Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

Over the years, that check size grew slowly to $50K, then a few $100Ks, and I followed-on into a few at the $250K level, with two outsized pile-ins at $400K and $600K total exposure, respectively. That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. Fund investing is easy — fund management is not.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2016

If anyone has given you tips about starting your own business, they’re sure to have missed something, too. To be a successful entrepreneur, you have to take the rough with the smooth, and know where to place your valuable, but limited, resources. Here’s what I’ve learned from 19 years of experience: 1. Be prepared for tough times.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit. Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit. I was stuck in startup culture and he was stuck in big company culture and their was a chasm between us that couldn’t be rectified. We then brought the number up to 8-10 and even hired an SVP of global sales & marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

This weekend I was reading the NY Times online and I came across this excellent piece about ADHD written by Richard Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry. He specifically notes the people with ADD. ” The author talks about one of his patients who was bored and unsatisfied in his job and found his tasks too routine. Argumentative.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

That is, in no small part, due to its salaries, its culture, and its brand. But of course, Netflix also has a not-so-secret asset where it shows its culture to the world: the Netflix TechBlog. But of course, Netflix also has a not-so-secret asset where it shows its culture to the world: the Netflix TechBlog.

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

The essence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem is its people and the culture of trust and collaboration that allows them to interact successfully. Other organizations are better suited to convene events where entrepreneurs gather to provide informal peer support to one another and connect to role models in their industry.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 8, 2017

Creating a wiki to cultivate know-how and a frequently asked questions document will also help train employees in how to best handle tough questions or complaints from customers. As a business owner, this could be your busiest time of the year either for the business itself or the act of balancing work with your personal life. Suffocated.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

Whatever the case, giving employees the option to work from home occasionally is a practice that has gained momentum within most parts of the service economy, and is an accepted part of many companies' cultures. Most offices, whether at a big company or at a startup, allow employees to work at home from time to time.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The negative influence of bullying on a child’s emotional well-being is well-documented making it vital to identify a mechanism for prevention. Studies have shown that students who participate in this program feel connected to their school, the teachers, and their peers, and don’t end up socially isolated. We Inve$t in Innovation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. I’m Travis Bryant. Excited to be back emceeing. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. And now onto our guest.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 22, 2019

And some board members show their colors in the form of being dominant, hushing their peers and often interrupting others. And some board members show their colors in the form of being dominant, hushing their peers and often interrupting others. Designated board seats cannot be changed because of investment documents.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. 7:30 – Interning at Google then Yelp. 9:00 – Interviewing multiple times at the same company. Google Play.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With this insight, we are dealing with board members who are dominant, obviously hushing their peers and often interrupting, or those always anxious to change the subject to their own agenda during meetings, including challenging management by attacking individuals (called argumentum ad hominem ), rather than their ideas and statements.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 27, 2020

– 360 Learning: For scaling knowledge for business development and support; this tool enables you to create videos, turn transcriptions into written posts, create quizzes and peer-to-peer learning programs. Here is advice from the YC community: Question : Can you share any playbooks on how to quickly transition a team to remote?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

You can try it out at HubSpot.com. Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC and cofounder of Wufoo. Brian is on Twitter @bhalligan and Kevin is @ilikevests. 00:00 – Brian’s an introvert that likes to work from home. He also runs a public company. How does he do both? 1:45 – How does he manage his calendar as an introvert? Google Play.

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