Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2011

With as many as 100 million active blogs (web logs) in English alone on the Internet, how can you find and read the ones you need to be a leader in your business domain? Business site expert blogs. Blog aggregators. They feature news links daily from popular blogs, and well as relevant discussion topics. Blog catalogs.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This article will primarily focus on locating and evaluating development companies, rather than design firms. Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Depending on your needs, a combination of these skills may be desirable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2010

With as many as 400 million blogs (web logs) now active on the Internet, how can you find and read the ones you need to be a leader in your business domain? Business site expert blogs. Blog aggregators. They feature news links daily from popular blogs, and well as relevant discussion topics. Blog catalogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

His article is well worth reading anyways. 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. I should know. Titles are an enticement to read a post.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2014

For this afternoon''s contributed article, we''re featuring Dale Carr , the CEO of LeadBolt , who offers some tips to score a career in today''s high tech industry. Reading mobile trade publications and industry blogs are a great way to stay informed. dalecarr dale carr insights opinions mobile jobs employment article tips'

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. Here are some tips I’ve gleaned from experience: Make your blog your website. Anchor blog in your domain name.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2018

This blog post highlights a trend I'm seeing here in Los Angeles: Established mobile gaming founders are leveraging their deep mobile expertise, including performance marketing, into new non-gaming verticals. Read Ed's entire article, Mobile Gaming Founders Blazing New Trails. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Rafat Ali--who is now running a New York travel news startup, Skift --had built an empire of news sites on the brand new concept--at the time--of blogging articles and news digitally. The move comes two years after GigaOm acquired paidContent from former owner Guardian Media, which had purchased paidContent from Ali in 2008.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a open blog post , CEO Daniel Negari said that the articles, initially published in the Wall Street Journal, had "inaccurate information" regarding its accreditiation in China. Negari said that "nothing on any existing.xyz domain or future.xyz domain will be censored by the registry."

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

Homework I don't think that this founder has looked at my blog or my background. If they had read either of the above articles or the 10 other on my blog, then they would have sent me something else. So, why should I spend time if they've not spent time? Startup and Founder Backgrounds This is a cold email.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I read this story on Ivan Kirigin’s blog that shows that Quora was posting which articles you’re reading to other people without your consent. I even had some reservations about writing this blog post this because I have no desire to p**s off other investors or great entrepreneurs. Of course not. Even if harmless.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I do not often write blog entries which reference other blog articles. free weekly Infochachkie articles! The article opens with a touching scene: FEBRUARY 1984: It’s a classic winter day in Aspen, and snow is falling like heavy cotton as Jeffrey sits hunched over his light table editing film.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project. In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. Article Title.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

This morning in our Insights and Opinions section, we're featuring another article from Dave Berkus , an early stage investor here who has been sharing his advice via both his blog, Berkonomics.com , as well as through a new book, BASIC BERKONOMICS. Read the rest of Dave's article, What's In It For Me? Be a (Continued.).

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2012

Of course, there has been no shortage of articles about Pinterest lately. While both of those things are relevant to my interests, this article is about neither. The inspiration for this blog post via a recent Tweet , Hunter is a force of good at Youtube and Google. He also recently blogged his feelings on Pinterest mania.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. As you know, the comments at the foot of every blog out there that is really kind of a big waste of time. Who do you see using this most?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Contributing to industry blogs, or starting your own, is an ideal way to express your positive values, and build a reputation that can save you later if your product stumbles, or you receive some negative challenges. Every future entrepreneur should start by networking. Make your lifestyle a model of the online reputation you want.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

eHow said its visitors will have access to a new series, videos, articles, and blog posts from Ray and others on its food channel. Santa Monica-based eHow , the online information and answers site run by Demand Media , announced this morning that it has officially launched its eHow Food Channel with celebrity Rachael Ray.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. As a bonus, you''ll also enjoy a robust number of Pinterest, Tumbler and Instagram followers and you''ll still have room in your budget for 250 comments on your blog and about 100,000 views on Vimeo. If an article has numerous social shares (i.e., What a bargain.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2010

The paper said it will put in-text links to sites such as Amazon and TicketNetwork as part of the editorial in its Health, Image, Food, Travel, Books, Entertainment and Sports articles and photo galleries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. A while back in a blog article , I pointed out that none of these justify a startup business plan with little or no budget for marketing. Owned media.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

I remember the same disdain from people when I started blogging or using Twitter. A bit like a blog that is put out regularly but not overly edited or self-conscious about word choices or typos. So it provides me with a less crowded audience than publishing on: blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Why would a VC do that?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Hand-picked blogs representing tremendous different areas of content. With over 3 million blogs articles from over 500 categories. Also, Finding quality blogs can be a bit tricky when there are about 60 million online blogs to look through. In comes Regator.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. I’d like to make the case that the article is wrong. I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. Zack Whittaker contributed reporting for this article. .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

Offer the ability to react / comment - In the blogging world it’s clear that having a good comment system like Disqus is critical. Good comment community = viral blog. Try making your blog posts as lists and have it in your headline to drive clicks. The more engaging, the more it gets shared. How very meta of me, hey?

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

Our Insights and Opinions article today comes from Ryan Born , who is CEO of both AudioMicro and Audioo , both Los Angeles area startups. The 3 methods are so dead simple and obvious that this blog post will likely come across as pointless to anyone in the internet space. Ryan gives us The 3 Ways To Get Traffic To Your Website.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical social networking in the same way that Quora is. It’s a highly engaged audience and the content generated from many of the blogs (not all) are highly valuable. If you use any standard commenting system on your blog or website you’re sub-optimizing engagement.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Recently Ken Auletta wrote an in-depth seven-page article in the New Yorker on Blodget pre-empting what some are surmising is a move back Wall Street. Blogging Entrepreneurs Financial News Founders Fund Raising Henry Blodget Investment Bank Merrill Lynch Twitter Venture Capital Wall Street Amazon.com Eliot Spitzer Jeff Bezos Ken Auletta'

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Venture Partners is the lead investor in a Northern California firm focused on the blogging and publishing industry, Apture. Apture develops tools which allow publishers to highlight and link terms in articles to multimedia popups, showing additional information, videos, photos, and other content.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

A good friend of mine was features on the front cover of the LA Times business section with a glowing article. Just notice how many VC emails you get after your TechCrunch article or after you were on stage at TC50. It has logos of the 5-6 most prominent places they’ve been covered with a paragraph from each article.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! If he had spent any time reading my blog, he would have learned that I am not a fan of consultants, especially at startups. Fortunately, this particular call was brief.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Recently Ken Auletta wrote an in-depth seven-page article in the New Yorker on Blodget pre-empting what some are surmising is a move back Wall Street. Venture Capital Wall Street Entrepreneurs Founders Fund Raising Twitter Blogging Financial News Merrill Lynch Investment Bank Henry Blodget Ken Auletta Amazon.com Eliot Spitzer Jeff Bezos'

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 22, 2012

This article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Reality Checking.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. So your goal should be a steady stream of news across many different news outlets and your own blog.

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