Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2023

If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. By writing just 500 words a day in a blog, I suddenly realized that I had enough for a book in just a few months. Frequency keeps the pressure off. Frequency nurtures frequency.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. I pointed out the fact that they only ever talked to the press when the had an announcement and that it was a continual process. It’s a continual process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2020

If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. By writing just 500 words a day in a blog, I suddenly realized that I had enough for a book in just a few months. Frequency keeps the pressure off. Frequency nurtures frequency.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Liver disease is challenging for doctors because it can develop without symptoms, making diagnosis difficult without removing cells for examination. Backed by $20 million in Series A funding from Versant Ventures, San Diego-based Jecure aims to develop a new class of drugs to treat an advanced form of fatty liver disease called.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. It’s a continual process. Just don’t spam people.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. “Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 years ago.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

COVID-19 research efforts are often described as a race between companies, a description that reflects the urgency to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. Vaccine developers have progressed to pivotal testing with unprecedented speed, compressing the years-long clinical testing process into months. Nine companies signed a.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. Let me give you an example.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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Xconomy

MAY 18, 2017

The San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. But some details were offered yesterday by Kirby Brady, the EDC’s director of research, following a press conference intended to promote. Preliminary findings from an economic impact study show that genomics is emerging as a distinct innovation cluster in San Diego.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

So when they spoke about character development, repeatable gaming experiences, bringing games to multiple platforms (in the industry we call this “ Transmedia “) and physical products my ears naturally perked up. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. We all loved Andrew & Petri and their vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2016

You Need to Find Your Mojo A Chip On Your Shoulder A few years ago I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. The founders and team develop a huge confidence level that appropriately increases risk-taking, output, expansion, deals, revenue, press and everything that is a consequence of initial successes.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

. “We elected to postpone our offering given current market and technical conditions,” said co-founder and CEO Peter Beetham in a press release. In the meantime, Cibus plans to continue selling the canola products it has commercialized, and use its technology to develop more products.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. But I never gave up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Nobody likes to hear you say, “we can’t tell you anything we’re in stealth mode&# so develop some generic talking points that don’t give anything away when you’re asked what you do. But don’t let this information get out into the general press and don’t market more than a few months out.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. We just knew that we were onto an idea that no one had thought of and we had better be in the press first because, of course, there is a first-mover advantage. Business development is sales. Getting press is sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. I just read their press release and found out that they went one step further. It was very widely read. It should be: Local; Right-sized; and.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="[link] frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The catalyst for Brad’s evolving view of marketing was THIS blog entry by Chris Moody in which he pointed out that much of Foundry Group’s thought leadership efforts are essentially a form of guerilla marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

If you’re a developer you ought to be asking yourself the question. I read this story on Ivan Kirigin’s blog that shows that Quora was posting which articles you’re reading to other people without your consent. You may already know all this since it occurred a couple of weeks ago and was already in the press.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Email updates frequently.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

ASG offered to pay $10 per share for Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK ), which has developed technology that is used for mobile document capture and digital identity verification. ASG pointed out in a press release announcing the offer that the. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

If you’ve been following the press about VC funds you’ll know this is no small feat. And we chose to locate ourselves 3 blocks East of The Third Street Promenade where much new development is taking place. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million).

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The question is what role technology will play, and how long it will take to develop effective tools. Bloomberg reported this week that PolitiFact, the Associated Press, and the other outside organizations Facebook has enlisted to fact check articles are. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Los Angeles has seen its own startup scene develop with Silicon Beach, which stretches between Santa Monica and Playa Vista. Even the UK has its own version of Silicon Beach off the southern coast of England, a region supported by local governments and universities to accelerate the growth and development.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Yet, without realizing it, John and Kyle had begun to build a community of virtual stakeholders who eventually developed an emotional bond with the company. blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. And of course we help with business development introductions and with fund raising events. Often we are asked to get involved in executive-level recruiting.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. Early on in college, we built a product called Blog Hoster, which allowed you to create white label blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2018

If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. By writing just 500 words a day in a blog, I suddenly realized that I had enough for a book in just a few months. Frequency keeps the pressure off. Frequency nurtures frequency.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

I have read much commentary on my Twitter stream (ironically) and in the press about how investors are going to abandon investments in the Twitter ecosystem because they seem to appear hostile to ecosystem partners. Let’s face it, if people want to blog as a career they have to be able to make money. Let me explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. Having been through the experience as an entrepreneur twice myself I have developed a list of what I think it takes. There were also press and other senior executives from the sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both. Zero thought = flying blind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2013

If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. By writing just 500 words a day in a blog, I suddenly realized that I had enough for a book in just a few months. Frequency keeps the pressure off. Frequency nurtures frequency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2016

If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. By writing just 500 words a day in a blog, I suddenly realized that I had enough for a book in just a few months. Frequency keeps the pressure off. Frequency nurtures frequency.

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