Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The new team-up has a lot of moving parts: Shopify even termed it a “first-of-its-kind” partnership in its announcement blog post. The post How the New Shopify-TikTok Partnership Helps Small Businesses appeared first on Tech.co. How the Partnership Works. 2.2% + 30c. 1.9% + 30c. 1.6% + 30c. Shopify Deals.

Help 149

Help Platform Startup Social Media 149

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.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

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

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. We want to create a great consumer experience, which is significantly different than cookie cutter, cut-and-paste coupon sites. But, that actually extends into all content.

Internet Brands 257

Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2012

We caught up with Sean to learn more about the acquisition, and how the buy of Cottonseed is one of the things helping the firm break into the closed and protective clothing industry. Working with them, they helped us as the business grew. I definitely am more well known for social media and blog content.

Acquisition 167

Acquisition Help Social Media Startup 167

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2013

Now it appears that Twitter is going to try to cash in on the lucrative TV-Twitter experience in some way by creating their own technology around it. The app will help you connect and discover music from friends, what is trending and what is hot in cyberspace. Twitter and Blogs. Then today, viola! Time will tell.

Blogging 75

Blogging Entertainment Social Media Screening 75

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2019

Inbound marketing is all building two-way virtual relationships, which are the norm for today’s generation via social media, mobile apps, recommendations from “friends” and influencers, modern websites with customer-focused content, friendly forums, and chat bots. Provide memorable total customer experience relationships.

Marketing 94

Marketing Social Media Technical Review Custom 94

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. Add content regularly.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I first learned the ropes around SEO (search engine optimization) and how for years this has been a cat-and-mouse game where people game the system (Google) through link exchanges, offshore SEO “agencies,&# widgets, algorithmically optimized content and the like that degrades the quality of search results. I’ll help promote it.

News 284

News Blogging Search Engine Optimization SEO 284

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

If my experience and insights can save just one founder from the stress, lost time, and lost money associated with a startup misstep, then I’m a happy man. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content.

Tips 102

Tips Help Startup Blogging 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In my experience, there are good reasons for starting a business, and good ways to go about it in the new online world, but even entrepreneurs with good intentions often don’t have a clue on key principles to follow for this rapidly changing platform. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 124

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. The new publication would not be a stretch for Calacanis--who, like Arrington, made his own fortune by selling his last company, blog network Weblogs, Inc.

Mahalo 124

Mahalo Web 2.0 Blogging Technical Review 124

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The firm has created a tool which uses software and semantic search to help in the whole process of curating content. We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content.

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Here’s my experience, my “ah ha&# moment and why I think, although still nascent, it’s one of the most powerful websites on the web right now. Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. I picked questions that I had already covered in depth on my blog and answered them in shorter form. really understand it.

Blogging 301

Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2011

Johnson, announced a move to allow other sites to host and show content via a new Lunch Network effort. Johnson: Essentially, we built Lunch to be the source of the highest quality user generated content out there, all built on top of our similarity network. So is this a white label view of the Lunch content?

Content 242

Content Software Review Technical Review Sites 242

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? .

Technical Review 384

Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Be proactive in defining your personal and business identity early with positive content, well before your product debuts, highlighting your current vision, accomplishments, and personal image: Establish a personal brand online as an influencer and leader. Consistently review and respond to relevant online feedback.

Product 127

Product Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Technical Review 127

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Cliff's feedback: Your idea of "Visible Networking" can help people take the "glad to meet you" networking to the next level -- "glad to know you" relationships.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Networking Angel Blogging 150

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

However, a number of them wanted to vicariously experience the startup world through John and Kyle''s venture. But.we''re having a great time and we truly believe that this is an experience of a lifetime. blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. in September of 1999.

Newsletter 233

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Both Sides of the Table

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.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I'm a glass half full kind of guy, and it's more of my personal blogging channel. I like helping people, and I'm using YouTube to help all of that. I started to meet lots of people, and really got into this community around personal blogging. What's the most popular and least popular content you've posted so far?

Startup 100

Startup Hollywood Content Examples 100

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

We're really focused on building a one stop, hyperlocal music experience across the United States. At the end of the day, it's something we've built for the artist, which helps them connect with people in local cities. How we want to grow is a subscription model, and the third is we license our content fields.

Social Media 241

Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

In my experience, there are good reasons for starting a business, and good ways to go about it in the new online world, but even entrepreneurs with good intentions often don’t have a clue on key principles to follow for this rapidly changing platform. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted.

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. The reason I have so many typos is that I value cranking out more content rather than perfect posts. Grockit is led by Farb Nivi who was a former test instructor at both Kaplan and Princeton Review so brings a lot of experience to this market. What I like? Big market.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from social networks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. We gather all of this video for them, and organize it into a very simple experience which they can watch on any device.

Social Network 232

Social Network Startup Services Organization 232

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I hope you’ll excuse me when I do the latter in combination with the former to try and explain how I see macro trends and help you think about the mind of a VC. He wanted to be an entrepreneur. I still do.

Invest 303

Invest Company Companies Web 2.0 303

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

User experience is suffering and it’s the worst possible time with the product taking off. It helps to start by determining whether your application needs, or will ever need to consider performance more than superficially. Many of us at TechEmpower are interested in performance and how it affects user experience.

Web 200

Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 200

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In the quest to own the world of Internet content, there has been a huge amount of focus given to the world of consumer Internet content. For that reason, more and more content is going online. However, as these are relatively niche focuses, it's difficult for those content providers--often times bloggers--to build an audience.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. The larger real estate also makes content discovery different.

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He offers a wealth of examples that I second from my experience on how to get started and do it right, as well as real guidance on what NOT to do: Don’t pay attention to customer input. The best content marketing is tuned carefully to the desired customer set or demographic. Don’t have credible data to support factual content.

Marketing 91

Marketing Examples Startup Custom 91

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. Weve done our best, but we are not experts in most of them so help is welcome! Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. With the content type set to application/json. March 28, 2013.

Framework 560

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

At the time Google said it was against sponsored links because it confused the person searching for content – one of the main arguments people are again using about in-stream advertising. Think about this – bands and stars helped bring people by the millions to MySpace. Some goes with Google. I don’t think so.

Advertising 277

Advertising Technical Review GRP Partners Google 277

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

In my experience, there are good reasons for starting a business, and good ways to go about it in the new online world, but even entrepreneurs with good intentions often don’t have a clue on key principles to follow for this rapidly changing platform. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107