Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. But succinctly this press places a marker in the ground for your company. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic.

Startup 355

Startup Funding News Press 355

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

There is obviously no black-or-white answer, but I’ve tried everything from working a large international agency, to hiring in-house people to doing it myself. You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation.

Startup 349

Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2015

Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video. I’ve made 5 investments in the sector and I hope to make 5 more. Stories are everything. And the best way to tell stories is visual. In 30-90 seconds you can use visuals, story-telling, music, stats and humor to get across your message.

Startup 150

Startup Summary Blogging Product 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA. ” In truth many companies had no idea why they actually needed Facebook Likes but there was still a pain point.

Sales 367

Sales Slides Startup Customer 367

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2019

Yet we have all heard stories about the high turnover, unstructured work environment, lower base pay, and unpredictable expectations from the top. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work. It pays to be visible in any way that’s positive for the company. And then does it.

Tips 100

Tips Startup Journal Outsource 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media 96

Social Media Media Marketing Metrics 96

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

They also gave us Hacker News , which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories. He also places a huge emphasis on civility in the comments and makes a commitment to “aggressively ban … mean people&# as quoted below. HN and Techmeme are the main two tech aggregators that I frequently skim.

News 258

News Tips Blogging Writing 258

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

I just had to tell this story. My 3 siblings & I make the trek to spend 4-5 days with the 9 grand children, my mom, my cousin and few other very close family members. My 3 siblings & I make the trek to spend 4-5 days with the 9 grand children, my mom, my cousin and few other very close family members. The Background.

Venture Capital 344

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review San Diego 344

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. Their post links to a great post by Jason Calacanis ( here ) on how to make the most of your booth experience at the show.

Startup 310

Startup Venture Capital Press Journal 310

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. Yet as obvious as it is to create messaging for your company, many people don’t consider their personal brands.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

Anyway, as I winnowed my way through the comments section of my blog post on relationships I realized my own wife has posted a response! Obviously these are written from the female head-of-household point of view with a working husband. And I do work – but I take on more family responsibilities than Mark does.

Tips 418

Tips Startup Email Blogging 418

Both Sides of the Table

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. But I’d love to be wrong and see them all make a ton of money. I can only imagine that there’s an inside story here I don’t know about. now (or ever). and much more.

Venture Capital 232

Venture Capital Capital SEO Yahoo 232

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. What's the whole story behind StockTwits and how it came about? I remember saying that I just don't get it, even though they had a great story.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2021

I have to point out that the rest of the world looks for you online before visiting your business, finds talk about you on Yelp and social media sites, and what they see can make or break your business. She is an expert in this area, with some great stories to tell. Look for trends, and people jumping in against you.

Social Media 144

Social Media Media Summary Satisfaction 144

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. The company''s newsletter was initially created to share their entrepreneurial journey with their family and friends. Here''s how they pulled it off. everybody opted in.".

Newsletter 233

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Kurt and his crew can make these, and about 35 of other once-in-a-lifetime treks, a reality. My research led me to Wildland Adventures, one of the pioneering companies in the ecotravel space. My research led me to Wildland Adventures, one of the pioneering companies in the ecotravel space. Ever fantasized about climbing Mt.

Entrepreneur 187

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.”

Startup 303

Startup Technical Review Product Blogging 303

Both Sides of the Table

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. I just can’t make everybody happy. I think his advice is this op-ed is bananas. No, it’s not fun.

Email 250

Email Writing Conference Mobile 250

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

Jamie tells us the interesting story behind how the company started plus how the company managed to quickly land investor interest. Tell us the story behind how the firm started? I had just sold my last company, Phonetag, and was starting to look at doing new things. Jamie, thanks. We raised $2.1M We raised $2.1M

Newsletter 216

Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. THE FULL STORY. Calls are changing but not dying.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. Let me give you some scenarios that do happen in real life: You start a company 50/50 with a good friend. 99.99% of companies do not become the next YouTube. I have even invested in companies like this. Who prevails?

Startup 251

Startup Equity Venture Capital Entrepreneur 251

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. Farhad, tell us a bit about the story behind Flipagram -- how did you get from Bizrate to Flipagram? I jumped off, and at that point, I thought I'd retired.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

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. Farhad, tell us a bit about the story behind Flipagram -- how did you get from Bizrate to Flipagram? I jumped off, and at that point, I thought I'd retired.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. The Outside In organization had a one-way flow.

Organization 280

Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. Startups often make this mistake. I had come from a world where I was nearly a partner at Accenture before starting my first company. I Love Scrappy.

Startup 333

Startup Class Conference Product 333

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. He is the CEO of Hunch , company that I believe is solving a very big problem that I have been telling entrepreneurs needs to be solved for the past 2 years. I’ve also found him to not be dogmatic either. West Coast”).

Technical Review 281

Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Csathy was most recently CEO of Manatt Digital Media, and also was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, CEO of Sightspeed, President and COO at MusicMatch, in addition to serving at companies like Universal Studios and New Line Cinema. Peter Csathy: I'm an entrepreneur, a builder of companies. What is Creatv all about?

Media 100

Media Blogging Hulu Invest 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. 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). What kind of deals should I be doing?

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

it would make more sense than “me.” So my family is Jewish and very typical immigration story – his father left Romania at 19, had to get a fake passport in order to get out of the country, left and never went back, and left in the middle of winter and got frostbite. Last month they turned the tables on me.

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

As part of that, a healthy market for accessories for the camera has developed, including for the photo filters from Newport Beach-based PolarPro (www.polarprofilters.com), which makes special photographic filters specifically to fit the GoPro. What''s the story behind the company? I went--okay, I might as well try this.

Startup 196

Startup Van Nuys Patents Santa Barbara 196

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yet we have all heard stories about the high turnover, unstructured work environment, lower base pay, and unpredictable expectations from the top. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work. It pays to be visible in any way that’s positive for the company. And then does it.

Startup 103

Startup Entrepreneur Journal Outsource 103

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2017

Yet we have all heard stories about the high turnover, unstructured work environment, lower base pay, and unpredictable expectations from the top. Very few people are willing and able to take on any challenge, and make it work. It pays to be visible in any way that’s positive for the company. And then does it.

Startup 58

Startup Journal Outsource Tips 58

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. The company''s newsletter was initially created to share their entrepreneurial journey with their family and friends. Here''s how they pulled it off. everybody opted in.".

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. 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). What kind of deals should I be doing?

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373