InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

Ironically, the same tools that facilitate connecting with people beyond your current network, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Quora and Facebook, also make it more difficult for highly networked individuals to sort through their inbound messages and determine which are meaningful and which should be ignored. Congratulations. Sue.Who@acme.com).

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Networking Software Review Email Press 241

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APRIL 8, 2010

My answer: “no.&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. Quora ( funding led by Benchmark at a crazy valuation: $86 million ). Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. now (or ever).

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Venture Capital Capital SEO Yahoo 232

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

But some CEOs then try to have more junior people in the company take the interview. Heck, even in a big, successful company like Salesforce.com the CEO, Marc Benioff, still takes many of the interviews himself. You need somebody who is helping push out information on what is up-and-coming in the company. Always more appealing.

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Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

However, the greater degree you can sequentially follow these steps and maintain your discussions with each venture capitalist (VC) at relatively the same stage, the sooner you can spend less time in the company of investors and get back to running your business. Follow them on Twitter, Quora and become familiar with their Facebook presence.

Venture Capital 236

Venture Capital Capital Research Customer 236

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. no, I'm not an investor in the company]. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Quora, Tumblr.

Social Network 329

Social Network Startup Blogging Venture Capital 329

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JUNE 3, 2010

I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. But the comments on my own blog were so much more balanced with people taking both sides of the debate. For anyone who attacked me on my blog but used their actual names I left their comments.

News 258

News Tips Blogging Writing 258

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MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. It was interesting for me to read Fred Wilson’s email bankruptcy blog post this morning. Luckily I haven’t signed up to Formspring and don’t spend time on Quora.

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Email Startup Writing Blogging 265

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t run one of the world’s largest companies but I can tell you for free that even I get some crazy physical mails because knowing one’s corporate address is quite easy. By the way, I don’t spell check my blog posts either. Do you think that the CEO of Google should answer every written letter he receives? Twitter messages?

Email 250

Email Writing Conference Mobile 250

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. I got rejected from every single one. Kanye West.

Startup 191

Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

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MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I spent time on college campuses. I hustled.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

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MARCH 30, 2011

I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. In the late 90′s I saw a dangerous trend creeping into the startup world, which was that companies were suddenly raising huge amounts of money too early in their existence. Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. Over the last few weeks, the Real Ventures team has met with easily 50 companies. Keep the day job.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

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MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I spent time on college campuses. I hustled.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Seth Levine of Foundry Group addresses this important topic this morning on his blog with a post, “ Has Convertible Debt Won ?&# Funnily enough I just answered this question yesterday on Quora when somebody asked, “Why would an early-stage investor specifically NOT prefer a convertible note structure to straight equity (e.g.

Equity 319

Equity Pricing Venture Capital Entrepreneur 319

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AUGUST 1, 2010

If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. There are positive benefits to the right VCs being involved early – especially if your company or the economy hits bumps in the road. So here it is: We carved out a total of $7.5

Seed Funding 298

Seed Funding Funding Venture Capital GRP Partners 298

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

As the capital needed to start a small business continues to fall, the number of software companies being started is exploding. There’s a lot of uncertainty in startup companies. Piaw Na, who spent over six years at Google, writes on Quora that she recommends fresh grads to join a startup instead of big companies.

Startup 102

Startup Social Media Writing Google 102

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MAY 25, 2013

You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies. Let’s look at some great companies. Is it right that VCs had no involvement in persuading Sheryl Sandberg to join the fledgling company? So I can make a huge difference in the company’s trajectory. They are also less than 10 years old.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Educational technology companies are augmenting the traditional educational system with their online coursework offerings, but they’re also creating a competing universe where students can find alternate learning experiences that may qualify them for a job, even if they don’t have an academic degree.

Education 45

Education Report Demand Research 45

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NOVEMBER 22, 2014

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. Powerful countries & companies act powerful because they can. But let’s put this into perspective. Changes to algorithms.

Press 418

Press Journal Startup Competition 418

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? The Present Era.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been hanging around Klout for a year and many of my friends had angel funded the company and were champions. He was an early investor in Klout and was the most compelling voice I had heard on why the company would become hugely relevant. 25:15 Did you follow the Quora scandal? – and why it would become a powerhouse.

Cornerstone OnDemand 303

Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303