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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? If I were writing the book today, there would be a whole chapter or two…about how to use Facebook and Twitter. I think Google+ is a great, great mechanism for enchanting people.”. That doesn’t work.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. My articles never appeared on Digg so I didn’t focus on it at all. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery. Look at Viddy & SocialCast. Underbelly.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. And I actually got pretty decent grades in English and writing overall. When I write I’m looking for human tone rather than perfect sentences.

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APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33. This will also drive a lot of shares.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Their approach was moderately success, as evidenced by the roughly 3,000 Google hits for the search: “The Tipping Point” & “Jonah Berger.”. The Faux Anti-Gladwell.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” Are you beating up every Silicon Valley VC that didn’t do Facebook or Google or Uber early? Mostly kidding.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Put simply – if you invested early in Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). ” Some do, some don’t.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. Article Title. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. I was not disappointed. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

They get pissed off if a senior executive at Google doesn’t take a meeting with them, if people are late to their meetings or if they have emails that are unreturned. You need to know how to write good & action oriented emails. It ends up being a turn off to potential employees, investors, business partners and the press.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In this article you’ll discover how to start a blog that makes money. This article will focus on the second component, monetization strategy. One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion. Write those down and then head over to Google Keyword Tool.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There is a battle between entrepreneurs who try to change the world and solve a meaningful problem and those who write take-down pieces with no apparent personal benefit other than attention. As you may know Google recently restructured so that Larry could spend more time on big innovations – on “moonshots.”

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MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I think the issue I have always had with investment bank pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. Or as the article on Y Combinator suggests, “is your accent too heavy?”

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MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I think my mentality to banker pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. Or as the article on Y Combinator suggests, “is your accent too heavy?” I attended events.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Lead investors and follow investors can both win equally but in each case you know why you personally are writing the check. Oh, and he was acquired by and worked at Google. Connections.

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AUGUST 14, 2011

The short article in Fast Company is here if you’d like to read it. Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. The story was controversial enough that it created follow-on articles. Use it as an excuse to get a journalist to write about you. What a shame.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. An informal writing style is generally recommended. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Conversational style.

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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. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. I was a Google Desktop user for years.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2011

When I sent out a Tweet with MG’s article I got a number of messages back saying the equivalent of “you don’t need to be a jerk to make a point. I then asked for editing rights to his Google Doc and I rewrote a version of it. Of course I can’t write every press release for the company nor would I want to.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network. What does that look like?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny.

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MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! ” Note: image from PandoDaily, clicking it will take you to the article in which I found it. And who cares, right?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

free weekly Infochachkie articles! The more you play around with ideas and you write them down, the better. NOTE: competitors validate your idea, if you lose heart after one Google search, you are not sufficiently passionate about the idea. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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MARCH 31, 2012

That student is Erin McCann who formerly worked in sales at Google, so she has some ground to stand on in her assertions. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. That said, I think it is written without taking the full extent of my sales articles into account.

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APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. So hot that even Google is getting in on the act. Really!). 4.75mm in Series A.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 What’s The Worst Mistake?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. I will write about some of these topics soon.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in Forbes. Modern-day entrepreneurs use Evernote, Google Keep, etc. The more you play around with ideas and you write them down, the better. NOTE: competitors validate your idea, if you lose heart after one Google search, you are not sufficiently passionate about the idea.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We appeared in a prominent article in the Financial Times. They get paid to say, “Company X is the new FriendFeed&# just 2 days after Google acquires FriendFeed. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. We closed a $16.5

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MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. Type “personal financial management&# into Google. Write out the topic and maybe even the blog title. Absofuckinglutely.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday.Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site.Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.To

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2014

” Smart products need to have added value, according to Itzkovitch in his article published on Medium. “The future refrigerator will be semi-transparent, and the opaque smart display will display exactly what’s inside, so we only have to open the door once we know what we want,” Itzkovitch writes in UX Magazine.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This article will cover two things; First, the top mistakes small business owners make that end with inquiries leading you to the exit door before making a sale. On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. The best place to find forums is Google.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

It has a keyword analyzer in it, and also notifies you three hours, one day, and one week after sending it out over the wire what your ranking is in the Google search results. Those companies are ones they don't have time to write about, or don't have an interest in, or who they just don't have the resources to write about.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Cats or dogs?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Horvitz, is pictured above at left with founding members of the partnership, Francesca Rossi, IBM; Yann LeCun, Facebook; and Mustafa Suleyman, Google/DeepMind.

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