Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

While traditional methods (PR, advertising, events, seminars) and online methods (SEO, SEM, social, referral marketing) are well understood by most companies there are many methods that are less well publicized. If you publish a book, how do you get on the NY Times best seller list? Simply write a great book? What about mobile?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

When I worked at Salesforce we had “city tours” in which a senior exec on our team would fly to a city in America (eventually globally) and host an event with customers and prospects. Building a community goes well beyond hosting events. And then came March 2020 and events globally were being cancelled. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Nationally recognized leader and executive coach Jackie Jenkins-Scott provides her perspective as she explores examples of responsive leadership in her new book, 7 Secrets of Responsive Leadership. In your book, you talk about the four attributes of great leaders. What makes a great leader? Leadership at its core is about our values.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2023

14 ways to generate 6-figure revenue from virtual events I originally wrote this for my full-time job at Hopin but I thought it would also be helpful or at least interesting for the readers of Entrepreneur’s Handbook, since it lays out a how-to guide for entrepreneurs to drive revenue with online events. An online event?

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 We scaled from 20-person meetings with 4 startups to 150-person events with 12 startups all while improving mentor engagement and impact. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). The flexibility for mentors to engage how they wanted. The result?

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Where to go: Book a room at the 21c Cincinnati for an artful stay, explore the country’s glowing commercial history at the American Sign Museum, and catch a Bearcats game at the University of Cincinnati’s Nippert Stadium. See the “ Hotlist ” (a database of promising early-stage companies raising funds in the next 12–18 months) from the event.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Many of us jokingly talk about ADD because we recognize the tell-tale signs like inability to focus on one task at a time, inability to finish projects (or articles or books) that don’t hold our interests intensely. Then she bought me a book that changed my life. Reading 5 or 6 books at once but never completely finishing any.

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Revolution

MAY 4, 2022

Convening with CEO and co-founder Ryan Simonetti By Steve Murray and Patrick Conroy , Partners at Revolution Growth Convene’s London location at 22 Bishopsgate In 2018, Revolution Growth led an investment in Convene , an emerging leader in flexible work, meetings and events, and premium venues.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 2, 2015

I have absolutely no affiliation with the event, no economic interests and had no other reason for writing about Web Summit other than as a person who has to attend many events for my professional life I found it to be the most meticulously plan and run and intent upon serving its audience of any major event I had attended.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Lay the groundwork before the event and apply to become a speaker or invest in a tradeshow booth. Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. CEOs may resonate with a higher-end content strategy such as white papers, books, or even a branded podcast.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Getting involved with political events and fund raisers. And still able to make it out to LA networking events. When you think about physical stickers and activity books every parent can understand. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. Always meeting her product ship dates.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It plans to use the funds to continue expanding its product, hiring more talent and taking Peek to more places, after passing some $2 billion in bookings from some 35 million customers, mostly in North America. Peek was also not immune. When COVID-19 hit, “it was pretty terrifying for us. “We then did all the hard things.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 17, 2019

One of the many great things about vacations is reading books. Vacation is the one time that I can really prioritize reading books (as opposed to everything else I read). I just finished Scott Kupor ‘s Secrets Of Sand Hill Road , a book for entrepreneurs about rasing capital from venture firms. It would be a great course.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The phrase needle in a haystack is commonly credited to the book Don Quixote from the early 1600s (“needle is a bottle of hay”) but there’s also a Fujian proverb “To dive into the sea, to feel for a needle” that is thought to be even older and gets to the same point. First, a piece of literary history.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

POSH is an event management and ticketing platform for all users to host events large or small, regardless of if you’re an event organizer, promoter, or if you just want to charge your friends a cover for drinking all the expensive alcohol at your birthday party. Currently, POSH has an iOS app for event curators only.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

I'm often the last one to leave an event, held back by the most persistant of entrepreneurs trying to squeeze as much advice as they can out of me. I read this book, " Why We Make Mistake s " and it talks a lot about "recall bias". I'll show up generally anywhere I get invited to speak. On average, it's probably nonsensical.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 6, 2025

Real-World Applications Recently, while preparing for my inaugural AP Catalyst event (which connected angel investors, portfolio companies, and private equity firms), I consulted my virtual board about maximizing the event’s impact.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

And while purchasing physical books may not be practical during the pandemic, consumers will find the instantaneous accessibility of eBooks and Audiobooks enticing when they are facing another weekend stuck in the house. While in-arena esports events will be cancelled, these video game leagues are prepared to move entirely online.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

How highly valued (or over valued) was your last fund raising event and will it make it difficult to raise / will you need time to grow into your next round? I’ve heard every argument in the book about why you can’t cut office space, headcount or Kind bars. Now that we have all that. “Our company morale will go down!”

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2018

A few weeks ago, I booked a customized tour of Iceland with Noken , and I did it in about five minutes. All I had to do was to tell Noken how long I planned to go, what level of hotel and car I wanted, and then I had the option to add on a few extras, and within minutes my entire trip was booked.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 5, 2021

This situation kicked off a chain reaction of events, including: Scientists began experimenting to create vaccines to combat the virus. Madoff’s book, Creative Careers: Making a Living with Your Ideas , is available at Amazon. A new, highly contagious virus posed an imminent threat to the world.

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Dream It

MAY 19, 2021

Your inflection points need to put the company in a position for a liquidity event - raising more money at a higher valuation or achieving an exit that delivers venture-level returns. By Elliot Levy , Healthtech Associate at Dreamit Ventures Book Office Hours with me. VC funds value-creating milestones, not runway.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. The video industry will be disrupted just as books, newspapers and music before it. Our societal behavior is now to look up things we want to book or purchase at the point & time of need.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

The mobility of technology has exacerbated both the upsides (all the information at our finger tips at any moment) and the downsides (addictions of checking updates incessantly or spending more time capturing and posting events than enjoying them). more than books face me. book face-to-faces. now that cliques form friends.

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Source Link

JULY 30, 2021

First, they advised us to determine our goals, which can vary from developing brand awareness and promoting an event to building relationships and generating leads. Sparkyard in Fort Worth, Texas shares exciting events, resources, recent blog posts and their podcasts in their monthly newsletter.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

Events marketing and hosting are powerful ways to build your brand and generate revenue for your business. The event could be small, with 10 people and a box of pizza. It could be a big event with 500 people in a conference room and event staff. Four event experts to together on Clubhouse to share their insights.

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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

JULY 10, 2024

This led to an invitation to attend an event with like-minded entrepreneurs who were getting together to learn, share, and help each other along the entrepreneurial journey. We truly could not put this book together without the support of my EO friends and the wisdom they shared.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 13, 2020

In his book The Innovation Stack , he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective. In your book, The Innovation Stack , you talk about the difference between and entrepreneur and a business person. When everything affects everything, you have a dynamic system.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

We regularly look out for newsletters, major updates, and events in our respective industries. By Elliot Levy , Healthtech Associate at Dreamit Ventures Book Office Hours with me. If your company has made some considerable progress, reach out to news distributors in your industry to get the word out.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Simplify Scheduling and Appointments If your business involves scheduling appointments or managing meetings, a simple scheduling tool can save you significant time and reduce the chances of double-booking or missed appointments. Acuity is ideal for small businesses that need to manage appointments, classes, or events that are laborious tasks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the LA event, for example, they will not only have a selection of great LA VCs but also 10+ senior VC women from the SF Bay Area will be coming down for it. Inclusion I recently read Dan Rather’s book “ What Unites Us ,” which is a book I highly recommend, in anticipation of interviewing him at the Upfront Summit.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Coordinate a sporting event that the community can participate in to raise awareness of corruption. Web and smartphone applications such as Open the Books in the U.S. Transparency International offers these ideas in its anti-corruption kit: Organize a committee to count and keep track of public supplies, such as school textbooks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Certainly, he never imagined launching a private event management platform for restaurants and venues, but that’s what he is building, and VCs think enough of it that they just seed funded the company to the tune of $3.6 The private events business is estimated to generate roughly $80 billion per year in the U.S.,

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 27, 2016

They basically work towards filling your pipeline and booking meetings. 2) Create events that your target hires want to attend. Certainly, hosting an event about how awesome your company is probably wouldn't work. Go find the right person yourself. This kind of person could come in handy in recruiting.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2024

MyEO is a unique EO programme that enables each EO member to curate their own tailor-made curriculum of groups and events that match their interests and passions, while connecting with other members who share them. Let’s explore how the 2023 MyEO Event that landed 53 EOers on Necker Island with Sir Richard came to be.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 20, 2023

EO Europe’s 2023 regional event, EO Unlimited Barcelona, from 18-20 October, attracted more than 180 members from 46 countries to hear 14 speakers and make countless impactful connections. The event featured dramatic social venues, from casual hangouts to black-tie gala dinners to beachside bashes. Intrigued by this recap?

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