Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

What does it mean for the purchasing process to be aligned? Well think of it this way – you have your sales process. You know exactly when you want to sell to this customer and presumably it’s this quarter! And with scarce resources it’s your job to decide which door this lead must go through – sales or marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

The next few posts are going to talk about scaling your sales operations as you move out of the evangelical phase. In the early days of selling it can sometimes be an advantage to not have rigid pricing schedules, complex service level agreements (SLAs), hard-and-fast rate limits, etc. Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

00:59] Microsoft’s approach to AI [5:55] The next Industrial Revolution [10:27] Developer productivity & flow state [15:26] Reprogramming the American Dream [19:48] Advice to builders Microsoft’s approach to AI Bob: Microsoft has played such a huge role in determining the future of AI.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2016

If you can associate with people who challenge you to think positively, dream bigger and offer advice, your path to success becomes easier. If anyone has given you tips about starting your own business, they’re sure to have missed something, too. Here’s what I’ve learned from 19 years of experience: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. often out of fear that being too pushy could lead to an earlier “no.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

LawVu gives them a cloud-based platform to share legal advice, documents, communicate with each other or external counsel and create reports for the rest of the company, including the C-suite. Instead, they often rely on email, shared inboxes and spreadsheets. LawVu’s annual recurring revenue tripled in 2020 and is continuing to grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. So my only goal is to give you insights into the conversations we’ve been having in case you don’t have the same access or advice. I am not claiming to be the world expert on this. Am I eligible for the PPP Loan?

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Expert Networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Industry Expertise You don’t need a peer from another startup as your independent?—?you you can build that with your personal peer network. It can start 2–1 founders to investors and then sometimes moves to 3–2 but sometime around the A, B or C round the idea of “independent” directors comes up. Yes, this is a thing.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 27, 2020

We aggregated the advice shared by alum, including Sid Sijbrandij & Darren Murph of GitLab (remote team of 1,200+), Wade Foster of Zapier (remote team of 300+), Ian Tien of Mattermost (remote team of 100+), Nick Raushenbush & Finbarr Taylor of Shogun (remote team of 60), Rajiv Ayyangar of Tandem (remote team of 6) and more.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. 7:30 – Interning at Google then Yelp. 9:00 – Interviewing multiple times at the same company. Google Play.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You see that peer who always pushes things further than you normally would. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. If you haven’t spent time over there you should. I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. Yeah, right.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 8, 2022

An ever-growing number of family offices want to invest into private tech companies. They’re usually motivated by a combination of financial returns, a search for strategic benefits with their core operating business, and passion about tech. But how should they go about it? But don’t do it half-heartedly. You can use multiple strategies.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 2) Market .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 2) Market .

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. I’m Travis Bryant. Excited to be back emceeing. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. And now onto our guest.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2010

How few people give their employees real feedback on a regular and formal basis. How much employees crave this information, whether positive or negative. So my message to you if you work in a position where you have people reporting to you – don’t sweep feedback under the rug – even if it’s negative. Where to Start?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 21:30 – Inbound marketing and audience building advice. You can try it out at HubSpot.com. Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC and cofounder of Wufoo. Brian is on Twitter @bhalligan and Kevin is @ilikevests. He also runs a public company. How does he do both? Google Play.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

“As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Warren Buffet, 1997. Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. Billions of dollars.

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