TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

Glossier, the popular beauty brand led by former blogger Emily Weiss, let go of 80 of its corporate employees today, according to an internal email obtained by Modern Retail. The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e

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Berkonomics

APRIL 7, 2022

Email readers, continue here…] We raised six million from angel investors for this otherwise brilliant concept, and several first tier VCs followed with another thirty–two million over time. I had my doubts but led the deal anyway. But we overcame the fears and…. What if…” we had seen this coming?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

As executives we’re all seemingly accessible at any moment to anybody via email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Text. People expect blog posts, Tweets, panels, speeches. It’s why sometimes I respond to emails in 5 minutes at other times I go dark for a week at a time. The modern world is daunting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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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

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. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs? Is this investor on AngelList? You betcha. Speaks on CNBC.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. And of course the other place I inform myself is on Twitter. People looooove lists.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

I see it on email even more. 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. It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. According to Hubspot , websites that have blogs get twice as many inbound links, 400 percent more indexed pages, and a more than 50 percent increase in traffic, compared to websites without blogs.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2012

Of course, there has been no shortage of articles about Pinterest lately. The inspiration for this blog post via a recent Tweet , Hunter is a force of good at Youtube and Google. He also recently blogged his feelings on Pinterest mania. You guys are going to be rich!”. I guess I was right. The few, the proud, the Peen-terest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise. Add a modest advertising presence.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] And the company ultimately died a painful death. Over the course of these insights here and in my BERKONOMICS series of books and blogs, we explore the use of tools to help overcome this natural tendency. I had my doubts, but led the deal anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

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. Developing a superior virtual presence requires a mastery of several mediums – phone, email, text messaging, as well as handwritten notes – but the payoff is undeniable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. And that leads me to today’s post.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. In business you spend your life in email. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

It is being temporarily taken off course the whole trip. And, each time the elements take it off course, it corrects and gets back on the right path. You’ll be blown off course every day. And each time your path starts to take you in the wrong direction, you must correct and get back on course toward your goal.

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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. Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—?these This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. According to Hubspot , websites that have blogs get twice as many inbound links, 400 percent more indexed pages, and a more than 50 percent increase in traffic, compared to websites without blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

But of course we also focused on making content go viral. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team. Good comment community = viral blog. Try making your blog posts as lists and have it in your headline to drive clicks.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

Technology is of course a dual-edge sword but the media discussions of how it affects human interactions all too often focuses on the downsides. And for what it’s worth blogging has always been a creative outlet for me and never felt like an obligation or work. A few weeks in and I have no regret.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. Of course – some people can be remote. Jordan Hudson.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

Of course when they get there those individuals are no longer young and after years of mental and physical atrophy they lack the ambitions to get these things done. Of course the 4-hour work week and DL plan is a gross over generalization and meant to be shocking. And, of course, now Twitter. If not now, then when?

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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. MAKEITWORK, our Twitter handle is @makeitwork , our website is makeitwork.com and our facebook page is of course facebook.com/makeitwork. We post podcasts immediately on the blog, websites and iTunes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

In case you missed all the kerfuffle this weekend, I posted this blog post originally on TechCrunch. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. Shervin Pishevar, another person who I respect wrote the following on Twitter, “ Saying you don’t like @AngelList is like saying you don’t like Email.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. Fall quarter of Sr. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. According to Hubspot , websites that have blogs get twice as many inbound links, 400 percent more indexed pages, and a more than 50 percent increase in traffic, compared to websites without blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. According to Hubspot , websites that have blogs get twice as many inbound links, 400 percent more indexed pages, and a more than 50 percent increase in traffic, compared to websites without blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2011

And a guy that I had seen several times comment to me on Twitter & my blog, Brian Sierakowski (from the Greater Baltimore Tech Council) had sent me a Tweet asking if I’d come to meet entrepreneurs in Baltimore. Of course I’d love to see The White House. And of course we saw The Statue of Liberty. Holy cow.

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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. Make your customers your platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise. Add a modest advertising presence.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="[link] frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The catalyst for Brad’s evolving view of marketing was THIS blog entry by Chris Moody in which he pointed out that much of Foundry Group’s thought leadership efforts are essentially a form of guerilla marketing. Share and Enjoy.

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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. Make your customers your platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. You originally had to have a.edu email address to even join. Of course they can be duped. It’s a powerful concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2019

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. Developing a superior virtual presence requires a mastery of several mediums – phone, email, text messaging, as well as handwritten notes – but the payoff is undeniable.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. Oh, and did I mention that their users have mapped 35,000 courses in 127 countries? One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. Of course not.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

However, Eric recently posted the following insights on his blog. I immediately called every press outlet to be proactive in telling our story, changed our website to inform our customers and our few remaining staff fielded calls and emails from our customers. Of course). Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan. .

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