Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Rinse & repeat. You have a hunch. It seemed to be purely speculative.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. It’s how I did.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 12, 2022

Contributed by Libby Rothschild , EO New Jersey, the founder of Dietitian Boss , an online education and coaching platform that shows registered dietitians how to start, grow and scale a virtual private practice. When we started The Woobles, we made every kit with our own four hands. The whole experience has been a whirlwind!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. I’ve become fond of saying “if I had a dollar for every person who told me just how much they loooooved Kara Nortman, I’d have a 10x fund.” So why now?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you have or are thinking about a business in the video space you’ll enjoy hearing from Gregg but even more broadly this is a great conversation for entrepreneurs, investors or industry analysts. In many freemium business this conversion is in the single digit percentages. How has the viral coefficient been for you?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. People get too worked up over the word. I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. Fair enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. You took the risk to start your company. How are you going to pay for the wedding?” You left our team to work on THAT idea? CEO transparency.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This article provides a list of tools to achieve continuous operational improvement as a business grows , examples of streamlined business processes, and how to use process mapping to analyze and plan workflows. Running a small business is a rewarding endeavor, but it often involves juggling multiple tasks at once.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

Agonise over whether or not you need business partners. If you can afford it, don’t have business partners. The tenth entrepreneur without the headache is usually the one without a business partner. For me, not having a business partner is one less problem. Ai-Ling Wong—founder at The Decorateur. Listen to your gut.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. But alas I must scale with businesses and make money. I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I noticed this post today from Ezra Galston titled “ Dear Brad, Fred & Mark: How The Hell Do You Do It? “how the hell do you do it? How are you everywhere at once? How do you produce so much content? How do you maintain thoughtfulness on the forefront of industries? How do you stay balanced?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? This is the task I set out to answer with the master of analysis at Upfront Ventures Glenn Poppe who deserves the bulk of the credit for our work. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 Is it true that the ecosystem has changed?

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StartupNation

MAY 30, 2025

If you came to this article to find out about the $10,000 small business grants from Verizon Small Business Digital Ready, that’s great. Lucky for you and your business, the course and event offerings are many, varied and aimed at helping you build your skillset and your community. And, guess what? Joining is free.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. I will start recruiting soon. The ingredients are all here.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

” Andreese n provides insight into how an entrepreneur pitching for funding should approach investors. .” ” Andreese n provides insight into how an entrepreneur pitching for funding should approach investors. Without this, the long-term prospects of a business idea are fleeting. The keyword is compelling.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

It’s why so few can really start a business from scratch. There is no way to run a startup business without accepting at least a little bit of cognitive dissonance as you persuade yourself that one way or the other you’ll find a way to make it work while suppressing the very real possibility that you may not.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. How could I not? Here is how. And they didn’t want pity.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What we found is that while most of the people turned down the invite, most of the people who showed up invested. What we found is that while most of the people turned down the invite, most of the people who showed up invested. Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. Here's what I think everyone involved learned in this process.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It just works better now and there are more people doin’ it. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

But it’s critical for your business, for you as a leader and people who excel at fund raising have an extreme advantage over those who do not. Lemons ripen early The hardest thing about fund raising is how dispiriting it can be. So you might hear 9–10 “no’s” in the early stretches of your fund raising process. Fund raising.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. This version is the shorter, ADHD version. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

And yes, when you work on certain types of tasks absolutely impacts your productivity. 5 things you should automate today Start automating To figure out when you should be working on each thing you want to accomplish, you need to identify your chronotype. But timing isn't a one-size-fits-all approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are investing at different stages in the business. This is important for nearly every institutional investor because once you have 25-50 investments being able to “follow” the investments that are working well is critical to making money.

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Dream It

APRIL 8, 2020

Having been at the forefront of the dot-com boom, 9/11, and the financial crisis of 2008, Jason knows what it takes to survive this downturn. In fact, Jason started investing during the financial crisis. Jason answers critical questions for founders, including: How can your company ensure survival? If so, where should you focus?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

With all these companies vying for attention & others just here to soak up the vibe I thought I’d write a much broader piece on how startups can make the most of their attendance at conferences & events. While conferences can be intoxicating they can also be very unfocused, narcissistic and hurt your team back in the office.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2022

It was so moving to see the many members of EO taking time away from their own businesses and using their problem-solving skills to create solutions for the refugees who are fleeing the violence in Ukraine. Here are 10 of those entrepreneurial superpowers at work in Eastern Europe to benefit refugees from Ukraine. That’s the goal.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Not everyone has the drive to start their own business. We need that entrepreneurial spirit and mindset in the world in order for innovative new businesses to emerge. You need to consider all of the steps that need to be taken to open a business. How sustainable is your business? Company values .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. But it does happen.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly. By doing a convertible note we can delay the discussion until we figure out how big this is going to be.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

This article describes the entrepreneurial mindset behind successful startups, how you can develop that mindset, and the strategies to build your startup based on that mindset. Success is not about how many times you fall, but how many times you get back up.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Understand your business. You should know EVERYTHING about your business, product, customers and competition. You should have a crystal clear understanding of your business model and your financials. You should know every metric regarding customer acquisition, conversion and retention.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 26, 2018

According to a recent Business Insider interview with Brittany Hennesey, Hearst Digital Media Senior Director of influencer strategy, "People scroll through 300 feet of [social media] content every day. So you maybe wondering if you are a startup ecommerce company how can you get more followers, sales and brand loyalty?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. 2) Do you sell something that isn’t truly a must-have product to startups or other tech companies? 4) Are you struggling to get to unit profitability?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

If you work in IT operations, the work you do is basically the backbone of your company. And when manual processes bog you down, it's even harder for you to focus on high-impact work. How IT automation works IT automation vs IT orchestration Automate IT with Zapier What is IT automation? The result?

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