socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, is planning some direct competition to Michael Arrington's technology blog empire, TechCrunch , according to a report today from the Guardian. In an email to subscribers of his personal mailing list earlier this week, Calacanis said the event will be held in San Francisco on February 23rd and 24th.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Business Etiquette Tips for dealing with VCs and Corporates at Conferences. With the LeWeb conference about to start in Paris I thought the timing of this post would be appropriate. Right after Techcrunch50 Michael Arrington wrote this great post on how to interact at business events and conferences. 80% of the people never do.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Make your emails actionable. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

I was waiting for my son’s basketball game to start this morning and with the morning’s emails all drained I turned to Twitter and saw this Tweet from Marshall Kirkpatick. Some through blog comments – your place or mine. I knew Shafqat as a reader on my blog and then I was introduced to him on a trip through New York.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I speak at conferences where I might meet 75-100 people and have conversations. I have Twitter chats, respond to blog comments, trade emails, respond to comments on This Week in VC. I remember! &# You’re the guy who built the Twitter plug-in for blogs. Sometimes more. You get the picture. I remember.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. The power to me was that I had already been blogging about my personal life and my children as well as separately about my startup. As usual we began a dialog with lots of people sharing their points of view.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2010

After a few days of controversial blog posts I thought I’d try something more light hearted today. Fred Wilson once wrote about the topic of how to introduce two people who don’t know each other via email. From his blog posting on “ Why Am I passing ?&#. I like that. Sometimes I forget to ask.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He has it on stage, too, at conferences. I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. He doesn’t email you.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Conferences. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? I was at the Lobby Conference a few weeks ago in Mexico. Do you find yourself too much in email mode? Board Meetings. Startups Are for Doers.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We track and record every call, email, post and tweet and we constantly bring our sponsors into the mix to share in the exposure. We post content from our show on blogs including show notes and tips and tricks. We post podcasts immediately on the blog, websites and iTunes. We built unique websites for each show.

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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! Don’t email him unless you have to. Most startup execs are barraged with hundreds of emails and they spend hours trying to reach the elusive Zero Inbox nirvana.

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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. Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water.

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Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 29, 2009

If you’ve ever received an email from me, you’d know that I always sign my emails with “to the moon.&# Borrowed from the Honeymooners, I’m shooting for the moon in my business venture. I typically spend my mornings in emails, then a few calls, then I tweet, then I check and respond to Facebook and Linkedin.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2012

The following guest post comes from the blog of GraphEffect. At the Ad:Tech conference in April, our very own CEO James Borow gave a pretty awesome speech about why social gets to win, emphasizing the new tracking phenomenon of viral attribution. I an investor in GraphEffect via Rincon Venture Partners. Share and Enjoy.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

We’re excited to announce TechZulu is officially partnering with New Media Expo (formerly BlogWorld) to create a Startup Launchpad at their next event taking place January 6-8, 2013 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas. What does this mean for you ? See you in Vegas!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2019

Elon Musk via Flickr by TED Conference To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. With-it”-ness takes work, like reading the right blogs every day, challenging yourself to stay abreast of the latest technology, and social media marketing. Have a big bandwidth. Be vivid virtually.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

This week the SBW2012 Conference in DC offers sessions geared for small businesses including a Social Media forum, Business Matchmaking, and Federal Contracting 101. The conference ends with the Champion Awards Dinner. It’s National Small Business Week , celebrating the more than 2 million small business owners in the US.

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Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 30, 2009

As promised, today’s blog entry will be about our culture at Make It Work… Make It Work is a very unique company. Employees first, customers next is one of concepts and I recently learned that Virgin and Sir Richard Branson share this philosophy. Nice to know. We’ve been imitated, but never duplicated.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! Come back to this blog over the next 2 weeks and I’ll explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open. And from email we added IM, Facebook and LinkedIn where people contact us. I wish I were good in the email category.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I spent my week applying the new skills I obtained from attending conferences, reading and engaging in Twitter activities. Also, as you know, I launched my blog along with the rest of my team. You can read their blogs on my links. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place. Kinda cool, I guess.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I spent my week applying the new skills I obtained from attending conferences, reading and engaging in Twitter activities. Also, as you know, I launched my blog along with the rest of my team. You can read their blogs on my links. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place. Kinda cool, I guess.

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Technical Review Santa Barbara Blogging Yammer 100

Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 30, 2009

As promised, today’s blog entry will be about our culture at Make It Work… Make It Work is a very unique company. Employees first, customers next is one of concepts and I recently learned that Virgin and Sir Richard Branson share this philosophy. Nice to know. We’ve been imitated, but never duplicated.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! So don’t expect an unprompted email or phone call next week. I guess they assume that since I didn’t email or call I must not be interested. Start with a very short thank you email the day after your pitch.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Authenticity - I asked Chamillionaire why he thinks he connects so much with people at tech conferences. I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

However, as of today, Instant Articles become available to anybody with a Facebook page and a blog. This is a key opportunity for small blogs and publications to get ahead of the game and really understand how best to use the new product. pic.twitter.com/TB1GTGt9ss. Nick Denton (@nicknotned) March 1, 2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? Maybe you can blog about that? Just posted a blog about that: [link] I've been struggling a little with making the numbers work out for some social media activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. Communicate frequently and proactively The most effective CEOs that I’ve observed send regular, short, board update emails every few weeks or monthly just to give the board a sense of what is going on. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it. It happens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s always valuable to meet new prospect clients face to face, rather than just by phone or email. Trade show and conference participation. Most young businesses with a new product plan to attend as many as ten shows or conferences per year across the country or around the world. Sharing your passion for the business live.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Being in business since I was 18 years old has led to a lot of conferences, meetings, mixers, classes, tradeshows and after parties. It was at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in the media room when I overheard the founders being interviewed. Once you’ve answered these questions go ahead and contact them in a short email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

They are the “shiny object chasers” who love to go to conferences, talk about “blue sky ideas” about what is possible and set vision for others to execute. It doesn’t matter if it’s recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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