Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2013

On my most important ones I spend as much time figuring out what to cut out as I do putting into the writing of it. Many people write email without a “call to action” or reason they’re writing the email. Write to one person at a time. This is critical and was the reason I sat down to write this post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

In fact, they are probably in such a hurry to give you money that they don’t want you to waste time writing anything down and passing it along to new investors. Of course, building a plan is not an alternative to getting out there and doing something. Writing it down promotes both understanding and commitment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In my view, practical business courses in school are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Of course, working for a startup is not like running one, but it will give you a feel for the lifestyle implications, the mindset required, and how things look from the inside out. Write a business plan for your first startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. Therefore of course they need to be more selection when writing checks and can’t spread their bets across 75 deals. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2 So What’s the Big Deal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, this kind of leadership has a big risk, since you have no one to blame if you get it wrong. This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books. It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help. Of course reciprocity matters so they would all leap into action. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

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!, Of course I would like to be in every great deal ever done.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2018

If you’re further along in the process and you have one piece of information you need for a final decision then I’d be very happy to talk with you about it then.” Of course you have to be careful with this. Of course if they did some initial work and were leaning in to make an investment then we’d spend time helping them.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2021

You don’t really understand a new idea, until you try to write it down and succinctly communicate it to peers and critics. Of course, it’s good to have both, but don’t confuse the two. Be proactive in contributing business ideas and follow through. Talk is cheap when it comes to innovative ideas in business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

We use this try to draw some context that informs our funding decisions. Of course we fund companies in good markets and bad. Every year we try to write up and publish our thoughts publicly both to help other investors & entrepreneurs and also to test our thoughts in the public market of ideas. Thank you, guys.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

I’m just writing verbatim what I wrote in a Quora response years ago. Of course you should eventually warn other entrepreneurs you know 1-1 in private. We trade in information all day. Tech Tidbits did this with this Quora answer and also linked to a Pinterest board with my quote , which I love. So, what can you do?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? ” Of course not. That chart has information on it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Of course not. It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. Of course you need to be open. Of course you shouldn’t f **g buy a house. CEO transparency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2021

People sense quickly when you are withholding partial information, perhaps in an effort to protect them or mislead them. Don’t bury them in so much information that attention spans are exceeded. Of course, delivering messages is not just saying the right thing, but also listening, writing, body language, and practicing what you preach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, instead of quick slide presentations, teams at Amazon write six-page memos to lay out ideas in narratives to be read in silence at the start of a meeting. We all need weekly, if not daily, informal and feedback on direction, and what is working and what is not. Provide regular feedback on execution and results.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

In modern society we’re all over-worked and over-loaded with information and tasks and to-dos and obligations. I know some will read this as an indictment of all introductions and of course it’s not that. Mostly I just wanted to write this as a reminder to founders to be suspicious of people who constantly introduce you around.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

Of course, we are speaking of increased valuation of your company when we speak of “wealth.” This risk can be mitigated by finding a customer willing to purchase as soon as a proven model is completed, and willing to state this in writing. So, let’s examine them and mitigate them. Make you wealthy someday. The carrot and the stick.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. The funding rounds will also build customer confidence and they’ll help journalists feel air cover in writing your more important pieces when you brag about customers, traction, revenue or whatever. But first you need to know about Reg D filings.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie. An example is Melissa Rundle, who was been writing for the industry doing FunnyOrDie type comedies. He's been working Hollywood, too, and is a real Cinderella story.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. Of course – some people can be remote. They collected each other’s information and Sam immediately built a relationship with Jody. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the hardest things to know when you’re new to fund raising is what you’re supposed to send to an investor, when and will they keep your information confidential. As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. This is part of a series on how to improve your fund raising game. The key is WHAT you send.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981). Although customers today are comfortable providing personal information in return for a better experience, they are also quick to write you off if you misuse the data, disclose it, or use it to push irrelevant products.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

She highlighted for me how we measure human potential today and it’s based on the workforce that existing post WWII where teaching rote memorization of facts: Math, reading comprehension, writing, basic science, etc. But we of course now live in a “knowledge economy” that has to constantly adapt to changing market conditions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

As a result founders often meet the wrong investors, waste time on those who ask for more information. Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—?these Keeping it to 8–10 helps you manage the public information flow that will be broader if you see 20 firms and also help you prioritize resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

I’m sitting at my computer now at 9.00pm writing this – which is an hour earlier than I normally write (there are about 8 women at my kitchen table having a book club (aka excuse to drink wine & gossip so I’m locked in another room writing. We have an informed point of view. Of course not.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. The best way – of course – is to reference check. Connections?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

It is being temporarily taken off course the whole trip. And, each time the elements take it off course, it corrects and gets back on the right path. You’ll be blown off course every day. And each time your path starts to take you in the wrong direction, you must correct and get back on course toward your goal.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

Of course that doesn’t change the outcome, but it’s the humane thing to say. If your company can help with job search, or resume writing or providing references or calling other companies to tell them you did redundancies?—?you I have lost friends who didn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel in past economic hardships.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Of course when you think about it it’s kind of obvious but when people make snap judgments about information they hear about companies or read about in the press they often don’t take the time to start to consider the details. The Nature of Revenue Matters Of course revenue alone won’t tell you enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Another fine line companies are skating is with how much user information they make publicly available. Facebook is back in the fray on the privacy issue but this time it is more about how user information is displayed by third parties. Does it risk disclosing sensitive information that could affect their relationships?”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Of course sentiment can swing wildly with new information but I set out to take the pulse of the market as we enter 2016. Of course this doesn’t mean private market valuations will follow the same p/e or p/s ratios – they won’t because the expectation is for much higher growth rates in private companies.

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TechEmpower

JULY 5, 2016

When we encounter a long , we can require that the number fits into a double without losing information. If no information would be lost, we serialize the long as usual and move on. If information would be lost, we throw an exception and cause serialization to fail. When we use JSON we lose information about our numbers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. Their writing style, even for a mainstream publication, is they write with lots of testosterone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

They cite sources like a recent BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this NY Times article. Of course there are scenarios where a written business plan is not critical, but I haven’t seen one yet where a well-written 15-page document, or at least a 10-slide pitch, is a negative.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Yesterday I saw a Tweet from Chris Sacca fly by that prompted me to want to write a blog post helping entrepreneurs understand why they should push back against VCs asking for “super pro-rata” rights. Of course every firm breaks its rules to get into a deal, but they put pressure on you by saying that they can’t.

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