Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. The chosen candidate will probably have worked for a very reputable firm that is either in technology, consulting, investment banking, media or a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

When you’re an early-stage business every dollar matters and because many startup teams these days are very product & technology centric they often miscalculate the importance of PR. Enterprise Sales – The very first thing a potential customer does when you email or call to set up a meeting is Google you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. Want to take a year pursuing your dream to write a screenplay, travel through Asia, run a triathlon or start your own fashion line?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 4, 2009

msuster for me) the message you write appears in my @msuster inbox on Twitter.com and on any of the desktop or mobile clients. If you truly want it to be private stick to DM or email (or better yet … telephone!). Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. The basics: 1. When you use the @username (e.g.

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Tips Social Media Social Network Venture Capital 291

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them. Capture the data – the currency of online direct marketing prior to Twitter was the email address. So why is this important for businesses?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2013

Many first-time entrepreneurs have grown up digital natives so have a really good intuitive feel for technology & design but don’t yet have the business basics down. . 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. .

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

You should send “update emails&# that are very short but highlight some of the achievements you made with the intro saying, “since you showed interest in my company I just wanted to provide you a brief update on our progress.&# And I know many stories of Benchmark or similar investors writing term sheets after the first meeting.

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Venture Capital Guide Startup Technical Review 309

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

You need to be great at something: technology back-end, front-end design, usability, sales, marketing, quantitative analysis, leadership –> whatever. But if you’re not uber talented there is always a “Justin Bieber of technology&# waiting to kick your ass. To be a great entrepreneur you really do need talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Our submission technology is what powers Scripped.com, who you interviewed earlier. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. What kind of writing and writers are you targeting? We thought--why isn't there something like this exist?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. It’s true that some solutions are really hard to quantify and the most obvious example people point to is email. You can’t quantify the value of email yet everybody needs it!”. Maybe they don’t?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

He wanted to know what I thought of his technology deal. My email back to him was a version of. I got an email recently from a VC who had invested in a company a small amount in a seed round. I’ve seen you write a $10 million check before. Get out your inner Larry David scrutiny. He was calling me about the A round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2016

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

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Writing Summary Email Ideas 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2023

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

Tips 123

Tips Writing Startup Summary 123

Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

I am chairman of a company that, as I write this, is twelve years old and has not yet taken a dollar of outside investment. email readers, continue here.] In general, grants are made to individuals, companies, businesses, organizations or institutions that are working toward serving the greater good or a greater cause.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 3, 2018

The company’s technology works as a middleware including an SDK and a contract notification and monitoring service. 24 hrs) and users receive a text/email notification regarding the execution,” Wan wrote to me an email. “After all, a $5 bar bet would be resolved differently from a $5M enterprise dispute.

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Software Review Outsource Development Services Technical Review 159

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

But from a value perspective, it really comes down to the numbers I showed for my eLearning Technology blog. Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. But how can you invest in technology unless you’re going to use the tools and understand them? In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. Stay young.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Brad on blogging.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 289

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I’m a pretty natural public speaker so I can write my presentation the day before and do just fine. I wrote out 3 pages of bullet point notes on paper and delivered a 20-minute speech to a crowd of entrepreneurs (which included the Minister of Technology for China). We rise to the occasion as it stirs our creative juices.

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Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I’ve always believed that you learn a great deal when you’re presenting, teaching or writing about what you know. Part of the reason I always found presenting to people so compelling is that it forced me to put into writing (a PowerPoint deck) what I thought I knew about a topic. It’s just my writing style.

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Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

Berkonomics

JULY 3, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] This moment is not to be spoiled by such mundane warnings from advisors or consultants to plan carefully, research the market and competition, and execute the plan with tenacity and enthusiasm. Do you ignore the warnings of experts? Relish the experience of creation.

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Startup Hollywood Writing Press 156

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. after all you aren’t presenting this at TED. What should be in your deck?

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Funding Venture Capital IP Email 239

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2020

These grants include funding to educational institutions, researchers, research centers, colleges and universities, or private companies that are researching or developing leading edge solutions in several categories including agriculture, education, energy, health, medical, space, science and technology to name a few.

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Equity Writing Education Research 156

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing. Second – don’t send unsolicited emails to VCs.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2011

By Bob La Loggia, CEO StormSource Technology is like a banana. Just like technology, a banana has very distinct phases. Eating a green banana is like introducing a technology for which people aren’t ready. Either the customer isn’t ready or the technology isn’t ready or the market isn’t ready. The anguish is unbearable.

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Technology Startup Web Customer 94

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own.

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Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

As Clay Christensen aptly points out in The Innovator’s Dilemma, a large company’s defense of its legacy clouds its ability to appropriately assess the potential impact of disruptive technologies. Bill Gates – “The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written.

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Tips Startup Education Entrepreneur 279

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Email readers, continue here.] This moment is to celebrate every action, including shopping for supplies, furniture and technology to support the newly minted enterprise. Because it is yours to write alone, there is no Hollywood script more thrilling than the one you create during those first days when everything is so very new.

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Press Hollywood Writing Startup 149

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

What's you believe is your biggest technology risk, if any? You will get a response via email to schedule a time to talk. Do I have to write up the overview? What's the business model short-term and long-term? Who are the main competitors? How are you different? What are related products/companies? Who might be partners?

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 264

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. Talk us through how the person using your product is benefiting through your technology. Don’t write sentences on the – only key words to help you remember what you’re going to say. But make them sparse and make the B-I-G!

Startup 362

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

What's you believe is your biggest technology risk, if any? You will get a response via email to schedule a time to talk. Do I have to write up the overview? What's the business model short-term and long-term? Who are the main competitors? How are you different? What are related products/companies? Who might be partners?

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. He sent me a few nice emails. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks. Jordan Hudson.

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