TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

According to a survey from GoodHire , 75% of managers want workers in the office, citing the potential lack of focus and loss of company culture. But over the past 8 years, the platform has expanded to handle various aspects of desk booking, room reservation and guest management. Image Credits: Robin. Image Credits: Robin.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Instead of putting the onus on customers to roll up their sleeves, he suggests that SaaS startups learn from cryptocurrency culture and find ways to “incentivize users to do the necessary work to have the right experience.” Dear Sophie: Any unique immigration strategies for quick hiring? Maverick in Milpitas.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

As my wife will tell you – arguing is cultural – you grow up with it or you don’t. I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. There were online tools to book this stuff but the Internet booking sites were early. It’s very Jewish.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. Published and reprinted by permission of Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

“Work agreements” is an intentionally broad phrase, but encapsulates everything that a team decides about how work works, from paternal leave strategies to strategic priorities to how hiring works. Murmur is a web-based platform that allows startups to author, customize and plan policies that will shape a team’s culture.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Grab a cup of coffee and strap in, because this pitch deck teardown is pretty different from most of the ones I’ve done to date. This is a blockchain pitch. The pitch deck is for Simba Chain , a blockchain company that raised $25 million in a Series A. Pitch Deck Teardown: Arkive’s $9.7M seed deck.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs, some citing Elon Musk, told me that they’re bringing back an in-person work culture in the following year to help promote productivity and, in some cases, loyalty. Pinterest lays off 150 people as a part of its ‘long-term strategy’ Is Instagram considering paid verification?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If your startup is formulating a zero-party data strategy, please read. Their chat covered topics as far afield as Airbnb’s “work anywhere” policy, how it’s addressing liability issues for hosts and his biggest regret from the COVID-19 era: I overrode the host cancellation policy and refunded more than a billion dollars of guest bookings.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

Let’s look at the nine common entrepreneurial traps that drive business owners to the brink of burnout, and then let’s focus on the strategies that will generate the fuel needed for afterburn so you can summon the boost of energy you need to propel your business to the next level. The nine entrepreneurial traps.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2021, our company culture grew like wildfire, fueled by untamed ambition and seemingly limitless demand from a pandemic-stricken events industry. But the book of Hopin has just begun. Eric Ries said that “a pivot is a change in strategy but not a change in vision?—?” We acquired five companies in our first two years.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I record here the books I’ve read, not as diligently as I should. Abigail Rogers-Berner, Content Strategy, Bionic , wrote, “Our social media platforms serve very different purposes.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

For instance, Dunkin Donuts’ slogan “America Runs on Dunkin” makes people feel part of American culture. Here’s the brand story of the vacation rental company, Airbnb: “A trusted community marketing for customers to list, book, and discover unique accommodations for unique travel experiences.” .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

If you are a sports fan, you will have regularly heard how important it is to have a team of leaders on the pitch, not just rely on one. Once you are clear on why you are here, you can set the strategy and the goals. personality, cultural background?—?and Successful companies have distributed leadership across the business.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Patricio Paucar , Co-founder + Chief Customer Officer, Navi Read a Few Books The late Zig Ziglar wrote a lot of books about sales, as did Tom Hopkins. Tony Robbins often addresses sales techniques in his books and talks. Such books are full of real-life examples of people closing sales in a variety of ways.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I record here the books I’ve read, not as diligently as I should. Instagram is primarily a place to showcase our culture. Only married once, just for clarity…) . Goodreads.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The current generation of marketers learned their craft during the rise of digital marketing, where tales abound of Google testing 40 colors of blue , Uber running over 1,000 experiments at any given time, and Amazon’s culture of tolerating failed experiments as a necessity for innovation.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2021

He used to say that founders thought of him as the “e-commerce guy” because he launched and sold Half.com, but when he thinks back to the timeframe of when he started that company, there was no Facebook, no Google ad strategy, and mobile wasn’t even a thing. The Greek and party culture is changing. But what about the network?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. And then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.” This culture of asking.

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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. All are one In India, an open-door policy and flat hierarchy are the gifts of startup culture.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. Articles from the episode: A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books. Plus a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator!

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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. Her team loved working for her. Claire, welcome to Office Hours.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 3, 2023

Sumeer Kaur , CEO, Lashkaraa Technology Affects Customer Buying Journey Every startup needs to understand the customer buying journey in order to successfully design a strong business strategy. Will Gill , Event Entertainer, DJ Will Gill Building Trust is Paramount Nothing turns a potential customer away faster than an obvious sales pitch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

By putting some hard (time) limits on usage, Thursday’s pitch is that service scarcity can fix some of the problematic issues of overuse which can plague dating apps — leading to dating indecision and swipe fatigue. We’ve got big plans with a clear mission, to change a culture of how people date.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 7, 2015

My partners and I have noticed an interesting trend over the past few years: an increase in the number of entrepreneurs who prefer to pitch us without the use of a presentation deck. Efficiently communicating your strategy, business model, and competitive differentiation is required for many critical things you will do as a company.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Also, they have a strong belief that any sign of weakness (such as a down round) will have a catastrophic impact on their culture, hiring process, and ability to retain employees. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.”

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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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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Brian Halligan [02:14] – I basically just block all that day Wednesday so no one can book a meeting there. I think what helped a lot of introverts, I don’t know about you guys, is when that lady wrote that, what was her name, wrote that book. Craig Cannon [03:56] – I felt that after that book came out.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. So for a long time, it was brand, culture, and what I call boldness, which is is the organization taking on enough risk? I'm going to give you my pitch, Shaan.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

It does a search across, you know, basically all of these words and sentences and diagrams and books and photos and everything that human beings have created. And then the way those modern data centers are built by the leading-edge companies now is they’re sort of built on day one with an integrated strategy for energy and for cooling.

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