This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
People often ask me for advice on fundraising, generating deal flow, hiring, increasing visibility , triathlons, babies, etc.--a As the person giving the advice, doing a half-assed job of getting someone all the information they need is pretty unsatisfying—so that becomes a barrier to wanting to do it at all.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2014
Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. So far from not taking advice from other people – I want more advice, more data points, more opinions.
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This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 23, 2012
I'm often the last one to leave an event, held back by the most persistant of entrepreneurs trying to squeeze as much advice as they can out of me. I've only recently started leading investments a little over two years ago. Conferences, startup blogs, meetups--they're all filled with people telling you how to build your company.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
OCTOBER 27, 2023
We both went on to have successful careers as consultants and entrepreneurs, and had a passion for working with and investing in younger entrepreneurs. We reconnected in 2016 and began angel investing in startups in New York City. But, even then, we knew that many things could go wrong and that our investments were risky.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.”
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 6, 2018
How to get your Series A mojo back The rest of the outline I’ll write as a series to come back to this blog if you want to read more. … the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll get 8. So you might hear 9–10 “no’s” in the early stretches of your fund raising process. What to do about that chip on your shoulder ?
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 14, 2015
So here’s advice I give people all the time when they’re raising money. I’ve blogged for years. Or they’ll remind me of my common advice to take “ 50 coffee meetings.” The post The Most Important Advice I Could Give You About Unicorns appeared first on Bothsides of the Table.
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