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Re: Three More Junior Professional VC Bloggers

Sarah Tavel — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:58:18 -0000

hey matt. I just came across you blog because I was trying to put a blogroll together of other pre-mba's in VC and was caught by surprise to see your shout out. Thank you! Great blog -- I look forward to reading your future posts!

Re: A Touch of Ecocentrism

Sarah Tavel — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:53:47 -0000

Matt,

That is definitely too funny. I've tried putting the badge on my blog but was having trouble (for some reason the pic is not coming out, just the text on the bottom).... I'll try playing with the html later this week. But great idea to do the badges!

hope you are well,
st

Re: Three More Junior Professional VC Bloggers

Sarah Tavel — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:37:07 -0000

Matt - Embarrassed to say I just saw your reply. That's so great that your sister's jeans worked out! If she's free, I'm always love meeting interesting people in different spheres....

Re: Pitching Doctors Education (and Drugs)

Sarah Tavel — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:37:02 -0000

Hey Matt,

Cool companies you mentioned that you guys have invested in.

As an aside, I canâ€™t resist the temptation to clarify that the average Primary Care Physician (PCP) rep actually gets no where near 3.5 minutes per visit. When I did ride-withs for a top-top-5 Pharmaceutical companies in my strategy consulting gig, the average was more like 8 seconds (!). Most rep visits to PCPs are literally only a sample delivery mechanism. Back in the good ole days, before the reps arms race, PCP reps were seen as value add as you mention. But not anymore.

Specialists on the other hand are more about being on the bleeding edge of innovation. Whereas PCPs need to have a broad knowledgebase, Specialists need to know what the latest drugs are in their specialty. They need to know what the hottest and newest pills are, and so the reps really add that value-added service that you mention (these reps are also generally better trained and have a deeper life sciences background than PCP reps too). Those visits are longer -- maybe near 3 minutes on average -- but still pretty short.

I agree that eDetailing is definitely seen as a way to help ease the PCP rep arms race... many Pharma companies have been pushing this for some time, even requiring that doctors watch an eDetail before they can order additional samples. But change is slow. eDetailing is in particular being pushed in rural areas --- areas where the reach & frequency model is too inefficient.

just my two cents...

Re: links for 2007-10-15

Sarah Tavel — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:19:44 -0000

Thanks for the link. :)

Re: Disconnected

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:55:39 -0000

haha - weird. great minds think alike, my friend! (i just had a similar post!)

Re: The Venture Apprenticeship, Preface

Sarah Tavel — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:42:56 -0000

oooh. Very cool. I look forward to these posts...

Re: Welcome to Silicon Alley

Sarah Tavel — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:31:14 -0000

hey!! what about bessemer?

Re: My recent tracks on Last.fm

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:05:48 -0000

These posts are always such a tease.... I open my Google Reader, see a new post from This is going to be BIG!, click to read your latest pearls of wisdom, and then it turns out to be a list of your tracks. Such a let down.... ;)

Re: Administrative Control: Didn't anyone ever hear of Enterprise 2.0?

Sarah Tavel — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:01:48 -0000

Hey Charlie -- We're actually going to give Yammer a try amongst some BVP-ers. For our use case, it's not about corporations having control over our "twitter feeds". It's more about being able to communicate with colleagues in the same way as people communicate via Twitter. The difference being that the content is specific (and closed) to my colleagues, and not available to the entire Twitter community. I'm not sure your IM client example is analogous.

Re: NY Tech Meetup

Sarah Tavel — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:39:26 -0000

Nate is thoughtfully passionate about bringing together the NY tech community, and this is nothing new. Just check out his cafeBricolage manifesto (http://innonate.com/2007/02.... A great choice for the NY Tech Meetup!

Sarah Tavel

Re: NYTM – What's Next?

Sarah Tavel — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:55:27 -0000

super cool, nate. congrats and look forward to seeing what you make of it!

Re: Ode to the Organizers: Debbie Westheimer

Sarah Tavel — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:27:42 -0000

Pretty great. I would like to add my two cents and personally thank Mrs Westheimer for teaching Nate the word "hegemonic".

Re: Ode to the Organizers: Debbie Westheimer

Sarah Tavel — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:36:02 -0000

Okay well I'll have to issue the same thanks when you publish your dad blog post. :)

Re: Drunk Dialer Economics

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:15:36 -0000

haha that's so cool. love the idea!

Re: Umair is wrong: Entrepreneurs are the problem, not VCs

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:47:51 -0000

oh gosh. I've never seen that before. Hysterical.

Re: Tumblr bling nerds created with Aviary.com A... - the michael galpert tumblelog

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:19:07 -0000

haha. sometimes that's all it takes.

Re: Umair is wrong: Entrepreneurs are the problem, not VCs

Sarah Tavel — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:02:32 -0000

HAAHHAHAHAHHA. oh god I'm dying. I can only imagine the number of inside jokes I've missed over the months not knowing this clever market sizing trick...

Re: White Paper: Disintermediation of Online Display Advertising

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:00:03 -0000

Thanks for posting this, Darren. A great and well argued overview of how the industry is changing.

Re: The Gong Show ~ by Andrew Parker

Sarah Tavel — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:20:33 -0000

wow so cool. really like his photos. thanks for posting.

Re: When did your investors start using your service?

Sarah Tavel — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:27:57 -0000

Haha! That's really awesome

Re: I've joined AnyClip – and we've launched Casting Couch

Sarah Tavel — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:58:19 -0000

Congratulations, Nate! That sounds pretty exciting. I love the concept of AnyClip. Can't wait to hear all about it.

Re: Venture Realities

Sarah Tavel — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:19:13 -0000

Charlie - this is a great post. Thank you for sharing it, as always.

Re: Bessemer is the bloggiest VC

Sarah Tavel — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:59:18 -0000

Ssh!

Re: Bessemer is the bloggiest VC

Sarah Tavel — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:21:10 -0000

about time, right? although not exactly perfectly implemented. better than nothing!!