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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

What do you need to do to support them, so that they can continue working during uncertain times? Entrepreneurs can go on the offensive during this stage by focusing on a more profitable foundation, attracting top talent and grabbing market share from weakened competitors.”. What are the most essential projects to work on?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

Other times the partner wants to test whether there is support before sinking in tons of due diligence time. If you can answer at the highest level you should. “The new VP is very supportive of us – we’ve met him three times.&#. - Either way, don’t assume that the entire room is up to speed on your company.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Facebook Apps, iPhone Apps, Social Games and now The Real-time Web (finally a new, sexier buzzword to replace Web 2.0. We see many naive entrepreneurs who tell us, “My revenue will grow to $60 million by year 5 but my costs mostly stay flat.

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