TechCrunch LA

MAY 31, 2022

The following conversation was lightly edited for length and clarity. Andelman : We are giving similar advice to what I think a lot of VCs are, which is if you can defer your next fundraise by 12 or 24 months you should. TechCrunch: How did you and Mark Mullen start working together? Andelman : The L.A.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

I hope to just write what’s on my mind in stead of thinking that every post needs to offer advice or insight or wit. It surprises many people that I often don’t edit my posts at all when I write. I often come back to my posts after the fact for a quick edit of errors. It feels good to be back. *.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

Previously dubbed ‘The Insider', it's been rebranded as ‘The Stay Insider', and is filled with advice, information and inspiration for LABS customers during these times of social distancing. The email is filled with a mix of practical business advice and best working practice. Dotan Weiner, Chief Operating Officer at Labs.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Their primary intended reader is a “first-time entrepreneur”, but clearly other stakeholders within the startup universe can also benefit from the book’s hands-on advice. In contrast, Venture Deals focuses on pragmatic, tactical advice. This chapter provides spot-on, tough-love advice. Things I Liked. Things I Liked Less.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

No edits / no spell check. I may try to come back and edit later but want to get back to the family! Startup Advice' I’m not talking about you. post script: I wrote this in one sitting before racing out the door on a long-weekend vacation with the family. Apologies for any rambling, incoherence or typos.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 11, 2013

This conflicted with Ben's proclivity to shoot numerous versions of each scene and later sort through the best bits when editing the film. He then synthesized their input and internalized the advice that was congruent with his collaborative approach. Should we do another one?". Movies are created in a similar, iterative manner.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

By now if you follow me on Twitter you probably know that I do near daily “Snapstorms” or a collection of short videos (usually < 5 mins in total) with entrepreneur advice on Snapchat. Each video is 10 seconds so it forces you to get to the point & edit well. Here’s a recent one I did on Fund Raising in tough markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. I usually then re-read, edit, spell check and add links. I think I would improve my posts if somebody could edit them and make them shorter. Then later I just added images and edited. I’m editing in bed. I then always add an image.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

Ask any of the previous CFO’s when I was the CEO – they did the hard work but I edited the spreadsheets cell-by-cell. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. .&# Similarly if you need your CFO to walk me through your financial model you’re probably not the right investment for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

Feel free to copy or edit this, too. I have seen in your 5 years with us countless hours dedicated to mentorship and advice to younger founders of color and showing them a roadmap for success. For what it’s worth we also have our “Zero Tolerance” sexual misconduct policy, which you can read here: upfront.com/zero-tolerance.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 10, 2014

Jackson Brown sat at his kitchen table, pulled out a pad of paper and began writing advice to his son, who had just entered college. I came across a special edition of Mr. Brown''s Life''s Little Instruction Book (Volumes I - III) while waiting in line at a FedEx store. However, if you follow his advice to "Explore. Discover.".

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

As a bonus, the “quick read&# eBook and Kindle editions are priced as “singles&# at only $2.99 Advice for boards and CEOs. Announcing EIGHT new mini-books and eBooks by Master Entrepreneur, Dave Berkus , just released by The Berkus Press. Kindle eBook: $2.99 (press here). Direct from The Berkus Press: $14.95 (press here).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2013

Users can add their Dwolla accounts just like they’d add a bank account by going to Accounts, then Edit, Choose Add Account and type in Dwolla and provide their Dwolla account login credentials. Users will also get simple steps and free advice, reminders to stick to a budget tailored for them.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

For years I’ve been offering advice on how to better communicate and for years I’ve seen most people commit the same universal mistake: Including too many details. Often the next day I’ll edit it 10% at the margin when I re-read it and find errors. Tags: Startup Advice. But often less is more.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 10, 2013

Joe''s first breakthrough video was The Puzzle , which leveraged crude butclever editing (562 edits, to be exact). Advice For Young YouTubers. I wrapped up our conversation by asking Joe if he had any advice for the current crop of kids making videos in their bedrooms. “(In college) I was studying to be a doctor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2012

In fact, I think those around me must tire of my repetitive advice, “Be careful of wanting to be liked too much. I do get people who occasionally show a big frustration with me that I don’t edit my posts more carefully. It’s a certain edginess that I like. It leads to bad decisions. To be liked? I need some sleep.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Now if Gabe could just help edit some people’s Tweets. Startup Advice' So Gabe is having his editors change titles on blog posts where the title sucks. TechMeme readers will only be better off for it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I figured I needed time to spell check and edit before publishing so I would hit publish when I got home. My advice: Do not mention the other VC firms, angels, seed funds, etc. Once you’ve asked it’s pretty tough for investors to want to disregard that advice. Tags: Startup Advice. I had asked them not to.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

A shortened, better edited and with nicer pictures version of this post first appeared on TechCrunch. But I also have advice for the 15% that really do want to be a startup CEO. Another important piece of career advice I give to aspiring CEOs is that this gives you the ultimate decision-making abilities about an exit.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

Dig deeper and you see that they do: project management (like 37 Signals), share and store files online (like DropBox and Box.net), create and edit documents online (like Google Docs & Zoho), Wikis (like SocialText) and Discussions (like Yammer). So my advice was to focus a bit more. OK, so that could mean a lot of things.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 10, 2013

Joe''s first breakthrough video was The Puzzle , which leveraged crude butclever editing (562 edits, to be exact). Advice For Young YouTubers. I wrapped up our conversation by asking Joe if he had any advice for the current crop of kids making videos in their bedrooms. “(In college) I was studying to be a doctor.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

When they moved to wanting to edit my posts before putting live I couldn’t handle it. And then I struggle to go back and edit the minutiae of them. By the way, if you ever wanted to know why I don’t proof read or edit my posts before hitting publish now you know. It’s finish and publish. Literally.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

So my advice to many is to study online companies that understand how to use technology for audience development, engagement, viral distribution and subscriptions. This is simply no different than curating on Pinterest, Tweeting interesting stories, editing on Wikipedia or blogging. Usually I tell them to study Upworthy & Buzzfeed.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

While there is no “one size fits all” I used to give the advice that you should plan about 4.5 So whenever people ask me for advice I normally start by asking: How much time have you put into this company already? Again, my best advice is to talk with your VCs openly or at least the ones you trust the most to be open.

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MAY 4, 2013

I thought a lot about the original title (by the way, I often change titles after re-reading, editing and reflecting on the post) and I felt it was too hostile towards investment bankers, for whom I have no animus and I have many friends who are in the biz. Advice to VCs Startup Advice'

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Unlike the intro Google spreadsheet for introductions, this isn’t something they’ll edit so don’t make them log in to get it. Get in the habit of calling board members frequents for quick updates or to ask for quick advice. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

No editing. I used to edit more. On vacation I helped with a fund raising deck, I helped by taking recruiting calls, I gave advice to a CEO who was planning a fund-raising trip, I worked on a 409a valuation issue that cropped up at one company and I reviewed an M&A transaction at another. So – no time to edit this.

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Steve Reich

JUNE 26, 2012

YouTube was offering specific advice and active assistance on everything from program development to search visibility and social media. They also released the second edition of the YouTube Creator Playbook , their partner manual.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I happened to have some cheap editing software on my computer, and I just took my digital camera and ran with it. My advice, is probably just to be yourself as much as possible. Adorian Deck: I started making Youtube videos in 2006, when I was thirteen years old. I had started watching SMOSH, and though it was really cool.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

My family had the very first edition of the IBM XT computer with a 10 MB hard drive. My advice to people thinking about getting an MBA is to think about the five C’s. Colleagues – For young people who ask me for advice on whether to get an MBA this is the ‘C’ that I emphasize the most. What you gain: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2010

I do this because if I had to edit everything perfectly I’d produce about 50% of the posts that I do. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. What happens when I write blog posts is that I type really quickly what is in my brain and hit send with very little revision.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. So they go out of their way to offer advice and introductions.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

We make it impossible for an officer to edit, delete, alter, copy, or upload any video. Once it’s on your phone, you can edit it directly there or send it to your computer via Wi-Fi. What advice would you give to other startups? We do have a cloud system right now, but it’s done with the software. The camera has a flash drive.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Instead of BS’ing me he said, “we spent 18 months building out our product and a set of graphic editing tools when we realized we had developed in the wrong platform. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice. But they didn’t have any revenue or enough traction to show for it. The rules above don’t apply.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Here is my answer with some minor editing: _. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. Funnily enough I just answered this question yesterday on Quora when somebody asked, “Why would an early-stage investor specifically NOT prefer a convertible note structure to straight equity (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. Or “I’m a new entrepreneur, why would I offer advice on how to run a startup?&#. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

For example, Richard Parris, Managing Editor here at Tech.co, has to avoid listening to anything with lyrics when he's either writing or editing copy: “My mind just can't focus on the words in front of me while it's also processing the lyrics playing along in the background. to provide free advice and reviews for our readers.

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