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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

This integration, or fusion with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” by Lon Safko, author of bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.” Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

But the urgency addiction is a bad thing that I’m fortunate enough to get away with. I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. Example: I was recently in China and had three public appearances. I’m not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. None should be considered mutually exclusive to any other.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. It clearly is not fame or fortune. 3) Why the hell are you at it again?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. Let me give you an example. If you take 2,000 of the world’s top performing companies, only 29 (1.5%) are run by women.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Company : FindTheBest. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

This integration, or convergence with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” by Lon Safko, author of the classic bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.” Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. None should be considered mutually exclusive to any other.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

After recently raising $18 million in Series B funding, the healthtech company also plans to add new products as it expands nationally among U.S. The Gary and Mary West Health Investment Fund, for example, provided provided Reflexion with nearly $12 million in initial funding. “I The company is growing up,” he added.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic.To Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Quite possibly your perception is the young adult working dutifully in the company mailroom. More and more, they choose to intern at a dynamic small company or startup. Startup companies foster a creative spirit. By Mark Babbitt We’re all familiar in some way with the concept of “interns” in business. Creativity vs. Chores.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2012

As any long-time reader of this humble blog knows, I am an ardent Beatles fan. Some of the examples are patently obvious (e.g., (i) This is especially true if they are part of a Serial Team and they held a junior role at the prior company. Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The reality, however, of the coexistence between immigrants and their American peers is proving to be a one-sided pursuit, with qualified immigrants struggling to stay in the country to join the companies that they have co-founded. category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. Take the U.S.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you want it to be private, for example if you're a consultant or teacher, you can share it with a pre-identified audience for that knowledge by publishing it privately and inviting others to log into Knowledge Genie to share that knowledge. The second example, is you can publish it in public. How did the company start?

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

This is really about liberating your identity and making it yours, rather than having it be a subset of a company or sit inside another company. FriendFeed is a great example of a successful aggregator. There's a huge movement within the industry, and we're in a race with other companies trying to do what we do.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

“If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 You’re not the only one.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Such attorneys can also add tremendous value in your negotiations with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs), as they can ensure that you focus on the deal points that are of most significance to a small entity. Fortunately, in most communities, there are usually a few firms that cater to the specialized needs of startups.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Ill take a simple example and "jargon it up" to illustrate my point. ► October (1) New Video! .

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Off to the Races StrongMail is a digital messaging infrastructure software company. Transition from CEO 12.

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