budget ownership and worse still up to a well-known private equity group called Apollo. My research reveals that this known scam artist company has been duping customers for some time. Hiding from something? What do you think?

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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. Gartner, Forrester, Jupiter and AMR Research all had good things to say about us. Goldman release a report on us. We were hot.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Research your market. Yesterday I wrote a blog posting on founder vesting (see here ). The decision is already made. Your next business will have less ;-).

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2018

New immunotherapy approaches to cancer treatment, and the CRISPR technology for editing genetic material in cells, are among the most sophisticated research strategies scientists are using in their quest to defeat disease.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. Just don’t spam people.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

I tested it out there at USC, and researched it, and really liked the idea. I was just blogging about this, but overall, I think to be an entrepreneur, it's a matter of trying and persevering through all the obstacles and roadblocks that come your way. Where are you in terms of product?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

Check out this chart from eye-tracking research conducted by the usability guru Jakob Nielsen published in this piece. And market research seems to confirm this. It shows that our eyes are trained to focus on the text, not the ads. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. That’s always stuck with me. We’ll see. I wasn’t that desperate.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

To mark the occasion of launching this inaugural report I am also proud to announce that we’ve also launched the Upfront Insights blog. We intend to put out more research both on our geography but also on the markets we’re interested in investing in.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2013

We are very selective with whom we sell it to, so if you are interested, let us know here and we will research your product/service and contact you if we believe it’s a good for this distinguished group of influencers. About me: I’m a dad, a social research marketer, customer service champion, closet chef, TEDster.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

This means organizations will require new and different external research to understand what tools they must provide in order to help their members make progress. Research Keeps Associations Connected to Member Problems that Need to Be Solved. Their research identified four segments in their marketplace.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

Plus, I actually work with Dale Daughtery, Mark Fraunfelder and AnnMarie Thomas--who you might know through MAKE magazine--through my day job, at UC Irvine's Digital Learning Research Hub, where we work with research groups across different countries. We ended up with a room full of people interested in the same thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Keyword research and budget forecasting. PPC experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL). Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Xconomy

APRIL 21, 2020

. “ Decentralized Clinical Trials: The Call for a New Paradigm ” and “ Sustaining Clinical Research During the Crisis ” offer the latest trends and technologies companies can use to keep business running as smooth as possible.

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