Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I have long tried to raise awareness of the trade-off between growth & profits as outlined in this much read blog post on the topic (and please forward to your favorite journalist who often simply report that companies that aren’t profitable are bad). Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2023

Interestingly, according to Google Marketing , AI searches are actually growing: “people’s interest in the topic of “artificial intelligence” on Google Search, which has increased by 3.5X Character AI attracted 280 million web visits last month, growing 60% month-over-month, with nearly 30 min average session duration.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

But Troy has become a very successful tech investor in his own right having invested early in Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Warby Parker and others. [Next week I’ll publish a 1-1 interview I did with Troy on Day 1 of the Upfront Summit.].

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

The average growth rate for Cloud Summit attendees from the previous year was estimated at 25% by Ingram Micro, and this year’s full lineup of growth-centric topics will be held between May 17th to 19th. Following a two-year hiatus, this year’s summit about A Future of Even More looks to bring in more than 1,600 expected attendees.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Dropbox is the perfect way to ensure your team practices efficient document collaboration. Dropbox allows you to drag and drop, read, and edit files from whatever device you may be using to access it, including both computer and mobile platforms. The solution? Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

The sponsoring partner will be given feedback on what some partners don’t like about the team, the market, the product, the competition or the deal terms and that partner may have to answer back on those topics at the next partner meeting or maybe even just later that day (depending on time sensitivity of the deal).

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. WebInno Supper Club – Regular, small dinner series around very specific topics. Topics have included “Leveraging Pinterest”, “Mobile Commerce”, and “Facebook Advertising”. Wayne Chang – Crashlytics, Dropbox ( blog , @wayne). The Grand-daddy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” We talked about the flow of people with hedge fund backgrounds into these areas where units can now be traded rather than necessarily bought in a bespoke RFP (request for proposal) way.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Then my friend Ben Stern’s (PM at Figma, ex-Dropbox) response. There has never been a better time to be curious — I usually watch experts on YouTube talk about deep topics and gain understanding quickly. First the original post ODE TO A NON-TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER. Understand how things really work. Have a super power.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In order to have the great companies we now know today: Uber, DropBox, Airbnb, SnapChat, Twitter, Facebook and so forth we first needed the “Internet rails” beneath us.

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VC Cafe

MAY 13, 2014

Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) and Quora (www.quora.com) are efficient tools for long-term traffic, provided the message is on-topic. Check out this example from Dropbox. Dropbox transformed a marketing campaign for an undifferentiated product (storage) into a worldwide competition among universities. Long Term Traffic.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2014

The more sensitive the topic, the more personal the communication type should be. Dropbox – This cloud-based software does a little more than Google Drive can do for your documents, Drag and drop and access any file from any device connected to your drop box for real time team sharing.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

The topic was VC signaling in seed rounds — and how these signals help or hurt your ability to raise money in the next round. When can startups be called successful, e.g. reddit, dropbox? SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds. Prerequisites. Below are 50 ideas for step 2. Spend 20 minutes.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Google sells cloud storage, as does Dropbox, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and a host of private companies that do as well. Have a look at some of our money saving tips for further information on this topic. Primarily reading outside of business helps him come up with new ideas and draw new correlations between topics.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

This is a practice widely accepted and encouraged at Microsoft, LinkedIn and DropBox, the latter of which has regular dates on the calendar for their employees to work on side projects and new ideas. Paternity and maternity leave are topics of discussion frequently in the business world. Give More Paternity Time for Dads.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Follow these steps for all of your key accounts: email, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, bank accounts, PayPal, domain registrars, etc. On the topic of passwords, we also recommend not storing your passwords in Google Chrome. In addition to these steps, you can also get a physical dongle/key like Yubikey or Google Titan.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Venture Capital Venture Capital Term Sheets Startups Term Sheets What are examples of good startup term sheets? So good, in fact, I seldom try to write on the topic. Greg Martin created a DropBox PDF summary of the series, which is here: [link] 06322/T.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MARCH 28, 2013

They have published a number of great “blogs to books”, including ones from Jeff Atwood (co-founder of Stack Overflow), Sean Ellis (growth hacker for LogMeIn, DropBox, Eventbrite and others) and Robert Scoble.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Google sells cloud storage, Dropbox does, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and a host of private companies do as well. Have a look at some of our money saving tips for further information on this topic. Primarily reading outside of business, helps him come up with new ideas and draw new correlations between topics. Save people money.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Dropbox – For good or bad Dropbox has become our default server in the cloud. HipChat – This is simply a group chat tool, but I like that you can create chat rooms for various topics or workgroups and then keep the stream on topic with the ability to search and find files, links and past conversations.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2014

Tanielle Lobo, the co-founder of Check-in-London , a site that helps out-of-towners find apartments in the area, uses the site to juggle sites like MailChimp, HootSuite and DropBox. When journalists need a source for a certain topic, they post a query on HARO. Cost: Ranging membership options. Free, $1 per month, $5 per month.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

If you want to dive deeper into the growth process, check out this crazy in-depth guide we wrote on the topic. Here’s what Willie Tran , Growth PM at Dropbox , had to say: Willie Tran: “A high performing growth team is excellent in these three areas: Raw experimentation output – The more you experiment, the more you can learn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

It's a wide-ranging call-in show that covers just about every topic you can imagine. The host is seemingly-omniscient Michael Krasny who somehow manages to ask in-depth questions on every conceivable topic. The main way they know which topics are of interest to listeners is by who calls in.

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David Teten

MARCH 3, 2015

A famous example: Dropbox ’s referral program had a two-sided incentive for sharing: the person who signs up for Dropbox through a referral link gets more space than through a normal sign up, and the referrer gets additional space as well. Test referral programs with monetary and non-monetary incentives. Lean Experiment Techniques.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

Why give more airtime to someone whose peak of influence, and perhaps success, is clearly behind him--especially to talk about topics where he clearly isn''t adding value to the conversation. Every time he opens his mouth about founder diversity, he seems completely out of his league to address the topic.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Friday 1:30 pm ET / 10:30 am PT Webinar This is such an important and in so many ways misunderstood topic that I decided to share, via live Webinar, key insights from the business models and investment strategies of Unicorns like Domo, Uber , Airbnb , Dropbox , and Slack and why some of the smartest business and investment minds in the world today (..)

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

This field is known as “ Behavioral Psychology “ One of the world’s foremost experts on this particular topic is Jonah Berger , a pretty smart guy from Standford who wrote what’s probably the best book on the topic. The referral program that helped Dropbox grow so fast early on had a clear why.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 7, 2012

Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Drew Houston , the founder and CEO of Dropbox and a very impressive entrepreneur. To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

One of my favorite topics to talk about. John Jantsch (10:18): And a word from a sponsor, Hey look, if you're still using Dropbox or Google Drive to store your images and videos, listen up. So Caroline, welcome to the show. Carolyn Rodz (01:26): Thank you. Thanks John for having me. Well those are fine for storing docs and sheets.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2011

We think that effective use of our technology stack (Angelsoft, BasecampHQ, Dropbox, etc.) As a separate topic: Adam commented that he got negative feedback from some investors on Founder Institute’s warrants in his company. will help to keep our virtual operation running smoothly.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 26, 2010

It was both satisfying and a bit surrealistic to sit in the back of the hall looking at the sea of heads and listening to speakers extend, embellish and expand on a topic that a scant five years ago was just my theory in my U.C. This conference and the Lean Startup was the work of one amazing individual – Eric Ries. Berkeley classroom.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2014

If you’re scaling a service, the difference between an average smart engineer and a few dozen people who have successfully done it before with Google, Facebook, YouTube, Dropbox is enormous. If there are other topics that fit into the WhenTheVCAsks format just suggest them in the comments.'

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Hippoland

APRIL 24, 2010

The idea behind Aardvark is that you can send Aardvark a question (either by IM or now Twitter), any question, and Aardvark will fwd your question to someone knowledgeable about that topic. Drew from Dropbox, an online backup, storage, and sync service talked about how the MVP model is tricky for a service like Dropbox.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 14, 2012

Hot topics. I like the idea of projects like Unhosted, which I’ve written about elsewhere , but activist users have had more success in pressuring companies like Dropbox and Facebook to change their TOS than getting users to defect to privacy centric systems like Diaspora. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Dropbox is an example of a company that has followed this path with tremendous results. To read more on this topic, here are a few books / blogs I recommend: Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross. The Science of Building a Scalable Sales Team by Mark Roberge, Hubspot CRO. The Bridge Group''s Blog on inside sales.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Good stuff I found this week: Crash Courses – Series of courses on various topics from American Express – includes things like hiring, Facebook, and one I created on Local Search. Easily crate and categorize notes, record audio while you take notes and integrate with Dropbox to share and save your notes. Amex is a client).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. They also gave us Hacker News , which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories.

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