Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

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 consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

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 consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below.

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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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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. It's really hard to find and super competitive to find developers who are going to jump on a concept and build it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

They were a little too fierce in their competitive practices against Lyft to sign up drivers. As somebody who has to rub shoulders with big tech companies often I can tell you that there is much blood spilled in the competitive trenches of Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google and so on. This article had much resonance with me.

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MARCH 14, 2013

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. Just don’t spam people.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Here’s why. at a $2.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

I was talking a month ago with a founding team who was lamenting the fact that their competitors got way better coverage than they did when they felt that their traffic numbers were > 2x the competition. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums.

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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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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals. Every time I visit it, I find something that I missed that was really good content. Now with personalization it's even better. The picture below gives a sense of what's happening: Curators handle finding the best sources of content.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Robert’s article is worth reading. It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. Every great article has an “angle.&# The angle of this article is that most people don’t build good relationships with journalists and they should. Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. Mea culpa and get right back into line.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! In addition to the partners’ tireless blogging, they founded TechStars, one of North America’s premier startup accelerators. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group. Just be you.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. I must admit, I furthered this anti-college narrative with a provocative article about college dropout successes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! You can also check out my hands-on startup advice blog HERE.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. ” Don’t.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

An ongoing stream of well-placed articles keeps your organization top-of-mind with key decision-makers. Public relations sets you apart from the competition. Coverage in important publications or on TV can ensure your organization stands out from the competition as a clear market leader.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

An ongoing stream of well-placed articles keeps your organization top-of-mind with key decision-makers. Public relations sets you apart from the competition. Coverage in important publications or on TV can ensure your organization stands out from the competition as a clear market leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. free weekly Infochachkie articles! “We With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? How do you stand out?”.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Is this competitive with Modern Mom? Lolita Carrico: I don't think it's competitive. We're doing a lot in social media with Twitter, Facebook, and contributors to our site, and figuring out how they are promoting articles and content through social media. That definitely has something to do with it.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

This article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. that is attractive to that particular community.".

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. How do you stand out?”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. I was sick of hyperbole articles pronouncing that VCs were “scared or AngelList&# or “it was disrupting VC&# or some other BS exaggeration like that. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made.&# The data in this article is at best, a stretch. So it is with entrepreneurship. Wadhwa wrote.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. According to a recent article in Entrepreneur , 94% of small and medium businesses (SMBs) now use social media as a marketing tool, and 81% use it to drive growth. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Your remote control has two buttons. Twittering.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. The authors made the point that, given the size of companies today, a single garden-variety blockbuster hardly moves the needle.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. We also spoke about technology systems in the perspective of global competition. I wrote about that before in a post about “ whether MBAs are necessary for entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

And in all seriousness the article prompted his relative to hit him up for money. I find older entrepreneurs more willing to have pragmatic debates about competition, for example. If older entrepreneurs are more cautious it’s because life’s experiences have taught them to be so. There is less ego.

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