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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Insights and Opinions: The 3 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Website

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You shouldn't even bother starting an internet company unless you have a reasonably good change at succeeding at one of these 3 methods. 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.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Then came blogs. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation.

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Concerns Keeping You From Social Media

Tech Coast Venture Network

Even every platform has a help resource – LinkedIn , Facebook , Twitter , MySpace … blogging platforms… all showing you and explaining what it is about and how you can get started… Visit YouTube and type about any topic and you can simply watch unlimited number of videos about Social media.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

What most people don’t realize is that, according to new research , 90% of search engine users rarely look at the paid results. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company.