Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2020

Since its creation, CEMEX and Impact Hub Monterrey have received 3,765 applications from more than 74 countries, and supported 128 projects from 23 countries, as well as collaborated in the improvement of 73 communities. When it started in 2010, the CEMEX-TEC Award was a local award, but with the years it grew and developed very quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. ” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. Here’s my view: I support a “mobile first” strategy for many companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. There, I discovered we had grown our customer count far faster than our employees to support it, and customer service and employee happiness were suffering. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. You can read them here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. 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. We had made the decision that we would no longer be supporting IE v 5.5 (we

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. 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. We had made the decision that we would no longer be supporting IE v 5.5 (we

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consulting advice collaboration VC 328

Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As business leaders and entrepreneurs, there are steps we can take during these unprecedented times to support our employee’s mental wellbeing and pull our business through the pandemic. The post Coronavirus is causing a mental health pandemic appeared first on THE BLOG. Involve your employees. Look after yourself.

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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. which matters for getting future support) Where the fund is in its investment cycle (year 1 out of 10 or year 7 out of 10)? I could go on for a long time.

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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. Even tech blogs know this. You own the IP you create.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. I sort of feel mentored by Fred via his blog, which is pretty remarkable for just writing words on the web and sharing them. Of course, over the last decade, the rest of the world doesn’t need to read these blogs to see what’s going on. A blog entry for another day.

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