Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. At the time I wasn’t 100% sure but he made compelling arguments about how other markets have developed as they matured so I took note. Ten years on much has changed. For starters, a16z was only 2 years old then (as was Bitcoin).
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
I developed a list of questions to ask you next time we speak?—?especially Frankly, it’s the life of ANY executives with whom you want to sell product, do a business development deal with, execute M&A, a journalist you want to write about your company?—?anybody. A few weeks have slipped by. Was that a blip?
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This is going to be BIG.
JULY 14, 2013
What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. These folks could become clients, funders, or good places to connect and work over the long term. Stuff like that--buildings and businesses--were easy to describe.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. I’m an equal opportunity funder but having a personal mission a few deals can be healthy, too. Far from it.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 14, 2012
Ideas get poorly vetted because the funders aren't current on tech trends. Is your business plan competition a fun thing you do on the side each year, or do you have real programs with fulltime staff dedicated to teaching full stack development and how to incubate real businesses? What about your academic programs?
Ecosystem Builder Hub
AUGUST 14, 2020
As with any movement, there comes a day when grand visions need to either remain that, or be executed on so that they may evolve to the next stage of development and maturation. Someone who could understand the current landscape, help envision where we want to be and collaboratively develop a plan to get there.”. Challenges.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. I would like to know how to best measure and track entrepreneurship and economic development in a non-traditional way. and abroad between February and September 2020. Denisse Rodriguez. Mara Hardy.
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