2010 advice board pitching 
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 5, 2023
To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. No new investments.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 30, 2024
A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. Any advice on how you either kept your confidence through that time or recalibrated? Same thing.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
The most interesting thing I’ve learned by being an investor and sitting on boards & seeing so many company pitches is how different reality of what is going on at companies is from what you’re reading about them in the press. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 14, 2010
It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. It is 2010. This doesn’t suit anybody.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. We could do more in 2010 with more VC investment; the doubling assumes only ratable increase in marketing spend to achieve profitability. It’s that simple. >50% of our revenue in now viral.
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. . By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade.
Angel Capital Association
MARCH 22, 2023
I'm joined here today by Mr. Jeffrey Lang, chairman of the board for the Desert Angels. A great place to be able to start today is maybe tell our listeners a little bit more about yourself; a little bit more about your personal journey that led you to becoming chairman of the board, and of course, why you decided to become an angel investor.
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