Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

If course you can’t manage all 50 on an ongoing basis with a heavyweight touch but let’s say just 10% of them you really hit it off with and you maintain contact, emails, social mentions and physical meet-ups. Of course I could go on and on. One quick hack for you – plan “industry lunches.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2016

Networking —  Never Ask a Busy Person to Lunch Networking —  Taking 50 Coffee Meetings But one thing really drives me nucking futs and that’s asking two (or more!) Of course I cc people on emails. There is one big mistake many people make and especially with VC firms but of course it’s broadly applicable.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. If — and it’s a big if of course — they can do that on the cheap, then why should an LP care at all? Alas, no $100 catered lunches. And so we get book ordering problems and expensive lunches and weirdly angry LPs. What a boring mess.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Of course, it still pays to keep your eyes open and carry your own weight. You can’t make someone want to deal with you, but you can try to increase their motivation to deal with you – like getting together for lunch, or trying to communicate in another way. Proactively form relationships with positive types.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 30, 2011

I recently had lunch with a good friend with whom I have a shared experience. In the course of one meeting, I observed the following trifecta of stupidity. The recent purchase of Skype by Microsoft for $8.5 billion caused me to recall an awkward meeting I had in 2005 with a particularly clueless group of cellular executives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Of course, most professionals are optimistic, so they tend to over-commit and underestimate work requirements. Find time in your work schedule for networking, working lunches, and business conferences, where you can test your ideas, learn, and generate support. Do the same for any commitments to the community and family.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

We had lunch at a restaurant that sits atop the old Riverfront Stadium where the Cincinnati Reds played ball when I was a kid and the site where Pete Rose broke the record for lifetime hits. “But, ” OF COURSE! Of course they don’t. Of course I’ll be in Austin next week. They don’t want to feel obligated.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

But of course great teams build great companies and great startup leaders know that they must always be recruiting. The moment you get an “accept” you should have all of your key employees email, call or even grab lunch/drinks/coffee with the new recruit to welcome her to the team.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In my experience both seeking and providing such informal services, personal visits to a company for more than a short time before or after a lunch or dinner are fine. Are there any rules for the amount of time you might expect before stepping over the line? But such contacts should never be constant or frequent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. There is no free lunch. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Install a real board of directors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We do lunch where everybody has a casual conversation followed by 6 hours of content and discussion. And of course there are always the ineffective boards that have too many members, too many +1’s that speak up, too many customers on the board making it hard to discuss difficult issues. I practice what I preach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” There is no free lunch for money. Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. According to William R. Cobb and M.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

Of course there was good and bad to this also. As many of you know, Snapchat started a place to send ephemeral photos with friends and thus was perceived to be only a sexting app for teens in the same was as Twitter was pegged as a place to share what you ate for lunch. Neither caricature of course was correct.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2019

Of course, top leaders must retain the final say, but efforts to work collaboratively will encourage and reward engagement, and expose the ones who are not engaged. Great leaders have found that mentoring works both ways, and taking the time connect to each employee, over lunch, or outside of work, will pay big dividends in their engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” There is no free lunch for money. Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. According to William R. Cobb and M.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

Of course he’s gone on to become one of the most influential thinkers in our industry and Box is worth $2.3 And of course the grandfather of many theories of the fallibility of “professionals” is Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel-prize winning behavioral economist who wrote the absolute MUST READ, “ Thinking, Fast and Slow.”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

And that Salesforce.com should have been able to eat for lunch with the millions they’ve spent promoting Chatter. Of course not. But it’s kind of hard to say “don’t plant near the big trees” when you just completed a big sale to Microsoft building an app that they should have created and dominated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. There is no free lunch. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Install a real board of directors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

They risk little but of course knew better all along. You need to be “known” for your sources of differentiation so even when the press declares you dead because Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter are going to eat your lunch they are describing the threat in terms of them copying YOU. What is a startup to do? For starters, fear not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. There is no free lunch. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Install a real board of directors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Of course the dirty one took the shower.’ To the extent that your organization feels this way you could form networks of your peers, hold lunches and share knowledge. I guess maybe the clean one took the shower thinking he was dirty.’ ’ ‘No. How can you say that? ’ ‘Oh, you’re right.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2011

So I Tweeted him that I’d be delighted to meet a group of startup entrepreneurs and I’d even buy them all lunch. Of course I’d love to see The White House. And of course we saw The Statue of Liberty. And it was a really enjoyable experience where I met some great folks. 2-for-2 on Twitter serendipity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. There is no free lunch. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and Founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Install a real board of directors.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

I was cool with this and we agreed that I would handle the site build out, site management, all customer facing responsibilities, all sales, marketing and operational aspects of the business except for our accounting of course. We agreed to have a lunch at our favorite spot in Westlake, Brent’s Deli, near the bank to get this done.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2021

For me that meant if I had french toast for breakfast because I was feeling weak then I might as well have a cheeseburger for lunch. It comes in fresh, single-serving packages for breakfast, lunch or dinner and you can select options that fit what your goals are in terms of eating. You know this, of course. It’s still awesome.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Of course, it still pays to keep your eyes open and carry your own weight. You can’t make someone want to deal with you, but you can try to increase their motivation to deal with you – like getting together for lunch, or trying to communicate in another way. Proactively form relationships with positive types.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Of course, it still pays to keep your eyes open and carry your own weight. You can’t make someone want to deal with you, but you can try to increase their motivation to deal with you – like getting together for lunch, or trying to communicate in another way. Proactively form relationships with positive types.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2013

Of course, that leads to further isolation. Plan regular networking lunches. If your personality already leans toward narcissism, being the boss will likely bring out the worst in you, leading to intimidation, deception, and the use of coercive power. It doesn't have to be lonely at the top.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

About a year ago I had lunch with a guy who I believe is an amazing entrepreneur. He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. But remember what you learned in your MBA course – less downside / less upside … risk vs. reward. I finally called bullshit. Not my problem.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

Spearheaded by Alex Donn , the event was designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps over the course of a weekend at Io/La , an incubator/co-work space in the heart of Hollywood. This was a free event boasting prizes for winners of various categories such as cash, gift cards, free month stay at Io/La and many more!

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Here is what you get with your ticket: 8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast Mixer 12:30-1:30pm Lunch included at the event 8:30-9:30pm Open Tapas/Hors D'oeuvres bar (No-host drinks).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2012

Of course, that leads to further isolation. Plan regular networking lunches. If your personality already leans toward narcissism, being the boss will likely bring out the worst in you, leading to intimidation, deception, and the use of coercive power. It doesn't have to be lonely at the top.

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