Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. Feedback from your blog will tell you quickly whether anyone agrees with your assessment, and whether you have a customer base waiting. Find potential partners.

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MARCH 7, 2011

&# I started telling people privately that I thought Google should buy Disqus for the same reasons Facebook wants to own commenting in the first place. Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical social networking in the same way that Quora is. I don’t like the idea of pushing my comments into Twitter. Me thinks, not.

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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. Your Google ranking will go up dramatically.

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JUNE 1, 2011

Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! What if Google had paid attention to Dodgeball – would there be no FourSquare today? But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. I started blogging 2 years ago.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. Sometimes I make a blog entry. You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out? Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls) , Do your kids Google poo? Just found the title of my post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Everyone knows that startups are risky, but they also expect that the job will be exciting and potentially very lucrative (think early employees at Facebook and Google). Then focus on ideas that will likely get your boss promoted. Not just degrees, but loading up on books, business journals, and blogs that your top executive favors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Contributing to industry blogs, or starting your own, is an ideal way to express your positive values, and build a reputation that can save you later if your product stumbles, or you receive some negative challenges. There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project. In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. Ideas Are Worthless.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

According to Google, adding phone numbers to search placements has the added benefit of helping improve click through performance by 5-30%. View our free mobile white paper or read this case study to get some ideas on how to make the jump to mobile monetization. Photo Credit: Tech The Best , Tech blog. Share and Enjoy.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The idea came from having been recently married herself and seeing how expensive it can be to buy a new wedding dress. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Quora, Tumblr. It’s a powerful concept. Of course they can be duped.

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MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator. I still have my Google Reader and it brings me the news and content that I asked it to find. And the company that helped websites publish RSS?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2019

Everyone knows that that startups are risky, but they also expect that the job will be exciting and potentially very lucrative (think early employees at Facebook and Google). Then focus on ideas that will likely get your boss promoted. Always position yourself as number two to your next career opportunity. Pay attention to your image.

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MARCH 15, 2014

” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. If you want to see that discussion it is here and its especially fun because we also debated Google Groups, which went on (after the interview) to buy Dmitry’s company so he now works there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

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. For anyone who attacked me on my blog but used their actual names I left their comments.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

But you also vastly expand the universe of those who will discover the topic and want to do a deep dive, learn more and then spread the idea to others. It’s why super smart people shouldn’t hate on the idea of simplifying if it provides a tool for the masses. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. It sucked. It still does.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I have applied at Google 1000 times, never heard back, but I used social media to finally get a call from them about a decade later. And if it asks for their email address try to find it on their site or blog. You can also try and comment on other people’s blog posts, but make sure you don’t comment anonymously.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

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APRIL 17, 2016

This morning’s show took on the topic of “teams” and highlighted research that Julia Rozovsky and Google has conducted called Project Aristotle and profiled in Charles Duhigg’s book Smarter, Faster, Better. I call this process “ triangulation ” and highlighted it that blog post I wrote on the topic.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

What's the idea behind Urbandig? When I had this idea in 2004, there was no iPhone, and smart phones didn't play well. They came down to Los Angeles, and we brainstormed ideas, and basically--in 24 hours-- we revitalized my original idea, but for the iPhone. Mike Macadaan: It's actually a thesis I have had since 2004.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

Upstart approaches risk capital differently, investing in youth as they wait to fuel the next generation of entrepreneurs our economy so desperately needs with their future earnings as security not the project or idea or firm as they chase their dream career in whichever field they want. Upstart received a $ 1.75

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

For example, a startup may hire you as an accountant, but you may also be asked to do social media marketing content gearing towards finance for the company blog. Piaw Na, who spent over six years at Google, writes on Quora that she recommends fresh grads to join a startup instead of big companies. And, why exactly does that matter.

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MAY 19, 2013

Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” I knew change was inevitable, but I had no idea how stressful and exhausting maintaining my internal reality distortion field had been until they gave me permission to turn it off.”

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

A few weeks ago I was reading a blog post by MG Siegler that really struck a chord. The gist of MG’s argument is that he’d rather work with people who are openly critical of his ideas if it helps him to perform better than to have a bunch of “yes men” around who just say what a great job he’s doing.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Every entrepreneur starts with an idea that they believe makes sense. Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. With their new products taking off Ari Mir came up with an idea. That’s a great idea.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

It was a “disappearing text app” where the founders told me that they named the company because the idea came from how Tiger Woods got caught cheating on his wife because all of his mistresses had evidence that he cheated because they saved text messages from him. I hear tons of ideas for early-stage apps. Mostly kidding.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And let's face facts, we normally are talking Google search. If you don't know the basics here, go look at Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (PDF). Off Page SEO The other aspect of SEO is at its most basic, how many pages with decent Google Page Rank point to you using anchor text that helps you with optimization.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. That student is Erin McCann who formerly worked in sales at Google, so she has some ground to stand on in her assertions.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm very curious to hear any reactions to this idea of a hot list. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. In fact, you can get a good idea of these various things by just searching on Google for "eHarmony of" startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Nobody really knows whether or not the idea is yet going to be big, so I believe in not over capitalizing too early. If you’re creating truly innovative products, you often have no idea whether the proverbial dog will eat the dog food. I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. Rinse & repeat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

With Google or Amazon , you can get all the application storage and computing power you need without even thinking about an IT staff and big up-front costs for computer servers and applications. Site marketing is easily extended through blogs, Twitter, Facebook and social media. Use low-cost subscription software and cloud computing.

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