Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. I will soon announce a few fundings (not yet closed, sorry) and I’m beginning to help them think about how to ramp up their engineering teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Having read his latest op-ed on email I know why I erred towards the side of of not loving his book as much as some did. Apparently he’s an “organizational psychologist professor and thinks that it’s rude not to answer email. I also surmise that perhaps organizational psychologists don’t get as much unsolicited emails as some of us do.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

I see it on email even more. And sometimes I feel happy to help somebody even when we’re just getting to know each other. ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice. It feels much better to be helpful than to be indebted.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

Don’t email him unless you have to. Most startup execs are barraged with hundreds of emails and they spend hours trying to reach the elusive Zero Inbox nirvana. Emailing – even when well intentioned – just adds to this to-do list. Help encourage him not to. Hope that helps. Also, pro tip.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2013

This shows itself when people try to do an elevator pitch, send concise, actionable emails or have a quick phone call with you to ask for help. . How Can I Help? One of the more rewarding parts of my job is being able to help other people. How can I best help you?” ” It’s what we want.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 24, 2014

I’ve been promising to relaunch a new show for the past 18 months but needed to find somebody to help me with cameras, filming, editing, distribution, etc. Luckily the supremely talented Kyle Taylor joined Upfront Ventures and has helped kick me in the arse to get the show going again. Follow @BothsidesTV.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

The next logical piece of work is therefore to help your prospect quantify the problem so they can attribute economic value to your solution and help you complete your sale. It’s true that some solutions are really hard to quantify and the most obvious example people point to is email. Maybe they don’t? Maybe they don’t?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

So I recommend a high-level “state of the company” email a couple of times a year but a message that you assume might get shown to others. Simple enough – we like allowing small investors into rounds because they often bring additional relationships to a company that can be helpful.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

The truth is the process isn’t over until after the employee starts with the company, updates her LinkedIn profile and emails all her friends. Here’s specifically what happens: The employee gives you a verbal commitment, an email accept or in some cases even a signed offer letter. In fact, it’s worse than that.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based email software developer SaneBox , which develops artificial intelligence software that helps people prioritize and sort their emails, is now available on the cloud marketplace run by technology distributor Ingram Micro. The company says its tools work with any email provider, client, or device.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

Sometimes you can be the coach, helping them even if it means losing them. We cannot legally stand in the way of an employee resigning to pursue a dream, but we can leave a bad taste with that person and chip away at our corporate culture by not cooperating or even helping the employee move on. An email to preserve and show.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Leveraging LLMs to help users fill in text, whether it’s by providing starter content, samples, or highly personalized tips, makes their lives easier. Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge. Either way, it’s a huge improvement over starting from scratch.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 26, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] The answer coming from the best of breed in corporate personnel management is to form a trusted bond with each employee, helping that person to manage their career within and even preparing to follow our company experience. Can there be a trusted bond between employee-employer?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2017

I put on an out-of-office notice (see below) and received some of the nicest emails and text messages including from my good friend Michael Broukhim who ensures me that he and his brother Danny still vacation with their parents and Mike & Danny are both in their 30s! When I get back I don’t plan to spend 50 hours processing old emails.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

Most board members don’t have the intention of checking email, reading the news or sending a quick text message but just like most smokers don’t want to pull out a cigarette?—?the the modern executive can’t help himself or herself. They all bring laptops and they all spend much of the time in the board meeting doing other email.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

He is now involved with an acceleraotor called Brandery in Cincinnati who focuses on helping local startups get off the ground and figure out how to get access to the huge brand dollars unlocked by working with big ad agencies and with brands directly. And as I was out of town it was a great chance to attempt to get caught up on email.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

I always try my best to take meetings like this since my friend had clearly committed some political capital to his friend in saying he could help him get a meeting. I wrote him the following email. In this case it warrants a personal email (or better yet a phone call) from you and a Herculean effort to reschedule the meeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

It’s human nature to try and be helpful to others. In many instances this help is genuine, well-meaning and productive. Most of us like to help create connections between people for whom an introduction, we believe, would be mutually beneficial. It starts seemingly innocent enough.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2020

According to an email to current customers of Hollar--known for its "dollar store" style, grab bag of products--Hollar will "soon become Five Below" and continue to offer up its $1 to $5 products, and occasional products of up to $10. Financial details of that deal were not disclosed by either of the companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

You can ask them to come and watch your videos at your owned & operated websites (O&O) where you can make higher margins as well as ask directly for more meaningful customer information such as Facebook connections, Twitter oAuths, email addresses and the like. This helps get CPM rates higher – even within YouTube.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Customers feel better about a company always showing its innovation with new products and ideas to help increase customer revenues, decrease costs or better serve their customers. Email readers, continue here…] Employees love progress and excitement when involved in something refreshing and new.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

ClearTerra's technology helps extract unstructured data from emails, briefings, and reports, and automatically extracts geographic coordinates from that information. Redland-based GIS software giant Esri announced on Friday morning that it has acquired ClearTerra , a developer of data extraction technology, from ClearShark, LLC.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2017

Let’s stress test that vision and sharpen it further to help insure your success. First, if your vision is limited and you will be happy with a successful local dry cleaning enterprise or small restaurant around the corner, you are not the target for this effort to help entrepreneurs build great businesses that change the world.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] In later insights, we will explore the legal and ethical responsibilities of board members. But the intent of these “forced” placements of a representative on the board is obviously to watch over the company’s use of invested funds and to help grow the company in value.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. What I’m saying is that you can’t spend all of your time in email working your inbox. ” What do I mean? It’s inbound.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

You send them update emails. Help them write other stories. If you wait until you need to fill somebody in a roll you’re losing valuable time as an entrepreneur. You should always have a steady stream of “friend of the firm&# hanging around your company. You invite them to cocktail parties. 50 coffee meetings.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Especially if they have sold their companies and live comfortably upon the proceeds, these people are often the most willing to help and the most patient through the process. Email readers, continue here…] How do you pay a coach? His average percentage of a company was 5% in return for spending a day a week as I recall.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2013

You helped so many figure out how to approach angels. You were so excited when you got to help me. Please don’t email David Hornik. And I know that you enjoyed helping other people and returning favors more than you enjoyed looking after yourself. You spent so much time with first-time startups from Launchpad LA.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Who’s helping you with fundraising? Will you validate new members’ email addresses and/or phone numbers? Tell me about the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2018

Note: If you enjoy my posts please subscribe to my newsletter by adding your email below. She had emailed with a partner at a big VC fund and he had passed the request to a junior associate. Of course if they did some initial work and were leaning in to make an investment then we’d spend time helping them. Want to read more?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

. ” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. But I still believe Sean Ellis was right. Well, you have to do that, too.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“The only success criteria of my startup career is whether GrubMarket can eventually make $100 billion of annual sales,” he said to me over both email and in a phone conversation. ” I don’t doubt that he means it. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Do you find yourself too much in email mode? I regularly shut down my email so that I don’t get pop-up alerts when I’m working. They often need teams of people to help them Plan how to turn their ideas into realities. Even if you have to ask for help from others to turn the Think into Do.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

The 3rd-party tries to sell your software – they just need your help with tech assistance to close the deal. Sorry if you received an email with a draft version of this post. .” It never does. That channel deal that you thought would take no times ends up burning scarce calories. The best teams are hyper focused.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. I’m sure that some VCs and others do love online viewers when they read a deck.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

And yet, such relationships properly used and never overused, can quickly and precisely help a CEO cut through delays in government agencies, speed the process of product planning and ultimate release, aid in positioning in the market and help the CEO avoid a myriad of mistakes that could prove costly in time and money.

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