Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In his post he asserts, “You get the VCs you deserve” and the corollary “You get the performance out of your board that you deserve.” By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2023

Miranda is Board Director of CRDB Bank Plc and Board Chair of the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative that empowers hundreds of women from across the continent. She is Board Vice Chair of CCBRT Hospital and an active member-leader of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization where she serves as Chair of Global Learning.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

ChatGPT is more powerful Across the board, ChatGPT is a more powerful chatbot than Meta AI. So, while both chatbots are pretty impressive, maybe go elsewhere for medical advice. Meta AI ChatGPT Models Llama 4 GPT-4.1 Meta AI uses a fine-tuned version of Meta's Llama 4 , one of the best open models available.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Be more present. As female entrepreneurs, we are independent-minded and innovative, and this advice is critical for securing our future and the future of our families. She provided me with so much advice on business strategy, business channels and HR. Stop multitasking and instead, do one thing. Enjoy each activity.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . Typically you’ll share your expertise in 5 main ways: phone calls, presentations/in-person meetings, surveys, white papers, and in-depth consulting projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. Getting suppliers to accept terms that they said they never normally agree, getting accepted to speak on a panel when the conference organizer initially said “no,&# getting people to moonlight for you until you have the cash to bring them on board. A couple of quick stories / examples: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. In order to visualize how an audience will receive my presentation I have to be able to imagine the whole situation. These are all creative processes. I had my model in hand.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post. I often tell teams that you need to create product deadlines that are semi-public (or maybe board commitments) that help you focus on shipping product.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards …. were more distributed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Any advice or insights on how to present a strong case for an O-1A or EB-1A? The information provided in “Dear Sophie” is general information and not legal advice. Ask it here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. This had a dual purpose?—?the And it would be?—?but

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. The Present Era.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

He listened intently through every presentation, asked questions and did a great summary of what he felt he had learned over the two days. With all the external presenters, the ones I enjoyed the most were Dan Senor who wrote the book Startup Nation (an examination of the Israeli technology scene). He says this is a mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. He pinged me for advice. If we do head South it will take a few weeks or months until the memos to portfolio companies get published and the Powerpoint presentations get sent out. Why is that?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

At your board meetings, you have one investor complaining that you aren’t growing fast enough, another complaining that your burn ratio is too high and another warning you to extend your cash runway. Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. Now, it’s not so simple. Well, investors today care about the less-distant future.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

This presented a dilemma for my fledgling role as an angel investor. No board seats or advisory roles. But, I also knew that would get messy -- and present potential conflicts. Note: this is not investment advice). They require a board seat. I then wrote a seed round investment check of $500,000 to HubSpot.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Venrock Vice President Todd Graham has some frank advice for founders at venture-backed startups: “It would be wise to generate a return at some point.” So here’s our advice on how teams can smoothly reach an SOC 3 while simultaneously balancing workloads and minimizing disruption to users.”.

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HPA

AUGUST 15, 2019

Currently, she sits on four corporate boards, including a New York City technology startup called Xformative, Vantage Technology, Illinois Liquor Control Commission, and Lake Land College. What advice do you have for someone who’s looking to raise money from investors or start a company?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. When we were thinking of raising, he was the first I called, and after talking to Benchmark, Accel, August, and a few other tier 1 firms, it came down for me the person who was going to join the board. I think the best VCs act as a sounding board for management.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

What advice the initiators have for other ecosystems looking to hire a professional ecosystem builder. We knew that when her fellowship ended, we needed to bring someone on board who was solely focused on this work. Not all service providers will be on board with the initiatives. Advice for replication in other ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

I asked five early-stage investors to share frank advice for first-timers, and I’m going to save you some time: many (if not most) of you are probably not ready to pitch an investor. But, of course, part of my job as a board director and investor is making it feasible, as it is essential for maximizing the business’ success.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Its solution, in part, may be based on creative ways of presenting content to users, but also keeping a focus on strong material to use in those channels. ’ was the advice we got.) ” In this latest Series B, “we shifted our focus from total dollars to representation on the board,” they said.

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Guy Kawasaki

AUGUST 3, 2020

You need executives to ask ad hoc questions of their analytics and brainstorm with other board members on innovative solutions. I invite you to tune in to my keynote and the entire event for inspiration, encouragement, practical tips, and advice from other customers. Ask the other presenters questions. Are you there yet?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Otherwise, you lose sales even before you start Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Do not mistake the perfect pitch for the well-rehearsed (read: memorized) presentation. The cookie-cutter pitch presentation kills your sales pipeline before you actually have one. For me, the first 10 minutes is crucial.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Note that none of the lawyers quoted or I are rendering legal advice in this article, and you should not rely on our counsel herein for your own decisions. The traditional NVCA term sheet works well for founders who are comfortable substituting VC capital for revenues, running typically at a loss for many years. I am not a lawyer.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. 3) Raise capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

“If you believe VR and immersive computing is the future — whether for consumer or business use cases — Activision helps Microsoft build a flywheel of content and technology that gets more users on board to this future.”. Nubank’s present day headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Image Credits: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. you can see the video here. Where are we today?

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In February, ACA took its work to the hill when ACA Board Member Eli Velasquez and ACA Member David Olivencia testified before Congress as part of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets hearing on how the accredited investor definition unfairly limits investment access for the non-wealthy. It will help develop a better, more diverse economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And what you need to know is that for every chart you put up with the people who are going to join you when you’re funded I see companies that have actually gotten the team on board with no more cash in the bank than you have. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. And in life.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

” Instead of seeking validation, I present the idea to a range of different people, usually comprising critical thinkers, industry veterans, and potential customers, and invite them to challenge and critique the idea. It really helps to have a sounding board to make sure your thinking isn’t wildly off the rails.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

crosstalk 00:05:01] Shriya Bisht: I saw in Danielle what… I saw her present in a way that I knew that she can sell, she has a brilliant marketing brain. What’s the upside, what’s your advice Shriya, for those looking for a partner, wish they had someone to work with in business. Good, bad, tips, advice.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

All other board functions are secondary. Even venture capitalists who sit on boards where they have significant investments often forget this point. Actually, there are two legal duties of board members. Sometimes, there will be a conflict of interest between the people representing the various shareholder classes on a board.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. One area I’ve had much discussion with the companies in which I’ve invested in is bringing on board an operationally focused CFO. And board confidence matters in growing companies.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

Teamwork is almost always lacking in companies which fail and is present within companies that succeed. Internal stakeholders include other teams or board members. My advice is that even the senior team should set its own distinctive purpose so that it can set its own performance goals to measure itself against.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. And then we do score ourselves with the board, but also with the company. ” That’s reported to the board. ” And I would say it’s kind of 50% adoption of people who take me up on that. Tomasz Tunguz: Oh, interesting.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

This presented an optimal timing for the both of us to embark on this venture together. Nonetheless, this is not written in stone; we also consider pre-seed and seed-stage deals if a strong strategic angle is present. Would you like to share any lessons or advice for anyone looking to enter the venture capital field like you?

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