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Interview: August Capital Partner David Hornik

0 Comments 12 July 2010

David talks to me about why he is spending more time in New York and why mobile is finally the “next big thing”. You can listen to the original audio recording I did on my iPhone on Cinch. SEAN: So we’re here with David Hornik of August Capital. David , thank you for joining. DAVID: Sure. SEAN: So [...]

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Interview: Mastering the VC Game Author & Flybridge Capital Partner Jeff Bussgang Part 2

0 Comments 16 June 2010

In Part 2, Jeff gives advice on what entrepreneurs should and shouldn’t do when pitching their ideas to VC’s and what are the most commonly used. SEAN: I think you go into something like 40 pages on the pitch itself, and this, kind of, just hits home for me because I… you said in one of [...]

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Interview: Mastering the VC Game Author & Flybridge Capital Partner Jeff Bussgang Part 1

0 Comments 11 June 2010

I caught up with Jeff Bussgang at TechCrunch Disrupt a few weeks and interviewed him about his new book Mastering the VC Game. I will post the interview in two parts. In Part 1, Jeff talks about the genesis of the book, his background as founder of UPromise, how he made it over to the [...]

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Interview: JetSetter.com Founder & CEO Drew Patterson Part 3

0 Comments 07 June 2010

SEAN: So talk a little bit about the backend. I mentioned today that you had this incredible hotel in Venice, another one in Mexico and the site looked amazing. You know, how do you guys go about finding these deals and what’s the process? DREW: You know I think it has really to do with relationships [...]

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Book: Mastering the VC Game

1 Comment 02 June 2010

I interviewed General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and author of Mastering The VC Game Jeff Bussgang at TechCrunch Disrupt two weeks ago. I will be posting that interview in a few installments later this week. In the meantime, enjoy my review of the book below. Mastering The VC Game couldn’t have been more timely or [...]

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Interview: JetSetter.com Founder & CEO Drew Patterson Part 2

0 Comments 30 May 2010

You can find part one of our interview here. In Part 2 of 3, Drew talks about: - the reinvention of ecommerce resulting from the explosion of new email commerce sites like Groupon, LivingSocial and Jetsetter. - the synergies JetSetter is able to leverage from Gilt.com, from which JetSetter was spun. SEAN: And I can’t help but think of [...]

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Live: Charlie Rose & John Doerr At TechCrunch Disrupt

0 Comments 24 May 2010

TechCrunch Disrupt opened up with Charlie Rose interviewing infamous venture capitalist John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers about tectonic shifts in technology, Steve Jobs’ stance on Adobe Acrobat, the future of social gaming and lots more. You can see my pics and the full interview complements of Livestream below: Robert Scoble from Scobleizer doing [...]

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Interview: JetSetter.com Founder & CEO Drew Patterson Part 1

1 Comment 22 May 2010

You can find the transcript for the interview below the video: In part of 1 of our interview, Drew talks about: where the idea for JetSetter came from how JetSetter is different from Priceline, TripAdvisor and Kayak.com, where Drew headed up online marketing for a number of years Transcription: SEAN: So we’re here with Drew Patterson, founder and CEO [...]

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Bootstrapping: 2 Days in Boston For $200

0 Comments 05 May 2010

Having only launched SalesCrunch 34 days ago, I am still busy herding cats (aka investors) and collecting checks. In the meantime, I am financing the company out of my own pocket – as it should be. So I am extra special frugal right now. I never lost the bootstrapping mentality during the nearly five years [...]

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Top 7 Comparisons Between Starting A Company And Starting A Family

0 Comments 26 April 2010

I have a 17-month-old son, recently left one startup after five years of growing it from 5 to 110 people and launched my third startup in 10 years at the beginning of this month. So I can tell you from deep in the trenches that there are tons of parallels between stating a family and [...]

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