Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Leading by example. By being a visible example. A friend and fellow CEO states that he publishes each of his mistakes in his company internal blog along with the lesson he learned. “If How do you teach your work force that mistakes are OK as long as they learn and don’t repeat them?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

And there is relationship between debating and blogging. I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. The most important experience I have in blogging is the debate it encourages. So it goes with blogging. So it goes on my blog. Let me explain. They make you think harder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

“You can’t build a large online video company. You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” There’s a reason that Maker pulled away while most online video companies did not. Online technology company that distributes video. Here is an example. Most will fail.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Mostly, no.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

Small- to medium-sized businesses may lack the resources and IT expertise to manage, protect, and upgrade their networks effectively compared to larger, more enterprise-level companies. Top Small- to Medium-Sized Company Network Challenges. Network security is a concern for virtually every company type in every industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2023

For example, top bloggers today, including Rand Fishkin and Gary Vaynerchuk , find no need to advertise, as customers come to them for value from content alone. Startups that haven’t updated their website since rollout, or publish a new blog once a month or less, won’t be followed for valuable content. The key is consistency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

Pull some examples from your private life, prior jobs, or academia, where you demonstrated personal initiative, determination, and results in overcoming challenges. These days, with the pervasive presence of social media, blogs, and online access to information, it’s easy to get your message out there, and engage a following.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

The company unveiled another series of measures it’s taking to prevent malefactors, who hide behind false names, from spreading fake and incendiary political stories through the network’s news feed to influence voters. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday. presidential election in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. .” From this I learned the best times to post and how frequently to Tweet a blog post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion. See some recent examples in the 10 of the Top Social Media Campaigns of 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. Another one of his big themes has been B2B crowd-sourcing and he had a company in mind already even before he joined – Deliv. Take for example retailers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? I am a VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2011

.” Everybody knows that when you raise money at a startup your ownership percentage of the company goes down. The simplest way to think about this is: If you own 20% of a $2 million company your stake is worth $400,000. So you own 15% of the new company but that 15% is now worth $1.5 million at a $7.5 million at a $7.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. If you want to see that discussion it is here and its especially fun because we also debated Google Groups, which went on (after the interview) to buy Dmitry’s company so he now works there.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. Create something people can engage with – Examples include videos you can put your image into. Good comment community = viral blog.

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Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2019

If you are the largest company in your niche, you might want to define yourself by relative size, which connotes success and staying power. If you are the quirkiest of suppliers in your niche, you could create a campaign around your company’s counterculture. Sometimes it is best that you do it first. How do you define yourself?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

When I did it was a little too close to home for a company to have me publish it. A while back I received a frantic phone call from the CEO of a company in which I invested. Show the journalist examples of how we were much better on this issue than every other major Internet property. The company had their holding statement.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 25, 2016

By being a visible example. A friend and fellow CEO states that he publishes each of his mistakes in his company internal blog along with the lesson he learned. “If How do you teach your work force that mistakes are OK as long as they learn and don’t repeat them?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. Let me give you a real world example from this week. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2020

For example, top bloggers today, including Rand Fishkin and Gary Vaynerchuk , find no need to advertise, as customers come to them for value from content alone. Startups that haven’t updated their website since rollout, or publish a new blog once a month or less, won’t be followed for valuable content. The key is consistency.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. Some practical examples. Of course he wanted to talk a lot about his product and company – he was looking for money after all. ” Be authentic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.”

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Framework Social Media Software Review Social Network 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. A legendary pivot example in social media was the transformation of Odeo into Twitter.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

The site also has the backing of some prominent technology investors including Jeff Bezos the founder and CEO of Amazon, who just sunk $5 million into company and joins the likes of Mark Andreesen and Allen and Company as co-investors. Online, he said, he neither makes recommendations nor offers financial advice.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

” by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn, who offers guidance and examples on new and modern approaches for the rest of us: Build a blog. Search engines and people love blogs these days. This shows your knowledge and positions your company as a thought leader. You are the company you keep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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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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