Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

In fact, I wrote a previous blog post on “ Why Successful People Focus on the Bottom End of the Funnel.” and even though by definition that means the majority of our dollars are invested outside the area, that still makes us meaningfully different from the ten other Sand Hill Road funds this LP might be speaking with.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 17, 2018

The retailers best positioned in the future will be those who adopt a more expansive definition of retail itself,” she said, according to a blog post about the conference on the NRF website. How that identity expands will. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 5, 2010

The new product allows users to create: Playlists – Create a top 20 blogs from the 1,600+ sources. I'm constantly on the go and don't really have time to listen to let alone read many blogs unless I'm on the road or in the gym. BuzzVoice 3.0 Custom Streaming player - Stream stories while viewing text, images & video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your brand value, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Find potential partners. Populate your team.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Looking for a place to get your feet wet on blogging and social media? Focused specifically on the business community they have over 45 contributors to help get you started with facebook, Twitter, to even creating a WordPress blog for your company. The Bloggers Bulletin might be the place for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

As I talked about on many occasions when I was an entrepreneur – and blogged publicly about - I learned a lot about my business and myself in these meetings. They’ve been blogging for years, written several books, helped found TechStars and have now produced an awesome video taking the piss out of VCs (and themselves).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. The key social media platforms today include communications (Wordpress blogs, Twitter), collaboration (Evernote, StumbleUpon), and multimedia (YouTube, Flickr).

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The new team-up has a lot of moving parts: Shopify even termed it a “first-of-its-kind” partnership in its announcement blog post. But it is a new opportunity, and some stores will definitely take full advantage. How the Partnership Works. With it, they can create, execute, and refine TikTok marketing campaigns. forward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Stegmaier recommends that you start by writing a regular blog, joining a few related campaigns, building a high-quality video, and completing up to a hundred additional lessons before you even launch your own project. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 13, 2009

I find myself speaking at various venues in Los Angeles to tell people (most often service providers) about how I've used social media and particularly my blogs, LinkedIn, twitter and topic hubs as part of my own services business. How can I get more help setting up my blog? How can I get more help setting up my blog?

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Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 167

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. He wrote a blog post that always stuck with me about how there are regulars on his blog who hang out there a bit like “Cheers&# just having a chat with a metaphorical beer in hand. I picked questions that I had already covered in depth on my blog and answered them in shorter form.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. It will definitely show off your energy and vision, and will make you a more competitive candidate for any role. Pick a startup business that you can do for minimal cost, like a services business with the skills you have. You don’t even need an investor.

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Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2019

(See “Manage Your Mantra” two weeks earlier in this blog.) A mantra, tag line, motto, or logo with your unique brand definition is a good start. Your failure to do this early in the life of the company may come back to haunt you when others refer to you as just another street currier. How do you define yourself?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

By definition, every successful startup has to be different from the competition, with many unknowns, new challenges to overcome, and new customers to be attracted. These days, with the pervasive presence of social media, blogs, and online access to information, it’s easy to get your message out there, and engage a following.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Smart potential customers only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites.

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Web Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising 117

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have. Towards An Integrated Approach to UX Design You should definitely look at Steve Blank's book and review his blog. Founder : Ummm. what do you mean? Founder : Umm. what format would you and the developer want that in?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. A crisis is an event, precipitated by a specific incident, that attracts critical media attention and lasts for a definite period of time. People judge you and your company in the first few seconds. Handling different media formats.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Stegmaier recommends that you start by writing a regular blog, joining a few related campaigns, building a high-quality video, and completing up to a hundred additional lessons before you even launch your own project. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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Startup Equity Funding Demand 151

Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2020

The definitive agreement announced Monday calls for Carlsbad, CA-based Ionis (NASDAQ: IONS ) to pay $18.15 Akcea Therapeutics is returning to its parent company, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, in a $500 million deal that brings an end to a tumultuous three years as a standalone company.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 20, 2009

That said, for professional speakers, they definitely should be thinking about video on their site to show them in action. On the other hand, you might blog your answers and post a link. On the other hand, you might blog your answers and post a link. That way you get value both places. Thanks for the thoughts Serena.

Social Media 150

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

See definition: ad hominem. I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. But the comments on my own blog were so much more balanced with people taking both sides of the debate. I have thick enough skin or I wouldn’t blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. But since I have a blog and the history of my falling in love with Andrew & Petri’s vision was public and is relevant to how we make decisions I wanted a chance to tell all of their stories.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. Early on in college, we built a product called Blog Hoster, which allowed you to create white label blogs. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Check your brand definition against the clarity of this one from Xerox for office software. Assess social media relevance to your product or service.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. If we continue to do our job, it's a very sustainable business.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2007

On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. Ben actually didn't address the issue raised by Will that there is definitely a shortage of really good developers, engineers, etc. There are definitely lots of events going on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

What is the definition of traction for a business startup today? Early examples of traction for any solution, especially free ones, would include website traffic, number of blog comments, likes, downloads, and active user rates. Define metrics on customer feedback and user counts. Demonstrate key customer prospect evidence of interest.

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Tips Metrics Technical Review Custom 79

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

It definitely has a “d” in it, as in it’s really not fun, raising. How to get your Series A mojo back The rest of the outline I’ll write as a series to come back to this blog if you want to read more. … Fund raising. The best entrepreneurs in our industry focus on it year-round as opposed to just once every 18 months.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. We then started talking about Dave McClure. I argue the opposite.

Startup 292

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2012

The following guest post comes from the blog of GraphEffect. What James added on to this quote by the end of his speech is that while 99% of advertising might not seem to sell much of anything, it definitely does if you can see how people influence their friends. I an investor in GraphEffect via Rincon Venture Partners.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. It was definitely challenging to make something like that happen in an academic environment. In my case, I am breaking down “business” to its fundamentals, which begins with a definition of what, exactly, is a “business.”

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. I think they definitely qualify as a VC and not a seed fund. I could definitely see that happening.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both. Kind of the obvious next step.

Product 348

Product Startup Design Blogging 348

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

MyGloss.com is our home page, and we also aggregate across our network, and that's definitely a popular destination. That definitely has something to do with it. I definitely think that having been in the industry so long, I've really been able to figure out the best way to capture the attention of women online, ahead of the trends.

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

Here’s the block that you see when you look at a blog enabled by Disqus (a third party commenting tool that can be embedded in blogs and other content): It allows you to authenticate yourself using Facebook Connect , Twitter Oauth (sign in with Twitter), OpenID , and Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication. Example What do I mean?

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