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FEBRUARY 7, 2013
When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. What do we like about OpenTable? And we wanted a head of global marketing. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award.
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OCTOBER 30, 2014
As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. What about if elderly people never had to ask a relative or healthcare worker to change the batteries on their hearing aids?
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MAY 1, 2014
We always had the added advantage that I have never met a single person in my life who ever said anything positive about their storage provider or experience. Parts of the city still didn’t have power restored when we met. I wrote about that experience here without giving away the details of the business.
socalTECH
JUNE 9, 2014
We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. Can you talk about those businesses? The nice thing about those two businesses, is they feed each other nicely. What is Jukin Media?
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MAY 5, 2011
I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference.
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JULY 22, 2010
Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. I thought to myself, “OK, they were willing to F me when they thought I had no idea what I was talking about. You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company.
InfoChachkie
JULY 14, 2011
At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams.
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