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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2013
Nobody seems to want to make money any more. I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. You would figure out how to monetize later. Ring the freaking cash register.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 14, 2015
This will be seen as a watershed moment in the wake-up call and rationalization of our industry. The truth is that the brutal reality of public markets is that they self correct much more quickly than our shitty little private equity illiquid corner of the universe. ” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate?
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MAY 27, 2013
He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In his post he asserts, “You get the VCs you deserve” and the corollary “You get the performance out of your board that you deserve.” By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 12, 2014
Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
I committed to the round, but I wanted to see her raise a bit more—at least $750k, but perhaps up to $1.5mm. Founders hit the street with their pitch deck, some make it, and some don’t, but nearly all of them ascribe a lot more human influence over the process than there probably is. I don’t have a technical co-founder.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 17, 2017
It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up because, “How could they succeed when they’re not even profitable!” Except that they didn’t actually lose $2 billion in cash. They actually lost about $175 million in cash in that quarter, FWIW.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 2, 2015
If I could bottle this moment and spend all my time here I would be in heaven. It’s such a tricky balance between being cost-focused & scrappy versus being impractical with how you spend your time. I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially.
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