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MAY 9, 2018
New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. And there is no short-cut, no collaboration tool, no spreadsheet, no web conference tool that can build trust even remotely as effectively as being in person. Would it be alright if I brought her by your offices for a super quick coffee?” (In That way when my partners in are in ….
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November. LA has the annual Monty Conference. NY has a million including the obvious ones like AdWeek.
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OCTOBER 8, 2014
Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.
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JANUARY 22, 2014
It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Think of web vs. mobile. Most VCs are book smart. Smart is simply not a differentiator. In fact, book smart can be a negative. Traditional software vs. SaaS.
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JUNE 22, 2011
I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. We go through our “Bear Stearns moment.&#
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MARCH 12, 2013
Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.
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JULY 23, 2013
The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. Then I got my MBA at University of Chicago and reinforced my brand. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. Yet everywhere I went I was now “strategy guy.”
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