Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

We know the mantra: Team matters. Team is the only thing that matters. Your ability to keep up is dependent on having a great team of differing skills. Individuals don’t build great companies, teams do. The company with the best team on the field will win. So how exactly do you assemble such a team?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Designate time windows for your team to ask questions, raise concerns, or share feedback. The top three categories of techniques make up 80 percent of the most effective strategies entrepreneurs use to build mental resilience,” Aaron said. “To and more articles from the EO blog. Clearly communicate your availability.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 12, 2021

As we finish the week of International Women’s Day, what better story to share than one of a woman who created a whole new beverage category while pregnant with her fourth child, with three kids under the age of 6 and a US$50,000 budget!? In the category of “things she didn’t see coming,” Goldin recounts her experience with Starbucks.

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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. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Podcasts have emerged as a major new category in media/entertainment/news/education etc. We made an investment in Headgum recently and blogged about it on the USV blog this morning. USV TEAM POSTS: Hanel Baveja — Jul 23, 2020 Headgum Albert Wenger — Jul 21, 2020 Help Stop Fascism.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Based on my testing this year, I'd be happy to work with a team using any of these picks. Unless explicitly stated, 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. Accessible everywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. ” She’s right.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

That choice puts you squarely in the freelance category. That title connotes someone who leads a team of employees. Those people become part of your team, even though they aren’t employees. Making the mindset shift appeared first on THE BLOG. I usually list my title as owner, which feels more entrepreneurial.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

There seem to be a lot of market entrants in every category where it becomes hard to differentiate them all from each other. It’s why as an investor I look for talented teams with long-term vision, a unique point-of-view, differentiated IP and a desire to build something enduring. Many “me, too&# companies will perish.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. The same kind of tasks that a startup team has. I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. The same kind of tasks that a startup team has.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

VC Blogger Fanboy This geek reads all the blogs religiously and is a lean startup ninja. We've assembled the best team of advisors--a vertible who's who of who's who--except that we don't know any of them, and they don't really know us either. I really love a team, and I'm trying to help them out. The Powerpoint Celebrity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates and other senior teams from Microsoft need to want to promote local startups. But Jeff, Bill, Steve as well as Howard Schultz, the executive team at CostCo, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I wish Paul & team could see my views in why Demo Days are right for me as more of my style than anything I think is wrong with them. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends. I attended events. I did speaking gigs.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

There was no reason to think that her technical team couldn't accomplish this--and, in fact, customers had already been using various hacked together versions of it previously. That does not mean, however, that anyone else outside that category is unable to raise. First off, the vast majority of venture dollars goes to white men.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

We had different categories and one was philanthropy. ” Not only are you and your team fulfilling a charitable goal, you’re also supporting team growth. The post How to Give Back Through Your Business appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

I've grouped them into categories to make things easier to scan, but keep in mind: the best ads don't always fit neatly into a box. Atlassian This Atlassian ad dramatizes the pain of siloed dev and IT teams with protest-style visuals, then pitches Jira Service Management as the all-in-one solution.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The organization asked our team of data scientists and engineers to build the most comprehensive med-surg catalog the healthcare industry had ever seen. Escalating heart rates, sleep deprived eyes and much anxiety later, we delivered our first category 45 days later. This challenge spelled fear and opportunity in equal parts.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. As the CEO you have a team that is counting on you and a board that is measuring your performance. The Urgency Addiction – Deep down I’m a procrastinator. I’m not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I wish Paul & team could see my views in why Demo Days are not right for me as more of my style than anything I think is wrong with them. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends. I attended events. I did speaking gigs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A few months ago, we did a blog post on how to get a CISO to buy your product. Your product must: Have key security solutions or applications used by the firm Have APIs that can be used to integrate with homegrown tools Support industry standards that are applicable to your product category. It is no different for CISOs.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 10, 2021

This is a repost from the Launch413 blog. Simply put, the VIRAL Scorecard identifies where a company is situated in specific categories key to its future success, including the strength of its team, its market penetration, and scaling. I really like the way we’re using the Scorecard with the Launch413 team.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

The best mind mapping tools Coggle for mind map beginners and occasional use MindMeister for collaborating on a mind map with a team Ayoa for a modern approach to mind mapping MindNode for Apple users Xmind for personal brainstorming QuikFlow for quickly building out organized mind maps What is mind mapping?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I have too many portfolio companies without exits and I want to see some returns before I put too much more money into this category.&#. You can back great teams and concepts but sometimes they simply don’t win. And these are people with deep pockets. the diversity problem. If you’re the sucker at the table – others will smell it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. So you really want LPs who invest in the category in good markets and bad. This was in 2010 — exactly the wrong time to be pulling out of venture.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The The ideas … have been very exciting to me and my team.” The team knew that they had a wealth of data that helped them make deals for their clients, and they sold this data to companies in their space. Identifies what your market needs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Regardless of where you live and work, understanding the relative strengths and weaknesses of your country can help you navigate the challenges faced by any startup—from employee salaries and hiring a great team to legal regulations and market competition. Best by Category. Top European Countries for Startups. Labor Quality.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Ann is known for her debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of Champions and second in the State of California in high school) and was part of a five-person team at Yale that competed in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France. Favorite business book, blog, podcast? Q&A: What is your / your fund's mission?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

In order to be competitive, a company needs to have just about everything in place, from its product to its team to market traction, before it is ready to seek funding. With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 25, 2025

Hosted by i2E and presented by Loves Travel Stops, this years event awarded more than $167,000 in prizes across multiple categories, celebrating the brightest emerging entrepreneurs from colleges and universities throughout the state. Small Business Winners In the Small Business division, ORU teams swept the top two spots.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, 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. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Style and tone suggestions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

billion it said in a blog post that TechCrunch viewed before publication. Webflow’s product fits into a category of companies arguing that building software for the Internet should get easier over time, not harder. Magdalin said that the money may be spent on its enterprise products, support team, platform, and recruiting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Acquiring early customers fall in the same category: Why should they trust you over a larger, more established competitor? A lot of companies decide to leave their entire storytelling efforts with the marketing team. At all of my companies, I’ve run behind-the-scenes blogs, and it’s a practice that has led to unpredictable results.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

With an experienced team that is passionate about financial literacy and education, Infina is well-positioned to ride this wave of growth.”. 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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