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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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JANUARY 13, 2010

Here’s the block that you see when you look at a blog enabled by Disqus (a third party commenting tool that can be embedded in blogs and other content): It allows you to authenticate yourself using Facebook Connect , Twitter Oauth (sign in with Twitter), OpenID , and Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication. Example What do I mean?

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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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JUNE 23, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! This can be a blog article that helped you make a particular decision or a link in a Tweet that you found helpful. Old School Charm.

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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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NOVEMBER 22, 2014

This article had much resonance with me. Case in point, “ Why Your Uber Driver Hates Uber ” is a blog post dressed up as journalism. ” Ironic that an article purporting to uncover a company with no training would publish pseudo journalism about the Uber experience. Or Google employees have access to your email?

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APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. In business you spend your life in email. Enter Xobni. It sucked.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. I once had a debate with a prominent VC on a panel.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Inc. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara.

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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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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. Email subscription.

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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. Share and Enjoy.

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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! It started when a well-intentioned colleague introduced me to the caller via email, without first confirming with me that the intro was welcomed. Research? –

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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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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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! During our email exchange before our call, I had to ask him what he wanted to talk about. If he had spent any time reading my blog, he would have understood that I am not a fan of consultants , especially at startups. I do not expect everyone I speak with to be a fan of my humble blog.

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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. Share and Enjoy.

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MARCH 1, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. There has been all sorts of discussions about marketing on blogs lately. I know that I’m not always perfect on email because the volume is so high and it has become such a chore. I think nothing is worse on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or blogs than being one-directional.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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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. It worked like a charm. So I thought, WTF?

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MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. 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. And that leads me to today’s post.

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JULY 16, 2017

I already had a sense of the heaviness (in a good way) of my forties when I came across this excellent post on one of my favorite blogs WaitButWhy entitled “ The Tail End ,” in which the author uses pictographs to bring the succinctness of life and family time to reality. When I get back I don’t plan to spend 50 hours processing old emails.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

For today's Insights and Opinions article, we have a piece from Tracy Olmstead Williams, of Olmstead Williams Communications, talking about the bold new world of social media: Social Media, like Global Warming, has now left doubters behind. Read the rest of Tracy's article, Social media: You at the Helm of Your Own New Starship.

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APRIL 12, 2018

And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge. Indeed, more than 60% of U.S. workers and even more globally fall into these “blue collar” industries.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! You can also check out my blog for emerging entrepreneurs HERE. Share and Enjoy.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Im sure that many of you have read Guys article Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn. Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. in Computer Science.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Inc. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

In the past, companies were just blogging, or just creating content. So, we have a licensed model where they can rent our platform, in a sense, and get into this at scale, in a way that they don't have to repeat those past challenges that traditional publishers have had to deal with. That's expensive, and takes a lot more people.

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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 best way to 'game the system' is simply to develop a genuinely interesting and useful product, or blog post, open source library, etc., that is attractive to that particular community.".

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Inc. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! As Michael notes, "While we wrote a blog post about the theme, it went viral thanks largely to the tweet button front and center on GitHub. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. And The Most Authentic Twitter Personality Is.? Share and Enjoy.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines.

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MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! Come back to this blog over the next 2 weeks and I’ll explain.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

At the start of the article they encourage you to subscribe to Upworthy. When they get your email they earn the right to share more videos with you in the future and they already know something about your interests. This is simply no different than curating on Pinterest, Tweeting interesting stories, editing on Wikipedia or blogging.

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