Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2013

I was having a conversion on Friday with Brad Bernthal , an Associate Professor at Colorado Law School who directs the Silicon Flatirons Center’s Entrepreneurship Initiative. Techstars’ geographically dispersed structure shares the wealth across multiple startup communities spanning Seattle to London.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada. We talked about how her background has made her well-suited for this kind of civic engagement, her relationship to the tech world, how she scaled the organization so quickly and much more.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

When you talk about vibrant West Coast startup scenes, obviously Silicon Valley dominates the conversation. Then there's Seattle, of course. The proximity to other tech hubs like Seattle and Silicon Valley may make it easy to overlook Vancouver. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Portland too.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 17, 2020

and Seattle. Real Tech X Texas REALTORS® creates an opportunity for startups and tech businesses around the world to network with graduates of the accelerator program, to better understand the REACH process, and determine whether REACH® can launch their vision into prop-tech reality. “As

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. Read more: PEHub. GroundTruth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. John Jantsch (00:01): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. Like this show? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Kirk flew into San Francisco from Seattle on that Friday, so he could talk to the founders in person. Kirk dropped an even-bigger weight onto the conversation when he added, “You’re asking me to give up about a half a million dollars.” These results told me that Keen’s offer was in the right ballpark, but still a bit low.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Integrations with a wider range of ad networks. If you manage a daily digest for The Seattle Times, for example, you could include more sports stories for sports junkies and more political headlines for partisans. Integrations with a wider range of ad networks. Where do they fit into the analytics conversation?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

He created a scalable model that grew from a small team in a Seattle garage to one of the world’s largest employers. How do you feel like this book will bring structure to the conversation? [19:32] If you'd like to have a conversation about billionaires and or income inequality, whatever it might be.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2017

In Seattle, accessible buses and light rail lines allow people who use wheelchairs to travel seamlessly across the network, while Portland’s LIFT paratransit service offers an essential shared-ride public transportation service for riders who are less mobile.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Seth, Jason, Ryan, and I had a long conversation about it after going through the AvidXchange financing deck and monthly financial package. I expected that we’d decide to pass and set up the conversation with them this way. This time I told him I’d run it by my partners and get their feedback.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2017

In Seattle, accessible buses and light rail lines allow people who use wheelchairs to travel seamlessly across the network, while Portland’s LIFT paratransit service offers an essential shared-ride public transportation service for riders who are less mobile.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

He is a broad, strategic business thinker, has a deep understanding of engineering talent, has very high standards, and is someone I can always have a real conversation with. Find a river guide who is a well-networked, experienced engineer and has been in a respected engineering environment. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2015

Here’s what I remember the conversation being. Shortly after that conversation (either the same day or the following day) my partners at Foundry Group (Seth, Jason, and Ryan) all committed to invest in the fund. We had programs in Boulder, Seattle, Boston, and New York. One day in 2009 David Cohen and I were talking.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. In the case of J.J's business, the customer is the Network.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). The panel was hosted by Jason Nazar who brought his usual frenetic energy. In the afternoon we had a corker of panel.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) Numerous angel networks focused on underrepresented founders including BEAM , Urban Capital Network , Business Angel Minority Association , and Houston Diversity Fund.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

SAP Global Trade Services, SAP R/3, Other Technologies / ITO Agreements / IT Intel ABC has created a custom application server using Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle WebLogic Server called ABC Unified Strategic Information Optimization Network, or FUSION. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode or the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the Nudge Podcast, hosted by Phil Agnew and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. But like conversion did not work. Or was it just like you'd bump into somebody and you'd strike up a conversation? I literally did that. powered by.

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dickey.xxx

DECEMBER 10, 2012

networking. I wouldn't be involved in startups if I didn't attend Startup Weekend in Seattle back when I was in college. I attended another Startup Weekend in San Jose shortly after the one in Seattle that helped me network with people. If you're looking for a job, they're incredibly good for networking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In this conversation, you're going to get to hear from someone who's really doing it. I hope this conversation shows everyone out there what is possible when we act boldly in a crisis. Here's my conversation with Curative.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The Seattle team would work with me to build the spec and the mockups. We decided to move out of social networking. Once we got the idea to evolve into a mature concept we flew back to Seattle and development was smooth sailing because everyone participated in the evolution and everyone understood the “spirit&# of the design.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The leadership centers of the microcomputer world shifted from Albuquerque to the San Fernando Valley (LA), the Bay Area, and Seattle. All my colleagues tended to live in the same “Telco Heights” areas of the cities of the year, and their personal networks were contained inside Ma Bell. Deals were getting done there.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Ashish Soni, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Engineering, and the executive director of its Digital Innovation lab, says that in the past many of his graduates would have gone directly to Seattle or San Francisco, but now theyre staying put, getting hired by local start-ups. Advertisement. Most Popular.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

But, that doesn’t mean it will be easy… In order to overcome barriers, artists first need to look at their lifestyle, their network and their habits. So, textiles was an easy conversation to start, because it’s familiar. I wanted to include countries who may often be overlooked into the interior design conversation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Elon Musk touts launch of ‘SpaceX Seattle’ | Business & Technology | The Seattle Times crowdspring.co/1BadR6p. 99% of Networking Is a Waste of Time – HBR crowdspring.co/1zbdv4f. How to Network Successfully on Google Plus crowdspring.co/162tows. Resilient Networking: Planning for Failure crowdspring.co/1LBcpSE.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! The networks seem to be emphatic about monetization for the present. The networks must be bewildered by the fact that one of their main competitors is a company that started with a mail-based DVD service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Past livestream attendees have reported great conversations and networking. They represent more than 10,000 people total. If you're not attending the conference in person, consider meeting up with one of these groups to watch. Most simulcasts are free, although some charge a small fee to cover their costs.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Professional networks are the starting point (and growth engine). For many, that transition was possible not just because of quality work but because of a network built over a career. Bill Sebald of Greenlane Marketing explains: Bill Sebald, Greenlane Marketing: “I had a network of people I built through previous jobs.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. The great thing about this strategy is you already have a conversion mechanism. Improve conversions. Just do some basic conversion improvement.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 12, 2011

On January 5th, he left a friend’s home in Seattle having given away his own home, cars, and possessions and with just a laptop, $10 is cash and a backpack with a few changes of clothing. Over the next two months I donated everything I owned, flew to Seattle, and launched the experiment on January 5, 2011. 3) Inspired Action.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Professional networks are the starting point (and growth engine). For many, that transition was possible not just because of quality work but because of a network built over a career. Bill Sebald of Greenlane Marketing explains: Bill Sebald, Greenlane Marketing: “I had a network of people I built through previous jobs.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Mikhail is now the Associate Director of Product at Merchantry, an e-commerce merchant network, after being introduced to the co-founders by someone he met while at ClickFacts. I flew out from Seattle, where I lived, to Boston to Paul’s lecture on the back of his essay,” Phil tells me. Follow conversation. 2 comments.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. link] Sean Murphy Two other events that are good for serious conversation among entrepreneurs are Bootstrapper Breakfast [link] and Hackers and Founders [link] Eli One of my professors told me to get an MBA to meet a co-founder.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Some of the most successful things I have worked on, in terms of traffic and conversions, have been successful almost in spite of the design, rather than because of the design. "If There are other social networks that look more aesthetically pleasing. More people could learn from that quote. Its very disheartening.

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