InfoChachkie

JANUARY 21, 2013

about your skills or your abilities or your DNA, it's about what you refuse to give up on - what you will keep doing until you succeed. We look up at these iconic business leaders and we just think they get everything right, but they don't. As the business sage Babe Ruth once said, "You just can't beat the person who won't give up."

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

To learn how other startups can emulate Divshot''s latest marketing win, I spoke with Michael Bleigh, the company''s Co-Founder and CEO. Of course, the lovely thing is that at the end of the day it is a great marketing gimmick. Rather, "All told, Geo was less than a day’s worth of effort from start to finish for our team.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Rather, entrepreneurs' frustrations are often due to an incongruence between an MBA's expectations versus the value they can deliver to a startup. Startups Need Execution, Not Administration. Five reasons many MBAs struggle at startups are as follows: 1. Wharton graduates averaged more than $114,000 of graduate school loans).

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APRIL 11, 2011

.&# That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. In working with brands, Jon says: “ Vary creative, try lots of things, the costs are so low, why would we put up one piece of branded content?

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MARCH 8, 2010

Don’t blog about what you think would be “cool.&# I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup. The new stuff: How do I get started? The advantage of the hosted version is that it’s easier to get started. Slice it up enough to do many posts.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. For a long time, I had a line which was, ‘Whenever I hear the word marketing, it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.’”. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The earlier they define their strengths and weaknesses, the sooner they can begin to leverage their attributes and shore up their shortcomings. if I follow a prescribed course, I'm going to get a good picture. Starting in a place and getting to the next place and then figuring out what the next place is (after that).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 1, 2013

Of course not. You can also interject apologies throughout your talk, including: your unintelligible slides, your disheveled appearance, starting the presentation late, running over your allotted time, etc. If you are unsure of a factual response, make up a fictitious one. Do Not Follow Up. You are winging it, remember?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. In order to reasonably assess the size of your addressable market, you must perform a bottoms-up analysis which is based on a number of elemental assumptions. Public relations at a startup is a sales process.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the course of 2004 and 2005, we actually merged Be Free and Commission Junction together. . Growing up. It wasn't until I started at Be Free at 27, 28-years old that I really understood what my passion was. I like getting up in front of people, I like presenting to clients. Arrogant Greg's Quick Demise.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I talk to a lot of founders of startups. My initial conversations normally focus on the core of the business, important Startup Metrics , probably marketing strategy (ex. SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Start-up on top of pen computing - Go Corp - pen point. Pretty much lines up with where I'm at.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Facebook opens up Instant Articles to all publishers. If you don’t know, Instant Articles are Facebook’s new way to natively load articles within the app using an adapted RSS feed. Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post. pic.twitter.com/TB1GTGt9ss.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links. Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging. Of course, those are highly suspect numbers from Feedburner. Maybe they are waiting for the follow up email. This is that post.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

You’re a startup. Ultimately, the more you move your application “up the stack”, the fewer resources you are required to manage. Of course, no one service is correct for all use cases. Apps & Software Dev & Design Django IaaS PaaS PastCGI Rails Saas Software Startups WSGI' appeared first on TechZulu.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

This doesnt mean that you cant try, of course. When you block by IP address, you may end up blocking an entire internet provider, and thus a lot of realusers and potential customers. If you wantonly block user agents with the name of "Mozilla", for example, you could end up blockingnearly every human from your website.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

Creating Your Application Start by going to JanRain Engage and signing in. Of course, youll need to use a social login to get into the site. Then click "Get Started" and you can start deploying the widget. These are good for getting started. Make sure you choose at least one provider where you have an account.

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AUGUST 17, 2014

I’ll try to get write-ups shortly but for now here is an overview of my interview with Nanea Reeves – President and COO of textPlus. In this clip we discuss why Nanea is a proponent of a lean startup and data driven development methodology. Leadership Startup Lessons' Company Organization.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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MAY 28, 2015

1/ Twitter started off positioned as a micro-blogging platform but in the end became more of an RSS reader. 6/ Of course it takes expertise to do a single-threaded Tweetstorm & even people like me had to learn it the hard way. I faced the wrath of the community. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015.

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MARCH 1, 2010

In 2006, Steven Dietz, a partner at my firm, GRP Partners, had given me $500,000 in a seed in convertible debt when I started my second company, Koral. If you can raise $2 million or $10 million up front (maybe you’re a hot entrepreneur in a hot space) I know that my vote would be with the $2 million (again depending on the situation).

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