Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

And actually if you have ADD you may just want to watch the videos I’ve embedded below because it’s easier to concentrate on that than reading a blog post. I’m not a doctor so everything you’ll read and listen to here will be my point-of-view from what I’ve read and from doctors I’ve consulted.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Experiences way beyond any hack-a-thon, startup blog or your current company engagement can enrich your thinking and challenge you to think more broadly about the solutions you offer in the market. panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. But I do make sure that I have a broad horizon from which to make decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

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. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. cheap accessible digital hardware]. It isn’t new stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My I’m delighted to get emails from anybody.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Arnold Waldstein , who stops by periodically on my blog and always leaves relevant comments, made the observation that, “if I want to connect with you, I’ll engage with you on this blog …from there, a follow on Twitter, a link on LinkedIn are closing the loop of connection rather that opening a cold door.&# This is so true.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 14, 2021

where “studentpreneurs” from 38 countries competed and connected with both seasoned entrepreneurs and their fellow competitors. But then I came across the video game Minecraft where, from nothing more than my tenacious passion, I built my first venture: a Minecraft community that I converted into a business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. The same limit also kept them from investing in Zynga.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. His new company was called YowTrip and he wanted to work on it full time. I know all of this from first hand experience. He’s South African.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

We asked authors Cyril Bouquet, Michael Wade and Jean-Louis Barsoux how entrepreneurs can benefit from Alien Thinking: What does it mean to think like an “alien”? . It can adapt existing ideas from a different world. The role of these divergent proposals is to get a reaction and learn from the client’s discomfort as well as delight.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Many of these complaints stem from the charges individuals found on their credit card statements.&# But in the past few years I’ve entered what is called the “sandwich years&# in which you start helping to take care of your parents as well as young kids. Hiding from something? Background. What do you think?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 13, 2012

We're spending a lot of time and money increasing the number of people who can write code, calling it an essential skill for the future--but will that last? People flocked to get Cisco certified for jobs that helped get offices physically setup and supported with computers, routers and servers to work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. They are often one click away from buying. My wife showed it to me.

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StartupNation

JUNE 6, 2025

Go through the top seven lessons from being an entrepreneur and CEO for 20 years, from leadership to business growth. Here’s how you can build one with these leadership lessons from my 20 years as a CEO: Hire the right people —recruit for values, not just skills: Never fall for resumes with unbelievable skill sets, but no culture fit.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2010

I feel it’s sort of like the carnival basketball game—where they put a hoop like four feet from you and tell you that you can win a big prize if you get one in on three shots. In the case of Techmeme, half the job is done when you curate the list of which tech blogs you should be paying attention to.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

To understand this in great detail see this very important blog post by Henry Blodget on the unemployment rate in the US and its impact on the recovery. The IMF just raised its global growth forecast from 2.5% I believe that investments now will lead to leaders in 5 years from now. It is also a result of pent-up demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

My arguments aren’t from a prudish perspective – I’m an ardent believer in free speech – but from a practical one. I guess it’s now the norm to allow the music I listen to on Spotify to be published to my friend (I swear it was my kids using my computer to listen to Neil Diamond guys ).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

There is nothing more rewarding then getting the call a year later to say, “You made us think. If you’re at a large corporation, you have the ability to give a startup the first contract they need to break out from the crowd or at least give them their first pilot. I started blogging because Brad Feld blogged.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2020

Displaced workers across the world are seeking ways to earn money online from the safety of their homes while health safety measures are in effect. When inquiring about their experience, you should request references from previous employers. Ask how long the employee worked there and whether they’d be eligible for rehire. Trustworthy.

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StartupNation

JUNE 6, 2025

Go through the top seven lessons from being an entrepreneur and CEO for 20 years, from leadership to business growth. Here’s how you can build one with these leadership lessons from my 20 years as a CEO: Hire the right people —recruit for values, not just skills: Never fall for resumes with unbelievable skill sets, but no culture fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. The amount of money we save for follow-ons is called “reserves.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says. ” “We’re excited to meet groups across all phases of the seed stage, from pre-idea solo founders to co-founding teams already working on a product,” OpenAI writes in a blog post shared with TechCrunch ahead of today’s announcement.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. They know who we are, don’t they?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

Because plugging a computer into your TV is still just too goddamn hard for the average person. You call them up, they send a redheaded guy with a box and you're done. 3) Remix, Comment, Blog, Tweet. Sharing links on my blog is to cumbersome, but I’d do it if I had a better clipping tool that posted. Cable is easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down. The fundamental problem with banner ads is a condition called “banner blindness&# meaning that our eyes are really quickly trained to look at what is most relevant on the page – the content we want to see. Nowadays banner ads get on average 0.2% The eyes are in the image.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. I had come from a world where I was nearly a partner at Accenture before starting my first company. Penny wise, pound foolish. Startups often make this mistake.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2011

When you take kids off the streets and out of the playgrounds, locking them… err… protecting them from the dangers of the outside world, you force them to turn to the computer in their room and now, the one in their pocket. I grew up in Brooklyn. TV was boring because it wasn’t social and wasn’t interactive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

I would take a strong employee referral from an existing employee I trust 10x over a person more qualified on paper (given similar skill levels). Here’s just one example post featuring the wisdom I learned from Stuart about negotiations. David is also frequently an inspiration for a story on my blog. But he knows it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

You also have an impressive array of side projects—from books and apps to philanthropic and environmental initiatives. While there have been a few times when I thought I’d have to close the doors of Urban Betty, I chose not to give up, to learn from my mistakes and to implement significant changes to save the business. What’s next?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The intense, international competition culminates with the Global Finals, where “studentpreneurs” from 50+ countries compete and make connections with both seasoned entrepreneurs and their fellow competitors. The family next door mentioned they needed a teenager to fix their computer. Tyler Olson is one such GSEA alumni.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

.” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I attend many tech focused events, hearing from tech executives and founders sharing their view of the world. Cloud computing is expensive. Cloud computing is all the rage. However the "hidden secret" is that at a certain scale cloud computing gets VERY expensive. See this blog post from popular investor Fred Wilson.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 21, 2021

Amongst these factors is what you might call the “reputation” of the website. Let’s explore what you can do to enhance the standing of your website by building links from authority websites. For example, the image below shows the first five results in response to a search I entered for “computer repairs Stretton.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

By Scott Spiro , an EO Los Angeles member and CEO of Computer Solutions Group, Inc. As busy entrepreneurs, we’re all concerned about protecting our businesses from harm. It’s not enough to focus only on office technology safety; we all use our computing devices at work and at home nowadays. Do not plug your USB in directly.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

Voices from the field. The ecosystem model approaches metrics in a new way shifting the focus from the short-term to the long-term (20+ years). And the ecosystem building metrics stem from the outcomes derived from the community. And the ecosystem building metrics stem from the outcomes derived from the community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 29, 2017

The trend stems partly from savvy business owners who do their homework before putting their product or service on the market. Depending on your needs, you could pay anywhere from US$500 to US$2,000 per month for a moderately sized place to call headquarters. By Doug Bonderud, writer and regular contributor for OnDeck.

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