Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. After dinner on a Thursday night I thought we had the deal and that the team knew how hard I would work on their behalf if I were chosen. And for my own good I vowed to have relationships in China and knowledge of the local markets.

consulting

Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

Don’t forget to ask for a dinner reservation at a hidden gem brasserie for your first night in Paris; ChatGPT can use the OpenTable plugin and set that up too. Your local Italian bistro, and small businesses like it, could see new customers as they get discovered through plugins like OpenTable.

creativity

AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Register Korean startup EventUs has debuted with the successful hosting of the SG-KR MICE Tourism Networking Dinner on October 31, 2023, in Singapore. EventUs an all-in-one event tech platform, providing comprehensive solutions that simplify the entire event management lifecycle.

startup accelerator

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

In California considering state, federal and local taxes that can be as high as 56%. Luckily many, not all, tech employees in Silicon Valley earn good wages as a result of educations from top schools that allowed them access to this talent market. But we all don’t and we’re not likely to fix any of that.

peer-to-peer

Startup Catalyst

JUNE 21, 2018

In June we conducted our third annual mission to London for London Tech Week. We commenced the mission on Sunday afternoon with a briefing ahead of social drinks with the Victorian delegation and local Trade and Investment Queensland and UK DIT officers.

incubation

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” That means both making people comfortable who wouldn’t otherwise feel welcome in the “tech community” and curating for top tier doers and the most successful.

communities

Revolution

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Alexandria — a historic city just across the Potomac from our nation’s capital — is part of the larger ecosystem locals lovingly refer to as the “DMV” (D.C., Peer power hour, dinner, and drinks followed. Your Washington Office founder Evan Burfield shared why we’re seeing a wave of Big Tech and VCs setting up shop in D.C.,

peer-to-peer

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Go join your local Toastmasters. 50% of them were interested in life sciences, 50% in tech (e.g. I was the keynote for a dinner. &# This is so true. Even better when you’re: loud, evocative and have compelling content. If this isn’t naturally you then you need to learn it. It’s the best way to learn.

advice

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

In fact, I ended up making several new business connections on a recent trip to the UK, through a dinner organized by Canada’s trade commissioner service. We hear a lot about the shortage of tech talent in our local ecosystems. It’s a great resource that is active in many countries and a good place to start your research.

startup

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes.

innovation

TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

With a tight tech talent market and an increasingly remote-friendly — and therefore globally competitive — corporate landscape, founders have never had more places to hire from and more competitors to measure up against. Dinners for 6: A tasty way to meet potential investors, customers or other founders.

disruption

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 14, 2011

Last Thursday night, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels joined a small group of technical folks from cloud and commerce related First Round portfolio companies for dinner at Double Crown. Setting up this dinner made me really appreciate the full scope of the vision of Amazon.

startup

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I had scheduled dinners every night with small groups of people. I couldn’t have said it any better replacing music with tech. I had come off of a Hashable party and dinner with Naval Ravikant , Farb Nivi (Grockit) & John Price (Vast). Dinner was hosted by Joshua Baer of OtherInbox who held a great event.

mix-use

AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

has undergone transformations, and this evolution has not escaped the keen eyes of tech investors. Jessie asserts, “It further strengthens our thesis of ‘global capital and resources, localized opportunities.'” Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

investment

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 12, 2011

Joe Yevoli and Reece Pacheco run a book club of 30 local entrepreneurs that meets monthly. Tad Martin of Cross Commerce Media has a bike list of tech and startup folks that heads up to Nyack and points north on 60 mile trips on weekend mornings. How about riding a bike? Even Grubwithus has been throwing Hacker News meals.

entrepreneurship

OurCrowd

MARCH 31, 2022

streamline auto insurance claims NVIDIA drives autonomous vehicle development with Foretellix Introductions More than 4,600 high-tech jobs. streamline auto insurance claims NVIDIA drives autonomous vehicle development with Foretellix Introductions More than 4,600 high-tech jobs. OurCrowd hosts dinner for US Ambassador to Israel.

investing

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

So, even though when you tell them that they should come to the office, they fight and they don’t want to because they want to see their kids and they want to have breakfast with their kids, they want to have dinner with their kids.

culture

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. It is the first time in 6 years that we’ve expanded the partnership.

VC

Revolution

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Their jam-packed agenda culminated with a gathering of local entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders for happy hour at Siena Tavern. Read more on the visit and Port City’s burgeoning tech ecosystem in WilmintonBiz. He then joined Wilmington founders at Live Oak’s Channel for office hours. Where we went: Tampa, FL?

venture capital

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Finding True Love in Tech Partnerships: The Dos and Don’ts , with Mambu. Tech Driven Biology and Chemistry: Solving Science’s Hardest Problems at Scale , with Amazon Web Services. Why African Tech Needs Venture Studios , with Fast Forward Venture Studio. Trust as the New Currency in Tech , with Egon Zehnder. 11:00 a.m. –

disruption

Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I mean, when the phone rang, I was at a movie, we were at the dinner, I was on a date, and I got sick of hearing the phone ring. I was the accountant, the marketing, the tech, the inventory guy, and my partner really, me and him, we just didn’t know enough about business. So, I decided to take on the debt in 2010, and be solo.

leadership

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

What have tech leaders been telling people they needed to do in order to be great founders and to build great things? I wrote this in my newsletter this morning: If you're not willing to ask yourself difficult questions, to be asked them, or to ask them of your teams, then this e-mail and, frankly, this "innovation" industry isn't for you.

disruption

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

We did what many VC funds did – we presented our annual results, we stood up and talked about our portfolio companies, we invited a few to also present and then we had dinner & drinks at some posh restaurant. And because we invite most of the LA-backed tech startups we hope that it helps funding overall in our ecosystem.

communities

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. We end up out a lot at events: dinners, cocktail parties, conferences. Running a local community / mentorship program – I run a group called LaunchPad LA. At least for the best entrepreneurs.

VC

Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 11, 2017

After the pitches, the team at SOSA kindly hosted a full member lunch in our honour, giving us a chance to mix with the local startups and corporate partners. Everyone then reconvened hotel in the evening for a mission debrief session, followed by dinner and local guide Omri taking us out to explorer the Tel Aviv night life. .

pitching

NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 23, 2019

Once you’ve built your library, you can tune in on your drive to the office, at the gym, or while you’re cooking dinner. If you’re thinking of investing in new tech equipment or software or want to hire an expert consultant to support new projects – there are funding options available that can help.

financing

Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

Topics not only include the basics of angel investing and due diligence, but also cover the differences between a software and biotech investment, pitch analysis, and feature guest presentations by members of Tech Coast Angels, San Diego (TCA-SD). SDAC I and II were able to cultivate relationships by hosting dinners before each event.

peer-to-peer

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. The Internet allows people in relatively poorer parts of the world to complete work for relatively richer parts of the world at wages higher than a local economy may bear.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Gather around the VC dinner table : Berlin-based venture capital fund La Famiglia closed on €250 million in capital commitments for its third seed fund and first growth co-investment fund. Startups and VC Harri writes, “Local governments in the southwestern U.S. Big Tech Inc. Mike has more. You can sign up here.

VC

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

On March 13, 2020, my wife and I went out to dinner with my dad in Brooklyn. The speed of that initial spread caught the state and local governments flat-footed. But New York isn’t just a local city—it’s a national one. It takes a long time to build a truly thriving, world-class entrepreneurial tech community.

communities

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I was at a dinner recently in Chicago and the table discussion was about building great companies outside of Silicon Valley. But the dinner discussion included too much denial for my liking. It’s not the great companies you build, it’s the silent killer of those that should have been build locally and weren’t.

communities

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

That breakfast would lead to me hiring Hilary to work at my startup, Hilary deciding to stay in NYC fulltime, co-founding hackNY, and just generally being a great community advocate for science and tech in NYC. Last year, my friend Danielle Gould invited me to a small FoodTechConnect dinner, where I met Stephen Plumlee from R/GA.

communities

Revolution

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

More recently, the national spike in cases has caused local and state governments to reinstate capacity limits and partial closures, at the same time that restauranteurs are contending with the loss of outdoor dining space due to colder temperatures. Let’s start with the tech-forward innovations most likely to stick post-pandemic.

hospitality

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Tech Coast Angels. Atlanta Tech Angels. DC Dinner Clubs. 4) Finally, a few groups reported that entrepreneurs and their advisors were very aggressively negotiating high valuations based on reports from the national press (stories from Silicon Valley and New York) when no local competition for such deals exists.

investing

TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2022

It was hardly alone amongst public tech companies in taking a haircut in early 2022, but the scale of its repricing stood. A small fact about me is that I went to school in Chicago, and thus I was in and around the city’s tech scene as a baby journalist. The great selloff? It was good fun.

media

TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you’re looking for funding, a new job or your new co-founder or investment, the app lets you efficiently and effectively connect with the right people across the tech ecosystem. Dinners for Six. If you prefer your networking to take place over a good meal, you might want to keep your evenings open for our Dinners for Six.

disruption

TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

There’s always fun tech for pet owners at CES , and 2022 is no different. The company’s main tech advance has been to create a local sensor and circuit that reliably detects and characterizes the animal’s heart rate. Likewise, the food button tends to speed up dinner.

mix-use