Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. How about your Investors ? Your investors, the smart ones at least, are certainly making decisions the other way among competing deals. That wasn’t exactly part of my job description, but it wasn’t worth complaining about.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

A Blog About Making Culture. About Anil Dash. By unusual coincidence, this week I had a number of different folks ask me to sign NDA s about the new projects theyre working on. If I couldnt be trusted with your idea, youd already know about it. Anil Dash. Most Popular. More Info » One More Time: No NDAs.

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NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Just as people may complain about online platforms they use, leaving the platform would represent such a significant loss in other value that they stay, even if there are things they may not like about it. has been down about 10% over the past 15 years. Why should we care about any of this? The same applies to cities.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

And then they see stuff in the press about how Company X and Company Y raised $2M in their seed round and start to think that that’s the amount that they should raise too. Reflect on the stage you’re investing at and be sure that you’re staying within the bands of your competency (and ergo not riding the spiral up to a level of incompetency).

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

Altgate

JANUARY 13, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account Help Ban Non-Competes In Massachusetts → Running & Reading Posted on January 13, 2009 by fnazeeri Just saw this over on Brad Feld’s blog and had to repost.

Massachusetts 34

Massachusetts Non-Compete Michigan Venture Capital 34

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. If I had to go all the way back to 2007 when I left my wall street job, I would have done this option.

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Rob Go

APRIL 14, 2014

There was great news yesterday in the MA entrepreneurial community when Governor Patrick proposed sweeping legislation to ban companies from enforcing non-compete agreements. I’m really excited about this, and think that it will have a big impact. My friend Jeff Bussgang has discussed it in more detail on his blog here.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Why care about "the why?" How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips. Customer Personas, Customer Value, Customer Retention and Non-line Marketing. The Awesome Power of Visualization 2 -> Death and Taxes 2007. Stop Obsessing About Conversion Rate. Why care about "the why?"

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Analytics Metrics SEM Web 125

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Questions I ask Matt Briel: [1:29] Could you tell us about the origin story of Lulu and how did it come to be? [2:25] 21:59] Where can people find out more about you and publishing a book with Lulu? Recently you learned the surprising truths about and tips for beating, stress and anxiety. Great episode.

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Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 96

dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Thoughts on business and technology Home Archives Profile Subscribe About Me « Boston VCs gets first look at Y Combinator Demo Day | Main | Digg-nation is HUGE! Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? 5% Managers -.25%

Equity 40

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The challenge is that you should have done enough work upfront to know what's important to the business, got a rough sense for things you can fix right away and their value, and then done some back of the napkin calculations about the Economic Value your fixes will add. or non-U.S.), That takes a few days of pain. Organic Search.

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

The story struck me as significant for three reasons – firstly, because Freelancer founder Matt Barrie had been very public leading up to the IPO about wanting to list in Australia over both London and NASDAQ. all IPO’d circa 2007/08 for a combined market value of around AUD $13 billion. and RealEstate.com.au

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Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 2 by Nivi on February 27th, 2008 Here are more frequently asked questions about advisors. YC takes about 6% of a company in return for $15K-$20K. Everything you wanted to know about advisors, Part 2 [.]

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched. infoChachkie. Legend asserts that the name change from Cadabra was prompted by Yahoo’s alphabetized listing of search results.

Naming 40

Naming Technical Review Product Product Name 40

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I did one final opening campaign for my Membership Site Mastermind coaching program at the start of 2009 (and it’s about to close at the end of this year ), but I pretty much just sat back and kept the machine running for the rest of the year, giving you content through my blog and newsletter and occasionally promoting an affiliate launch.

Programming 79

Programming Restful Internet Hiring 79

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. And at the 11th hour they pulled out.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2011

“In the summer of 2007, I was in my master’s program and was actually in the process of buying a book online. He then piloted the concept at Weber State University in the summer of 2007. Starting in my basement in 2007, we then moved into my garage as the demand for book rentals grew. Lessons From A Book Industry.

Non-Compete 165

Non-Compete Cofounder Programming Analytics 165

Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Michael talks about his experience in growing his pizza chain an how he managed business growth at a fast rate. As a founding member of the World Pizza Champions (America’s #1 Pizza Team), he has traveled to Italy competing at the World Pizza Championships in Italy annually since 2002. Also Available On. Show Summary. Our Guest .

Italy 60

Italy Ohio Non-Compete LLC 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Scared about failing, what others will think about you, and not having enough resources to succeed. Non of this academic stuff. but I care a lot about the team and what they built, not what they say their going to do. Unfortunately its not an area I know much about. Maple Butter. Search for: Videos. a new art form?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

View from Seed

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Recently, we got a group of Product Managers from our portfolio together to chat with Fareed Mosavat about all things growth. He decided that moving fast was more his speed, so he joined Conduit Labs in Boston in 2007, who was purchased by Zynga 3 years later. At Slack we think about customer types differently. Onboarding.

Product 52

Product Vertical Non-Compete Analytics 52

Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

Four years from that time, SALESmanago established itself as Europe’s largest and – according to Datanyze, one of the world’s top 6 – marketing automation platforms, competing with such world players as Hubspot, Marketo, Act-on and Oracle Eloqua. How about I wear my baby carrier and just hold him? But you know – no pain, no gain.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Houston Software Review LLC 48

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

With Communitake, service providers have the ability to reduce operating costs; the competence to provide effective and superior service; and the understanding of customers so as to maximize revenues. This non intrusive system monitors the network 24*7*365 without taking up network resources and with immediate.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

It has been downloaded by 2 million time, requiring less CPU processing than competing text input apps. MobiApp develops local social mobile networks that enable people attending events to know about each other’s presence on site for free. TodaCell is a Managed Premium Mobile Ad Network established in 2007.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

In 2007, he wrote a popular book called “ Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear. ” Each participant is given a wireless device about the size of a smartphone. Over the course of his career, he discovered recurring principles in just about every successful phrase. This principle is all about frequency.

Web 48

Web Audience Non-Compete Campaign 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Communities care about lots of things, like how good your product is, how much information you give them, how you defend them from trolls, right? The problem was that although very few customers were affected by the changes in policy, many more were anxious about those changes. Again, this was not about prurient content.

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. So while they enjoy a race with two major brands competing they also have three other strategies they’ll pursue. It’s hard to blame them.

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