Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

It’s in our national interests to make becoming an entrepreneur as egalitarian as possible. This doesn’t take anything away from the brilliant white male entrepreneurs that have built incredible companies, but it has made an equivalent crowd of Black founders almost nonexistent. China, not the U.S., seemed the place to do that.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

If one vocal person blurts out, “just give us the details, we all know social networking&# don’t assume that person speaks for the entire room. I’ve experienced this in many sales meetings I’ve made and unfortunately in many VC pitches I made. But … watch out. Happy to do that. Get them involved!

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