Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. on all the computers and established a network using Novell. I had to laugh a bit reading it. MBA fine, but not required.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

Passion is also the featured heavily in nearly every presentation I give to entrepreneurs or on college campuses or in talks with MBA students. We first met five years ago through serendipity as I described in this 2009 blog post and elaborated on again in more detail 2010.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I'm not a publisher, so I have to rely on my network to do due diligence. It costs nearly know money to blanket your industry with the buzz that you're onto something--either through 1:1 meetings, blogging, or just being *the* industry expert in the space. Consider the following mental exercise. You pitch me on some product that.

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StartupNation

JUNE 6, 2025

You should agree on three or five key promotional strategies, ideally meeting your business needs for a start: Blogging Best for → establishing authority over time and search engine optimization (SEO) PPC advertising Best for → speedy conversions (be careful not to overspend on it!) Need faster results? Yet, remember about seasonality, too.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

Presenting a clear, detailed plan to potential investors or partners demonstrates your commitment and enhances confidence in your startup’s potential to overcome any upcoming challenges. and more articles from the EO blog. The post Lean and Mean: How to Boost Startup Growth on a Shoestring Budget first appeared on The EO Blog.

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INBIA

APRIL 8, 2024

This vibrant locale, nicknamed Alamo City, River City, Military City, and even the City of Creativity for Gastronomy, will offer much more than just presentations and networking events. In a few days, the InBIA community will convene in San Antonio for ICBI38!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 30, 2016

We are therefore setting out to leverage our network of social entrepreneurs and the insights gleaned from their work to advance a “changemaker economy.” The post EO Partner Presents: A New Approach to Social Change appeared first on THE BLOG. We at Ashoka are dedicated to supporting businesses in making this transition.;

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StartupNation

JUNE 6, 2025

You should agree on three or five key promotional strategies, ideally meeting your business needs for a start: Blogging Best for → establishing authority over time and search engine optimization (SEO) PPC advertising Best for → speedy conversions (be careful not to overspend on it!) Need faster results? Yet, remember about seasonality, too.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Lower Stress in Real-Time “Your high-level thinking and reasoning are no match for the sensory network that controls your internal stress switch,” said Dr. Amy Serin (EO Arizona) , author of The Stress Switch. Use Tech as a Mindfulness Game-Changer Being more mindful and present in your daily life is a stress-buster, and tech can help.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

With more than 875 million users across more than 200 countries, LinkedIn is a household name in the world of professional networking. At present, Peerlist does not have a model to generate revenues. The world is ready for some innovation when it comes to online professional networks,” said HubSpot’s Shah, in a statement.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2011

” There’s a valid concern in here somewhere—that our youth is actually becoming less social—but the cause of this problem isn’t social networking. For many teens, online social networking is both a symptom of and a remedy for their increasingly sheltered lives and limited freedoms provided by parents.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

We believe this presents a massive opportunityand were building our firm to be the go-to partner for founders innovating in this space. Consumer has the largest share of global GDP, and yet consumer startups have been underfunded by venture capital in recent years, said Sasha Kaletsky, Managing Partner at Creator Ventures.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Sure, business owners and entrepreneurs aren’t required to deliver keynote presentations at large conferences or launch side careers as inspirational speakers. Begin with these four tips as you start preparing your next presentation: DO learn from great speakers. Watch videos of powerful presentations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 15, 2022

Our inclusive, supportive network showed that we can ride out unprecedented global crises together—that’s who we are. If you are an EO member, I strongly encourage you to watch the video of Mick’s stage presentation on our website here. and more articles from the EO blog. . It might just change your life. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 29, 2020

As human beings, we often have the desire to present an invincible front. Here’s a trick I use to stay connected to my network. appeared first on THE EO BLOG. We don’t like showing vulnerability of any kind. I make a list of the 15 people I most appreciate speaking with. The post Are you heading toward burnout?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. I get paid to network – I love meeting people. I get to network with angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, etc. We spend the entire day together on Mondays in our partners’ meetings and seeing companies present.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Daniel Pink’s presentation, The Power of Regret , provided an opportunity to rethink and re-frame my mindset. Winnie Hart ‘s presentation on how to Stand Out as a Thought Leader provided great tools that reaffirmed why I do what I do.”. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. post-script.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I asked him to present to my partners. I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress.

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JUNE 17, 2024

If you’re a Black female founder with revenue struggling to raise and you see two straight white dudes get $5 million for their Powerpoint presentation, it’s only logical to assume the process is stacked against you. Today, I want to write about how to measure how likely you are to get funded, especially when compared to other companies.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 2, 2021

It is vital for entrepreneurs and aspiring leaders to understand unconscious biases that may be present in their journey to growing their business or organization. Unconscious, or implicit, bias refers to the underlying attitudes or beliefs about other individuals or groups, based on identity traits, outside our own conscious awareness.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

There’s also been some great blog chatter from Sarah Tavel ( here ) and Josh Kopelman ( here and here ) on the topic. If you get a permit to do business in the city, you should automatically get signed up to take an online marketing course and be presented accounts in all of these local plays. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

NYC Chapter January 2010 Meetup January meetup is dedicated to " enabling better care by enabling clinical staff" and we have just the presenters for that. January 2010 Presenters: 1. RSVP: [link] 6:30PM: DigitalFlashNYC Networking Event on E-Readers Kindle, Nook, Sony E-Reader, the Apple tablet (maybe?).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! Tige and I discuss an excellent blog post written by the CEO of Hulu (Jason Kilar) on the future of advertising. The networks seem to be emphatic about monetization for the present. Where exactly it missed the mark is hard to say. Netflix is a great example.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 31, 2024

I’m always surprised how, in EO, you can reach out to the network of entrepreneurs with a particular need, and there is always someone who will share a recommendation. Seminars in Asana and business presentations broadened my skill set. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At 11:30pm one evening, I went to a 24-hour printing business, wrote my first business plan, printed it, bound it, and by 11 am that same morning my sister (who was travelling to the US) had it in her hand to present to headquarters. I created custom PCs for consumers, built networks for small businesses, and developed websites.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2021

The electrical codes in North America had no provision for networked radio frequency switching. The Brundtland Report defined sustainable development as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. We had found our sustainable business model!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

With 568 MyEO interest and industry groups in the EO network database, there is truly something for everyone. Monthly sessions share best practices, resources and cover everything from marketing, presentations, ghostwriting, publishing tips, pitching–any and everything related to promoting authors and speakers.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 19, 2020

In case anything we learned can be valuable, below is a copy of a blog post we just published on our blog showing what we did to make it work. Today’s RVI meeting was held online via Zoom and, while we certainly missed the unstructured networking and other aspects of an in-person meeting, it worked and we can make them better.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

On 25–26 June 2019, EO presented a two-day International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations focused on inspiring, educating and connecting business leaders to promote sustainable business practices. The level of engagement, passion and commitment demonstrated by attendees was beyond expectations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2018

This was a question posed at a networking event that EO DC recently participated in. . At the event, presenters shared resources on building a talent pipeline that includes people with disabilities. EO is the only global network exclusively for entrepreneurs. Discover EO today. Discover EO today. Photo © Wavebreakmedia.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. It just so happened that there was a conference coming up run by a guy named Ismael Ghalimi, a very well respected software executive who also was keeping a blog at the time for companies in the space. Yeah, right.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post. Reminds me of how the networks today announced they were blocking their video content from being shown on Google TV.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 12, 2024

It strengthened my belief in the power of mentorship and the cohesive, supportive nature of the EO network. I was inspired by the competitors, their presentations, and how much they want to change the world.” — Kate Hancock, EO APAC Bridge “I was most surprised by the sheer determination and innovative spirit of the young entrepreneurs.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Welcome to Social Media Week --the one week out of the year where we get to tweet and blog about social media! The phenomenon, they argue, will accelerate creativity across a larger network. RSVP: [link] 12PM Networked News Gatherers: Defining the Social Media Editor Role, hosted by Time Inc. Try the waitlists. So which is it?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Regardless of our audience or the stage we aspire to dominate, EO has created a programme that turns EOers into exceptional presenters. I had experience teaching university classes, some presenting for work, but it was giving an EO talk that inspired me to want more. day classroom training programme on public speaking.

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