Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

It’s more like writing a Tweet vs. sending a Direct Message (DM) in Twitter, which feels more intimate and intrusive or a FB post vs. a Private Message. The starting screen every time is the camera. Look at the top of your screen in the middle and you’ll see the Snapchat ghost. So, too, Snapchat. Open Snapchat.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

We don’t mind investing earlier if the situation warrants and we don’t mind leading a B-Round if we know the team well or the market. Overall we write about $100 million of investment checks every year. And anybody who works with us of course knows Kerry Bennett who runs marketing and our CFO Dana Kibler.

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Funding Venture Capital Santa Monica Invest 287

Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

I was fortunate that I could write software and doubly fortunate that my despair at working for ‘the Man’ – and feeling compelled to strike out on my own – coincided with the dawn of the personal computer era. For me I had few alternatives; working for someone else had proved to be a frustrating experience.

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Customer Custom Writing Southern California 120

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. You fish where your customers are.

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Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. and Excite in particular as well as all of the Internet companies with grandiose stock market valuations.

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Content Google Media Hulu 386

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You likely are writing your first one of these. You might also have a business plan, marketing plan, financials, competitor analysis or other kinds of background document. So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP. Don't stress over format. Or you can have a pitch deck.

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Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

But my specific point is that while everybody is busy telling you that “kids don’t use email” or “email is dead” I have actual data from portfolio company CEO’s showing the efficacy of email as a communication and marketing channel. The key is understanding the nuance. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. If I’m totally honest it started as a marketing exercise. I wrote some answers and then quickly noticed alerts flashing gracefully across the top of the screen. It’s an awesome implementation.

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Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I’m still planning to write some in depth pieces on the topic but I thought, “given that this is about how video will consume the Internet over the next 5 years, what better way to exemplify this than with a 10-minute video.” I recently gave a talk about the Future of Television. It’s not as easy as text.

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GRP Partners Content Technical Review Press 371

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. The power of large screen real estate. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. I would love to see FourSquare double down on web development and market it harder to its user base.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 23, 2012

If you forget everything else I write about creating an app, remember this: every app needs a hook. From your name, to your user interface, to the tone in your on-screen instructions, you promote the concept of being wealthy and not being ashamed of it. The Hook Brings You back. Call your app 1% and embrace your audience.

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Marketing Software Review Tips Competition 84

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. People who believe the former believe that you should see the market demand before too many people know you’re “in market.”

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Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. As of this writing nearly 50,000 versions have been created and uploaded and watched by some 200,000,000 people. I repeat – free marketing.

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice. Marketing. Or ask Tasha to send you a screen shot of my weekly calendar. But what kind of business person would I be if I allocated 100% of my time to customer service and zero to marketing?

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Email Product Startup Writing 314

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2 I have a slightly different take on why I find it valuable.

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Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. That target market is huge, and includes sites like YouTube, you also have Revision3, and other sites doing short videos. What's Scripped? That is the way to attract writers.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

The “more traction&# feedback is a very typical scenario is a down market economy like the one we’re in. Keep on the radar screen – I know the VC’s seemed to love you when they met you. It’s marketing 101 for tech companies in terms of how you market to customers. They make progress.

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Venture Capital Guide Startup Technical Review 309

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

So, I switched to a degree in business and marketing. After college, I didn't go into engineer, I went into the marketing and entertainment side. I actually spent a decade working in advertising and marketing. How did you go from marketing and advertising to a hardware startup? READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

They are nicely placed, well thought out and my man-sized hands have no problems navigating the screen. My HTC Hero has a 5mp camera that would crash a couple other Twitter apps on the Android market. for Android has a very smart and well thought out interface. The tabs are not tiny like in Twidroid. So far, it looked promising.

Marketing 60

Marketing Software Review Screening Social Media 60

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. He found creative ways to politely stay on my radar screen. Jordan Hudson. So what is an EIR and why Sam? I thought that was the end of it.

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Startup Course Ideas Invest 372

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

As I write this article, Crash Course stands at 83% of its pledge goal, with nearly 10,800 fans funding the show''s production costs for its upcoming season. Filling The Screen. Border Run. Next up was Nick Tran, Taco Bell''s "Social Media Lead."

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Course Advertising Social Media Content 190

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

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. No cookies for guessing which reason they use to market to us. So what are you waiting for?

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

It''s more than showing up every two months and writing that dues check so they can say they''re an angel--it''s having them pitch in and grab the oars, and help move the group forward. When things get super heated like they have, with the IPO markets and incubators, you end up with a group of people who end up overpaying for stuff.

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Pasadena Angels Pasadena Angel Startup 162

Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy. Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, just like her fellow black turtleneck wearer Steve Jobs, will get the big screen treatment. The full data set has yet to be released.

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Incubator Thousand Oaks Screening Pricing 67

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. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. And of course we had, TheMan.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

When those megastores started closing, I saw the writing on the wall, and handed Branson back his keys, and set up a digital agency to do for other companies, what we had been doing for Branson. If you don't have a digital interface with your logo on the screen, how do you know if you're listening to Spotify, or Apple,or Pandora, orAmazon?

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Content Platform 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

When those megastores started closing, I saw the writing on the wall, and handed Branson back his keys, and set up a digital agency to do for other companies, what we had been doing for Branson. If you don't have a digital interface with your logo on the screen, how do you know if you're listening to Spotify, or Apple,or Pandora, orAmazon?

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Startup Content Platform Artificial Inteligence 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. It’s the screens that pop up our restaurant locations, calculate our exercise outputs or show us our bank balances. Public stock market trades by senior executives of corporations.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It’s easier to use screen-captures and notes on existing processes, rather than write detailed manuals. To get maximum business autonomy, you need to match the inherent strength traits of employees to key jobs, always adjusting for market change and people growth. Adjust roles and shift resources for optimal performance.

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Resource Examples Design Entrepreneur 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

On the other hand, 10 years ago when we all felt like this last time the total market size for any company was at maximum 100 million potential users. So you’re saying that a decade ago we had 100 million addressable market connected some of the time and now we have 2+ billion connected all of the time. Let’s repeat that.

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Ideas Startup Marketing Pricing 294

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. What price?

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen. All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market. Skip classes.

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

If I were writing about the most important attributes of a VC (hmmm) one of the things that would make my list is “ability to spot patterns.&# I see the same things over-and-over again and being able to spot things and compartmentalize them is important – it helps with short-handing analysis and learning. I’m sorry.

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Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Customer 306

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. I live in the city of Santa Monica. In our regions?

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

And for my own good I vowed to have relationships in China and knowledge of the local markets. This company is back on the market raising money again. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Something happened and it was clear to me that this IE issues was just a smoke screen.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333