Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

If you want to watch the show click the image above or this link , but if you want a quick read – here’s a summary: 1. People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! So BuildOnline kept the employees on their books and they did subcontracting work for our company, Koral.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. Here’s why: 1. Once my company got to more than 100 employees I felt like I became “chief psychologist.&# That was fine but I prefer the earlier days. Here’s what VCs don’t get fulfilled now: 1.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. I host on Hostforweb **.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The price of property has an inherent value tied to two factors: 1) the rental rate you could charge for your property and 2) annual salaries in a given geography. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. The fundamentals are different now!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work. What you gain: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. It was cheaper, sure, but post Sept 11th our employees didn’t want to spend weeks at a time there (rightly or wrongly). Gus has been amazing.

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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 ). Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. Here’s where I feel common ground : 1. Here is where I do not agree: 1. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. Perhaps it shouldn’t.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. I host on Hostforweb **.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. I always say that it takes 18 months to un-train a big company employee from their bad habits when they join a startup. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

We set our sites on our IPO price and then worked back to our current valuation and showed potential employees what we thought they could earn (with all legal caveats) if the company was successful. If Ventro was worth $8 billion on $2 million of sales surely a paltry $1 billion would suffice. I think they believed it, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2010

You actually need to give advice to nearly every employee whom you offer a job to on how to best quit their job. This is important to improve conversion rates of accepted offers / joiners, shorten the time-to-join ratio and the improve the ability of that employee to maintaing good relations with their former employer. Don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

My 2 biggest positives: 1. The concept is that in the “information era&# the overwhelming majority of employees in the world have meaningless jobs pushing papers from one side of their desk to the other side from 9am to 5pm and really don’t have much of an impact on anything. My 2 biggest negatives about the book: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog post appealing to the industry to make these simplified term sheets standard. Last to weigh in was Brad Feld whose blog post argues that the only 2 terms that should be negotiated are amount raised & valuation. The best series was done by Brad Feld on his blog here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. Use the fact that you were on an anointed list to build credibility when you eventually approach journalists (and VC’s, customers, employees). In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. You can do it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2010

What happens when I write blog posts is that I type really quickly what is in my brain and hit send with very little revision. I never said that management was always great and junior employees who quit are evil. If you were at a job less than 1 year and this happened several times consider leaving a few off your resume.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Increased employee satisfaction: IT team members will appreciate the streamlined IT processes, increased access to useful data, and ability to have repetitive tasks handled automatically. High upfront cost: Comprehensive AIOps tools can fetch a hefty price tag, but over time, they can return massively on that value.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect from day 1 – just make sure it appears to be a good idea. Yesterday I wrote a blog posting on founder vesting (see here ).

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best tools you can use to achieve productive marketing, how to apply them and how much they cost. Optimizely has some free features, however most of them are not and come with a sizable price tag. You’ll also discover the features that make each one a top-rated and effective marketing tool.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Speaker 1: That's the right mic. Speaker 1: Oh, that sounds better. Different DNA probably than the vast majority of employees there. Shaan: But then there's, we'll call this the zero to 1 million. PART 1 OF 4 ENDS [00:21:04]. And I published this on my own startups blog. Are we all good? Shaan: Okay.

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