Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity. Every entrepreneur starts with an idea that they believe makes sense. Geni.com beget Yammer. So much so that you’re financial model 2 years out won’t resemble your starting model at all. I then covered Street Smarts.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

When seeking the perfect pitch, in baseball and in the startup world, less is a lot more. Following this logic, startups that lack a compelling positioning claim might experience fewer opportunities to deliver their elevator pitch and thus have greater difficulty obtaining funding. Yammer for Education) & explanatory (e.g.,

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Product Yammer Technical Review Google 208

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

Mike Stern (wasn’t sure which one so leave a comment if it’s you): Q: “is it possible to sell your startup without venture investment if the company has big traction and a large user base?&# But most importantly I lectured founders that you can’t avoid the admin of setting up your ESOP. Do it early.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

The evening cocktail party was an 80’s theme and lived up to the traditional Twiistup fame with an open bar, elaborate costumes, Hollywood lighting and poker games until 4 in the morning. The tone of the panel was set by David’s announcement that he was relocating to Silicon Valley (and dragging Geni & Yammer with him).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. But then Marc Andreessen weighed in – as did I and several others – and the media picked up on his comments.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. File sharing?

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I was skeptical and had a lot of issues with giving up control of my inbox, but I’m hooked now. Note: the tilda “~” is there so that when sorted alphabetically, these folders always show up at the top. Start every to do with an “action” word (hence the name, read their best practices) . It works amazing well. Tips: Trust it.

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Tool Tips Yammer Organization 112

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

He also gave us some of his thoughts on why the "Paypal Mafia"--former PayPal employees--have gotten so much success from their startups. My cofounder and I know how hard it is to get a company up and running, and funded, to keep your investors in the loop. So how'd you end up here in Southern California?

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Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

It helps it cients close deals faster, exchange files securely, and manage more deals at any given time making it “the go-to place for setting up and closing deals” according to The Wall Street Journal and making it among the “5 Back-Office Tech Innovations” as listed by Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million in a new round of financing from Peter Thiel, FF Angel , Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups , Andrej Henkler (former Bertelsmann executive), and Alexsis de Raadt-St. million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Jon Ferrara: What struck me, as I started to swim in the social river, is that there is an immense power in those applications to help businesses, to leverage the power of social for individuals and teams to use it as a way to communicate, to create a channel to build better business relationships. Everything is in one place.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

.” I get asked many PR questions which is why I started this stream of posts on PR at Startups. I’m not advocating that you shouldn’t present at tech startup events like Launch, TechCrunch 50, DEMO or similar. These are tech launch events designed to see new startups unveiled. Exec Summary. The Details.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. Too many startup execs place too much emphasis on the big stage launch. If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. It started socially.

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

If you’re a startup and you haven’t read my summary of Clay Christensen’s seminal work please do. In the simplest form, new startups have a product that is INFERIOR to that offered by the competition but at a dramatically lower price with the seller opting for a very thin margin on their product. Why Deflationary Business Win.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack.

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