Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

We like to use new product and gain benefits before our peers. If you didn’t read that yet it might be worth having a quick skim as a primer. Social proof is defined as “looking for others to guide our decisions&# and is also one of the most important techniques in acquiring customers in your company. We are evangelists.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

One thing that recruited me was this brilliance that we can kill two birds with one stone,” she said, referring to Duolingo’s original translation-service business model we talked about in part one of this EC-1. “One She invested because of Duolingo’s growth and engagement numbers, but confronted von Ahn with some direct advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

The premise was that some leaders are too enamored with the approbation of their peers than making the tough decisions in the business that are bound to upset some people. You make too many reference calls or want to see three more candidates before you decide. So you make four more reference calls. Decision by indecision.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It’s a leap from the early days of Web 1.0’s s read only web with static pages (print media, educational sites, online directories, or archives) and the user-generated content of Web 2.0 Wikipedia, Twitter, YouTube), to a decentralized digital economy where vast majority of the power is redistributed to the individual internet users. applications.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

The latter refers to companies that are working on the infrastructure the sector will rely on once in full bloom, and the consensus among specialized investors is that they make for very worthy bets. Bearish markets and high interest rates often cause private investors to turn away from anything resembling a risky investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

My favorite two quotes of the weekend were: “Never trade your cat for somebody else’s dog” (referring to selling your company for stock to another privately held company – quote was from Alan. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

[if you're not old enough to get the reference between this image and the title you can click on the image for a prompter]. This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. We know prices of deals, compensation, who’s doing well / poorly, etc.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Here’s Joe’s advice on how you can do the same. I just YOLO’d it,” says Joe, a popular term in the game developer community, referring to giving something a go and working it out as you go along. I spoke to Joe Chang , who left his career in corporate IT after 15 years to pursue what he enjoyed and try his hand at entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

This was customer interaction at its finest and as a result they invited him to meet with our entire sales staff and offer advice on the sales process from a customer’s perspective. Who else is going to tell a VC if he got a bad reference from an entrepreneur or fellow VC? Contrast that with a VC conversation I had.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

This is part of my startup advice series. It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. This post isn’t going to be popular. I’m sure of that. That’s OK. And I care more about the debate than trying to be popular. I never hire job hoppers. Not job hoppers.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Her risky pregnancy caused her placenta to burst during childbirth, almost killing her and her son last year. Walton, who feels lucky to have survived, says the haunting experience made her an example of a reality she had long known: To be a pregnant Black woman is to be at risk , regardless of economic background.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

After we closed the round, our lead investor revealed how capital efficient we had been compared to our peers. Welcome to the fourth edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here. Snapdocs is the leading digital closing platform for the mortgage industry. Even after YC, we didn’t raise much immediately.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. One thing you can do is check references with founders that those investors have worked with – just as with recruiting any talent. It is natural to feel this way. option grants).

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Clearly he assumed that he was using some kind of username, and that it was a gang reference of some sort--like, "Young Blood" as in the bloods and the crips or something to that affect. Last week, on Martin Luther King Day, I decided that instead of saying something in my weekly newsletter , I would do the opposite--I would listen.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Ramon Ray, founder of SmartHustle.com spoke with the founders of Maison de Papillon , Danielle Salinas, and Shriya Bisht about their journey and how a strong partnership has helped their business. In this powerful discussion they talked about: How to find and succeed with partners in your business. Do you have the right MINDSET for business growth.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) That is why inflation, at least from a goods perspective, will remain sticky.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ ’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. Raising money is hard. Of course much of it is conflicting. Why buy me?

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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 25, 2013

I’m talking about simple and quick calls to your business peers, VCs or other players in your ecosystem. So here’s my advice: 1. We all have important ones and want to maximize the impact, which can be hard to do when you aren’t face-to-face. How Can I Help? What are they hoping to achieve?”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But I strive to impact the lives of many more through hours of coaching entrepreneurs, challenging people to be better, making human connections for people or providing timely advice. Your advice made a difference.&#. Many of us have the ability to change the trajectory of other people’s lives. If I need to be blunt I am.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

Before making this change I called our LPs to ask for advice and input. We did what many VC funds did – we presented our annual results, we stood up and talked about our portfolio companies, we invited a few to also present and then we had dinner & drinks at some posh restaurant. So I decided to change up our format a bit.

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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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