Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

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. And I actually got pretty decent grades in English and writing overall. I write on my blog how I think in my head. Yes, I went to school.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Do you have a hard time concentrating and keeping on task, particularly for concentration intensive tasks like writing, coding, and reading? The company--led by Will Henshall--said it is using productivity research to deliver music to help users focus on tasks, based on musical key, arrangements, intensity, and other factors.

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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. But I wouldn’t delay too long or unnecessarily. .”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Here is my edited summary of their ten principles, which I like and may convince you that you don’t need a business plan at all, or at the very least will help you write a better one later: A new venture is a means, not an end. Don’t be totally driven by your own passions, the emotional enthusiasm of friends, or even third-party research.

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Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

I am chairman of a company that, as I write this, is twelve years old and has not yet taken a dollar of outside investment. Grant writing takes skill and immense amounts of time. First, here’s a link to my recent TEDx talk, “Smiling at success; laughing at failure.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2020

These grants include funding to educational institutions, researchers, research centers, colleges and universities, or private companies that are researching or developing leading edge solutions in several categories including agriculture, education, energy, health, medical, space, science and technology to name a few.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 11, 2013

Each year the federal government awards technology grants to companies like yours to conduct research and develop innovations for the government. You can then convert the funded research project into commercial business opportunities.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

As BCG writes in its report: The good news for SoCal and any region with tech ambitions is that the Bay Area has in some ways been too successful. “We’ve also seen a substantial inflow of venture capital from all over the world.”. In fact, as is well-reported, the luster of Silicon Valley is fading.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2013

The firm said Beddingfield will lead all clinical research and development, including strategy, operations, statistics, data management, medical writing, regulatory and quality for the company. Beddingfield is a dermatologist, who was most recently at Allergan, working on that firm's Botox, Juvederm, and Latisse products.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

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. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Why is this?

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Berkonomics

JULY 3, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] This moment is not to be spoiled by such mundane warnings from advisors or consultants to plan carefully, research the market and competition, and execute the plan with tenacity and enthusiasm. Do you ignore the warnings of experts?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

If you live somewhere where this is the case you’re better off discussing with your employer that you may from time-to-time work on private projects outside of work hours and you want their clearance in writing that this is OK. Research your market. Register a company. This is advice that I give people all the time.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 22, 2013

Some write about relationships and others about sex. Each of these “moms” spend their days researching products and services that may benefit their respective audience. Each of these “moms” spend their days researching products and services that may benefit their respective audience.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2011

A Little Research Goes a Long Way. Research? – However, I do expect someone who is looking for a favor to do at least three minutes of research on my professional background. If that were the case, I would not be writing this entry, as I realize young people are learning “on the job.” free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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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. It was just us doing everything--cleaning the floors, setting up the computers, writing the curriculum, and teaching the classes. At the time, I got Lynda.com.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

“ This will also help dealerships increase sales and bring needed sales tax revenues to local and state governments,” Peterson writes. “Startups and small businesses are the engine of every local and regional economy,” writes Peterson. There’s $25 billion in money set aside for public transit and $12.5

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

If you’ve taken the steps to research your market and niche, the chances are that you’re taking your business seriously. Here’s a quick nod to the folks at Colour Graphics for urging me to write this insight. You’ll Think more deeply. You’ll wonder: ‘’Is this a worthy investment with probable payback in revenues? – Dave.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. If an accelerator is writing you they’re also writing 25 other VCs. They worry too much about missing out on a deal. I don’t. Probably more.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Do you introspectively evaluate your research methodologies and assess your failed assertions? To further enhance your state of denial, you write a new book entitled How the Mighty Fall and blame the previously vaunted companies for subsequently faltering. Do you admit that you may have mistakenly analyzed the data?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - By company 22 it’s hard to remember what any of them did. Many other great companies are not. -

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice. Research & Development. So I ask you – if you’re being reactive to somebody else’s emails are you really being as productive in your company as you could be? “But WAIT !!!

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

San Diego-based Pharmapace , a provider of clinical research services, focused on biometrics services for the clinical trial process, has been acquired by Shanghai-based WuXi AppTec , the two companies said on Sunday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The company was founded in 2013 in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. The Biggest Deal That Got Away? Howard answers Twitter and Zynga.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I’m sure he’s way more versed on the research in corporate psychology than I. I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek. The person writing things he or she is doing me a favor. They had to physically write a letter, address it, put a stamp on it (pay) and then put it in the mailbox.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2014

Research? – Proactive – Not only had the caller not done any research on me, it was clear he also had not properly canvassed Santa Barbara for potential prospects. Rather than ask for my opinion on particular companies, he wanted me to do his market research for him, asking, "What''s going on in Santa Barbara?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Do you introspectively evaluate your research methodologies and assess your failed assertions? To further enhance your state of denial, you write a new book entitled How the Mighty Fall and blame the previously vaunted companies for subsequently faltering. Do you admit that you may have mistakenly analyzed the data?

Entrepreneur 150

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Yet their business was disrupted entirely by email because a small company called Research in Motion came out with a device that did email flawlessly – the Blackberry. Most people I know who gave up their Blackberry’s just write shorter emails and respond to less. And it turns out that – duh! Palm obliterated.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

The primary stipulation is that each Thiel Fellow must drop out of college, for at least two years, and pursue their “entrepreneurial ventures, research and self-education.”. Bill Gates – “The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As an early stage investor you’re often planning around 10x your investment at the time your write your first check so in this case you’d be going into your investment expecting an exit of $800 – $1.2

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Gartner, Forrester, Jupiter and AMR Research all had good things to say about us. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today). We were hot.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. Their writing style, even for a mainstream publication, is they write with lots of testosterone. They write about the transmission, the brakes, and the suspension, and that creeps into all of their evaluations of cars.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to compete in the marketplace? Second: Market risk.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

You should be actively listening the whole time (actively listening as in listening, writing important things down and asking relevant questions as they talk about their problems). Prepare for your meetings by doing research before you go. But after a few of these I’ve noticed some great sales people then throw in a question.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

This moment is not to be spoiled by such mundane warnings from advisors or consultants to plan carefully, research the market and competition, and execute the plan with tenacity and enthusiasm. Email readers, continue here.]

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I even had some reservations about writing this blog post this because I have no desire to p**s off other investors or great entrepreneurs. As Ivan points out, what if somebody was researching “How to come out to my parents” or “how to cope with cancer” or anything similar.

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