Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. I pointed out the fact that they only ever talked to the press when the had an announcement and that it was a continual process.

Startup 349

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2020

Frequent discussions with peers and customers on open questions will keep you from being led astray by your own biases. If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. Frequency keeps the pressure off. Frequency is a realistic approach.

Startup 173

Startup Writing Blogging Ideas 173

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). In a startup this is a mistake.

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

Startup 261

Startup Press Blogging .Net 261

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

.&# Marketing futures can be really good for enterprise software companies where the information is passed between sales rep and potential customer in terms of near-term roadmap. But don’t let this information get out into the general press and don’t market more than a few months out. They come and go. You don’t.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Handling different media formats.

Media 118

Media Tips Social Media Startup 118

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. If I check Twitter it’s usually because I’m waiting for a meeting to start and I never write posts during the day. By having 5 or 6 blog posts with different points of view they could draw more inferences.

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Email Blogging Venture Capital Writing 287

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. Back to video.

Networking 366

Networking Media Content Customer 366

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. She focused on her customer. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) If you haven’t read my blog posts on why Tracy chose the right strategy it’s worth a read.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? You fish where your customers are. Everyone always asks why I blog.

Gogii 310

Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. blogging, in a sense.

Newsletter 233

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. Much more data in the full post. PHONE CALLS.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Email updates frequently.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. We listened way too much to what the press said. Make sure you focus on what matters – your customers.

Startup 310

Startup Venture Capital Press Journal 310

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. blogging, in a sense.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2018

Frequent discussions with peers and customers on open questions will keep you from being led astray by your own biases. If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. Frequency keeps the pressure off. Frequency is a realistic approach.

Startup 57

Startup Writing Blogging Entrepreneur 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Funding 112

Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should.

Technical Review 281

Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. My job doesn’t involve the daily grind of customer complaints, product outages, business partner / channel problems, hiring / firing, etc. You get on a plane at a moment’s notice because a senior customer agreed to meet you.

Venture Capital 312

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2013

Frequent discussions with peers and customers on open questions will keep you from being led astray by your own biases. If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. Frequency keeps the pressure off. Frequency is a realistic approach.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Blogging 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2016

Frequent discussions with peers and customers on open questions will keep you from being led astray by your own biases. If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. Frequency keeps the pressure off. Frequency is a realistic approach.

Entrepreneur 60

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Blogging 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Startup 104

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 104

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Referring Traffic / Press. Referring Traffic / Press. The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic.To Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. Search Engines.

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Startup 101

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 101

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” Even when you do sign-up initial customers it’s still not clear that your company will be a success and you’re still likely paying yourself under market rates.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Handling different media formats.

Media 55

Media Social Media Startup Training 55

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you’re raising a round where a new lead investor would invest $5 million the VC fund must have no less than $100 million and if you’re looking for them to write $15–20 million as the lead their fund realistically should be at least $400 million. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon!

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Tips 88

Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Handling different media formats.

Training 93

Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

I have watched so many companies go through massive growth and see the commentary in the press wondering how they’re doing it and then finding out from the inside that there is some slightly nefarious technique being employed. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Simply write a great book?

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. I like to debate with them how they will land customers and how they deal with the press. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Referring Traffic / Press. Referring Traffic / Press - The web is interconnected, and traffic flows among sites that interlink. The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic. Search Engines.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. I like to debate with them how they will land customers and how they deal with the press. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Along the way many things came together: being able to find the right people, getting great customers, having lots of luck, being in the right place at the right time. From day one we focused on customers.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

They had articles and press releases written. I had outlined a blog post in support of their efforts and was ready to publish it. There were no follow-on articles in the tech press or even other online mass media journals. Another company with whom I work got fantastic press around the launch of a new version of their product.

Press 336

Press Blogging Journal News 336

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. It’s hard for me to imagine that an entrepreneur who was waiting to see the CEO of their largest potential customer would leave if that customer were 20 minutes late. They see how hard she does her job. Agree whole heartedly. I create videos. I use analytics.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. And what I mean is, I told this story in a blog post I wrote called, “ Is It Time to Earn or Is It Time to Learn ?” If I write $2 million and we hit a bump in the road, I can write another $2 million.

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337