Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

You will be in good company with the many legends who used this approach. Operate small, but show a big-company image. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors. Barter services for access to required resources.

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Equity Social Media Startup Summary 139

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Put yourself on the site.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

You’ve been given 10 minutes to stand on stage and tell what your company does and why it matters. You, the king of the overly long blog posts? I think my blog posts would be far better if I made them 50% of the length. I made a decision in blogging that I wanted to opt for frequency and depth of thought.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. How many hours a day are you working on your company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

You will be in good company with the many legends who used this approach. Operate small, but show a big-company image. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors. Barter services for access to required resources.

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Social Media Startup Equity Summary 169

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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”).

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. How you build out your team in the first few years can have a huge impact on the trajectory of your company. So I naturally spend much time with the companies in which I invest helping them: recruit. figure out roles.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2020

The UK finance company has garnered a lot of attention, both online and in real life, thanks to its distinctive coral-colored cards, and its intention to make the banking process easier. As of its 24 January 2020 blog post, 1000 customers have been involved in the US testing process. But what is Monzo, exactly?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2021

Here is her summary and mine of the steps that every business owner should follow in assessing and repairing any situation when you sense that your business reputation in is jeopardy: Assess the scope and impact of any negatives. She is an expert in this area, with some great stories to tell. Resist cancelling existing social media accounts.

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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. The company had their holding statement. I had outlined a blog post in support of their efforts and was ready to publish it. Summary Lessons?

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MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. So I thought, WTF?

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JULY 25, 2011

It’s no surprise that I got a bit fawked on my first company. I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. This series inspired me to start my blog as a VC. Or what “participating preferred&# stock is and how it can screw you. Or what “flat spots&# on a cap table are. There was no guide.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the search and news site run by Jason Calacanis, has cut 10 percent of the firm's staff, Calacanis said in a post on his blog Wednesday. The cuts will give the company runway past 2012. and Sequoia Capital, and provides human-edited search pages and news summaries. READ MORE>>

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Netflix announced the changes to its company via a blog post. A blog post! You don’t handle major announcements via a blog post and no touch points. Not a freakin’ blog post. Probably the 5 minutes before they wrote their blog post. Major change by blog post again ? What is my evidence?

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APRIL 13, 2011

Or, as always, summary notes available below. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My I decided well if I am going to be investing in this stuff at least I need to understand what it’s like to have a blog, to be generating content, and it was quite interesting at the very, very beginning.“.

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MAY 20, 2015

Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video. Think of the best tech company at marketing that you know. I have no criticisms with this great company that boosted the online video movement but they need to reinvent their format a bit. Western countries watch > 5 hours of TV per day.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Use your blogs, use social media, use the TV media. Can you accept a person for president that you simply would never hire at your company for being such an obvious liar? Summary — What You Need to Do I don’t need to go on. He could release a summary but hasn’t. Donald Trump is a proven race-baiter and demagogue.

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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. What is a founder to do? Some of these patterns may apply to me some may not.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Investor in Twitter, Foursquare, DISQUS, and (by Naval’s own admission) “a lot of other companies you have never heard of”. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Naval’s responses. When great companies really hit, all the investors want in and there isn’t enough room. Former Founder Epinions. That is the great constant.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Put yourself on the site.

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Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 88

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JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is a long post, so I put an executive summary here if you want to get the point without reading all the detail. These are all creative processes.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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MARCH 31, 2012

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. In Summary. Specifically, 1.

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MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. When you are selected you share the stage with 49 other companies (in the case of TechCrunch50. Most people pay attention to the first 5 companies. By company 22 it’s hard to remember what any of them did. I think Robert’s right. .

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

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JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. I'm a huge fan of this innovation. and Half.com.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I shifted my thinking a few years ago after I read Tim Ferris’s book The Four Hour Workweek (link is to a short summary I wrote). So I ask you – if you’re being reactive to somebody else’s emails are you really being as productive in your company as you could be? You’re writing a freaking blog post!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. How many hours a day are you working on your company? Marty Zwilling.

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Outsource Development Outsource Training Summary 72

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. How many hours a day are you working on your company? Marty Zwilling.

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Outsource Development Outsource Startup Summary 104

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AUGUST 5, 2018

I just returned from a week’s vacation in the mountains where I had almost no Internet access but was aware that Ronan Farrow had published a damning sexual misconduct article about Les Moonves, the Chairman & CEO of publicly traded company CBS Corporation. They owe it to shareholders and the company to investigate for themselves.

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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. ” In truth many companies had no idea why they actually needed Facebook Likes but there was still a pain point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I still plan to publish on this blog occasionally, as well as more frequently on my blogs at Forbes , Huffington Post , and others. Blogging is a learning process as well as a sharing one. I learn something new every day in blogging. Successful companies are all about the execution.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. Bijan Sabet – investor & board member in some small companies you might have heard of like Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee & OMGPOP – took issue with the whole notion that you even need a Powerpoint deck anymore. That notes only told part of the story.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you raise millions of dollars from professional investors it is no longer “your” company but a shared company that you control. In the Early Days. In the Growth Years.

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MAY 9, 2011

I spoke at Stanford last year about starting a tech company. Here is a quick summary of my POV: When you start a company a 50/50 partnership seems obvious. We get cast together with a team of people we barely know and if we win we gleefully announce we’re going to do a company together. Hire your co-founder.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Ask me something very narrow that I can answer without typing a whole blog post length response. Structure your email such that you ask for the intro very briefly and then tell them that you’ve pasted a 3 paragraph description of the company below your email to them in case it would help with the intro.

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