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APRIL 25, 2018

San Diego-based "code school" Origin Code Academy said this morning that it has rolled out a new, online-only, free course on programming and the basics of writing code. According to the school, the new course teaches some of the fundamentals of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Of course passion isn’t enough. So of course I want (need) to make money for my investors (LPs). But the two can of course go hand-in-hand. I write this because I know how difficult it can be to find a potential investor and to decide with whom you’d like to try to work. I’m a VC. Startup Advice'

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MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). 5 years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. The monkey on my back.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help. Of course reciprocity matters so they would all leap into action. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. Therefore of course they need to be more selection when writing checks and can’t spread their bets across 75 deals. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2 So What’s the Big Deal?

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Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Of course not. It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. Of course you need to be open. Of course you shouldn’t f **g buy a house. CEO transparency.

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Startup Course Venture Capital Writing 417

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

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

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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Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There is a battle between entrepreneurs who try to change the world and solve a meaningful problem and those who write take-down pieces with no apparent personal benefit other than attention. Of course the naysayers are out again. I, of course, am betting on the former and am not 1% swayed by the doubters. Of course not.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. Of course our execution against the strategy has had to change but the strategy has remained constant. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m discipline & focus.

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Venture Capital Marketing Technical Review Seed Funding 416

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. You need to know how to write good & action oriented emails.

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Venture Capital Email Startup Conference 389

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MARCH 8, 2010

Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months. Every time I write a post I send it out on Twitter. That’s boring.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

As money poured into our industry, it encouraged many VCs to write $20–30 million checks at increasingly higher and higher valuations where it is unlikely that they had substantively more proof of company traction or success. Some investors may have succeeded with this strategy but at Upfront we decided to stay in our lane.

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Startup Venture Capital Writing Invest 408

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. The funding rounds will also build customer confidence and they’ll help journalists feel air cover in writing your more important pieces when you brag about customers, traction, revenue or whatever. ” Funding IS the story. Funding is news.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

The pay equity fights that the women’s team has led are still ongoing ( and suffered a setback earlier this year ), but Nortman and Portman saw an opportunity to chart a new course for the league with the combination of both of their support. After a meeting to discuss Time’s Up and All Raise, the two bonded over soccer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. Of course – some people can be remote. He of coursed required me to lobby on his behalf as well. Of course he pitched me the entire ride down. Jordan Hudson.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent.

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Press Startup Writing Training 319

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

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Every time I think to write a post about this I figure the most recent board meeting I’ve attended will think it’s about them so I don’t bother. So I’m going to write a series of board meetings posts unrelated to anybody or maybe an amalgamation of them all. This should take the least amount of time possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries. In many ways I think general purpose writing & thinking skills are as valuable as math skills. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

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Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

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JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots Hint: don’t do only 2–3 deals!!

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve always thought about writing a few posts on features in products that drive me nuts. Let me explain: Bcc’s function, as I’m sure you know, is to be able to write to people without other people emailed knowing that the blind copied people are on the distribution list. Naw, of course not. Is this evil?

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Email Writing Venture Capital Course 276

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? ” Of course not. They’re different. More strategic.

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Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

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MAY 30, 2018

I thought I’d write a post about how to talk about valuation at a startup and give you some sense of what might be on the mind of the person considering funding you. 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.

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Invest 324

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MARCH 31, 2012

Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions.

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Startup Sales Course Competition 319

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Yesterday I saw a Tweet from Chris Sacca fly by that prompted me to want to write a blog post helping entrepreneurs understand why they should push back against VCs asking for “super pro-rata” rights. Of course every firm breaks its rules to get into a deal, but they put pressure on you by saying that they can’t.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Writing Invest 310

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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. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. The best way – of course – is to reference check. Connections?

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Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

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APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. Everybody will send this to people and say, ‘isn’t this just like us?’

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NOVEMBER 29, 2014

My first response mentally was, “Of course!” But at the end of the year you write your own ticket if you’re talented because now you have experience and it cost you less than your law school loans! Before you start writing your friends checks for their startups, get out your checkbook and bet on you.

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Startup Invest Venture Capital Writing 409

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AUGUST 25, 2011

But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. Take lots of inputs but then let your internal compass set your course. Often it’s not the best course. He writes about the fabric of American life, often from the perspective of his Jewish, New Jersey roots.

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Class Writing Web 2.0 Offshore 334

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it. I love my dad equally, of course. I plan to write about this phenomenon soon. I would love to see Tara follow up with blog posts on: why she believes this is the case & what we can do about it.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Blogging 341

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

It profiles one little girl who finished her course work at a private Christian school in her neighborhood but was unable to attend graduation because her mom got behind on payments. Lawrence) both helped me master the rules of writing and tap into my creativity. Wolters) and high school (Mr. I’m forever grateful for this.

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Class Education Technical Review Writing 340

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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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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. Correct your course quickly. What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. What's going to go wrong?

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CTO Coach Metrics Framework Software Development 219

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MARCH 10, 2010

I would take all of the one-on-one conversations that I have with entrepreneurs from the things I’ve learned and just write them up for anybody to read. Yet they of course need to serve notice. No, of course not! I had a tactic of writing out the line of reasoning for the employee so they knew what to say.

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Startup Press Course Writing 294

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JUNE 15, 2013

But of course we’re all a product of both of our parents – if we were fortunate enough to be raised by two individuals. Or just write this off as incremental improvement. And of course my kids are always wonderful – at everything they do. Mom was an entrepreneur and a civic leader. And a negotiator.

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