Remove Coach Remove Course Remove Entrepreneur Remove Yahoo
article thumbnail

Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Oh, the conferences. Web Summit. Motives matter.

article thumbnail

Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST

Eric Greenspan

Lisa is an a skilled public speaking coach. Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. I of course agreed to get involved. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, A great trade! YouTube and many others.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

Lisa is a skilled public speaking coach. Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. A great trade!

article thumbnail

As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

Both Sides of the Table

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. The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. And Coach Campbell. I read Andy’s post with a knowing smile on my face. But VC is like congress.

article thumbnail

Interview with Lane Soelberg, WePlay

socalTECH

He saw the power of user generated content, and the power of building a passionate community online, which certainly led to a good thing with Yahoo. Over the course of a year, I got to know Steve, the team, and the board, and when Russ moved on to other products, they needed someone with experience in monetization.

article thumbnail

Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

But of course all of these things are intertwined. We try to hire people who we believe will be upfront and respectful of entrepreneurs and know that it’s far easier to judge ones decisions on the outside than it actually is to have to make the tough decisions inside of a startup every day. Know what you believe is important.

Startup 150