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 LOVE this part of my job. My job doesn’t involve the daily grind of customer complaints, product outages, business partner / channel problems, hiring / firing, etc. And the VC job has plenty of admin and minutiae.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Aside from the hatred directed at me for starting the debate, I actually think we did a good job of getting the debate going if 128 people left lengthy comments on HN to my post plus 80 more in Paul Dix’s rebuttal and yet more on Andrew Warner’s rebuttal. I have thick enough skin or I wouldn’t blog.

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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. So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) It’s not my job to be a cheerleader. but the truer number of underemployed is a whopping 16.8%!

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AUGUST 20, 2010

3) Remix, Comment, Blog, Tweet. Now, I’m much more likely to share something on Twitter than I am to tag it in del.icio.us. Sharing links on my blog is to cumbersome, but I’d do it if I had a better clipping tool that posted. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. 6) Consumer Friendly.

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MARCH 18, 2010

When a reader lands on my blog, they’re going to run into a lot of people. Not only is my e-mail address on my blog, but I even have a live Plugoo widget that you can type into and send me a message on AIM. When you don’t do a good job of generating loyalty to a writer or a beat, you’re not going to get many repeat visitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. It is occasionally our job to spar with management – to point out where we don’t agree with the direction that is being proposed.

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MARCH 10, 2010

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. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. In a way, Techmeme isn’t really recommending stories as it is telling you which people you should be paying attention to.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

People had been steadily blogging for 2-3 years and this crowd seemed to bifurcate. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo. So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. started blogging again outlined here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

Let’s face it, if people want to blog as a career they have to be able to make money. I actually think that Twitter is doing a great job of navigating the tough waters of moving from a free ecosystem to a commercial one. Tags: Start-up Advice. The same is true for this latest announcement.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

I’ve always believed in small, private groups—dating back to when I first started blogging. I acknowledged that most blogs were private and only read by a handful people—like on Live Journal and MySpace. Nor would I share important job news before sharing with just my immediate family members.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s your job to make sure their decisions align with your own goals. If you’ve decided that you need US$20 million to retire, but your current cash flow doesn’t warrant that price tag, it could make sense to wait until business picks up before pursuing a deal. and more articles from the EO blog. . Why sell your business?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. It’s hard for angels to assess whether or not to invest because they often have day jobs and can’t commit to the kind of due diligence that most VCs go through.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. What if one guy needs to pay bills and takes a full time job somewhere. 2 of the 3 want the job. Tags: Start-up Advice. This is part of my ongoing series, “ Startup Lessons.&#. Should he/she keep 50%? Who prevails?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 1, 2009

If you’ve read my blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a fan of starting businesses in a non-traditional way. I don’t plan to cover how to best pick your co-founder as it seems the VentureHacks is about to do a bang-up job on this. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. Take your inventory.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

Did someone else pull you’re financial model together while you did “your job?&# Not good enough. I wrote a blog post about being hands on where I argued that startup founders need to be hands-on or in my words, “you can’t run a burger chain if you’ve never flipped burgers.&#. Unfortunately.

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MARCH 1, 2010

If your first resort when you have trouble raising money is to complain about New York on a tech blog, you’re really doing yourself a disservice in the relationship building area. On top of that, tech blogs like TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOM, and Venturebeat all cover NYC tech startups. Response: Wall St.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I suffer from the “urgency addiction.&# I know it sounds like one of the falsely humble things like telling somebody in a job interview that your weakness is that you’re too much of a perfectionist. Tags: Startup Advice. But the urgency addiction is a bad thing that I’m fortunate enough to get away with.

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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 ). You need to know how “tag along&# rights could potentially screw you. He represented us at one firm I invested in and did a great job.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

I get too many, “This blew my mind” headlines, too many “Bob also commented on a post you’re tagged in” and too many quizzes, ads and drivel. It does for me when Twitter used to do a better job of. Still want to port my blog their. I use it often enough. But often it feels like a chore.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Eventbrite could do a tremendous job really onboarding all of your users into all of the services that would satisfy their in-event needs instead of just losing the end user after the confirmation e-mail that you’re attending. The architecture easily allows you to drop in a blog on any page or have multiple ones across the same site.

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JUNE 22, 2010

I can generally strike up at least a brief conversation with anyone—which helps a lot when your job is basically to talk to strangers. However, a read of his blog depicts well considered intentionality, and I respect that. Tags: It's My Life Venture Capital & Technology.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Monitor job changes. Victoria Vessecchia, Sales Director, Grata , suggested, “Leverage social media platforms – like job change alerts via Linkedin Sales Navigator – to monitor target accounts.” . This was cross-posted on Integrity Research’s blog. Look for platform deals.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. individual emails, e.g., “I just changed jobs and here’s my new contact info” . We looked for systems which used tagging as their core data model, instead of categorization.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! I know it’s their job, but it makes a difference so being nice never hurts. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital. They have probably seen 4-5 new companies this week minimum. Let’s be honest.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2016

Fifteen years later, the focus for technologists – whether they originate from the White House, Silicon Valley, or grassroots initiatives like Albany Can Code – isn’t on increasing the diversity of people who have access to the internet; it’s on increasing diversity among those who have jobs in the tech sector. passport holders.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. In this blog post, we’re not going to talk about different business models, seat-based VS usage volume pricing, or subscription VS pay-as-you-go. Your first price is going to be wrong no matter what.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Let’s say you meet a Nigel or Bambi one day when you’re interviewing them for a job— imagine how much harder it is for them to prove their worth should they be smart, confident, outgoing, attractive and astute? Whatever works, works … and you don’t necessarily need to tweet it, like it or tag it to get there.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 3, 2016

Let’s say you meet a Nigel or Bambi one day when you’re interviewing them for a job— imagine how much harder it is for them to prove their worth should they be smart, confident, outgoing, attractive and astute? Whatever works, works … and you don’t necessarily need to tweet it, like it or tag it to get there.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Other features for a digital journal that might be important to you include password protection, Markdown support, the ability to add more than one photo, location and weather tags, and journaling prompts. for Pro), iOS ($4.99

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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

Plenty of side hustles can earn you a bit of side income, but only some have the potential to reach six figures per year, especially if you’re working a full-time job, too. Look at products on Amazon, conduct a Google search, review websites and blogs related to the topic and see what they’re promoting and how they’re doing it.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. I looked at the SEO tools each website builder offers, such as the ability to adjust page titles and meta descriptions, add alt tags, and upload a site map. You can edit meta and alt tags and optimize for mobile.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It also wrote a bit more about the fundraise on its own blog.). Vori does a great job at showing off — in a delightfully visual way — what the problem is. ” Vori does an exceptional job at painting a picture of a market that is robust, thriving, growing and worth addressing. Image Credits : Vori.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. However, being a “microinfluencer” is now part of the job description. . I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. Linkedin.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

For example, an Initiator or a User will likely be interested in a how-to guide that relates to an aspect of the User's job. For example, you might set up an automation that tags email contacts with any new information you receive about them, like demographic details and job characteristics.

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Continuations

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is the second complete overhaul of the site since USV launched with a blog in 2004 (modulo some smaller experiments with tagging in between). More importantly though it does a better job laying out the evolution of the USV investment thesis over time. Today we have launched a new website for USV.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2010

But I have a wonderful family, a job I enjoy and a life for which I’m grateful. My wife reads a blog every day that she loves (and highly recommends to everybody) called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She loves it and always has such great stories to tell me about the blog in the evenings when we talk about life.

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