Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Of course the debates raged about not wanting to make the system less powerful. It’s why when I used Quora I instantly felt like it was the most innovative UX I had seen in years. Invariably they would build in too much functionality and assume that users were both familiar with and interested in having tons of choice.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

And of course on Twitter I’ve seen the Tweets, ReTweets and superlatives on what a great post it is. Founders will continue to take the “growth at all options” path that leads to privacy & trust creep at places like Quora. And the wrong message is frankly strewn all over Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2013

Yet the use of SMS text messaging for all purposes, including business, has grown consistently worldwide since it was introduced 20 years ago, to an estimated 7 trillion/year, according to the Quora statistics website. This, of course, comes into play to signal openness or goodwill at the beginning of an interaction, and agreement at the end.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Of course they can be duped. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Quora, Tumblr. They wanted to know who you were. You originally had to have a.edu email address to even join. They work hard to this day to try and filter out people they think are fake. ” Yet … Twitter doesn’t care. .”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2012

This total rate for 2011 has been estimated at 7 trillion, or nearly 225,000 text messages sent every second, according to the Quora statistics website. This, of course, comes into play to signal openness or goodwill at the beginning of an interaction, and agreement at the end. Good managers practice this one for personnel issues.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. I spent time on college campuses. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends. It’s a Demo Day thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion. In the end, of course, our productivity actually suffered. Twitter took a few years until people (or the company) really understood how to use it effectively. I’d hate to see what Twitter would have become if they had started with $50 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. I spent time on college campuses. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends. It’s a Demo Day thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

I was asked by somebody recently in a private message on Quora about whether the individual should leave his comfortable job to become an entrepreneur. You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. Not all VCs want to be entrepreneurs, of course.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

And let the entrepreneur decide the course of action. CEOs can rarely express their uncertainty and doubt to others. So the VC’s job is to challenge. Offer contrasting views. Play Devil’s Advocate. And then step back. Even if it is different than what you would have decided. Fred Wilson talks about this in his post about Tumblr.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

I was asked by somebody recently in a private message on Quora about whether the individual should leave his comfortable job to become an entrepreneur. You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. Not all VCs want to be entrepreneurs, of course.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

Of course Airbnb hosts love the company. Remember when Quora started publishing which articles you were reading to others ? But if you’re an Airbnb host you’re making money by renting out your apartment which doesn’t involve you spending hours on actual work. It’s found money. And there’s always a but.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2015

People are addicted to the experience in a way I haven’t seen since the early days of Twitter or Quora. Of course I spotted it early like many because I noticed people I’ve long followed like Ryan Hoover, Danielle Morrill at Matt Mazzeo somewhat obsessed with it. Of course the tech existed to do all this before.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

They risk little but of course knew better all along. FourSquare – I was recently asked on Quora whether I thought FourSquare was dead now that Facebook was going to launch “Places “ Others feared Yelp. What is a startup to do? For starters, fear not. The world seldom ends. Have clarity of purpose. Don’t be scared.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Of course much of it is conflicting. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. They seem so reachable.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

20 Recommended Quora Threads for Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 1, 2010 The Q&A site Quora has become an indispensable trove of knowledge and expertise when it comes to the tech industry. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Top free resources for startups - StartupCFO , September 28, 2010 It took me a while to warm up to it but I am loving Quora more and more. But the other piece of the argument is, of course, an argument for why your company should build open source - why it should develop its technology in a community-driven, open sourced way.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Jason charted his own course though. I was an early fan and heavy user of Quora back in the day and used to get huge benefit out of the conversations I had there. But Jason took Quora usage to 11. And instantly I had people I had relationships with or even portfolio companies all asking me for intro’s to Jason.

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