Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. 5 years ago. 5 years ago. The monkey on my back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. Business Email and Texting. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Root-Cause Problem Analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Recruiting – One of the hardest tasks of any startups is recruiting world-class talent. Of course you need a new angle to get a journalist interested because they don’t simply want to write what everybody else has covered. It doesn’t work that way. Press loves company as much as they love exclusivity. .”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

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. We had the idea to rent out a local school over spring break, put up a website ad, and start offering classes. It gave us the confidence to rent space for classes and form a school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. entrepreneur business classes startup college course business professional' Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The poor performance of the asset class (this analysis has largely been wrong as I pointed out here –> most analyses were clumsy rear-view mirror looks at the data). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” On the surface the narratives have been.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. No doubt, he did. Prototype Your Work.

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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. And Ai is now writing computer code in many languages. Thought so. We are in a decade of creative destruction that will affect most everybody. Last year, Amazon employed 1,541,000 workers.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley. Four Steps was essentially my class notes. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. One of the best students I ever had. That was the implicit statement.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

This is why I am such a big fan of General Assembly both because they’re teaching more tangible skills but also because they’re working directly with employers to fund classes as well as to onboard the more successful GA students directly. His class reading lists could be a primer for any entrepreneur, not just MBAs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). You now own 20% of a company valued at $50 million but you’ve put in $4m to get that. Maybe take some. Maybe take none.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

So I thought I’d write a piece on how not to 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. If you write sentences you’ll read them and you’ll … suck.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it. She encouraged me to take acting classes as a child, which gave me confidence as a public speaker. I plan to write about this phenomenon soon. It’s how I learned to build spreadsheets. I love my dad equally, of course.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? If I were writing the book today, there would be a whole chapter or two…about how to use Facebook and Twitter. That doesn’t work.”.

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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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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. Sam had different plans.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based LegalZoom , the online legal document provider, is the target of a class action lawsuit in Missouri, which is looking to block the ability of the firm to provide wills, leases, and other documents. READ MORE>>.

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Legalzoom Software Class Writing 160

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Irvine-based Western Digital has rolled out another, gigantic hard drive, saying today that it has launched a new, 14TB enterprise class hard drive. WD said the drive has an MTBF of 2.5M hours, and is currently sampling to "select" OEMs.

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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. All other board functions are secondary. Shareholders such as the investors are granted few rights by law.

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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

JUNE 2, 2011

Here is their inaugural class. I was prepared way more for business success in my political science classes than in my economics ones (I was a double major). In Poly Sci I learned critical thinking and writing. You’re more entrepreneurial than 99% of people in any b-school class. So is this a good idea?

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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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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

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Neither class of people should give up easily. and I realized that without years of experience it is tough to answer this question. Most VCs are book smart. It’s not you. It’s all of you. Commitment. Startups are hard.

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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. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. We’ve spoken of financing a young company through friends and family, known as “inside angels.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

The trouble is, nobody has an incentive to agree to write the first check. There is simply no reason for the first angel to write you a check until you have the whole round secure, which is why people herd cats. They share in liquidation preferences pari passu and they vote as a single class. why buy anything? why buy me?

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Pricing Venture Capital Writing Equity 294

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. ” I know it sounds obvious.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. When he writes them online his Tourette’s comes out and sometimes the substance gets lost in the style. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class.

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Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

According to Kingston Digital, its newest product provides UHS-I Speed Class 3, 90MB/sec read, and 80M/sec write, which is specifically aimed at enabling the capture of 4K2K video. Kingston said it is specifically focusing on users such as sports/adventure enthusiasts with smartphones and action cameras. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

So if I write you a $500,000 check into a convertible note with a $4.5 million cap I am assuming when I write the check that I will own 10% of your company. If I didn’t assume this I shouldn’t write the check because I have to get involved knowing that I might pay that price. So we ended up funding the Series A.

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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? A few reasons. You should read this post.

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Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! Will these norms change? 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. 38:00 Should you use avatars? 40:05 What happened after Imvu. 42:20 Did agile development influence you? 46:18 iOS Vs. Android.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Most of my MBA classes were a waste (since I had studied economics as an undergrad) but one totally changed my thinking. It was an investment management class. I will write about some of these topics soon. We’ll re-compare notes then.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. Journalists aren’t going to write about you all the time unless you’re Facebook. Use it as an excuse to get a journalist to write about you. Good PR will help you punch above your weigh class. What a shame.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Most colleges have now added classes in entrepreneurship to include the necessary business focus to technical majors that usually drive innovative ideas. Write a business plan and pitch deck for learning. Make a summer internship your best learning class. Learning by doing is the only way to go.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

When I arrived at Wharton many moons ago, I was told that all first-year students take the same set of Core classes. Like a sheepeople, I dutifully signed up for the required classes. Yet I was told by everyone, Professors, Advisors and students alike, that there was “no way” I could get out of taking my remaining Core classes.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Would they build a world class team. Were they ambitious?

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