Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Modern-society is also littered with over-networkers and over-introducers and professional conference attendees. Or an angel investor starts emailing the CEO of a company with all the people they want him or her to meet. I know some will read this as an indictment of all introductions and of course it’s not that.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 4, 2018

Many of us belong to industry associations and find ourselves at conferences and trade shows with time to spend with competitors. And of course, most are willing to trade information to get information. Some of these are old friends; some even former associates.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] Our CEO then returned to the restaurant and met with the chef to have him list all the ingredients from the meal the executive was eating. He saw me drag my leg into the conference room, made no comment, but asked if I would like a tour of the hotel. “Of Well, I didn’t make the sale. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. Oh, and of course Bono popped by for a little while. There were senior members from Facebook and Google. Boy, that’s a tough job.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

Of course, I’ll tell another harrowing story here. Email readers, continue here…] Early in the rapid growth phase of my computer software company, I hired an excellent, IBM-trained vice president of sales to further growth and begin our international expansion. an old friend, Dick Tanaka, gets credit for the 18-month rule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2023

The follow-up should be simple and to the point, such as a quick email suggesting an opportunity to continue the discussion. Exchange connection info and follow up within two days. If you have interest in a real relationship, don’t let the initial connection fade. Networking and relationship building should be fun.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Oh, the conferences. Web Summit. Probably more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Now may be the time to build new credentials is this digital age by taking time for education courses and attending digital conferences. Don’t be limited by only non-real-time communications, implied with emails, texts, and online forums. These now provide better quality, better paying, and more exciting jobs than big companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. Of course I could go on and on. He had been asking me to speak at his conference Startup Grind. So I connected her with two CEOs and a CFO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The follow-up should be simple and to the point, such as a quick email suggesting an opportunity to continue the discussion. Exchange connection info and follow up within two days. If you have interest in a real relationship, don’t let the initial connection fade. Networking and relationship building should be fun.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. So I often try to stay off of email during the day. Of course if I’m not ensconced in deep, thoughtful work then by all means I answer the call. People who go to this course end up feeling like they had a near religious experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

Of course when they get there those individuals are no longer young and after years of mental and physical atrophy they lack the ambitions to get these things done. Of course the 4-hour work week and DL plan is a gross over generalization and meant to be shocking. And, of course, now Twitter. If not now, then when?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

You probably follow some high-profile entrepreneurs on Instagram and Twitter and see conference pictures of them in Davos, Mexico, Monaco or wherever. There is a difference between a Conference Ho and a successful entrepreneur. Throughout the course of last year I never had more than $8,000 in my account. . Of course I do!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—?these even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. Sometimes?—?best

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

People like Mike Macadaan , who came down from San Francisco to throw professionally-produced Twiistup events showcasing our budding startups and Francisco Dao who turned them into full-blown conferences. It will be prepped with WiFi, food, drinks, and of course over 150 geeks from across the country. So who’s on board?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2010

Several years ago, we were hired by one of the largest companies in the industry (yet another Fortune 500) to perform a top-to-bottom audit of their processes across 27 facilities, and recommend measures to increase efficiency, increase income and of course, decrease costs while also increasing the quality of service.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I’m talking, of course, about South by Southwest (SXSW), Austin’s annual film and music festival that in recent years added an interactive component. We’ve partnered with Alcatel-Lucent’s NG Connect team to produce a trend lounge at the Hilton in downtown Austin, right in the heart of the conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2019

Elon Musk via Flickr by TED Conference To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Developing a superior virtual presence requires a mastery of several mediums – phone, email, text messaging, as well as handwritten notes – but the payoff is undeniable. Go for that black belt in networking.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

They generated an enormous amount of inbound leads through PR, email blasts and heavy efforts with analysts such as Gartner Group, IDC, Aberdeen Group, etc. If you’re not ready to buy then you go into an email database. Here they surround you with sales professionals, product people and, of course, lots of referenceable customers!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

What you Before Sets the Course for How Well the Day Goes Make sure you send your financial and operating metrics no less than 72 hours before the board meeting — even better if it can be a week in advance. Literally stop the meeting, let everybody do their quick emails and then restart with no devices.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. This means more people sign up for your email list when you have the pop up box than when you don’t. Have an email capture.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Celebrate Conference in October. Of course, we – four of us – tapped our entire professional and personal network from LinkedIn and Facebook, as well as all the emails we have captured to this point from our website over the past few months. Tech.Co: How is the Picking Duck team prepping for Celebrate in October?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

So it was my great pleasure to host Chamillionaire on This Week in VC this week talking marketing, entrepreneurship, old media and, of course, music. Authenticity - I asked Chamillionaire why he thinks he connects so much with people at tech conferences. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Communicate frequently and proactively The most effective CEOs that I’ve observed send regular, short, board update emails every few weeks or monthly just to give the board a sense of what is going on. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it. It happens. It’s human nature.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The follow-up should be simple and to the point, such as a quick email suggesting an opportunity to continue the discussion. Exchange connection info and follow up within two days. If you have interest in a real relationship, don’t let the initial connection fade. Networking and relationship building should be fun.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are so many events to attend that one could become a full time conference attendee and you could easily feel like you’re missing out with each event that happens without you and of course there is Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat to remind you just how fun it was for everybody else.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2010

Many of us belong to industry associations and find ourselves at conferences and trade shows with time to spend with competitors. Email readers continue here.] Some of these are old friends; some even former associates. It is natural to want to associate with these people for many reasons, certainly socially.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Of course, just like any other update, there will be winners and losers depending on how you play the game. After they logged in with dial-up, not only did they have email and instant messaging, but they were also on a page that provided them with (slightly curated) news, weather, videos, images, games, and articles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. Of course it’s great to bring in outside experience to complement your team but it must be done judiciously. Know what you believe is important.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We track and record every call, email, post and tweet and we constantly bring our sponsors into the mix to share in the exposure. MAKEITWORK, our Twitter handle is @makeitwork , our website is makeitwork.com and our facebook page is of course facebook.com/makeitwork. The Make It Work Mini Cooper Fleet.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2011

Email readers continue here.] I have an industrial psychology educational background, but could not count upon myself to be completely objective here, of course.). I asked for a few minutes to confer with my associate. We walked into the meeting at the appointed time. Apparently the meeting had been going for some hours.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

But of course the people you need to be the most careful about spending too much time with are people with No Influence & No Authority (so called NINAs). When you spend time with analysts, associates, principals and even EIR’s realize that many of them have “influence” (e.g. Even better when they’re IAs.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) Being in business since I was 18 years old has led to a lot of conferences, meetings, mixers, classes, tradeshows and after parties. Find events, conferences, mixers, networking groups, meet up groups who would find value in hearing your insights.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

The best VCs I know take 11pm conference calls. And let the entrepreneur decide the course of action. Many don’t return my emails on time. They’re too busy using their superb judgment getting into great deals and bowing out graciously from the ones they don’t want to back. Not in my experience, Andy. And then step back.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 12, 2011

And what if a conference call is not an option and you want to get in touch discreetly? Nowadays we have smartphones with email that always on data connections and there are different ways to contact multiple people. With the rise of mobile phones in the late 90′s and early 2000′s, it was not hard to get a hold of someone.

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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. As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Audi Press Conference. We’d believe offering consumers as many options as possible is a benefit of course, but it’s worthy to consider just how far this gets us towards the reality of the connected car. And as much as we can deny it, most of us will text, answer emails and calls, and navigate with our phones.

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