My stepdad is the CEO of a winery in Sonoma County. Which, means he has lots of friends who love wine. When he turned 60 he had a party and a few of his winemaker friends showed up. One friend was the winemaker at a really prominent Sonoma County winery, and he brought a bottle …
When I first learned about ChatGPT, I turned to my friend who obtained his PhD in Natural Language Processing and used to work in Google’s Search team for his thoughts. I asked him how concerned he thought Google was with ChatGPT. Was it the biggest threat they’ve faced since 2004? Would it disrupt the current …
As a founder, I’ve always found it impossible to exercise. You’re working twelve hours a day. There’s a family waiting for you at home. How do you possibly find the time to workout? Lately, I’ve found that the only way I exercise is by following a plan. It’s what I do all day every day …
Iowa has been on my bucket list for the last four years. I’ve been to 49 out of 50 states. Iowa is the last one. For years I’ve wanted to knock it out in style through a cross-state bike ride called RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI selects 7 cities across the state of Iowa and invites 10,000+ bike …
What Insights Did You Get from Work Rules, by Laszlo Bock? From how important growing autonomy is to inviting everyone to sit at the table, here are 10 answers to the question, “What are the most helpful takeaways you had from reading Work Rules!, by Laszlo Bock?” Autonomy Encourages Innovation and Success Data-driven Decision-making Trust …
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Search engines have changed forever with the introduction of generative AI. Overall, I think it’s a great thing for user experience on search engines. But for publishers? We’ll have to wait and see what the reduction in click throughs mean for their business, and for advertising as a whole. Probably the most intelligent take I’ve …
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I hate it when an investor conversation gets around the inevitable comment. “So, you’re a non-technical founder?” Yup, sure am. Navigating what a non-technical founder should do in a tech startup has been one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced at Terkel. I lead our technical team of four software engineers, or about 50% of …
My best friend once listened to a podcast where the hosts bought each other a ridiculous gift on their birthday. Each year, the only rule was that the gift had to either get more ridiculous, or more expensive. My friend and I decided to give this form of gift giving a try. We’re at the …
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I’m not a fan of Vimeo. I don’t like paying for the service. But I do in order to display a video in a high quality format on our Terkel homepage. But, there’s gotta be some good alternatives to Vimeo, right? To find these alternatives, I asked the community at Terkel for the video platforms …
My first business received funding via sponsorships. My second and third were bootstrapped. Currently, I’m running a venture backed business. What’s the norm? How do small businesses typically fund their companies? How do they get and raise capital? I turned to the entrepreneurs within the Terkel community for their insights. Here’s what they had to …
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