Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. Talk to us about when you got the idea for BuildOnline and how that came to be – how you finally got out of the job. I don’t have regrets about that. No other reason.

startup

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Not only do you need a great team, a great idea, and be fishing in a big enough pond, but often times you also need some serious unfair advantages. They got into a Twitter conversation that lasted a full six minutes. I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too.

VC

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Not only do you need a great team, a great idea, and be fishing in a big enough pond, but often times you also need some serious unfair advantages. They got into a Twitter conversation that lasted a full six minutes. I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too.

VC

StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

It needs to do that in under 4 minutes. In “The Social Network,” it’s when this coding, viral platform genius that we’ve been introduced to, gets presented with the Harvard Connect idea by the Winklevii and decides to steal it. That’s why we always encourage decks that can be wholly consumed in 4 minutes.

pitching

Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 13, 2021

In this blog post, I’ll share what we learned setting up our remote-first startup. We found that the tricks we learned and that are listed in this blog post are applicable in both of these contexts. We help startup founders, product managers, business analysts, and UX professionals demonstrate their product ideas easily.

startup

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. Boards shouldn’t assume that situations are broadly applicable but by introducing views from experience across many companies this should give executives ideas they may not have seen on their own. This should all be handled outside the board meeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. We built a fort, played Wii, ate pizza, wrestled and now they’re watching “Despicable Me&# for 90 minutes while I’m typing this. I value rule breaking. Bad, bad Mark. His choice. Now I do.&#.

leadership

The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Here's what you do: You set a timer for 25 minutes, work until it's up, then take a 5-minute break—and repeat the whole process three more times. After that, you take a 15- to 30-minute break, depending on how you feel. The work blocks are just 25 minutes long. Set a timer for 25 minutes.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 29:15 – Building assets for your company. Brian Halligan [04:15] – It was the night before business school, at a cocktail get-together at the Marriott hotel. 30:20 – Freemium.

consulting

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

To understand what most VC’s want between board meetings I think it’s useful to start with a quote from Mark Solon ’s blog for which I’m in complete agreement (along with agreeing with his entire post, which was brave, honest and accurate ). Most of them will read your board pack 30 minutes before the board meeting.

board

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more. She was paid 15% more. Everybody was calling me for Salesforce advice even though I had been working at the company for 5 minutes. I talked with a few VCs and batted around the idea of becoming a VC. That was the market.

consulting

Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Our seven-minute huddle begins at 10:55 a.m., That precise time is to reinforce the idea that every minute counts. About a minute into our huddle, we’re all feeling the energy. We’re about five minutes into the huddle. It’s the last 15 seconds. So what’s our secret to impactful huddles? At 10:53 a.m.

energy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It’s this idea of a soldier with grit — someone who can stand tall and endure through rough, stressful times. Have internal recovery through short breaks taken throughout the workday. Schedule in short breaks during your work hours designed to shift your attention away from the task at hand. But is this what resilience is?

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