Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

And being persistent I believe is the most important attribute for success in an entrepreneur (assuming of course that you have all the other requisite skills). Of course at one end of the bucket are entrepreneurs who are persistent but just aren’t polite. Of course I felt badly. We did a call immediately.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

Of course the concentration of capital in growth firms and the intense competition to fund the best deals leads to some risks. And of course new entrants are competing to capture the private-market value (hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate funds). These are most notable in late-stage, D-round, investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Of course not. Of course you need to be open. Of course you shouldn’t f **g buy a house. Our VCs are pretty supportive of us so I feel good about the future but of course you know I could never say for sure that they’ll fund us going forward. Of course I could go on and on. CEO transparency.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2019

The ArtCenter College of Design , based in Pasadena, and social networking and 3D avatar site IMVU announced on Tuesday that the two have launched a new "studio partnership", which will let students in a course design their own, 3D experience in the IMVU world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong. acquired Overture for $1.63 Structural.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Of course I would like to be in every great deal ever done.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

The problem, of course, comes if the business fails. A well–phrased ‘no’ could well be a step toward a correction of course and a later ‘yes.’. Also, if things go south, they are more likely to remember that you weren’t pushy and that you gave them three or more separate opportunities to say no.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Of course it sounds nicer to live in a utopian socialist society where everybody has the same amount and life is “fair.” And of course it’s impossible to re-create an exact history – especially since no individual actually really knows the “truth” or remembers everything perfectly.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] The best advice to anyone considering this course of action is to measure one’s ability to take the risk. Can you take the risk? That ability varies with economic status, age, responsibility to family, and more. If there is enough freedom to make that leap, then the journey can more safely begin.

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

Of course, other variables are at play, such as significantly more HT processor cores--40 versus 8 for our i7 tests--and a different system architecture, NUMA. Top ten frameworks at JSON serialization; i7 on left, Peak on right.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We look at stage, geography and of course sector. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives. And I believe this process is very healthy even when it doesn’t feel good. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Of course when you think about it it’s kind of obvious but when people make snap judgments about information they hear about companies or read about in the press they often don’t take the time to start to consider the details. The Nature of Revenue Matters Of course revenue alone won’t tell you enough.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 22, 2024

How to respond to “change the course” suggestions But there is a limit, a point where your gut is more important than your ear. Make your case for staying the course. If you reach that point with suggestions from these people trying to help, think carefully about how to respond, whether with facts, instinct or support from others.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Not all consultants give advice worth taking, of course. We were quite confident that our services would yield great, measurable results. Unfortunately, it is human nature to enthusiastically ignore to act upon recommendations of third party consultants. There are many, many exceptions, but far more instances of this in the business world.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

You course correct. Marketing of course often feels the opposite. This is when your job function truly starts to match the definition of “leader” because that’s exactly what your role is. You set direction. You hire great people. You help them prioritize their objectives and review the results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. But on the business side, here is my list of useful courses that we wish existed, but as far as I know, still aren’t generally available: Basic Office Politics.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2017

I titled this post “We Must Have Zero Tolerance in Venture Capital” but of course I could just say “zero tolerance anywhere” because that’s true. Of course we want to make sure there’s enough evidence lest we are guilty of a mob-like response. Of course a single accusation can’t be enough to publicly incriminate somebody.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Over the course of the first few months I saw a few people out on the street taking Birds and then a steady uptick in riders. Capital of course drives scale advantages and when you have “winner take most” markets it also has a way of scaring away some investors from investing in the 3–5th “me too” competitors. Are the scooters safe?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

Of course, unlike cars there is no direct comparison across each startup so these are just some general guidelines to try and even the information field. How you talk about valuation will of course depend on how well your business is performing and how much demand you have from other investors. some might even want slightly more.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership, So What Does All This Mean?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The bootcamp specifically is looking to help provide job opportunities to Americans who exist within marginalized communities, particularly African-Americans, according to QualityWorks.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform. That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 14, 2018

friend who teaches a graduate course in entrepreneurism at a local university. Decisions go from black-and-white to gray to black-and-white again, based upon relative knowledge of the facts and of course, the law. This is the time when you are paid the big bucks, and when others aware of your plight will be watching most carefully.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 12, 2017

That of course jumps to the top of the list for young, fast growing technology companies. Email readers, continue here…] One of the items on Cohen’s list of twenty-five was stock options.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

“Of course I can. ” Jacob, “Of course I can have a piece. Tell them I’ll stay if they’ll give it to me for 120 Euros. “What? You want … what?” ” “Mark. You can’t do that! You can’t just name your own price.” ” Me. See what you can do. She was mortified.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

Of course I’m not preaching crazy, irrational spend or having Kid Rock at your next company party. You can do them all yourself, of course. And while this might sound to the inexperienced person like a sensible idea – it is not. But you do need to find a way to do activities that are more scalable. But at what cost?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2022

Of course, this has never happened to you, and you have never done this in your past. Business unit managers are under lots of pressure to perform, and occasionally are tempted to step over the line finding ways to look better than reality reflects. So, we are speaking of a theoretical manager here. Well, how to prevent it from happening?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Leadership is about creating a shared vision that the entire team buys into and making adjustments when team members persuade you that you’re off course. If you assemble a very talented team people will of course both disagree with each other and will have conflict over both direction and resources. This is natural.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

Of course Airbnb hosts love the company. But if you’re an Airbnb host you’re making money by renting out your apartment which doesn’t involve you spending hours on actual work. Driving an Uber is no different that being a hair stylist, waiter or prep cook. It’s found money. And there’s always a but. Not really.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company’s mobile application lets users take a photo of any bill and then its artificial intelligence-powered “bill-understanding technology” makes sure it gets paid (after a user has provided payment details, of course). But of course, part of its capital will go toward building awareness and growing its headcount.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Despite the rush in every academic institution to offer more courses on entrepreneurship, I still haven’t found it to be something you can learn in school. Of course, you can pick up the basic principles this way, but the problem is that the practical rules for success are changing so fast that no academic can keep up.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 7, 2018

Of course, exempt emails from your superior and those legitimately marked as urgent, both of which should be either directed to a special handling inbox or immediately culled out from the rest.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

How to Deal with Electronic Distractions Of course the biggest competition you have with the attention of your board members is their mobile phones. Given how seldom you come together you’d imagine you’d have the boards’ full attention during this time. Most likely you’d be wrong. You can solve this if you’re willing to.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

And then of course each venture firm must be careful not to add partners unless they know the chemistry will work with all other partners as our team unit and cohesiveness are so important.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

And while of course the founders & management deserve all the credit for Maker’s success and will no doubt get their accolades in the press, from an investor perspective, Dana & I were hugely active in the company for years behind the scenes in recruiting, PR, product strategy, M&A, etc.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Of course, Just is not the first company to offer personalized auto insurance. But of course, it has far fewer customers and is only serving one market. For now, it’s only available in Arizona, although the company plans to expand to other markets such as Texas, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Georgia. Image Credits: Just Insure.

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