Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Entrepreneur Dinners. One of my favorite things to do is to organize entrepreneur dinners when I travel. I usually ask somebody local who knows the local scene to invite out 10-15 local entrepreneurs who might be interested to meet up and I agree to pick up the tab.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. Higher education. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

And then we also have a growing portfolio of entrepreneurs in about 20 countries now. We want to harness that network effect for best optimizing the discovery of great ideas and great entrepreneurs. And the reason that I say it in that way is because we have backed many first time entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The thing I’ve been passionate about since before it was fashionable was entrepreneurs and their impact on the economy,” Learned said. The pinnacle was getting to form the Venture College” at Boise State in 2012, teaching students across disciplines the skills needed to successfully launch their own business,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Extras: Hana Mohan’s Twitter thread on the YC advice to founders. Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s first investors. Other news from the week: It’s official: Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal. Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. These people who never had the opportunity to start a store came onto our platform and became entrepreneurs for the first time, because we do not need them to invest any money in working capital or setting up an offline shop. 42:45 – Big problems worth solving in India.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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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. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. raise money now to weather any storms).

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

I’ve primarily been an entrepreneur for the majority of my career. I really didn’t think about a fund prior to my co-founder, HanJoo Lee, bringing up the idea of launching a “YC of Korea”back in 2012. As an entrepreneur, a couple of my startups were too early in the market, so this is something I think about. Persistence is key.

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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. I have a young entrepreneur friend who IMs me a lot. He pinged me for advice.

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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? Our team has been involved and invested in crypto since 2012, so we’ve been excited about the industry for a long time. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now?

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