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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. You need somebody who is thinking laterally about how to creatively get extra attention at conferences or trade-shows.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Though the Alliance is still committed to hosting select regional convenings like First Look SoCal and our SoCal Ecosystem Leadership Conference, we recognize that the region already is filled with numerous events targeted at start-ups and entrepreneurs. This came through loud and clear at our recent regional leadership conference.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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Both Sides of the Table

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? Plus they run conferences with the top people (which is another form of POV marketing by the way). Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs? Final example.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Entrepreneurs can emulate de la Guerra’s strategy and make their adVenture appear far larger than reality and thus increasing its influence and market reach while discouraging competitive threats by creating an industry alliance. free weekly Infochachkie articles! If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Entrepreneur and Marketer, VP of Marketing at When I Work – Click here for original article.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Entrepreneur and Marketer, VP of Marketing at When I Work – Click here for original article.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2018

A version of this article previously appeared Forbes. In a pivotal scene from his book Start-up , Jerry Kaplan describes how he mesmerized a group of jaded Kleiner Perkins VCs by throwing his leather portfolio onto a conference table and dramatically describing it as a handheld device that could digitize handwriting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. People attending marquee conferences with rock bands, prominent speakers, Gartner Group prognosticators and lots of other happy customers. It’s where the truly innovative separate themselves from the pack.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2013

Over the past couple of years I’ve written down some of my thoughts and it’s started to add up enough that I’ve now created a new tab on this blog with PR related articles on the topic. Journalists don’t often write stories that talk about, “This cool new company I met at a conference.”

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I had a chance to discuss AngelList Syndicates with Naval at Michael Kim’s Cendana LP/VC conference on a panel with Naval, Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures) and Mike Brown, Jr. That means if we collaborated on a project we can do an A-Round after a brief conference call.” I haven’t proof read this article.

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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. You need somebody who is thinking laterally about how to creatively get extra attention at conferences or trade-shows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 6, 2011

If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Booth Mates And Conference Rooms. You can also economically establish a presence at a show by booking a conference room or suite in a nearby hotel. Hyper Space. Tradeshow attendance is largely sold based upon Fear Of Loss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

In this age of information overload, success is all about building a brand that stands out above the competition. These days, people love short articles, rather than taking the time to read a book. Reporters are always looking for content, so they rarely turn away professionals they meet at conferences or events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

Here the principles of finding any top executive apply, as I’ve covered in a previous article. This approach only works if you know them, are willing and able to talk face-to-face, or meet them in at a conference or another business setting. Interview former employers, more than the candidate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

Here the principles of finding any top executive apply, as I’ve covered in a previous article. This approach only works if you know them, are willing and able to talk face-to-face, or meet them in at a conference or another business setting. Interview former employers, more than the candidate.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A gentleman had stopped by our booth multiple times and then wrote me immediately after the conference and said that I “HAD to come and meet with his partners the very next week.” Page 3: Competition. Tim handled the product management, vision, roadmap and competitive questions like a pro. After Office 2.0 Page 5: Financials.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

A day after I published this Changing Structure of VC article I noticed at least one “Angel Prorata Fund” on AngelList. ” In fact, I was at a recent early-stage VC/LP conference where this was accepted as conventional wisdom. Smart entrepreneurs have often used this competition / appetite to invest to their advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

As a VC I of course want you to come see only me because that means I have no competition and have time to properly get to know you. even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. An investor who doesn’t feel like there is a two-way commitment will eventually walk and look for deals they perceive as a better two-way fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Eliminate Voicemail – I’ve read many articles on productivity over the years and most will tell you to severely limit the amount of inbound phone calls you receive. I try not to let this happen but after a 2-day conference or after a vacation I really, really struggle. Tim Ferriss gave this extra emphasis in his book.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Her father was reading an article about Pipeline Fellowship in Bloomberg Business Week and he realized his daughter was an adult and she may be interested in angel investing. NON: I judge a lot of pitch competitions and speak at a lot of conferences. NON: I very much started with people in my network in the beginning.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. I plodded through the conference and went straight to a doctor in London.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Startup Grind was a truly awesome conference and Derek the consumate host. And I have been impressed with Steven Kaplan and others at University of Chicago (my alma mater), who have been encouraging entrepreneurship through the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship , through angel investing , seed conferences and changes in teaching.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Robert’s article is worth reading. So I’ve always advised people that if they do launch at a big show, the most important public relations work they do is after the conference. Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition. I think Robert’s right.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

One, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has an office called the Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, which heads up the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) ( [link] ). Press conferences are given and military recruiting is done in virtual, online worlds. Innovation is the heart of national competitiveness.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The 99% conference is aimed at creative professionals and is focused on Edison's "99% perspiration." Twittering. 8211; Garry Tan.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. I’m in Seattle this week. Of course I have.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. It was just minutes before I was supposed to go on stage for the very first time and present The Lean Startup to a large audience, at a big conference.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

DataSift = platform for companies to develop cost-effective applications using this Twitter data to gain advantage relative to their competition. Twitter is not replacement for Facebook (or vice versa) and while it is competitive it is mostly competing for: user time, brand dollars and 3rd-party development resources.

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