Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2022

In my experience as a business advisor and angel investor these days, I seem to more frequently hear from entrepreneurs and business owners with “can’t-fail” or “get-rich-quick” ideas. including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. Immigrants know to be grateful for what they have now.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. How Quigo Went Head-to-Head With Google. Quigo was competing heavily and heatedly with Google.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2019

In my experience as a business advisor and angel investor these days, I seem to more frequently hear from entrepreneurs and business owners with “can’t-fail” or “get-rich-quick” ideas. including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. Immigrants know to be grateful for what they have now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2017

In my experience as a business advisor and angel investor these days, I seem to more frequently hear from entrepreneurs and business owners with “can’t-fail” or “get-rich-quick” ideas. including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. Immigrants know to be grateful for what they have now.

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Startup Entrepreneur Google Invest 59

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Jon Ferrara: The idea behind Nimble, is that our contacts and how we communicate with them are now scattered all over the place. Instead, they are using Outlook's address book, and Google contacts to communicate. The thing is, today, if you use Google, you have contacts, calendar, and email. What is Nimble is working on?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I’m grateful they have all spoken up. I am grateful for Mauricio Mota who with his wife is spending the election in Nevada helping drive voters to the polls. When I got married I chose a woman who had bested me academically (Brown then Wharton) and went to work in great jobs at Google, Sky and Virgin Mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I’m always grateful when people point them out. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. So hot that even Google is getting in on the act. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. 4.75mm in Series A.

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