Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

They got us to fill out the details of where we worked in the past and the network effect compels us to keep it updated. So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing. It doesn’t strike me as a “social network&# in the way we’ve come to define them.

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GCUC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Likewise hosting regular supper clubs and events here at Third Door has really fostered a sense of community amongst members and my wider network. What is one piece of advice you give everyone that works with and/or for you? My top piece of advice would be to live by your values and respect others. It’s great.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

Here’s the advice I wish someone told me when I started. you don’t want to be the guy who sold 10,000 bitcoin to purchase two pizzas in 2010. Terra Money is one of the newest crypto networks that is also in the top ten by market cap. internal network) statistics for Bitcoin as well as the macro economic environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

So why are so many diverse entrepreneurs shortchanging themselves? Right this very minute, I'm also working hard to secure my spot in an oversubscribed round for a pre-product company led by a female entrepreneur, while simultaneously wrapping up a seed round in a founder of color who didn't have a problem raising at all.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. There are a lot of things I think entrepreneurs should care about when raising from a VC: How big or small their fund is? I could go on for a long time.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

The transition from one year to another seems like a perfect time to say thank you to these 10 women entrepreneurs whom I have had the pleasure of meeting and learning from. I have met so many inspirational women entrepreneurs in the past year, and this was a difficult list to make! Kendra Scott : Designer, CEO and Philanthropist.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. They wanted advice. This team is talented.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

Thankfully I could write and was taking an economics class on the advice of my father, so I was able to get a job doing PR for life sciences companies. And that quickly coalesced into a new vision around being an entrepreneur in the bio space. That is where I realized there was a much better fit for me on the business side of science.

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GCUC

AUGUST 8, 2019

I had my first child in 2010 and quickly went back to my NYC job, commuting from the NJ suburbs and leaving my new baby girl home with a nanny. I went to networking events and playgrounds and discussed the idea with everyone I met. When you’re an entrepreneur, you have to work all the time. Space: Work and Play NJ.

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

and yet so familiar to every contemporary entrepreneur. Johnson, the company’s first employee, built an epistolary community of fellow runners (a forum of sorts), who, in exchange for his expert advice, would provide him with invaluable product feedback: “ Unlike me, however, most customers came to depend on Johnson’s letters.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

So, I decided to take on the debt in 2010, and be solo. Tommy Mello: In 2010, I started reading a lot and learning about … I read the E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. How are you getting leads in and customers in, and then two, what’s your advice for other small business owners? So yep, there you go.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. So I encouraged entrepreneurs to think about raising their funds as quickly as they could because. Fast forward a year to September 2010 and I wrote my treatise on the 2010 economy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Not a bad thing, but as a result, there are few “hungry” tech entrepreneurs. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? We have a Nordic investment mandate, but we primarily focus on Norway as we are a Norwegian pre-seed/seed fund and have our competitive insight, network and brand here in Norway.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 8, 2023

(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) US shale production grew dramatically from 2010 to 2018. Miners expend energy to validate transactions.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. – SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. Why is that?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. – SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. Why is that?

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