Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m going to save that for a future blog post. It was Steve Blank – creator of the “customer development” process, founder of E.piphany (a high profile CRM company in the late 90’s that IPO’d in 1999), instructor at both Stanford and Berkeley and author of a well read blog. Greycroft – Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

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. Some “kick it up a gear&# and react how Toby did. They get a sixth sense that you’re going to pull this thing off.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

To understand this in great detail see this very important blog post by Henry Blodget on the unemployment rate in the US and its impact on the recovery. So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) My advice : if you’re raising a $750,000 round and you have demand for $1.2 million – take it.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. If anyone has experience, advice or dollars and wants to help please be in touch. Do tell … Tags: Start-up Advice Tech Market Analysis. As they showed me around the CIC I was instantly envious.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

It’s an impressive price tag for a job role that would’ve blown minds just one year ago. Over explanation and adjective use was probably the most common tip I received when asking for advice on how to be a better prompter. As Bloomberg reported earlier this week , these jobs can land up to $335,000 in annual salary. Ask for help.

education

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog post appealing to the industry to make these simplified term sheets standard. Last to weigh in was Brad Feld whose blog post argues that the only 2 terms that should be negotiated are amount raised & valuation. The best series was done by Brad Feld on his blog here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. So it is with entrepreneurship.

entrepreneurship

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. Now that I do they’re willing to accommodate? Gee, if they treat me like this in good times I wonder how they’d treat me in bad times!&#. We spend a lot of time on them in the video but frankly we could have done a 3-hour session.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. Tags: Start-up Advice. If you pick the wrong spouse at least you can get divorced.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

… should I avoid blog posts like this that might be outside my normal remit? Tags: Start-up Advice. Somebody has stop scumbags like Trilegiant Corporation / Avis Budget and its owners, Apollo Management, from these forms of deceit on our most susceptible members of society. What do you think? I wonder what possessed him?

education

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. They sponsor TWiVC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. They speak of “my CEO’s.&# They talk about how this company failed because the management team didn’t listen to my advice and that one succeeded because we helped point them in the right direction. That’s true.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. There’s a lot of value in pulling in all of our correspondents into a CRM, but only if most of them are tagged as “acquaintances” so they don’t make the database unwieldy. He recommended:

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Because there are so many sellers on these marketplaces, there are plenty of forums and online communities where you can go for advice, troubleshooting, or just meeting like-minded individuals. Instagram Shoppable Posts allow you to "tag" buyable items in standard posts (up to five products per picture). Seller communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. Following Fred Wilson’s advice, I want to build my own platform.

media

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are. Also, remember that this is the era of the blog. I think Robert’s right.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

The best entrepreneurs seek advice from everybody they need, learn lessons and make minor adjustments on a monthly basis. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Geni.com beget Yammer. I could go on and on.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Dharmesh: I think that was good advice. And I published this on my own startups blog. So it's a recursive function to say, oh, well, if the New York Times links to you, that's much more valuable than if Dharmesh's blog links to you because New York Times has more page rank. Sam: And I was like, "Well, why?". It's like that.

frameworks

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Since it’s already written (and since I promised not to republish on my blog other than a summary) if you’re interested please have a read over there. What should you blog about?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. He’s not interested.&# Without much thought I shot back, “That’s the worst advice I’ve ever heard someone give an entrepreneur.&# Doh. If you haven’t spent time over there you should.

entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Arnold Waldstein , who stops by periodically on my blog and always leaves relevant comments, made the observation that, “if I want to connect with you, I’ll engage with you on this blog …from there, a follow on Twitter, a link on LinkedIn are closing the loop of connection rather that opening a cold door.&# This is so true.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

This comment and blog post prompted me to write a post that has been in my queue for a long time. Tags: Startup Advice. That means most of us are getting derailed from our work four times each hour, maybe more if you work in a high email traffic office.&#. Of even if you don't have a team I'll bet you have a boss.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Start-up Advice Startup Advice VC Industry. Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. They deserve more credit.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2010

Ask me something very narrow that I can answer without typing a whole blog post length response. Fred Wilson nailed this in his “double opt in&# blog post. I also covered the “double opt in&# and added my “ I’m moving you to BCC &# advice that is a huge time saver. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 1, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series on Startup Advice. If you’ve read my blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a fan of starting businesses in a non-traditional way. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. Are you intuitive vs. process oriented? Take your inventory. Know thy weaknesses.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2010

Men, on the other hand, can meet another guy just a couple of times and have no problem reaching out to each other for advice, a favor, or to pitch them on a deal. In another situation, I chat on IM with a junior editor for a tech blog on a regular basis. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

networking

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

I wrote a blog post about being hands on where I argued that startup founders need to be hands-on or in my words, “you can’t run a burger chain if you’ve never flipped burgers.&#. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Unfortunately.

entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. But it is the “founding team” size and “percentage ownership” advice in this post that I feel you’re being too prescriptive about. In terms of %’s, my advice to entrepreneurs is to focus on value and fairness.

founder

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). You need to know how “tag along&# rights could potentially screw you. I know that people have an allergy to lawyers out of fear of being screwed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2010

After a few days of controversial blog posts I thought I’d try something more light hearted today. From his blog posting on “ Why Am I passing ?&#. One area where I have made in-roads is in the “I’d like to buy you a coffee for 15 minutes and get some career advice&# emails from people I don’t know.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

Let’s face it, if people want to blog as a career they have to be able to make money. Tags: Start-up Advice. Furthermore, when Twitter publishers make money from their work in supporting the Twitter platform this is good news for all involved. This is good for Twitter as well.

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