Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are too many pulls & tugs at our elbows for time, for coffee meetings, for advice or speaking engagements or cocktail parties or dinners. My general advice is to do less. I offer the same advice for many of my friends who are newer VCs. The best of the best in our industry are feeling it, too. Easier said than done.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose, November 16, 2012. He offers advice on everything from running a BOD meeting to maintaining innovation in a large company. Any interview with Jeff Bezos is a “must watch,” but this particular interview is my favorite of all time.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

And they will offer you some of the best business advice you will ever receive if you’re open to it. And a heartfelt thank you to my VC friends, lawyers and portfolio executives who have spent their personal time counseling me in 2012. And it’s not just lawyers.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012. It seems like good advice to me. June 5th, 2012. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Invested Interests. Power Pitches. ’ Please. I like that.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to the team that had extreme success in 2012 and a more challenging year in 2013. Startup Advice' I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. Since I can’t thank every company let me acknowledge a few in confidence. I feel confident in our 2014 plans. What an unexpected surprise! Best, Mark.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. If anything using the word “Silicon” seems a bit derivative to NorCal. Don’t you think?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

He pinged me for advice. Either way, the gridlock that is now the US congress will prevent any real economic responses and it seems likely that this political malaise will last beyond the 2012 election as the Republicans look to make big gains in the 2010 mid-term elections.&#. I have a young entrepreneur friend who IMs me a lot.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. raise money now to weather any storms). Keynesians will argue that this is a bad thing and fiscal conservatives will argue that it is a necessary discipline.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Community builders. Open & transparent. Approachable. And Greg was a perfect match for all of these. So I began talking to him about joining the fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2019

Carlos Rivas was a student in El Salvador when he competed in the 2012 EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). As a businessman, I learned to accept advice from other people with more experience. After earning a spot as a finalist, he traveled to New York City to take part in the Global Finals.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You can still take advantage of all the small business advice that was shared throughout the event. You can still listen to the whole thing, but we wanted to share some of our favorite moments and pieces of small business advice. He left WSJ in 2012 and started Brian Moran and Associates. Awesome small business advice!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. How’s that for an ex painter? When Sam Teller first encountered Tracy he knew instantly he wanted to work with her. Sam just told me, “You HAVE to meet Tracy. She’s infectious.” ” He was right.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Garnishing media attention since before 2012, the JOBS Act's Title III is among the most important landmarks in the history of modern crowdsourcing. Even 2012's Congress agreed, passing the JOBS Act with bipartisan support through both the House and Senate. Onevest does not give investment, legal or tax advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. So where are we now? It’s hard to say. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations. Kent and Meghan shared that there’s a reason why employee engagement has increased by only 2 percent since 2012. “By Look at them as catalysts for growth, enhancing both your business and your personal development,” Shawn explains.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Hastings in the era of social media : On July 3, 2012, he posted to his Facebook page , which had more than 200,000 subscribers, the fact that Netflix had streamed a billion hours of video in the preceding month.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy Ventures runs business plan competitions and has people like us who attend and give business advice and feedback. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. You can go. You SHOULD go. Here is how. You can make excuses — many do.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

” Let me explain it with a current metaphor – the 2012 US presidential campaign. Finally, while significant value will be delivered to companies who can interpret real-time data, some people are over-looking an important facet of the data that Datasift calls “Augmented Data.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. So Investor A might have bought 20% of your company in 2012 and in 2013 with no addition money invested suddenly owns 40% of your company. But entrepreneurs – convertible notes have no MINIMUM!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011). He was an early investor in Klout and was the most compelling voice I had heard on why the company would become hugely relevant.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2016

In 2012, the U.S. What other advice would you provide startups who are looking to turn fans into investors? passed the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act with bi-partisan support. But what effect does that have on American entrepreneurs, and how can you leverage this within your own start-up?

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

It’s a vital question, and it’s why we’ve invited three investors — who we think know their stuff — to share their insight and advice on the TechCrunch+ stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

She left in 2012 after learning everything she needed to know about running and managing a successful retail business. Marketing Advice for Fashion Brands. From there, she moved into visual merchandising for a few years and then started traveling with the company to help open new stores as they grew.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

Singer Jay-Z performs before US President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, on November 5, 2012. Next up is TechCrunch Early Stage, our yearly event that is all about tactical advice to help new and first-time founders navigate the Wild West world that is venture capital and startups.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The firm has made 326 investments since 2012. The firm has made 178 investments since it was founded in 2012, with 102 still in its active portfolio. Y Combinator’s advice to students: A Letter to College Students and How to Find a Co-Founder in College. . Free advice (worth as much as you’re paying for it).

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Onevest

MARCH 27, 2015

It is not intended to provide legal advice. So it is not intended as legal advice. Onevest does not give investment, legal or tax advice. Please consult with your attorney's for specific counsel regarding the appropriateness of Regulation A+ for your company, and the corresponding rules and filing requirements. About Samuel S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Lallenia: My husband, Brad, and I started Big Birge Plumbing in 2012. I love that we don’t give each other advice in Forum. We use the gestalt method of communication, and only discuss experiences rather than framing experiences in the form of advice. How did you hear about EO Accelerator?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family was originally founded in 2012 with three co-founders — Alice Zagury, Oussama Ammar and Nicolas Colin. In exchange for a stake, they could get advice from The Family’s team and network with other people in the community. They teamed up to build a different kind of startup accelerator without any batch or demo day.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards ….

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. “The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012.

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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. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Do you think that “follow your passion” is good career advice?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

How are these issues informing your advice to your cannabis-related portfolio companies? Given that North America has already paved a pathway (starting in 1996 with medical cannabis in California, and again in 2012 with adult use in Colorado and Washington), legislation in Europe is accelerating at a faster pace.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 19, 2019

They were part of YC’s Winter 2012 batch. 40:00 – Advice for people in YC. Make School is a college for computer science headquartered in San Francisco. Make School students don’t pay until they have a job after graduation. You can find Jeremy on Twitter @jeremyrossmann. 00:05 – What is Make School? Google Play.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. My first piece of advice is to leverage your own community and support network, especially any mentors and role models you may have, to introduce you to potential investors. Get funded, as a woman.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Founded in 2012, Infermedica aims to make it easier for doctors to pre-diagnose, triage and direct their patients to appropriate medical services. Like a plethora of competitors, such as Ada Health and Babylon , Infermedica combines the expertise of physicians with its own algorithms to offer symptom triage and patient advice.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

“In the very near future, we’re going to continue to evolve our platform away from automating strategies and giving people this easy investment platform into actually offering structured products like risk-adjusted portfolios and giving curated investment advice to individuals based on their risk tolerance,” Birch said.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I predict this will come before the end of 2012. StockTwits) where you really want to know more about the person giving you advice. I know in 2010 this doesn’t seem obvious to everybody but it’s my judgment. Either they make our social graph portable or we’ll find other networks to join.

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