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.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. I was interviewed recently by Inc Magazine and they have been publishing snippets of this interview online. That’s why I have links open new tabs.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

To get to my point the waiting room is full of great magazines that I personally don’t subscribe to, but love to read. These magazines are full of wonderful photos and articles depicting the “good life”. These two ads showed how disconnected from their customers these once industry leaders have become. But I digress.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Having paying “Customers” is what makes the cash register roar. An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Second, how to get leads.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. But it got me thinking about how often entrepreneurs overplay their PR so I thought I’d try to offer some advice and how to play PR with VCs (or more broadly with customers or business development partners). Is that why you called?

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

The New York Times now includes a Bookshop link alongside an Amazon one, while BuzzFeed News, Vox, and New York Magazine are all in, and Hearst, Meredith, and Condé Nast will likely start using Bookshop next month. Top Publications: BuzzFeed News, Vox, New York Magazine. Bookshop’s goal isn’t to beat Amazon. eBay Partner Network.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. Magazine ended up doing a cover story on Kyle and I called, An American Start-Up. Your customer blog probably won''t morph into an international bestseller. “We started sending out the newsletter. in September of 1999.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

You need somebody who REALLY understands your company, its customers and its competitors. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. Whether we like to admit it or not, PR drives behavior with customers, investors, employees and competition.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. We instructed customers about how eCommerce was going to change their future. I felt I had earned the right to be there.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. Magazine ended up doing a cover story on Kyle and I called, An American Start-Up. Your customer blog probably won''t morph into an international bestseller. “We started sending out the newsletter. in September of 1999.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). It’s OK to push out extra ones on your website or blog.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

When people read a story about your company in a newspaper or magazine, they are much more likely to have a favorable opinion than if you are the only voice touting your excellence. Once potential customers see you as an established authority in your field, they will begin to seek your industry expertise.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

When people read a story about your company in a newspaper or magazine, they are much more likely to have a favorable opinion than if you are the only voice touting your excellence. Once potential customers see you as an established authority in your field, they will begin to seek your industry expertise.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.”

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. Ask satisfied customers to spread the word on yelp, tripadvisor, Angieslist, etc.,

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2011

" The second search turned up a personal blog (a good one, actually). It doesn’t take much imagination to extend this example into your own business world, with potential customers and business associates checking you out. The first search turned up a MySpace page. There was a picture of the applicant, drinking beer from a funnel.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Early online newspapers and magazines were merely digital versions of their physical self. We now know that the medium has changed the news industry leading to blogs, real-time reporting, integration of text and video, two-way discussions, stories surfaced based on what your friends are reading, etc. Or can they?

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JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. I scheduled runs with teammates and even with customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This concept promotes the idea that any brand's image -- and resulting success -- is achieved more effectively through the osmosis of pervasive blog buzz and tweet-trending than traditional marketing methods. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. Social mobile web. Startup pivot.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The size of magazines seems to be expanding, marketing seems to be up and the number of tech announcements per day is dizzying. I was reminded of all this this when I read a blog post by one of my favorite thinkers on the VC market, Bryce Roberts, who talked about “ unfundable companies.&#. Who can keep up with all this stuff?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Experiences way beyond any hack-a-thon, startup blog or your current company engagement can enrich your thinking and challenge you to think more broadly about the solutions you offer in the market. It was also voted by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 novels of all time. But then the world changes. It globalizes.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

They co-author a legal column on ethics in the social networking age for California Lawyer magazine and have presented together on Gov 2.0 Gagnier has customized Gagnier Margossian LLP’s technology practice to broadly serve the needs of “startups.” Christina blogs in the Technology section of The Huffington Post [ [link] ].

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2010

The second search turned up a personal blog (a good one, actually). It doesn’t take much imagination to extend this example into your own business world, with potential customers and business associates checking you out. The first search turned up a MySpace page. There was a picture of the applicant, drinking beer from a funnel.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Stop Listening to Your Customers. A common assumption among startup entrepreneurs is that listening to potential customers is the best. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. . Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine. Unger, John T.

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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. A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Although a new company, it is already gaining momentum—being featured in European CEO, Playboy, and Da Man Magazine. Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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