Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

What’s the best advice on productivity you’ve ever received? I’ve received great advice from many people over the years. Here’s the gist from his blog: “Those of you who often over-commit or feel too scattered may appreciate a new philosophy I’m trying: If I’m not saying “HELL YEAH!”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

But less as a complaint and more as advice to younger networkers, the more you invest in relationships the more you will get when you need. Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. Startup Advice'

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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. My general advice is to do less. The best of the best in our industry are feeling it, too.

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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. We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Thank you, John.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

For the past few months I’ve been doing nearly daily “Snapstorms” or short videos with startup advice released on Snapchat. Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. I remember the same disdain from people when I started blogging or using Twitter. Why would a VC do that?

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

The guide is informed by hundreds of hours of talks, blog posts, and essays we’ve written for students who are interested in starting or working at startups – many of which can be found in the YC Library ). Below is the introduction, and you can read the full Startups for Students Guide here. INTRODUCTION.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

The guide is informed by hundreds of hours of talks, blog posts, and essays we’ve written for students who are interested in starting or working at startups – many of which can be found in the YC Library ). Below is the introduction, and you can read the full Startups for Students Guide here.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 20, 2013

How many web entrepreneurs in their early 20''s would have ignored Fred Wilson when he said they should include comments in their blogging platform early on? In December of 2007, I wrote the following e-mail to Fred Wilson, Brad Burnham, and Bjian Sabet: "I met with David the other day about using Tumblr to power Path 101 career blogs.

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