Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2021

Know the cost to move from your existing platform and estimate the switching costs for moving from a competitor’s product or service to yours. Email readers, continue here…] Recently, I received a hand-written letter from two co-CEOs of a company I had helped with a few hours of time. So, email was out. What to do?

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

They’ve also had suppliers sell perishable goods as well — a vendor sold 80,000 dates on the platform a month ago. “We’re million in new funding for its predictive inventory recommendation platform, joining other similar companies, including Zippedi and Inventa. Ghost is not alone in developing technology focused on inventory.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. In Gabe’s post he explained why TechMeme was having editors write headlines. I should know.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Know the cost to move from your existing platform, and estimate the switching costs for moving from a competitor’s product or service to yours. Email readers, continue here.] Recently, I received a hand-written letter from two co-CEOs of a company I had helped out with a few hours of time. So email was out. What should I do?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

First, you’ll need a platform. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months. I put much time into it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. Other deals. Enter Xobni.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. We used to call it a “burning platform” as in when your platform is burning you’re forced to take action. You can’t quantify the value of email yet everybody needs it!”. Maybe they don’t?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. So why is this important for businesses?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

These have the benefit to VCs of not cross-collateralizing returns and to LPs of being able to know the underlying asset before they write the check. Maybe add your email to receive the next post delivered to your email box? But there are clear pro’s and con’s. Still reading? The second half of this analysis coming soon!

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. What's the story behind Deal Current?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

According to many experts, including Michael Hyatt, in his new book, “ Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World ,” you need to build the highest platform you can, to stand out and be heard above all the rest. If these are not complete and consistent, your platform will always be splintered and lost in the noise.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. Matt Kumin: We're getting ready to launch an all-new version of our platform. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

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. After focusing on your site, it’s time to use an email marketing platform and move on to lead nurturing. Everything can be done via the drag-and-drop interface.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform. When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names. For example, if you are writing about Barack Obama, you can, with a single click, vote him up or down in the article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After logging into your account via Facebook API, the platform uses your date of birth as the core data to help you calendar all of your friend’s birthdays and discover other people around you who also celebrate your special day. Writing a wish list for birthday presents at 10 years-old is expected. Say Goodbye To The Wish List.

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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. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

From analytical reporting tools to helpful integrations such as email and Slack prompts, you'll be able to run your whole business, not just your remote work teams, in a more efficient manner. In a more relaxed setting, it's that little bit easier to throw caution to the wind when opening and email attachment or clicking a link.

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Tips Software Review Study Email 157

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. It is important to leverage the fastest growing platforms but anticipate changing terms of service. I’m now back & ready for action. How does someone get access to you? (22:00-33:00).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. With HeyTutor, we track those lessons, let you write notes down about your clients, we create a tutor profile for you and a hub.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform. Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. It’s an awesome implementation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

When I sit down to write every week I never really imagine what is going to end up resonating the most with people but it seems I’ve most often been defined by my post that I Invest in Lines, not Dots. He sent me a few nice emails. He used the 500Startups platform to uber network in the Bay Area where he was living.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

Of the 228 exhibitors at ad:tech, Brittany Fleit, writing for Allvoices , voted Central Desktop’s booth as her favorite, despite the fact that the company was outspent by nearly all the other attendees. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. > -jeff.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded email marketer NetCreations, and also has been an angel investor in local startups. We stopped doing consumer facing content a year ago, and handed over writing of the Impact Section on Huffington Post to the team at AOL. Ryan Scott: We focus on a couple of things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

I was waiting for my son’s basketball game to start this morning and with the morning’s emails all drained I turned to Twitter and saw this Tweet from Marshall Kirkpatick. I write lots of people on Twitter. Test: open your twitter stream, look at the 1st item in it, think of something to say in response, say it.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours. This is where Assignmint comes in. It’s growing.

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Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Media Social Media Startup Training 55

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

An email subscription is coming! Harris writes: “The figures, dating back to 2016, paint a picture of a company desperate to meet over-ambitious autonomy targets and one that is willing to spend freely, even recklessly, to get there. Email me or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. What else are we hearing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Press Social Media Startup Training 105