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Company Offering $10K for a 30 Day Phone Detox, Apply Now

Tech.Co

To be considered for the contest, you will have to write a 100-500 word essay to enter on why you’d like to digitally detox and the positive impact it’ll have on your life – but that's all that's needed to apply. Instead of abstaining from alcohol for a month, we challenge you to ditch your smartphone.”

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued). I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The power of large screen real estate.

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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

Conclusion Bottom line – if you are an early-stage startup with online or mobile technology as part of your solution, you ABSOLUTELY NEED a technical advisor. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! The post Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One appeared first on TechEmpower. innovation

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Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now

Both Sides of the Table

It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now.

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7 Lessons On How Startups Use Social Media To Succeed

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and Instagram leads as the top social media app for teens. Communication and writing skills are required. Heavy texting experience is not a qualification for communicating via social media.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

Both Sides of the Table

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? I am a VC. I hand out money. How differentiated is that? Final example.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!?

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