Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. I hadn’t known Derek before but he knew I was a huge fan of the late Clayton Christensen, the HBS professor and author of the highly influential book, “ The Innovator’s Dilemma.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 22, 2020

These products can be used by many different teams and integrated for easy collaboration across your company. If you have many reference-able customers, then customer success is truly driving your company. If you have any questions about product management at your startup, book office hours with Mel here. Here’s a litmus test.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It’s a collaborative, generative experience that surfaces the concepts that matter most to your brand and company. You might even consider making an audio recording of the session to reference later. That’s where the visioning workshop comes in. Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As the field of entrepreneurial ecosystem building has started to grow over the last decade a few books dedicated exclusively to the topic have become valuable sources of information for ecosystem builders. I suspect many ecosystem builders will find the final sections of the book the most rewarding.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Maybe you're a salon that lets clients book services with individual providers, or perhaps your consulting agency needs a simple online appointment scheduling tool to organize discovery calls. Focus on the meeting, not the scheduling Automate your booking The best booking apps offer the perfect mix of flexibility and ease of use.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michèle Hecken : I had sold my business and was writing a book, which made me curious about public speaking. We have all stayed in contact, frequently collaborate, ask questions, and support one another. I’ve worked with many, shared the stage with a couple, and referred several others.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Consider collaborating with influencers. Once you have happy customers, make it easy for them to refer you. This doesn’t necessarily mean giving them gift cards or a discount if they refer you. Instead, think of ways to make it easy for people to refer you. Expand it into a blog post or an e-book.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

From math problem solvers and note-taking tools to book trackers and summary apps, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite educational and organizational apps for students to try this year. StoryShots breaks down a book into bite-size moments, giving the reader a few paragraphs that sum up the most important points.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

And yet, managing your professional life as a model, actor, writer or designer remains a mish-mash of emails, manual booking processes and dreaded PDFs. Late last year the Contact platform launched, initially offering models a way to take bookings and manage some aspects of their work. Image Credits: Contact.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

Though Bloomberg was able to continue building his business by acquiring offline businesses like John Aubert’s Sinkers, which published corporate bond prices in a reference book, the big unlock came when the company took on Merrill Lynch as their first design partner. Do regulators want to drive substantial change in your industry?

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Many companies are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a hybrid work model, meaning some employees will return to the office at least part-time, but others will collaborate remotely. Members frequently collaborate, hire one another or refer work through our community. When — and where — can your team get together?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

.” He described it as a progression along the same trajectories of “what Twilio did by coming in with APIs for communications, and Figma did with its concept of collaboration.” These days, the medium, as they say, is the message, and in that regard “publishing” has taken on a new meaning in the digital age.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The main driver for me to go into music was reading a book called ‘Empire State of Mind’ about Jay-Z,” Mr. Eazi told TechCrunch on a call. “I If Ajebutter22 plans to change his strategy as he makes more angel investments, setting up a formal structure like Zagadat Capital — which Mr Eazi references as a collective — will be essential.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

But over the past 8 years, the platform has expanded to handle various aspects of desk booking, room reservation and guest management. On the back end, managers can see how people are using different spaces and tap a calculator to figure out the ideal number of seats, desks and collaborative spaces for a given floor.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A download link is sent to you automatically by Gust once you create your profile, and the book is exactly what it says. When you come across another startup that you truly think might be a good match for one of your investors, by all means use the “Forward to a Friend” button on the company’s public Gust page to refer it.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2022

Have you ever double-booked yourself or perhaps forgotten about a meeting entirely? You can also share your boards and tag others on your notes when you need to, making collaboration much easier. Timer apps, sometimes referred to as productivity apps , allow you to set aside blocks of time in your day to tackle certain tasks.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The brothers wanted to create a more efficient way to reference building codes, which are so complex that many architecture and building firms hire code consultants to help them navigate regulations. ” Both ICC and UpCodes told TechCrunch that they collaborate closely with jurisdictions to make sure codes are up-to-date.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Often, they’re found in the review sections for books and movies, where, in my anecdotal experience, Amazon reviewers tend to be more… verbose. By treating each letter as a vector image and nudging that image towards a vector image of the object a word refers to, it creates pretty impressive logotypes.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With CredoVentures VC , I collaborated to enhance the capabilities of startup engineering leaders through mentoring and workshops. This collaboration involved a series of Leadership Academy workshops and online webinars, aimed at hedging their startup investments. Key Result: Grow the community from 350 members in 2023 to 500 in 2024.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

In i2e1, though I was hired as a UX designer, I collaborated with other teammates and took care of the branding, print design, offline and online marketing collaterals, marketing strategy, pitch presentations, and more. Cross-team collaboration The open floor comes with an added advantage: talk with everyone.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There’s a high degree of referability amongst these user types,” he said. Whenever a user posts a new project experience to their resume, they can add who they worked with as a collaborator. It’s different from LinkedIn, where you can add anyone you meet and they become a “connection.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Nowadays, we try to solve problems by negotiating; many books and experts still compare business to war. Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff introduced the term “coopetition”, which is a combination of cooperation and competition and which is used to refer to when rivals work together to achieve a common goal. Who’s the real enemy?

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Another impressive initiative that has been under Impact Hub’s radar for a while is Goodwings , a CO2-removing hotel booking platform on a mission to turn 1 billion trips into Net Zero by 2030.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 23, 2016

Maia Josebachvilli of Greenhouse recommends a deep collaboration between a recruiter and hiring manager. “A Laszlo Bock, the former Chief People Officer at Google, outlines some more techniques Google employs in his book, Work Rules! Seven month sabbatical to India at 19. Farmer at a commune in Oregon. Name that founder.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For instance, if you have written a great blog on a particular topic, you can refer to this blog in one of your social media posts. Léa Soller , CEO, Digiberries Paris Invites Collaboration Content marketing is vital for startups because it invites collaboration. Collaboration like that can be a major boost to any startup.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 21, 2020

Prior to that she was a Reference Librarian at St. Be sure to check out Mel’s collaborative article, “ Beyond Books: Libraries’ Role in Entrepreneurship Ecosystems ” on Medium. Mel Lambert is the Director of Adult & Community Services at Kirkwood Public Library. Mel credits her work at St.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Over the last decade there’s been an effort to corral this problem, but movement has largely been on the organizational side: put all your documents in one place, share and edit them collaboratively. We humans understand when the renter is named as Jill Jackson, that later on, “the renter” also refers to that person.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

But only the minority have high WeQs (Collaborative Intelligence). If you want your senior leadership team to work as a team you have to pay a lot more attention to many different areas e.g. communication, listening, supporting, collaborating etc. Working in a team is not the same as working as a team. It’s got harder!!

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

We had risk on the books to 47 distinct Lehman entities with complex subsidiary, guaranteed, non-guaranteed, collateralized, non-collateralized relationships. They have a really tough job and it is really important to collaborate with them and to become a trusted source of knowledge about how a business works.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

After having read Elad Gil’s book, I understand why. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager. Maybe we can start with that backstory on how that chapter inside of Elad’s book came together. I do my own reference calls. Her team loved working for her.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In addition, there are many other groups will give you cash, training, and community with few or no strings attached: Ashoka is a foundation that engages in scouring for and choosing the leading social entrepreneurs across the globe, who it refers to as Ashoka Fellows. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Skoll Foundation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

[if you're not old enough to get the reference between this image and the title you can click on the image for a prompter]. These days we all use Skype and collaboration tools. In this space you don’t have a pre-assigned space but rather book space like a hotel. We don’t believe in it anymore.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain.

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OnStartups

JUNE 9, 2021

And that something has to be articulated in collaboration with the team. Note: When I say “systems”, I don’t mean just technical systems -- and I”m not just referring to engineers here. At a tactical level, strongly encourage people read books. But you need something. Transparency is scary -- but spectacularly effective.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 8, 2021

They both reference the writing of Dror Poleg on this topic so I will link to his blog as well. Infuse the space with technology to facilitate communication and collaboration with remote employees. There are a lot of ways to actually build guardrails around employee’s lives, and we discuss them at length in the book.

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