Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

Speaking of time: They were smarter about allocating enough tick-tock for each phase of the process leading up to their final presentation. Put it in the slides: At the 2016 event, Liu & Huang overlooked the need to include some of their key findings in their slide deck. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

So it was fun to get his perspective on topics that are sometimes too toxic for VCs to talk about publicly. We had a great hour-long chat about the industry and the deals of the week. We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Management teams whisk through slides trying to get through a presentation to share how great things are going and they are eager to get through the meeting so they can get back to their real jobs. Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. Never be surprised at a board meeting. Maybe 2 hours.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following. In fact, the common element in all these steps is “you.”

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AUGUST 18, 2010

As individuals we have choices about how we spend our time. I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I have always been good at prioritizing what is important but bad about starting my work early enough. I’m not.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

We’re talking of course about next week’s vote on Proposition 61 in California, an attempt to control drug prices in the nation’s most populous state. There has been only a little slide , however, in the state’s projected rejection of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.). million) to GlaxoSmithKline ($4.5

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But it seemed strange to me that we would openly talk about stuff rather than waiting for a big announcement to the press. So I started thinking about the “Inside Out&# organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both. You should, too.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. Remind me about your background. I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. Oh, and I forget to mention in my introduction about B2B.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. A positive news story means NOTHING about the core performance of your business. Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. Is that why you called?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. In the book he talks about movement over the past decade to get us to reuse our towels more when we stay at hotels. You should, too. (no,

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DECEMBER 19, 2009

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Several people asked about the differences between tenacity and resiliency. Resiliency, on the other hand, is about being able to withstand punches and still keep fighting. Much is also about luck and timing.

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JULY 23, 2013

Some will be quick to chalk about “personal branding” as gimmicky or manipulative. I, of course, knew nothing about business. I thought they might want to know a thing or two about X.25, Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. I have published many of these PR Tips before.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. They care about the quality of what is build more than they care about end customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

People cite sources like this recent Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. There is no crowd of successful entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

There has been much discussion about VCs doing seed funding in the past year. I’ve written about it myself (Is VC Seed Funding Dead?) If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. Short summary of my posts: 1. More on this later.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. The money slide is the graphic below. He’s right about this. This blog post lays out my case. In the end, Seth Godin’s comments on Fred’s blog post said it best: “His black swan is showing.

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JULY 13, 2013

Not just because meeting Clayton was influential in shaping my thinking about markets but also because Derek Andersen (who founded Startup Grind) is such an awesome host and runs a very informative events. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I’ve said versions of it on this blog before so I hope it’s not too repetitive. Join because you know you’ll be earning less than you could elsewhere at some meaningless job cranking out non-core code, producing Powerpoint slides or shuffling paper. I think Chris’s initial comment was about investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 19, 2016

Hardly a week goes by without hearing about a scandal or faux pas made by a company on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. It’s possible to take a blog post and turn it into a slide show, infographic and video, for example. This is the type of social media mistake you’re most likely to hear about in the media or on the internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. Lines vs. Dots is all about people. But what about markets? Think about Twitter.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

But apart from building traffic, what I find most challenging is incorporating a lead capture strategy that will actually generate some blog subscribers. But if you want to level things up, you can use a platform like OptinMonster to create popup forms, sliding forms, floating bars, and sidebars.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2019

A Startup I’ve Been Excited to Tell You About for Years A few years ago I spent time in prison with Trevor O’Brien , the founder of Projector. They teamed up to solve this problem and when I heard about their approach it completely resonated with me. Take a photo and make images rounded as the photo at the bottom of this blog post is?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2010

For example, there are a dozen blogs like this one for every area of expertise. My message today is to avoid the consultant stigma by signing up to do the job, not just talk about it. Results” these days are not Powerpoint slides, or theories and recommendations. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

With this, Silicon Valley has decided to speak out about the stifling affect of immigration law and the impacts that have caused crippling of the American tech industry. According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog. Slide taken from MorganLewis Immigration presentation. In Silicon Valley’s favor, “U.S.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2016

If you’re among those frustrated by the lack of talk about health and science in the three presidential debates, this week perhaps brought you a wee consolation prize. His slides are here. The hikes were first reported earlier this month by Adam Feuerstein of The Street. No word yet if—ahem—Gene Hackman will co-star.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. This involves a person who leads a PowerPoint presentation in which the presenter feels more comfortable racing through pre-practiced slides and rattling off charts & bullet points than having a discussion. We used to do this in our sales slides.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I’ve always believed it’s been one of the most important attributes of business success yet something very few business leaders talk about. So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A So no whinging about what a long post this is! Creativity. So I thought I would.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" And in the spirit of how to get your ideas to happen, they asked me to talk about entrepreneurship and the myriad ways you can "be your own boss." " 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Yes, even bootstrappers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC &# tab).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. How about them apples?

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

June 2019 (left) and November 2020 (right) I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post because historically I don’t like talking about weight. I’m going to follow up with a series of detailed posts about what I did so that if you want more information, help, support or insights I can go deeper. What About Exercise?

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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JULY 13, 2012

Whenever I talk about advertising people comment how much everybody hates ads. If you want to understand more about the real trends in phone calls there are a bunch of white papers here. But What About Mobile? Ads are effective. They seem like more real operations. Here’s the deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

My recommendation is to have an 8-12 slide decks with only the most critical factors of your business. The great thing about the VC pitch deck is that you can have 30 slides. Each slide should be minimalist, more graphics and less text. Too many people have 15-20 slides. VC Pitch Decks.

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