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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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The Convergence of Social Media & Traditional Radio

Eric Greenspan

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. I spent a lot of money on Mark Germain (Mr.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles.

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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

Tech Zulu Event

Matt Eichner, General Manager, Global Enterprise Search in a blog post says;” Technology creates tremendous opportunities to improve people’s lives. Google Talk Chatback a text chat widget for Web publishers allowed websites to embed a Google Talk widget so that they could engage with their visitors.

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Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com

socalTECH

Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005. I understand you managed to get funding through interest from a blog post? Fred had been blog posting about this problem, about how he spent a whole day getting off of email lists he was on.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Once you start censoring the Web, you restrict the ability to imagine and innovate.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. was starting.