Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Without DogVacay my Thanksgiving would have been ruined. Every year my family meets in San Diego for Thanksgiving. My 3 siblings & I make the trek to spend 4-5 days with the 9 grand children, my mom, my cousin and few other very close family members. My Experience. That’s a fact. The Background.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Floodgate exists to invest in prime movers - entrepreneurs who build movements that become category defining companies - before the rest of the world believes in them. Does this investor’s expectations match what I want for this company, and for my life? Favorite business book, blog, podcast? I love teaching.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I recently survived Hurricane Irma as she unleashed all the fury of a Category 5 storm on South Florida. Despite the mandatory evacuation order, I chose to stay through the storm, riding it out on the 9th floor of my Miami condominium building. I made it through better off than many of my fellow Floridians. By around 11 p.m.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It has become part of modern life. I have taken to limiting my outbound email. My equivant to Andrew’s Tweet has been saying for years, “I’ve realized that email is like spaghetti, the more you process the more you seem to have remaining.” My last one went out past midnight. ” Brilliant!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 17, 2018

At the time my doctor was telling me this, I was carrying the considerable stress of an entrepreneur and lawyer and logging serious (and strenuous) mileage on my bike. My doctor’s admonition settled on my heavy heart. I felt in fight-or-flight mode much of my day. I felt my body and brain struggling in a fog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. For investors life is no different. We are experiencing a frenetic time. What is one to do?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I have much on my mind since I just returned from a week on the road. I had to miss a full day with my family, camping in the mountains. I returned home Friday night at 10pm – too late to see my kids. I returned home Friday night at 10pm – too late to see my kids. It’s 4.50am. Sunday morning.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Hate every journaling app?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2016

When I had to close my B2B marketing and branding agency in September of 2014, that feeling of optimism shifted toward scarcity and desperation. When I had to close my B2B marketing and branding agency in September of 2014, that feeling of optimism shifted toward scarcity and desperation. That was the point of the exercise.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Those in the latter category tend to become disruptors, known in today’s vernacular as inventors, influencers or entrepreneurs. However, joining the ranks of disruptors doesn’t mean a life of pure adventure and excitement—it also means stress. Fortunately, my wife was graduating from law school.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At that point, downtime wasn’t an option, but my inability to “switch off” began to beget consequences, starting with tiredness and escalating to mood swings, irritability and exhaustion. I cancelled my plans for the following weekend and dedicated it to getting my life back. Something had to change. I fired both clients.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

I've spent a lot of time reading and developing style guides, and this article will tell you everything you need to know about building a content style guide, from what it is, to whether your company truly needs it, to how to put one together. What is a style guide? A brand style guide contains a design style guide and a content style guide.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. Here’s how I break down the four quadrants (and I’ve put my definitions in here – not Covey’s). I have my “hacks&# for delivering outputs that are meaningful while managing the daily life more chaotically than you might imagine.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. What stage?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

I used to love blogging. I love sitting down – often in “one take” like a classic film – and capturing what was on my mind at the moment. What I loved about it was that my thoughts were instantly in the ether, I would get quick feedback from readers and I would know where my ideas stood in the world of ideas.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2021

He’s also the cohost of the Access To Anyone podcast, exploring how you can get to know anyone you want to in business and in life using everything from the latest technology to the most time tested principles (including the Art of the Ask). This is why it’s important to have translators in your life even if you are a great one.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. What stage?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Shane Sams: Shane Sams, I’m the host of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast and the Shane Sams Show, which is a tongue twister and I did it on purpose just to make my team mad. Shane shares the story of him and his wife in how they started monetizing their knowledge and how you can too. Many new business owners are struggling.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My 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. .” “….I

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has changed life as we know it, as well as how we manage our households. As the founder of a 20-person startup in the medical devices industry, she was used to a routine and thrived by keeping her work life separate from her personal life. Know and face this new abnormal.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2024

Srijita Ghosh Represented East Central University in 2017 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup 2 nd place in Small Business category and Pitch Competition winner Currently Venture Advisor at i2E Please provide a few details on your winning Entrepreneur’s Cup business idea. The second lesson was understanding the commercialization process.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

Whatever you’re working on now, the half-life of innovation is so rapid now that your product will soon be out-of-date. I wrote an entire blog post about this in the past highlighting my belief that you should hire people who “punch above their weight class.” We know the mantra: Team matters. Is this philosophy exaggerated?

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2020

Together, they develop strategies and make presentations around the world with the intention of finding high-quality ventures that participate in the different categories of the award. The other was Ayumi Matsuzaka who founded DYCLE , a project that re-invents a baby diaper’s life-cycle. The connective power of the network .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I would mostly lump me in that category. I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo.

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OkDork

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A few days ago, my friend Neville wrote a tweet about how I “split tested” my way to the color of the cover for Million Dollar Weekend. Early renditions of the cover By the time my publishers sent me 50 book covers to review, I had already spent years writing and rewriting the contents of the book. Last lap matters most.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. I know that people have an allergy to lawyers out of fear of being screwed.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

In all the podcasts I listened to and blogs I read, there was a consistent refrain: "You need to set aside time to think big." Get the Zapier blog in your inbox Subscribe So, I crowdsourced the answers. Last July, I launched a business. It was a big decision (and risk!), so I wanted to be as prepared as I possibly could.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. You can imagine my reluctance to read a book with a title full of such bluster. My 2 biggest positives: 1. The Deferred Life (DL) Plan - This point alone makes the book worth reading. Can’t hurt.&#.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 13, 2016

When it comes to my entrepreneurial journey, I compare it to running my first triathlon. To my surprise, I had finished sixth in my age category. Throughout my entrepreneurial journey, I had several “a-ha” moments and quite a few failures, each one honing my focus. By Shelley Rogers, EO Brisbane.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. My bold statement is that there has never been a better time for Creators by that objective function. I judge the health of the creator economy by one single controversial factor: ease of access and probability of survival for its participants. A singer who wants to sing.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Use automation to share, engage, and cross-post without lifting a finger Learn how I researched and tested every AI tool for social media management that I could get my hands on, and I found a lot of useful options. Based on all that testing, here are my picks for the best AI-powered social media management apps. Quite the opposite.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Even when it was just me and my co-host making it happen, I can remember the stress of trying to keep all those balls in the air. A bit about the podcast team Bettermental is the third version of a podcast I began working on with my former client, now friend and business partner, Mike, in 2017. Here's how we did it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Acquiring early customers fall in the same category: Why should they trust you over a larger, more established competitor? The head banner for the Coca-Cola website tells the story — this isn’t about a tasty drink, this is about happy people enjoying life. They’re adventurous, young, full of life and enjoyment.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

While it didn't single-handedly get me through my college degrees, it helped me get better grades with less effort. I'm just seven minutes into my current work block, but I know I only have to wait 18 more minutes until my next cup of coffee. After that, you take a 15- to 30-minute break, depending on how you feel.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Quality of life improvements. A great user experience.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Whether or not you realize it, you probably use mnemonics in your daily life to help you retain and recall information. Music mnemonics My partner knows all the words to House of Pain's Jump Around —yet he can't remember what I asked him to pick up from the grocery store an hour ago. How does memory retrieval work?

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