Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We had worked at another organization together in online marketing, and learned every aspect of the business, from closing new deals, on-boarding new clients, to building media plans. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. Organic traffic. Organic traffic. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. Surprisingly, not all of these entries were published in 2011. Startup Tips From Jeff Bezos.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. That's the first time organized, institutional, managed capital is coming into a company, right after friends and family. Derek Norton: There were two specific things.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 98

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business. Simply write a great book?

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

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Writing Coach Incubator Entrepreneur 111

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

We all like to think of startups as “non hierarchic&# organizations and to some extent that should be true. I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. The organization gets used to it and adjusts.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

They get pissed off if a senior executive at Google doesn’t take a meeting with them, if people are late to their meetings or if they have emails that are unreturned. Do you think that every conference organizer will promptly meet your needs? You need to know how to write good & action oriented emails.

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Venture Capital Email Startup Conference 389

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Knowing whom to back within an organization that is feuding and when to back them is one of the hardest things about our job. and I realized that without years of experience it is tough to answer this question. FourSquare.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics. &#.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. The fund is organized into sectors and each VC forms forward looking themes within sub sectors. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 I’m now back & ready for action.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

On myfab5, people rank their favorite places instead of giving them star ratings and write bite-sized reviews instead of writing long reviews. When talking to review site users, we found the top two reasons people don’t write reviews is because it takes too long and it is confusing. Any competition?

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Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

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Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network. What does that look like?

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically. Rob does it. On steroids.

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Tips Email Venture Capital Blogging 365

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Write things down. We met everybody in the organization.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Write things down. We met everybody in the organization.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. It is true that every few years a fund exits that delivers smashing results because it has Facebook, Google or Twitter in it. And to finally admitting that ads weren’t evil so that Google could copy the model of the fast growing Overture. They see how hard she does her job.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

Modern-day entrepreneurs use Evernote, Google Keep, etc. to capture and organize their hunches. The more you play around with ideas and you write them down, the better. NOTE: competitors validate your idea, if you lose heart after one Google search, you are not sufficiently passionate about the idea.

Ideas 69

Ideas Startup Technical Review Santa Barbara 69

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Google has announced that they are planning to compete with you. - Many people Google you before meetings. If you’re going to see a client and somebody else in their organization is having big customer service issues, don’t sweep in under the rug. You’re raising money but the CEO is not in the room (e.g.

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Venture Capital Startup Training Sales 264

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Evernote is the most incredible notetaking tool keeping me organized while catering to my ADD personality and click addiction web research. However, when I met up with the founders of Annotary I was intrigued as they described that their tool allows you to highlight and write notes straight on the websites I’m reading.

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Startup Conference Google Web 77

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. Be visible online and to traditional media, volunteer to lead, write guest posts for others, be responsive, give stuff away, and provide many ways to communicate. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days?

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Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Commonly referred to as “Wicket,” it’s an irregularly scheduled meeting organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the UN’s telecom regulatory agency. If you think this will only affect the big boys like Google and Facebook, think again. The next meeting is taking place in the United Arab Emirates a few months.

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Writing Conference Google Technology 102

CEO Flow

JULY 3, 2009

Do I even need to write anything to describe my intention here, in how CEOs and their people should feel about how the culture and company work? (Seriously – comment below if I do need to explain further!). This is the basis for the massive success of companies like Google, Zappos, Facebook and Salesforce.com. CEO Sweet Spot.

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Training Organization Writing Google 40

CEO Flow

JULY 3, 2009

Do I even need to write anything to describe my intention here, in how CEOs and their people should feel about how the culture and company work? (Seriously – comment below if I do need to explain further!). This is the basis for the massive success of companies like Google, Zappos, Facebook and Salesforce.com. CEO Sweet Spot.

Training 40

Training Organization Writing Google 40

CEO Flow

JULY 3, 2009

Do I even need to write anything to describe my intention here, in how CEOs and their people should feel about how the culture and company work? (Seriously – comment below if I do need to explain further!). This is the basis for the massive success of companies like Google, Zappos, Facebook and Salesforce.com. CEO Sweet Spot.

Training 40

Training Organization Writing Google 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. In an excel sheet put the name of the event, link to the event, event organizer and event theme. Now study the event organizer. The best place to find forums is Google. What are their interests?

Customer 85

Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. You can integrate Google or PayPal options--either or both--and it provides a big chunk of storage.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. Excite, MSN and eventually Google. I need to give credit for the topic to PR Malloy who Tweeted me this question. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015.

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Outsource Development Startup Custom Customer 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. Be visible online and to traditional media, volunteer to lead, write guest posts for others, be responsive, give stuff away, and provide many ways to communicate. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days?

Startup 104

Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs. If they prefer not to meet (they’re rationally trying to be judicious with time) you can politely request that perhaps you could just do it on a web conference call (Xoom, Google Hangouts, Skype, whatever.)

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Email 336

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Using amSTATZ athletes can track workouts and search for trainers and local events and event organizers can use the network for their events publicity and partner with trainers to develop training programs for their registrants. Android Apps & Software Entrepreneurship Google iPad Mobile Startups' How does it work practically?

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Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Horvitz, is pictured above at left with founding members of the partnership, Francesca Rossi, IBM; Yann LeCun, Facebook; and Mustafa Suleyman, Google/DeepMind.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2014

. “The future refrigerator will be semi-transparent, and the opaque smart display will display exactly what’s inside, so we only have to open the door once we know what we want,” Itzkovitch writes in UX Magazine. “Neatly organized food items will be recognized and categorized via sensors.

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Belkin Startup Google Press 92

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. In Summary.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

We helped the write out their requirements for a system. We met everybody in the organization. Somebody had gotten to somebody senior in the Thames organization. You are most vulnerable right after it has been announced that you won (I will write a separate post on this). Write things down. Be gracious.

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