Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

” This clip is just 2 minutes: I agree. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. I have been blogging for years – even before BothSidesofTheTable.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Floodgate exists to invest in prime movers - entrepreneurs who build movements that become category defining companies - before the rest of the world believes in them. Favorite business book, blog, podcast? It’s different, because rather than focusing on building a product or a business, they’re thinking about building a category.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. Let me give you an example.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round. As they continue investing, Infina’s users see information about the risk and return profile of each asset category and the issuer’s profile, investment strategy and historical performance.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

His blog is even called SaaStr (a bit too close to Suster if you ask me ;-)). My partner Steven Dietz is an auto enthusiast and more than just an admirer of amazing cars he has worked around the auto industry for 20 years and backed a couple of billion-dollar startups in the category. I know that sounds corny but it’s true.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the 2-way web. Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. 2% of cash raised, with larger percentages for smaller funds. ” Including bonuses, the ballpark salary for a new business development associate with a private equity firm is around $100,000. Monetizing our deal flow.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Apple announced that they’re shutting down your category. He has staked his reputation on a project to use the software of some shitty 2-year-old startup company because he believes! Develop a thick skin for it. Your impertinence would get you fired in 2 days for telling your boss he’s a f**k wit.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How Web3 startups should deploy their limited marketing resources Photo: Burst Almost $2 trillion of market value has disappeared from the crypto industry in 2022, taking with it much of the buzz around Web3. With the crypto winter in full swing for several months now, marketers?—?and and their budgets?—?have have felt the freeze.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If I have an event in the evening or am traveling for work then I can easily get through 2 days without sending any non-essential email. You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

There is a structural reason that VCs are investing at early stages, 2. If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. I would expect 2-3 deals out of 10 to hit the A status. I’ve written about it myself (Is VC Seed Funding Dead?)

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

I've spent a lot of time reading and developing style guides, and this article will tell you everything you need to know about building a content style guide, from what it is, to whether your company truly needs it, to how to put one together. You create better, consistent, and high-quality content for your audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? Using Crunchbase data, I analyzed share of dollars commanded by each of these 16 categories over the last five years to understand the trends in both the seed and series A fundraising markets.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

This strategy can help you separate tasks into their relevant categories and give you a tangible outline of what your daily schedule may look like. No matter how much experience you have as a developer or a marketer, you hired your teams for a reason. But trust me: You need a day— or two—off to fully recharge your batteries.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 2, 2023

That's why the app's developers have worked on robust privacy features , which include SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, CCPA, and VPAT compliance. Podcasters can keep Otter running in the background as they record to have the content ready for repurposing for social media or a personal blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I recently survived Hurricane Irma as she unleashed all the fury of a Category 5 storm on South Florida. However, we do sometimes develop superhero syndrome, always thinking about others as we focus on “People, strategy, execution and cash.” By Davide Frau, an EO South Florida member.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

From Manish Singh: Samsung has launched two credit cards in India , entering a crowded category that sees more than 50 companies fiercely compete for consumers’ attention in the world’s second largest internet market. The firm, valued last year at about $2 billion, has raised over $500 million in equity.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 9, 2020

This is the third “iteration” of this blog. 2/ I wanted to get a professional developer team involved that I can rely on from time to time to help me with technical issues. 3/ I wanted to improve search so that we can all find those old blog posts that we know exist but are no longer on the front page.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . After the grace period, the return payments begin, often lasting until a return cap is hit, such as 2-5 times the original investment. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . After the grace period, the return payments begin, often lasting until a return cap is hit, such as 2-5 times the original investment. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 17, 2022

The merge itself is unaffected by the price of ETH, and will succeed or fail solely based on the skills of the Ethereum core developers. Social media and blog posts are the primary mediums through which information is disseminated about various layer-1 chains. Which of these applications are category leaders? Applications?—?Which

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Knowing when to be in growth mode and when to hold back is a skill you develop as you become a seasoned entrepreneur. Businesses often grow on an S-curve and there are three general stages of development—startup, midsize and full grown. Below are some items to consider when deciding if an expansion if worthwhile.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

If you develop something novel that catches a spark you’ll have the world gunning for you over night. I wrote an entire blog post about this in the past highlighting my belief that you should hire people who “punch above their weight class.” It means a welter weight who wants to fight in the heavy-weight category.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

What new developments will shape this promising sector? Retail sales of plant-based meats increased 20% in the US in 2018 — a significant figure considering that all food sales grew only 2% and that production was slowed by a dearth of processing capacity for the pea-protein isolate used by plant-based producers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around. I already mentioned DLA Piper.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The Each criteria was weighted at either a 1 or 2, though any multiplier could be used. Since the company wanted to reach low-hanging fruit, they weighed the feasibility category at 2. The ideas … have been very exciting to me and my team.”

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Solving the novelty problem: Enter DALL-E DALL-E is a generative AI model developed by Open AI that can generate images from a text prompt. It's going to look something like this: Here are some guidelines for your prompt words: Having four categories of words tends to work better than, say, seven or eight. Sign up for free.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The dream of autonomous driving certainly isn’t going away any time soon, and both automakers want to get there, whether via in-house development or third-party acquisition. Kite, a startup developing an AI-powered coding assistant, shut down in November despite securing tens of millions of dollars in venture capital backing.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This blog post will explore what a soft launch is and why it can be beneficial for game studios. This allows developers to test different aspects of the game, such as the gameplay, graphics, and economy in a real-world environment without the pressure of a full release.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

My 2 biggest positives: 1. In America being in this type of job means that you get 2 (maybe 3) weeks of vacation per year. I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? He had 2 kids and seemed to stay late for mostly political reasons (or maybe he enjoyed it more than he enjoyed being home?).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It surfaces these customer development conversations for you and analyzes them for common patterns. This happens in 2 flavors. Here’s my guide on the 6 categories of keywords to track for sales opportunities. Validate a Solution You have a product idea to solve a problem. Next step — go talk to people!

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

But big businesses often have a dedicated project manager for marketing, another for sales, and another for product development. We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

In all the podcasts I listened to and blogs I read, there was a consistent refrain: "You need to set aside time to think big." Get the Zapier blog in your inbox Subscribe So, I crowdsourced the answers. " If everyone was saying a version of this, it seemed important. But what did it mean ? Where were you?

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