Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

I have written about the topic of sitting on panels before. Educate – Your primary role on stage is to educate the audience. Make sure you really try to get inside the minds of the audience so you speak about what you believe they will think is relevant. So it’s fresh on my mind.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

We caught up with CEO Ian Miller to learn about the company and its NoSQL database, and its roots here in applications built for companies like Yahoo and CBS. I was running the Far East for Sequent, then IBM bought them and moved them to the States. All of the companies I''ve been involved with have been about scale and performance.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

First, let me preface by saying that I’m not being compensated in any way by the company I’m about to talk about. Now, about a year later, he’s back. She’s an educator, an author and the founder of Kidzmet. She needed to chat about her business. About my company: [link]. Parenting'

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Diversity on all levels, be it ideas, education, background, gender, ethnicity or otherwise, is critical to our growth. Our customers are some of the world's largest, most diverse organizations on the planet, such as IBM, HP and Dell. Thus, it's hardly surprising that in 2010, women earned only 18% of all computer science degrees.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

“[It] is super competitive and great for companies looking to not only gain exposure but to learn from and see the breath of other startups and founders in the space,” said Darlene Gillard, Director of Community and Partner of digitalundivided, about the Startup of the Year competition. Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

We caught up with co-founder Dave Terry , who co-founded Chrome River with Alan Rich, to learn more about how the company has build one of the fastest growing enterprise software makers in the area, why the company raised such a big round, and why the company is seeing a big opportunity in its market. Dave Terry: We've been very fortune.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. And I care more about the debate than trying to be popular. I then really quickly race through looking for some minimum qualifications such as companies for which they worked, education, grades, etc. I’m sure of that.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Go Go Mongo, steps into that realm and has helped children learn about healthy eating. Go Go Mongo would grow it’s way into the Top 25 Educational Apps on the iTunes store. The team started receiving thank-you’s from mom bloggers raving about the app being such a great healthy eating app.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We then spoke about startups. What I’ve learned about Sequoia is that when you’re straightforward about the facts they just try to help. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Nothing but value add. They look at data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

Narrow the scope more realistically to people with specific age, income, and education demographics, that you can realistically reach with your marketing plan. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you probably don’t have a business. Keep your value chain consistent.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

Narrow the scope more realistically to people with specific age, income, and education demographics, that you can realistically reach with your marketing plan. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you probably don’t have a business. Keep your value chain consistent.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Luckily Harold Jarche pointed us to other discussion on open source models. in Computer Science.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2011

It can take 18 months from initial concern about a critical employee to getting a replacement up to speed. Perhaps this is a good time to speak about senior managers that are well-entrenched in the organization but are underperformers because the organization has passed their ability or span of control. Email readers continue here.]

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2018

We have special prices for those at startups and non-profit or government organizations—so ask us about those as. For an invitation, visit our event site, or e-mail us at napa18@xconomy.com with your name, job title, company, and link to your bio. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I’m often asked the question about why there aren’t more women who are entrepreneurs. I would love to see Tara follow up with blog posts on: why she believes this is the case & what we can do about it. The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Just about nothing, one or two courses— Ed Roberts had one—on entrepreneurship. And I was very disappointed because, with the exception of one or two courses, the Sloan School was primarily oriented to Fortune 500 companies and to Wall Street—finance theory, that sort of thing.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

End users don’t care about the technical details anyway, so there has been some interesting work on standards for social activity streams and activity stream aggregation. The problem is that there are too many streams to interact with these days and they are too distributed to perceive and interact with directly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Meeting people and talking about your ideas won’t get you very far. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Their goal is to gain career-critical experience while satisfying the predisposition to “create” in a small-team environment – something they can’t obtain interning for IBM or General Motors. An intern at a startup learns more about running a business than they’ll ever learn in a classroom or from a cubicle in a huge corporate department.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Meeting people and talking about your ideas won’t get you very far. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Meeting people and talking about your ideas won’t get you very far. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Meeting people and talking about your ideas won’t get you very far. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change.

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