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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

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I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. But for some strange reason they make you file your progress on fund raising, which is the widely picked up by the press. But it’s hard to know that from the press. The press who trusted me enough to report on our successes. And so it goes again.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

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Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? Here’s what’s going through his/her head: Is this story “newsworthy” or am I being asked to publish a press release? ” Can you imagine that ever getting inches in the press?

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She’s infectious.”

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that.

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The Valuable Unsung Heroes of Startups

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She was lamenting that some startups simply see their PR company as merely somebody who corrals the press when you want to get some inches. She felt that her firm provides significantly more value as an advisor than simply a press shop. I had dinner with my friend Brooke Hammerling , founder of Brew PR recently. And I agree entirely.

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Announcements from ImageCollect | Tremendous Growth

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Among some tech press releases from this week include a few announcements from local LA-based venture, ImageCollect , a micro-stock celebrity photo library, high-res and all prelicensed. All images are pre-approved for use in editorials, magazines, e-publications like blogs and pages, and personal prints.

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Big Data Drives: Intertwining Business and Technology

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“Some say data is the new black,” laughs former Linkedin data scientist, DJ Patil on stage during the Mesh Conference in Toronto, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. “Data facilitates experience,” notes Patil, “set a culture in your organization that is data driven, democratize, make your data accessible.”