Both Sides of the Table

MAY 16, 2010

As the day approached I noticed that there was a conference in LA that I wanted to attend. The day before the conference I thought about rescheduling this meeting but then thought, “oh, well. I’ll honor the commitment I made.&# So I didn’t go to the conference. It’s too close to the meeting date.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 27, 2009

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 -- SoCal Email Marketing Professionals of Meetup.com Will Share Highlights of the MarketingSherpa Email Summit Best Practices. MarketingSherpa's email marketing conference is an industry gathering where email marketers go to get better at their craft. See [link] (more).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Having read his latest op-ed on email I know why I erred towards the side of of not loving his book as much as some did. Apparently he’s an “organizational psychologist professor and thinks that it’s rude not to answer email. I also surmise that perhaps organizational psychologists don’t get as much unsolicited emails as some of us do.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 1, 2010

Friday, May 7, 2010 -- California Clean Innovations Conference. The 4th annual California Clean Innovation (CACI) conference is a forum for investors, entrepreneurs, and managers to review the current clean technology trends and commercially viable innovations. Email william.tang.2011@anderson.ucla.edu. 2011@anderson.ucla.edu.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 16, 2008

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 -- Commercial Finance Conference. Email info@com-fin.com. Trade group for commercial finance companies, factors, banks and other financing agencies engaged in the asset-based financial services industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. He began messaging and emailing me to try and get me to come out to the event, which he was now turning into a conference called Web Summit.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. If you fold at the first un-returned email what hope to you have as an entrepreneur? I emailed him back with my bona fides and made the case again.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2013

It a position where it can only lose, SendGrid --the email SDK and services firm which has significant operations in Orange County--has become the center of a controversy which has thrown the high tech industry's acceptance of women into stark contrast.

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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. Many startups get caught up in the conference circuit. Be very targeted in which events you attend. Choose wisely.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 20, 2010

11th Annual Investor Conference. The conference, scheduled for May 24-26, 2010 at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel will feature presentations from more than 125 publicly traded companies. Email conference@brileyco.com. Riley and Co.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 19, 2010

11th Annual Investor Conference. The conference, scheduled for May 24-26, 2010 at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel will feature presentations from more than 125 publicly traded companies. Email conference@brileyco.com. Riley and Co.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 19, 2010

11th Annual Investor Conference. The conference, scheduled for May 24-26, 2010 at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel will feature presentations from more than 125 publicly traded companies. Email conference@brileyco.com. Riley and Co.

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Conference Santa Monica Email Company 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 -- First Annual Second Internet Conference. The Second Internet Conference will be held in Santa Monica, California, on September 7th, 2011. Email privateshares@wedbush.com for more information.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Woo Greater China Business Conference. Email holly.han@anderson.ucla.edu. Friday, February 26, 2010 -- Wilbur K. Keynote speeches and a CEO exchange will highlight Greater China's Ascent onto the world's stage.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2009

Interested in winning a free ticket to the Internet Merchant Association's conference in Las Vegas? The Internet Merchant's Association conference is focused on the e-retail marketplace. Just email us at info@socaltech.com with your name, email, and contact information! worth $599)?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. But I have to catch a flight to New York for a two-day computer vision conference and 2 board meetings, 2 board dinners and a catch up with my LPs to tell them how our fund is going. But it’s only Tuesday.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

In an email announcing the renewal, Jerome Chang, the coworking space's founder, said that he believes that--having already been in the location for five years--that makes the coworking space the oldest, and therefore first coworking spot in SoCal.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] But as you see from the story above, it does take more creative management to make this work. It won’t be long before home workers will routinely greet each other via video conference from the home desk. That depends upon the management as much as the employee. I have a friend who is a.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2010

Fred Wilson once wrote about the topic of how to introduce two people who don’t know each other via email. He called it the “ double opt-in introduction. &# He talks about the stuggles of email introductions when you’re dealing at scale. This is mostly when it comes in on a “bad email day&# (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Conferences. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? I was at the Lobby Conference a few weeks ago in Mexico. Do you find yourself too much in email mode? Board Meetings. Startups Are for Doers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. He had been asking me to speak at his conference Startup Grind. I get asked to speak at lots of conference but sadly can’t do most of them.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com, told his personal email newsletter readers Friday that he has renamed the newsletter from JasonNation, to the LAUNCH Newsletter. Calacanis said in November that his LAUNCH conference will afford startup with the ability to reach investors and launch products to the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

You send them update emails. unless you’re a conference ho … then it’s too much ). If you wait until you need to fill somebody in a roll you’re losing valuable time as an entrepreneur. You should always have a steady stream of “friend of the firm&# hanging around your company.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

Our goal was to have the conference participants wake up in their suites to a flyer stealthily placed under their doors in the middle of the night. I had no idea how I was going to slip the flyers under the doors of conference attendees. A conference bag had been hung on my door handle, and every other attendee''s door handle as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. So I often try to stay off of email during the day. They take all incoming calls on my mobile phone and work phone, transcribe them for me and send me an email with a text transcription and a.WAV file to listen to messages if I feel the need to.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

I tried it, it worked incredibly well and meeting with people (in person, in a web conference or on the phone) is ALWAYS better for you to understand their buyer needs and them to better understand you. I often send the introduction email and then a second email to the reference to say, “This reference is really important to me.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open. When a new email comes in you see the little pop-up in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen and like Pavlov’s dog you feel an adrenaline rush and need to read that email. Yeah, right!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

As executives we’re all seemingly accessible at any moment to anybody via email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Text. We’re expected to be at conferences, events, sales meetings and be publicly visible. It’s why sometimes I respond to emails in 5 minutes at other times I go dark for a week at a time.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2010

Glendale-based Global Conference Partners, the firm behind the free conference calling site FreeConference.com , has inked a partnership with contact management software firm Gwabbit , Gwabbit said Monday. Gwabbit's software run on Outlook and BlackBerry, and automatically updates and finds contact information in emails.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

Don’t email him unless you have to. Most startup execs are barraged with hundreds of emails and they spend hours trying to reach the elusive Zero Inbox nirvana. Emailing – even when well intentioned – just adds to this to-do list. He usually says no to weekend conferences and events.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I recently got an email from a friend who had been approached by a well known VC. He sent me an email asking whether the approach was real and whether he should take it seriously. Here is the email he received (reprinted without names with his permission). Why do VCs send generic outbound emails like this?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

They generated an enormous amount of inbound leads through PR, email blasts and heavy efforts with analysts such as Gartner Group, IDC, Aberdeen Group, etc. If you’re not ready to buy then you go into an email database. Your goal as a website is to elicit my email address out of me with as little else required as possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

I sat on two panels in the past week – once at LeadsCon (** see appendix if you’re interested in a back story here) and today at the America’s Growth Capital conference. People at the conference become aware of who you are. It serves as a great conversation piece to meet people the rest of the conference.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Authenticity - I asked Chamillionaire why he thinks he connects so much with people at tech conferences. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. He would do anything he could to capture people’s email addresses because he knew that they served as a valuable tool for future marketing purposes.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

Many times, it is a customer, an employee, or an industry conference that sparks the idea that drives you to create and express your vision of the future for your company or product line. Email readers, continue here…]. Visionary leadership is not performed in a vacuum. Second: strategic thinking and planning.

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