Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I know some people think the whole market has been disrupted and startups and funding work differently these days. Total disruption on the funding market? This is the same with angel investing. Protecting every investment – including bad hands – is a losing strategy in poker & in angel investing.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Invested Interests. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. It seems like good advice to me. Invested Interests. Subscribe by email. It had eight gigabytes of storage.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they'll do 70% of all of the angel investments they'll ever make in year one. Consider not only joining existing angel investors but recruiting other successful investors from your industry to join you as well. 3) Start with funds. 4) Journal your progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. ” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And I’ll bet that the leadership he displayed helped his angel decide he had the character worth backing. Some readers of this blog also pointed out that “pivoting&# can be disruptive on the employees of an organization. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. And in life.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. No Dave S. =

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

VC Blogger Fanboy This geek reads all the blogs religiously and is a lean startup ninja. Businessguy Bob On the other hand, having a 35 year veteran of the management consultant consulting industry doesn't mean automatic business success when your industry is being highly disrupted by technology this person doesn't even use.

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