Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

You need to press the flesh. The interesting thing about pressing the flesh is that once you’ve broken bread with people and spent personal time getting to know them it is then much easier to build long-term relationships through email, phone, Twitter, Skype and the like. ” OF COURSE! Of course they don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

But for some strange reason they make you file your progress on fund raising, which is the widely picked up by the press. I like to speak about this topic with first-time wantrapreneurs because if you read the tech press every day you’d get the impression that it all glamor. But it’s hard to know that from the press.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? Here’s what’s going through his/her head: Is this story “newsworthy” or am I being asked to publish a press release? ” Can you imagine that ever getting inches in the press?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

More recently, the desire for extra income has become the key driver in new startups, according to the popular press. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” It seems that more people are focused on money today. According to William R. Cobb and M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. It’s no fun for either side.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

Ferris did normal press and also launched on Product Hunt and the latter drove significantly more downloads than press did. But I know many are pressed for time, so … If you just want a quick taste here are some key moments: 1. So I set out to understand this phenomenon a bit more deeply.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

It has even gone so far that we now have evocative headlines in the tech press such as “ Buy or Die ,” which is what got me thinking about this post. But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. Woo the press.

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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. But of course great PR firms do so much more like helping you figure out your yearlong calendar, shaping narratives that tell stories versus just pitching product releases and can help you in a crisis.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I recently was reviewing a press release for a company in which I’m an investor. I told him that I thought the press release was crap (I think my words, exactly). Of course I can’t write every press release for the company nor would I want to. ” to “we’re so excited to work with you.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This is the confluence of your willful decision to do more, and the pressing need to take action. Of course, skills in decision-making are not enough alone to make a great entrepreneurial leader. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Of course, we never see ourselves in this mode, yet we need to recognize that all humans see reality differently through a built-in set of “cognitive biases,” based on their own unique background of experiences, training, and mental state. The ability to pivot sharply and timely is at risk here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In fact, according to the latest trend data and press reports , these Baby Boomers have grown yearly to 41 percent of small business owners, second only to Gen-X, at 44 percent. Of course no one has any idea what the next big thing will be, but more often than not innovation comes from entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

And while of course the founders & management deserve all the credit for Maker’s success and will no doubt get their accolades in the press, from an investor perspective, Dana & I were hugely active in the company for years behind the scenes in recruiting, PR, product strategy, M&A, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Of course it makes no sense to have great people management and a crappy product. ” Of course we all go into businesses expecting to be aligned with our co-founders but over time life changes. When they started their company of course they had to pick one to be CEO and the other to have a different title.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

Of course, many are still fighting it as well, due to privacy concerns. Current advertising and public relations startups are already poised along these lines, all the way from clothes shopping, art galleries, online advertising, to managing press releases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2021

New and existing companies today need to press beyond what was, through what is, to what will be. Set a course for the destination, but also establish intermediate checkpoints to assess progress along the way. Most importantly, this is not just in the products and services you offer, but in the way your company operates.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. Of course they’re software.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. Of course unsolicited spam has very low open rates and is filtered by the major providers. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. 94% of all online adults use email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

But succinctly this press places a marker in the ground for your company. When thinking about how to get press coverage you have to realize that any quality journalist looking to write a story has to have an “angle” to write something. But with fragmentation of the press people just miss stuff. Why does that matter?

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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. I have watched so many companies go through massive growth and see the commentary in the press wondering how they’re doing it and then finding out from the inside that there is some slightly nefarious technique being employed. Underbelly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

It’s why long before you ever want press coverage you need to spend time actually helping journalists, respecting their profession, taking their calls (not having your PR department screen them) and knowing what interests them. When you want press, it will come. It becomes easier to ask when you need help or money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2021

Of course, this same challenge extends well beyond the entrepreneur, into all walks of life and work. A better way is to explore the most pressing needs in your social circles, organization, and the worldwide community. The challenge is find ways to continually recharge along the way. Don’t fall into the dreams of others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

How could Bird really be worth the reported $2 billion valuation that I read about in this press? Over the course of the first few months I saw a few people out on the street taking Birds and then a steady uptick in riders. Yes, everybody should wear helmets and of course Bird reminds riders of this. Are the scooters safe?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Of course that’s true. I’ve tried over the years to write many times about the realism of the downsides of being an entrepreneur because there is a complete cognitive dissidence between what you read about yourself in the press and what you feel internally about where you’re at in the journey.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. We look at stage, geography and of course sector. Online education.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Of course not. Yet the best and the strongest founders are able to overcome the stresses, the self-doubt, the sacrifices and the risks and they press on with optimism every day anyways. Of course you need to be open. Of course you shouldn’t f **g buy a house. CEO transparency. It almost sounds uncontroversial.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The “advantage” of filing for bankruptcy, of course, is that it gets creditors permanently off your back, with no continuing lawsuits, based on funds derived from selling all assets. For those who think that bankruptcy is the easy way out, think again. Bankruptcy should always be the absolutely last resort.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Of course everything could be replicated if a massive juggernaut like Amazon or Google wanted to pour all of their resources into it but I’m talking about technology that is hard to replicate, takes years of know-how and once adopted is significantly valuable. Of course the media doesn’t do nuance well so this is an emotional topic.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

That compares with a reported 330 million for Twitter which had a nine-year head start and so much more free press from famous users over the years. And of course, that could easily require a large amount, far beyond the capability of a small company looking for its initial audience. Third: cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Of course it sounds nicer to live in a utopian socialist society where everybody has the same amount and life is “fair.” Look at many of the high profile companies you know and you can trace some press coverage of high-profile blow-ups in team members. Facebook went through many early executives.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. Of course the naysayers are out again. I, of course, am betting on the former and am not 1% swayed by the doubters. Of course not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. It’s no fun for either side.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The thing is … what I see many sales execs do is burn up countless hours on mid-level campaigns that get torpedoed when the go up the organization due to lack of budget, a desire to own that core IP or other more pressing organization priorities. Not always, of course. Call high, and get passed down or; B.

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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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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2018

You’d be hard-pressed to find a workplace today where using technology isn’t an integral part of the job, whether it’s an AI-powered recruiting tool, special coding software for app development, or even just Google Sheets that help workers keep track of budgets.

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