Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

It’s what makes Google, Google and Facebook, Facebook. new features need to go into the sale people’s slides so that they know the latest and greatest about how to differentiate from the competition. I don’t believe it. Either your core is innately technical or it’s not.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Many have now gone on to other successful ventures such as Slide (bought by Google for $182 million), LinkedIn (founded by Reid, investing in by Keith), Founder’s Fund (established by Peter and very early investor Facebook) and Dave who is a consummate Silicon Valley insider and sought out by many founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Competitor: Slide. InviteMedia (acquired by Google). Google acquisition helps address advertiser demand for a bidding platform that integrates with DoubleClick and plans to allow InviteMedia to remain platform agnostic (not just Google/DoubleClick).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

On the personal side, these items can kill your career, as I discussed in the classic article “ Google Yourself to See How Other People See You.” On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget. Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" We sliced our Google Analytics data every which way, and these 4 patterns emerged." Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone. Google makes billions of dollars in annual profits, but generates many times that in productivity gains for other people.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you look at some high-profile tech companies funded in the last big VC cycle you had eBay, Amazon, Salesforce & Google each go public having raised < $100 million in VC TOTAL prior to IPO and their last private-market valuation were all sub $400 million. Here are some simple slides that outline the point: a.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2019

Initially that means a creative, collaborative toolset for visual communications, allowing users to develop really compelling slides, print materials or social media posts that are more visually compelling and easier-to-build for those who aren’t naturally gifted as visual story tellers. We know that apps are fully moving to the cloud.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

You want that key marketing resource from Google but he’s on a fat salary that you can’t match. Often entrepreneurs show me their management team slides with the names of the people who are going to join him once they’re funded. Inspiration/ Leadership – As an entrepreneur you’re always under-resourced.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I have a few slides later that address that.&# (obviously if you say that you need to come back to the question either later or after the meeting. If it’s OK with you I’d love to answer it in just a couple of minutes after the next few slides. Do you mind if I answer that a little later in the presentation?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

It also allows you to share on Google+, Facebook or text message in the app, as well as to Twitter and email. To make soup taste better, Google added that its working on an optimized version of the YouTube app for iPad to be launched in a few months. In Quarter 2 of 2012, Google ad revenues were $10.96 Social Videos.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. How much power does Google have due to search? I cranked out 20+ slides based on this pre-existing metaphor of media in my head. I was given less than 12 hours to prepare.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Press coverage helps you to recruit team members, it helps add legitimacy to your customers who often do Google searches on you before buying and it helps influence biz dev (partners), corp dev (acquirers) and investors. Put up your slide with the 5-6 logos of journals that have covered you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. My first series was the slides that go into a PowerPoint presentation. Since there are 10-12 slides this gave me my first few weeks. Then you can install Google Analytics to your website.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Google turned YouTube into one of the most valuable future Internet properties. The Past (1985-2002).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. You should, too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2013

On the personal side, these items can kill your career, as I discussed in an old article “ Google Yourself to See How Other People See You.” On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. Don’t fall for that false line of reasoning that there are large markets with big white space.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

The second major trend was the rise of the angel that was a function of the boom in Silicon Valley wealth (Google, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Salesforce.com, etc) plus the rise of crowd-funding platforms (AngelList) plus the rise of Y Combinator / 500Startups / TechStars. Rise of Angels. Boom in Number of Startups.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Along the way, Khosla has invested in a range of startup companies—including several tackling radiology, cardiology, and mental health (see slide and list at bottom)—that are. It’s been quite a ride since then. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2015

On the personal side, these items can kill your career, as I discussed in an old article “ Google Yourself to See How Other People See You.” On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Like anything for the first generation or two of a Google product, you are basically paying them to be a beta tester. If you have used Google Glass, the watch has a pretty similar card type system. There is a third-party app that has a drawer, just like Android, that you can slide out from the left side of the main watch screen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2011

On the personal side, these items can kill your career, as I discussed in a prior article “ Google Yourself to See How Other People See You.” On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. Neither became Google but I figured I had learned quite a bit about taking a company from cradle to grave. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe. Yet everywhere I went I was now “strategy guy.” Not operational.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2012

On the personal side, these items can kill your career, as I discussed in an old article “ Google Yourself to See How Other People See You.” On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget. Marty Zwilling.

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Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 85

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2017

On the personal side, these items can kill your career, as I discussed in an old article “ Google Yourself to See How Other People See You.” On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Roam & Wander won me over as soon in the same way that the packed room of investors uttered a unanimous ‘aww’ during their slide deck presentation. through organic interactions from the community. SoundBetter serves as the world’s leading marketplace for sound and music engineers.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 1, 2016

If you’ve got half of your round committed from Google Ventures, say so. Forget Your Slides. Have your slides there, reference the key points as needed, but keep the focus on each other — not a slideshow. If you’ve been getting 25% week-over-week growth, lead with that stat. Get all the great points out first and fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

They cite Quara, Google, Twitter & Facebook as obvious examples. Besides, why call when you can use Google, or send a Twitter message?” Google doesn’t seem to ever take calls from ME when I have a complaint! Google, Facebook & Twitter all provide free services to end users and we eat them up.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million. Dan also agrees with this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. What truth?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The money slide is the graphic below. The one big concern many people had was how to constrain the total dominance of Google. Every startup (every company, really) was beholden to the traffic god that was Google search. Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

Google was n-o-t-h-i-n-g! Yes, even Google has to make these tough decisions about where to allocate staff and money. person I’ve ever spoken to on the subject. &# We had such a great company. In the early days it was such a great company to work for. Everybody returned our calls. We were innovating. We were the game in town.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was like nobody would give me any respect and they just saw me as the guy who goes and talks to senior people who does PowerPoint slides. Then suddenly I was a PowerPoint weenie. So when I left Andersen I did a startup…. [00:12:57] 00:12:57] DEREK: This was in Europe? You stayed there? [00:12:59] But here’s the weird thing.

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

But if you want to level things up, you can use a platform like OptinMonster to create popup forms, sliding forms, floating bars, and sidebars. Normally, one would use analytics tools such as Google Analytics to obtain raw data on how a site performs. Everything can be done via the drag-and-drop interface.

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