Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Five-and-a-half years ago I first met Chamillionaire at a tech conference in LA. What Cham rarely tells people – he’s both private and humble – is that he started making some small co-investments with me in tech firms starting with Maker Studios where he was one of the earliest investors.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Entrepreneurs can emulate de la Guerra’s strategy and make their adVenture appear far larger than reality and thus increasing its influence and market reach while discouraging competitive threats by creating an industry alliance. We hosted an annual user conference in Santa Barbara, attended by a couple hundred of the world’s top surgeons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? You probably follow some high-profile entrepreneurs on Instagram and Twitter and see conference pictures of them in Davos, Mexico, Monaco or wherever.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

I recently answered the question “ What are good ways to raise your children to be entrepreneurs? ” I believe that you cannot teach someone to be an entrepreneur, but that you can teach entrepreneurs. Every entrepreneur is faced with making something out of nothing. Note: This is part I of a five part series.

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MAY 16, 2010

A couple of years ago an entrepreneur had requested a meeting with me to present his business. As the day approached I noticed that there was a conference in LA that I wanted to attend. The day before the conference I thought about rescheduling this meeting but then thought, “oh, well. You better be eating humble pie.

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MAY 30, 2013

This week I attended the All Things D Conference in Ranchos Palos Verdes. I have never sat in a room with an individual where I felt more inspired and humbled. Dorrian is an entrepreneur. At D Elon said he worried that our most talented entrepreneurs these days were too small minded in their objectives. He is that.0001%

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NOVEMBER 6, 2016

There is no skill more vital to an entrepreneur than effective networking. I just finished a new book, “ Hopping Over The Rabbit Hole ,” by Anthony Scaramucci, a well-known entrepreneur, financier, and television co-host of Wall Street Week. If you humbly treat people as equals, relationships will work.

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JULY 9, 2012

He has it on stage, too, at conferences. The Dave I know is very humble. Many through history became entrepreneurs precisely because they were unemployable. I don’t know an entrepreneur or a VC who wouldn’t cut him in on any deal.” That he would have to have just about any entrepreneur want to work with him.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

Marten noted that a year after Oracle acquired InnoDB, MySQL made an unexpected announcement at their annual Users Conference. At our Users Conference we surprised them (Oracle) by announcing them (as) MySQL Partner of The Year. In my humble opinion, this is advice young entrepreneurs cannot hear often enough.

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APRIL 21, 2020

I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. Not anywhere nearly as hard as being an entrepreneur. To win the best deals entrepreneurs need to trust you and want to work with you. How Do I Advise People When Raising Money in a Hard Market? Raise when you can. Yes, critical.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Marty Zwilling.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

How do you find somebody that is exceptionally bright, driven and accomplished and yet still be humble enough to understand that the founders we back are the ones who have invented technologies and have to live with the day-to-day decision-making and hard choices. I mean this seriously. We are sparring partners, not “deciders.”

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I know you’re thinking that you have your head on straight but I promise you the experience of finding yourself in this maelstrom will leave any first time entrepreneur spinning. They got us invited to the Fortune CEO conference in Paris held at Versailles. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

A gentleman had stopped by our booth multiple times and then wrote me immediately after the conference and said that I “HAD to come and meet with his partners the very next week.” Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. After Office 2.0 we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. Also, asking is not appropriate at a marquee conferences like TechCrunch50, DEMO, Twiistup and the like. Rahul and Co.

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