Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. I realized that it is not enough to know one partner per firm and it is not enough for only the management team to like you. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

It led to the creation of Google Maps, Gmail and many other projects that without ad dollars wouldn’t exist. I find it totally acceptable because I believe Robert has high integrity and manages church / state issues himself. When Brad Feld lists a book on his blog with an affiliate link that he monetizes is that wrong?

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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. And many of these people are money managers rather than people like Gus who inspire entrepreneurs. In these many exchanges similar questions crop up.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

had a very ambitious project. The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. The two most ambitious projects were ThereNow and IQ Engines. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Team Pip.io I wrote about how to give demos in a previous post.

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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. Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. The problems are much more manageable. It’s like the manager of a basketball team. That’s true.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

Until a few years ago I had tried every task management list and failed each time so I, too, resorted to email to-do’s. 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. Still want to port my blog their.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. From the debate on VentureHacks, our offline chats and from our blog posts, I think that Chris Dixon and I are pretty much 98% aligned on the topic.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

Starting as a 14-year-old, I would pore over sports blogs to find out who the future stars of my favorite college football programs would be. Between managing my rag-tag team of part-time software developers, attempting to keep customers happy, and trying to sell new ones, I’d been just trying to survive each day.

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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 ). How to manage costs - One of the biggest frustrations that people have with lawyers are unexpected costs. Much of this is unfounded – some is not.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 23, 2010

I took a meeting with a city official once and the first think he said to me was that the contents of the meeting were not to be blogged. The position will: “help develop forward-thinking policies on social media, digital communications, web 2.0 Hmm… Lots of building, broadcasting, promotion, releasing info… …but you know what I don’t see?

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Managing projects in a small business setting might seem simple—there are fewer people involved and fewer processes to navigate. But big businesses often have a dedicated project manager for marketing, another for sales, and another for product development. Successful projects don't happen in a vortex.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Do you work as a civil engineer on water projects and have great access to wealthy project developers? Find out who funded them – Contact the management teams. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice. Take them for a coffee. Ask them for advice.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Here are ways to use automated workflows for time tracking and task management. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. You can customize the link text (just click Manage ) and even create an administrator link, so other people can reset the timer as needed.

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 8, 2022

It’s content-driven yet concise, and each article — whether they’re demystifying Google’s latest algorithm updates or diving into voice search — gets a 1-2 sentence tag to grab readers. . Plus, it feels organized, which is exactly what you want from a project management software. . The small description is important.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Automate your IT management workflows Learn how Dogs don't know what running clothes are, per se, but they pick up easily on patterns of behavior. This allows it to not only recognize patterns in data but also align actions, insights, and projections at scale and over time. They can even predict behavior and react preemptively.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Our portfolio company DreaMed Diabetes is teaming up with the University of Colorado School of Medicine to help more people manage their condition. Sprout is investing $1M in Protag, whose smart ear tag for cows allows farmers to continuously monitor the animal’s health, location, grazing and breeding habits.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

If the recruiting manager’s job consisted solely of reviewing your resume it would be an easy task. One of the most common tasks of “knowledge workers&# is to analyze a situation and present conclusions to others in order to make decisions on a project. You, the king of the overly long blog posts?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I'm sort of projecting here where I guess I think I put myself in your shoes. And I published this on my own startups blog. So my agreement with Brian was I'm not going to have any management responsibilities in this company. I'm going to be in it a hundred percent, but I'm not a good manager. Shaan: Right.

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