Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

You’ll hear this story in the video. This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how did Mike get into VC? Venture Financings we Discussed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

What I’d like to do is tell you the story of how the investment came to be, what my thesis is / was and share some thoughts on macro trends. I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. My first two calls were to True Ventures & Founder Collective.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

By this stage, you’ve identified the reasons, the competition and the candidate or client you’re seeking— now it’s time to focus on the message: the true story of what is really being offered. Tell your story the way it reads to you, not the way you think they need to hear it. Always be clear, specific and authentic.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. We then had a full session with Rick Smith, founder of Crosscut Ventures (along with Brian Garrett). Beyond The Rack.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It also wrote a bit more about the fundraise on its own blog.). ” Below is a five-minute video that tells the story beautifully. ” Below is a five-minute video that tells the story beautifully. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We all know media companies are suffering as CPMs (the amount they can charge per thousand visitors) are falling, available inventory is climbing, free content and blogs are proliferating, user attention is being divided with social networks and the core media business cash cows like classified ads have been disrupted by companies like CraigsList.

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Feedough

MARCH 15, 2021

And even those who don’t tag themselves as influencers tend to use LinkedIn posts for their own benefits. In the words of Tim Schmidbauer, the founder and CEO of Inlytics –. We discussed the concept, vision, and future prospects of the startup with Tim Schmidbauer, the founder and CEO of Inlytics. The Concept. The Interview.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. These situations are only compounded if you have 3 or more founders. I know that many people reading this will be in companies with 3+ founders and aren’t having any friction. They agreed to all be co-founders.

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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. And this is especially important since the people who get sucked into this admin the most are the founders – the people who you most want focused on high-value tasks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

You can always tell during this discussion whether the entrepreneur has logged into their products, talked to their customers, read all the news stories and gotten all of the back channel info on the competition. It’s different when you’re co-founders and one person gets the title COO. Who does finance report to?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

It was a fun show today, especially Jason’s story at the very end of the episode! Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. I spent a bunch of time with Co-founders Alex Bard and Gary Benitt. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Tags: Startup Advice. Losing sucks.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Losing sucks.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

My story of ceding control of the business that I had no intention of ever leaving In 2017, I sold my startup to the largest company in the college sports recruiting industry. This is my story of starting and selling my startup, and what I learned from ceding control of the business that I had no intention of ever leaving. Unsatisfied.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

We market to four populations: High-potential founders. 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 **. Linkedin.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Welcome to Social Media Week --the one week out of the year where we get to tweet and blog about social media! Now a story breaks and before you can say "ESPN" it's all over Twitter. with Liza Mosquito de Guia, Founder & Chief Storyteller, food. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Try the waitlists.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

They had an offer to be acquired for $80 million, which would have dramatically changed the lives of the founders forever. I’ve had the conversation of what will happened upon an exit with founders so many times I feel like a broken record. Before I outline my views let me give you one more story. My friend blocked the deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. People also buy for defensive reasons or ego but that’s a different story.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Then came blogs. We have it to filter blog comments. The Founder & CEO of Ad.ly is Sean Rad.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

If I blog on a stand-alone platform I have to work to get distribution. Of course I fund people outside of that age range but statistically startup founders of VC-backed tech companies are more likely in that range. Anyway, for the older entrepreneurs who don’t (yet) like Snapchat — of course I also blog and still do YouTube videos.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

We market primarily to four populations: High-potential founders. 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.

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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. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. When I’m in, I’m in.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

If your first resort when you have trouble raising money is to complain about New York on a tech blog, you’re really doing yourself a disservice in the relationship building area. On top of that, tech blogs like TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOM, and Venturebeat all cover NYC tech startups. How about doing what Gilt Groupe did?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. In a world of The Funded, VentureHacks and entrepreneur blogs this kind of informations spreads like wildfire. If you raise angel money that’s another story. And they don’t.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you leave the title tag of a web page blank (the clickable page headline in search engine results and that pops up when you hover your mouse over a page tab in your internet browser), you are literally letting Google try and figure out what your website is all about. Anthony Baxter is founder and CEO at Firefly Digital.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

And a great product starts with the founder. Hairy dentists / Pig farmers – I told the story last night how when I set up my first company the seed investor was a pig farmer from Ireland. That is a true story. Not just funding but learn their story. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

He had followed me on Twitter and sent me a nice message about my blog. So when I saw the merely mortal Tristan with a normal sized Twitter following I clicked through to his link, saw his blog, saw that he was a second year at Stanford and just thought, “hey, he seems like an interesting guy. Great life story.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. That story for another day.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

You're the co-founder of HubSpot. So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? The one minor story I can recall. If I enjoy it, that's a different story. Dharmesh is the.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2010

Before he’s had a chance to rub the morning ink off of his thumbs I’ve read op-eds from the NY Times and Washington Post as well as scanned Techmeme and read a few blogs. left wing, right wing) but it’s also true that curious people in the age of Twitter get a much wider purview of news stories through shared links.

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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. These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. See here for the Facebook story. The world is much safer for non-founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

If you want to know about the state of solo GPs — which oh boy, is it rocky — please read my TC+ story here: Are Solo GPs screwed? It’s an impressive price tag for a job role that would’ve blown minds just one year ago. A founder said that they ask for pros and cons on every recommendation that they prompt ChatGPT to give.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I’ve said versions of it on this blog before so I hope it’s not too repetitive. That said, don’t complicate the topic – If you’re the founder of a company you likely know a lot about things like Liquidation Preferences and how they affect value allocations when the company is sold. I think you will.

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