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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. What do I do now? After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with.

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Beware of Ballers on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

“Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. I have written about this before in my post on Conference Hos. These are people at every conference. Work on budgets, submit RFPs, answer customers support calls, work the bug-tracking software, and trying to meet the next sprint release schedule.

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The Evolution of the App Stores

Xconomy

At their annual developer conferences, Google I/O, held last month, and Apple’s WWDC, last week they both announced updates to their development platforms. There were also areas in which the focus of the two conferences diverged. Two customer-focused announcements stood out: the reviews API and the customer case studies.

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Interview with Paige Craig, Betterworks

socalTECH

We're not talking publicly about that yet, but the idea is to get away from the annual review, away from the quarterly review, and give everyone within and outside a company the ability to recognize people, up and down the chain, for doing great things in the workplace. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition.

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5 Tech Trends Startups Are Adopting In 2017

Tech.Co

The Harvard Business Review recommends two low-risk applications of blockchain technology that startups can try. If you are a software service provider, set your sights on this particular security trend. Plus, headsets and other tools are becoming more affordable. Productivity Tools. Blockchain Technology.

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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

They offer targeting tools for geographies, married people, parents, income levels, political affiliation – everything. Higher conversion rates (10-15x online conversion) and higher value at closure (up to 2x higher) due to up-sell & cross-sell potential. Most high-value or complex product vendor actually PREFER calls.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. The first round of pitches are due this week. “We need new safety measures that don’t slow us down.

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