Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. That is the reason I am so supportive of the Startup Visa movement that has been so successfully championed by Brad Feld, Dave McClure, Eric Ries, Shervin Pishevar and many others. I know all of this from first hand experience. Irony, hey?).

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 1, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series on Startup Advice. If you’ve read my blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a fan of starting businesses in a non-traditional way. Because I’ve been aware of this deficiency since high school (even before I had a label for it and therefore an excuse!) Take your inventory.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. 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. They learned it at b-school. Tags: Start-up Advice. I guarantee this is a bad VC.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. Response: Ask 100 entrepreneurs seeking funding whether there’s enough money here for startups, and 98 of them are going to tell you that there isn’t enough. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . 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. I HATE LOSING. I hate it.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I was the guy in high school who didn’t have to study early to do well on tests and that continued into college. Tags: Startup Advice. I’m not. How about you?

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 29, 2010

and since your lifelong dream of being a banker doesn’t seem like a viable route anymore, you’re thinking that a startup might be the place for you. Well, let me break the news to you bluntly—most of you are going about this startup thing completely ass backwards and no early stage startup that I know of is really dying to hire an MBA.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Sam: Prior to that, you had another startup that you sold for a significant amount of money, we can talk about that. Sam: You're an angel investor in a lot of different startups, including Coinbase and things like that. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? That's pretty funny. Let's jump in.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! I call it the “prom conundrum.&# Let’s face it – everything we do now is some derivative of what we did in high school. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital. Let’s be honest.

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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. Your high school friends are reaching out to you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan. If you have kids make sure you find ways to occasionally drive them to school or turn up at their school events. I often encourage people to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on startup advice but also filed under my sales & marketing posts. No advice I give will ever apply to 100% of companies, 100% of startups or even 100% of tech startups. Yet startups continue to pour tons of energy into a relationship that with the current structure will never work.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. I’ve watched people who went to the top schools, got the best grades and worked for all the right companies flame out. If you’re already running a startup you know all this. I called Ismael directly.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault. No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. Yes, I know that many employers are bad.

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