Jason Malki

JUNE 18, 2025

He mixes strategy, research, and hands-on design to make AI feel intuitive, useful, and above all, trustworthy. His approach is built around clarity, transparency, and making sure trust is a foundation, not a feature. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup?

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Homebrew makes investments by consensus – it works because there’s just two of us. We’ve done it this way for two reasons – first, it works internally given our style of decision-making and respectful but loud debate. What story does your career tell? I love that sense of accountability.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Today you can make calls using FaceTime, Messenger, WhatsApp, or dozens of other call apps, and virtual phone systems do the same for your office number. Instead of deploying yards of copper wires spooled out to attached office phones to make and receive calls, virtual calls are made using a broadband internet connection.

mix-use

The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

Getting paid is great, but paying others? you're managing a handful of vendors, the next, your finance team is playing Whac-A-Mole with overdue notices, drowning in an inbox full of emails with the subject line "bumping this." Will it send automated notifications and gentle (or firm, depending on your needs) reminders?

financing

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

No matter your job, it almost certainly involves some aspect of project management. Your database—automated Store, edit, share, and automate data all in one tool. Try Zapier Tables Podio has a lot of great features, from custom project structures to collaboration tools for working with others, that elevate it from the lowly notebook.

leadership

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Scope creep is like that friend who shows up to your low-key game night with their roommate, their roommate's boyfriend, and their roommate's boyfriend's beer league hockey teammates. And that's often your timeline. " We've all been there. " We've all been there.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Depending on your priorities, you might prefer one app's approach over the other. Fireflies has one really nice touch: it provides live transcripts that make it easier to follow along even when you're not actively listening to the call. Or maybe you're thinking of using them as a personal assistant.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

– No great presentation can be delivered like a conversation. Get out of your comfort zone. Project your voice. Use your hands. Go join your local Toastmasters. Tell a story – Every great presentation tells a story. The bring your product to life. Show some energy! Don’t mumble.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

The more I reflected on what makes my truly happy the more I realized that I was happiest on the right side of the Haimish line even when it’s sometimes easier to sneak back over the the reclusive luxury side. Yet none of these things lead to the great feelings you get being amongst people of all walks and backgrounds.

pitching

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 24, 2010

There was one other VC in the room, Charlie O'Donnell, who makes it a practice to be everywhere something is interesting happening. It was a great group, in a cool space, talking about building web and mobile web services. And I saw a bunch of demos of beta services spliced in between the talks.” That’s kind of the point.

creativity

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2015

One time, I spoke at a meetup that was divided into my talk and demos--and the organizer assumed I wanted to go on before the demos. I didn''t understand why it would matter, but she told me that most of the investors like going before so they could skip out after the demos and not get bombared at the end of the event.

pitching

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system. You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. Don't want to learn code? That's right--Indiana. Why isn't it growing its own yet?

incubation

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

I know the team over (Nate Redmond, John Babcock) there really well – great people all. Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. Do you really want that level of information about your family exposed?

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

With some tough-learned lessons, it was clear to me that my new (and current) business Slidebean would not make the same mistakes. The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. It did for me, at least.

startup

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That alone is enough to make a lot of VCs throw up a little in their mouths. And what percent of your time have you spent on it?". It was enough to make anyone who didn't love the space realize that she had cracked the code of breaking into government sales--and once you're in, you're in forever. Slow sales cycles.

real estate

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. You have to deal with CEOs who resign.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. Yesterday, I tweeted this: I get emails from friends @ accelerators, asking me what kind of co’s I’m interested in, or to watch online demo day (no), etc. 5/ Who Is On The Hook?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. A download link is sent to you automatically by Gust once you create your profile, and the book is exactly what it says.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

They had been introduced by my friend Brian Garrett, a partner at Crosscut Ventures and the ambition outlined in their deck seemed almost unbelievable, “to make wireless charging of phones (and other devices) as easy as WiFi” that I had to see it for myself. The goal is straightforward. Was it safe? Was there consumer demand?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Over 1,300 annual attendees, with representation by 350+ investment funds, make the Conference a great connection event. Empowering Women Entrepreneurs This year’s Venture Atlanta Conference shines a spotlight on women entrepreneurs making significant strides in the entrepreneurial tech ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

What do you do that makes your approach to marketing modern? Your work at MisterGreen helped it grow about 10x. Focusing on growth levers makes our work more actionable. Finally, we don’t make any guarantees when it comes to growth results. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

The sold-out expo area is the virtual home to hundreds of innovative startups ready to demo their tech and talent. Now, we’re ready to share the next presentation, and it’s another great one, folks. Lastly, Team CELA will isolate some of your key business activities as they exist right now.

innovation

StartupNation

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Marketing automation is all about optimizing your campaigns to reap all the benefits of digital marketing. This article will reveal 12 great tools that will easily help you automate your marketing process. This article will reveal 12 great tools that will easily help you automate your marketing process.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school. Right here. school of engineering).

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? They’re on a hiring acquisition spree trying to get product people and designers right now so they can make great consumer products. I have a demo and I can show off some stuff.

incumbents

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2017

The key to success, I’ve learned, is to find what you’re really great at and leverage the heck out of it. HOW HAS THIS GLOBAL COMMUNITY SUPPORTED YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY? My wife, Sarah, looked up at me and said, ‘You’ve found your people, yes?’ HOW DID YOUR PASSION FOR EO MOTIVATE YOU TO BECOME A MEMBER LEADER?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

And there’s none that makes me happier than to announce that Jordan Hudson has been promoted to a Principal at Upfront Ventures. Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. inside insight into VC decision-making. inside insight into VC decision-making.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Data Scientist : The admissions team uses data to answer interesting questions to find promising founders and make YC the best experience for them. This is a great role for someone who is passionate about startups and interested in learning more about them. Learn more. and wants to own projects from start-to-finish. Learn more.

financing

TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

I’m not going to make the case that Amazon reviews are a form of high art. The team says the system can be adapted for different form factors, but for the sake of simplicity, they executed demos on a quadruped — which can be viewed here. Sounds like a useful feature, no? Perhaps for shoppers and sellers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Australian growth marketing agency Ammo , in contrast, wants to make sure that its clients aren’t overinvesting nor underinvesting. I always knew I wanted to find some way to help founders and innovators get their great ideas out into the world. ” What are the high-level points that make a company ready?

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Joe’s start as CRO Tido: Joe, what were your first impressions of me? I thought, “wow, this is going to be a great engineering partner to work with. I thought, “wow, this is going to be a great engineering partner to work with. And your feedback to me was, “look, this product is great.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2022

His extensive knowledge, experience and background from SaaS and leading sales & post-sales organizations, gives him a great perspective on the challenges in the Customer Success space, and as he puts it, “more importantly, the opportunities and how to best maximize them ”. What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup?

SaaS

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 26, 2012

It is your default response. Practicing the word no as many times as a VC does means you have to fight not to have your mind close on you. I want your pitch to be the one I say yes to--and I want you to solve the inherent problems in your business model. It comes off the tongue fast and in lots of different ways.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

In my post I noted the bias in his accent comments and also called b t on his statements that Demo Days are great because “the bad companies look good” and that VCs should compete to “pay the highest price & offer the best terms.” I welcome your accents. Your origins. My dad is my hero.

innovation

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“All these great universities are so close to each other and they collaborate so much — that’s the key to why Boston is in such a good place,” she said. “There are great people everywhere, not just your alma mater. “You have to know your own limits.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The roughly 15-year-old firm has just around $500 million in assets under management — including a $150 million fund that it quietly closed in January — and it makes just a handful of new investments each year. What is your definition of a big idea and how do you know when you see it?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We expect to make more investments this year within the context of a few market trends, such as lower valuations, more emphasis on profitability and capital efficiency, more cost reduction initiatives, and opportunities for corporate buyers with strong balance sheets to acquire startups. Were deals less or more competitive?

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