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Meet Waldo, Head of Corp Dev

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2005, when I was with Union Square Ventures, we changed our brochureware homepage into a blog. A few other VCs had been blogging before, but no one had gone as far as to make the whole front facing effort of their firm into something so interactive. It changed the way we worked with entrepreneurs.

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. Not only did users start signing up for backup of the hosted photo services they were using, but they started requesting additional services as well—Google Docs, Basecamp, blogs, even their web e-mail.

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When VCs Play Defense

Both Sides of the Table

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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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Quite the opposite. I don’t hold grudges.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Quite the opposite. I don’t hold grudges.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. how to market our products and company. He formerly held many roles at Salesforce including running sales operations and many product teams.

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The AI App Store Is Here

Revolution

Why it will revolutionize the way we shop, browse, and learn Source: openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins The electrifying launch and global adoption of ChatGPT has been amazing to witness. For users, the productivity we can all gain in our personal and professional workflows is staggering to imagine.