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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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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Some dreams sound great, but may not yet be viable or proven with today’s technology.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

Both Sides of the Table

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I’m a pretty natural public speaker so I can write my presentation the day before and do just fine. I did the outline of the 15 slides on the flight over (after a few beers).

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How to Quickly Build a Customer Base With Lead Generation Tools

Tech.Co

But apart from building traffic, what I find most challenging is incorporating a lead capture strategy that will actually generate some blog subscribers. But if you want to level things up, you can use a platform like OptinMonster to create popup forms, sliding forms, floating bars, and sidebars. GetResponse fits this bill perfectly.

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Intro to the LA Startup Scene

Tech Zulu Event

The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts.

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Understanding a VC’s Seed Funding Policy is Critical

Both Sides of the Table

If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. VentureHacks laid out the debate in a truly awesome interview & PowerPoint slides if you really want an in-depth understanding of the issue. We already have one example, which is Ad.ly.