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Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. He haggled with me. Subscribe to the Gust Blog. Enter your email address to subscribe to the Gust Blog. Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Subscribe by email. Invested Interests. WassUp 1.8.3

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Mark Suster’s “Never Negotiate Piecemeal”

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Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. He haggled with me. Nothing tells a truth better than a good story. Especially when it’s true. Read Mark Suster’s Never Negotiate Piecemeal. ” He summarizes: As unpleasant as people find the thought of it – life is a negotiation.

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Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

He haggled with me. ” Stuart is the main guy who persuaded me to start blogging some of the lessons we learned together. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue. I saw where he was coming from and from our side why our ask was what it was. I talked too much.

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Content Moderation and Free Speech

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Mike Masnick wrote a good piece on this topic on his Techdirt blog last week. But once you’ve admitted that it’s okay to filter spam, you’ve already admitted that content moderation is okay — you’re just haggling over how much and where to draw the lines. Even this tiny website gets thousands of spam comments a day. I would hope not.