Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. It’s just math.

Venture Capital 416

Venture Capital Marketing Technical Review Seed Funding 416

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.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

Most importantly, the community has been contributing some amazing test implementations and demonstrating the fun and utility of some good-natured performance competition. This is a longer-than-average TFB round announcement blog entry, but there is a lot to share, so bear with me. More on that later.

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Framework TechEmpower Platform Metrics 377

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. In a startup this is a mistake.

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Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

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 business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. Here are some tips I’ve gleaned from experience: Make your blog your website. Anchor blog in your domain name.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

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. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. Is Funding a Worthy Announcement?

Startup 355

Startup Funding News Press 355

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. I have found that the process of writing down your idea, with a plan for implementation, and reviewing that plan with a business advisor, will force you to learn and acknowledge the real requirements for implementation.

Ideas 126

Ideas Writing Examples Outsource 126

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Don’t be shy about networking for advisors with business experience for coaching and mentoring. Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE. Write a business plan for your desired new business. The ability to pivot quickly is a key to success.

Startup 114

Startup Tips Coach Satisfaction 114

Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Jeff Bezos didn't get to be the world's richest man by writing a lot of checks, and one recent way to keep Amazon's profits healthy has been to cut its affiliate commissions scheme. Suddenly, every other affiliate program and network out there is looking more attractive. commission). They vet their partners for true expertise.

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Buzzfeed News Networking 129

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. Facebook. So why is this important for businesses?

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. They also add that LAGbook ranks #2 in the city of Yaba-Lagos, where the social network was incepted, and #37 in the city of Hirtshal, Denmark. We create a social network for students of the University of Lagos.

Social Network 100

Social Network Networking Advertising Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. Mea culpa and get right back into line.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Here’s why. at a $2.5M

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - I think Robert’s right.

Tips 307

Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Make sure you have the five basic platform tools in place well before the launch – social media profiles with a great headshot (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube), website (with blog), business cards, email signature block, and an email address on your domain name. Building your home base with personal and product traction.

Platform 105

Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. I get to do a deep dive on their business model, product roadmap and competitive positioning. I get paid to network – I love meeting people. I get to network with angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, etc. That’s true.

Venture Capital 312

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

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.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Make sure you have the five basic platform tools in place well before the launch – social media profiles with a great headshot (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube), website (with blog), business cards, email signature block, and an email address on your domain name. Building your home base with personal and product traction.

Startup 104

Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. I was in Network Solutions. This was pre Internet. I was “technical guy.”

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2013

Brad Feld seems to write books faster than I can read and write about them. He teamed up with his wife, Amy Batchelor , to write about about the impact that entrepreneurship has on relationships and what to do about it. Men are generally chest beaters and competitive. Heck you can buy both books together for $20.

Entrepreneur 370

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Social Network 370

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

In this age of information overload, success is all about building a brand that stands out above the competition. Attend networking events with investors and influencers. For an introvert like me, networking is exhausting, rather than exhilarating. Start a blog and write for industry forums and newsletters.

Startup 55

Startup Organization Newsletter Content 55

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20). call to arms.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Unfortunately my wife reads my blog and she’d log in and add comments to dispel this rumor (she keeps me honest. When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water. In fact, they were recently bought by a publicly traded company called Ditech Networks).

Product 280

Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Funding 112

Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. If commitment and drive were Jason’s first attraction, the extensive Amplify network came in a close second. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs. Paul Bricault Directing Traffic.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Startup 104

Startup CTO Hire Press Custom 104

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Enter the decentralized Internet.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Viral – One of the most important value drivers of any social network is the degree to which it makes content go viral.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Startup 101

Startup CTO Hire Press Custom 101

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. Any competition in LA?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free!

Startup 150

Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Tips 88

Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. If commitment and drive were Jason’s first attraction, the extensive Amplify network came in a close second. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs. Paul Bricault Directing Traffic.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. The user generated content on MySpace is user profiles, updates, blogs and pictures. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks.

Development Team Review 76

Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Anima Sarah Lavoy – Connect , Geo locational convenience for your social networks. Short-lived but an epic way to cap off our interview; Shaq showed his competitive side when he hilarious tried swatting away Chris’s game controller out of his hand. Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99