Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before. Email readers, continue here…] By 2024, at least ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access. And Ai is now writing computer code in many languages. Thought so.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

AOL was just coming online, it was the beginnings of email, and the beginnings of the web. So, I ended up writing that first book, and Bruce helped me with the research, and that was one way we got to know each other before we were even dating. Someone from Vienna, Austria, came to our first class--and we were amazed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Don’t you wish that someone had prepped you on how to read the body language, interpret office gossip, and when to hit the delete key on your email rather than the send key? Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? As Shervin said, it’s just email. A few reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2017

I put on an out-of-office notice (see below) and received some of the nicest emails and text messages including from my good friend Michael Broukhim who ensures me that he and his brother Danny still vacation with their parents and Mike & Danny are both in their 30s! When I get back I don’t plan to spend 50 hours processing old emails.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

When I sit down to write every week I never really imagine what is going to end up resonating the most with people but it seems I’ve most often been defined by my post that I Invest in Lines, not Dots. He was in the inaugural class of 500Startups and became chief evangelist as far as I could tell. He sent me a few nice emails.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

They can travel the world, take classes in interesting subjects, spend time with loved ones or start new hobbies. Want to take a year pursuing your dream to write a screenplay, travel through Asia, run a triathlon or start your own fashion line? And from email we added IM, Facebook and LinkedIn where people contact us.

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Startup Email Technical Review Course 295

TechEmpower

JULY 5, 2016

The check can be made in one central location, no changes to our view classes or client-side code are required, and it only throws exceptions in the specific cases where our default behavior is wrong. We should write an alternative to JSON.stringify that produces an exact representation of our number.” The call will be hidden.

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JavaScript Java Class Framework 295

InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Business Lessons From The Dark Side Of The Moon. • Obtain Customer Feedback Before You Release Your Product - Musicians spend their entire youth writing songs and performing them in front of live audiences, which ensures that their initial album is validated by their fans before they enter the recording studio. Any time will do."

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Email readers continue here.] All other board functions are secondary.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. Email readers, continue here.] With angel groups, you should plan of spending months in the process, from application through funding. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I’m a pretty natural public speaker so I can write my presentation the day before and do just fine. I thought through the steps: Get a class of interesting companies. Responsive Low Hanging Fruit – I view email in the category of urgent but not (always) important. Get VCs to agree to join.

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Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. Or take an acting class. I spoke about this yesterday on Fox Business News.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

You can ask them to come and watch your videos at your owned & operated websites (O&O) where you can make higher margins as well as ask directly for more meaningful customer information such as Facebook connections, Twitter oAuths, email addresses and the like. To produce content that people want to watch takes unique skills: Writing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. And that leads me to today’s post.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

But Sam is a first-class act and boy does he know how to nail an intro. So 2 things reminded me of that story and got me thinking about writing this post: I was on a panel this week talking to a crowd of a couple of hundred aspiring entrepreneurs. This post isn’t about Formation Media so I won’t drill down. Don’t blow it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. Despite my cynicism of MBA’s , this class was very valuable to me. Enter the famous Sequoia “RIP Good Times” presentation and Ron Conway’s publicly leaked emails calling for big slashes in burn rates. overvalued) and sell when the fall precipitously.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. There are other classes of equity investors for small or early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Accelerators.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 2, 2015

I even wrote about my experiences attending Web Summit , something I rarely ever write about. If you want to see world-class speakers and hear what they have to say in person – you will get that. This is how he gets world-class speakers to travel half way around the world. He’s back stage like an orchestra conductor.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

So suck that every teacher who scolded us for not paying attention to boring classes or making people with ADD feel less accomplished. Save it to Pocket, bookmark it, email it to yourself or whatever other coping mechanism you have. I have checked Twitter at least 10 times during the writing of this post so far and Facebook 3 times.

Startup 150

Startup Writing Class Orange County 150

InfoChachkie

APRIL 29, 2013

In searching for world-class examples of public responses to irate customers'' complaints, I found one that emanated from an unlikely place, Savusavu, Fiji. Hopefully your significant other won''t tell you that your customer responses sound like text generated by a foreign call center agent,cut and pasted from an email template.

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Social Media Customer Custom Media 213

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We have a number of curation and publishing tolls that let our users write metacontent and annotations on the content, and to create fresh content feeds they can place on their website, in a newsletter, on mobile, or on social. It's all about what is happening on the realtime web. Finally, what's the next big thing for you?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives. I also tell people that if they do go to make sure that they don’t spend all of their free time trying to graduate top of their class.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Something to write your notes, another to set reminders, and one that does both. No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon. We’ve been there. We’ve all been there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Don’t you wish that someone had prepped you on how to read the body language, interpret office gossip, and when to hit the delete key on your email rather than the send key? Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

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Course Writing Slides Email 97

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. In a few instances, developers spent their weekends and evenings writing inferior versions of Microline's tools that they then released as free, open source alternatives. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Luckily, he had a world class team of more than two dozen committed people ( including Mike Fisher from PayPal/eBay ) who stuck it out with him. Thank you, John. Part 1/3 of Interview: The Beginnings of Mike’s Entrepreneurial Journey [ Minutes: start – 13 ].

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. We let everybody “punch above their weight class&# in terms of roles & responsibilities. I sent numerous emails for another for a job opportunity and he is now a senior exec at a very prominent startup. We all learned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2011

Don’t you wish that someone had prepped you on how to read the body language, interpret office gossip, and when to hit the delete key on your email rather than the send key? Business Writing Skills. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Dress for Success. Root-Cause Problem Analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Don’t you wish that someone had prepped you on how to read the body language, interpret office gossip, and when to hit the delete key on your email rather than the send key? Business Email and Texting. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later. From day one we focused on customers.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 3, 2012

When the going gets tough (as it always does at any startup) the Wantrepreneurs get busy emailing their resumes to prospective employers. Did you just meet the shy boy who spent his High School years writing in his journal or the boisterous verbal bully who used her wit to hide her insecurities?

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Entrepreneur Startup Equity Journal 219

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Indeed, whether you’re a producer, screenwriter, director, actor, cinematographer, editor, art director or composer (or some combination of these) Stage 32 offers classes to meet your specific needs. Classes with a wide geographic appeal. Among those that have paid for a Stage 32 class, 91% say they’ll do it again in the future.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

A class we produce here at General Assembly called “Intro to the LA Startup Community” , has turned into a series, each time presented by a different prominent person in the startup ecosystem providing a unique perspective on the tech scene in LA. Sam taught a second rendition of the class in February and over 700 people signed up.

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Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Don’t you wish that someone had prepped you on how to read the body language, interpret office gossip, and when to hit the delete key on your email rather than the send key? Business Email and Texting. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

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