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MAY 22, 2019

A Startup I’ve Been Excited to Tell You About for Years A few years ago I spent time in prison with Trevor O’Brien , the founder of Projector. Yes, I always imagined announcing the company that way. They teamed up to solve this problem and when I heard about their approach it completely resonated with me. What are some examples?

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APRIL 18, 2010

I’ve been using Chartbeat for over a month now to track performance of my blog and I find myself looking at Google Analytics much less these days. Chartbeat is a relatively young company and product. I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. Basically, it rocks!

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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 And what does it say about your corporate culture and your individual management style?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

” by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn , which 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

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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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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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. I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. Let me explain.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. But think of this.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

“You can’t build a large online video company. You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” What most people never understood about Maker Studios is that much of their growth came through technology innovation and advantages on our back-end the most people didn’t even know about.

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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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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

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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

I wrote about him here. 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.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

Although most people believe that being a successful entrepreneur is all about having the right idea, I’m convinced from my years of experience as a startup advisor and investor that’s it’s more about you as a person. For example, Elon Musk has long been a bold and provocative thought leader on space travel.

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JUNE 12, 2013

I was thinking about this yesterday because my assistant Tasha posted a link on Facebook to Paul C. Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice.

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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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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. That’s how prepared we were and how serious we were about the issue. The company had their holding statement. Much time has passed.

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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. Let me be clear about this. You betcha.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging. Similarly, I reached about 45 people in my presentation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Think about how you can project the voice you want, and make sure it is consistently used by all team members across all platforms used. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI). Marty Zwilling.

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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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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. We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33. Good comment community = viral blog.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

As an advisor to business professionals and entrepreneurs, I often hear about an innovative new solution that could lead to business growth or a new business. It was no surprise to me that all the investors he approached were less than excited about his plan for growing a new and nutritious algae.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm. I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post. In a startup this is a mistake. There is one carve out.

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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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MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. Let me give you an example.

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AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. When I meet other VCs I’m constantly asking how they decide which investments to make, when to pass, when to do follow-on rounds, when to sell a company vs. when to go long, etc. For example: 1. Each is a framework for thinking about a problem.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Within hours, fans confronted the authors in the Discord server with their concerns about the project. An emerging tech dystopia.

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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

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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. This post is about the “P” or pain. ” It’s a reason a company would buy. Click here.

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MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. But aside from choosing the time of day to focus on signal vs. noise, Brad’s post got me thinking about another question – what is signal and what is noise? Examples: Bin38. It’s over done.

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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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JANUARY 13, 2013

What I love about writing is that you inadvertently say what many others are thinking and just knowing that somebody else is thinking something similar can be reassuring. Example: Fred Wilson writing his end of 2012 post wrote. But it comes across as a whiny complaint about the shitty year that 2012 was.

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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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