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. Top Publications: BuzzFeed News, Vox, New York Magazine. Best for: Bloggers, news publishers. Bookshop’s goal isn’t to beat Amazon.

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Buzzfeed News Networking 129

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Look for new ways to sell. Building content is costly and time-consuming.

Startup 144

Startup Sites Content Sales 144

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.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

And even the best teams combined to create big innovations sometimes don’t time markets well, are surprised by unexpected technology breakthroughs by competitors or just don’t find the magic the leads to mass customer adoption. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening.

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2020

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Writing, audios, and videos are all great ways to do this, since these all facilitate the one-to-many multiplier. Some people learn best from conferences, while other learn best from blogs and other information online. Provide a unique point of view. Build a team.

Social Media 126

Social Media Media Ideas Writing 126

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block. Geographic customization.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur News Sites RSS 96

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

The truth is that we work in a very small, tight-knit industry and news & plans spread fast. Marketing futures can be really good for enterprise software companies where the information is passed between sales rep and potential customer in terms of near-term roadmap. You’re reading their press releases or blog posts.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. Deliver Bad News Early. Tricking The Jedi.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

The companies said Monday they expect their “strategic partnership” to boost both businesses by strengthening their pitch to customers around the world who are interested in enhancing their physical operations with digital technologies. The news sent PTC’s stock (NASDAQ: PTC ) to a record high for the company, according to Yahoo Finance data.

Yahoo 45

Yahoo Writing News Pricing 45

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block. Geographic customization.

Startup 94

Startup News Sites RSS 94

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? In the past, companies were just blogging, or just creating content. It's all about what is happening on the realtime web.

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Tech news keeps proclaiming “phone calls are dead,” which is useful except that the data suggests the exact opposite. In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. PHONE CALLS. Not so fast.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. Ask your customer why you lost. Write things down. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Specifically: 1.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

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. Mistakes we made? Listen to their feedback.

Startup 310

Startup Venture Capital Press Journal 310

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. Ask your customer why you lost. Write things down. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Specifically: 1.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. They will exit quickly.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2015

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Writing, audios, and videos are all great ways to do this, since these all facilitate the one-to-many multiplier. Some people learn best from conferences, while other learn best from blogs and other information online. Provide a unique point of view. Build a team.

Social Media 104

Social Media Ideas Media Writing 104

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2010

There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community is spawning a new breed of startups. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block. Geographic customization. Give people a way to draw custom geographic boundaries to specify their area of interest.

Startup 52

Startup News Sites RSS 52

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. They will exit quickly.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2013

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Writing, audios, and videos are all great ways to do this, since these all facilitate the one-to-many multiplier. Some people learn best from conferences, while other learn best from blogs and other information online. Provide a unique point of view. Build a team.

Social Media 92

Social Media Ideas Media Writing 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Writing, audios, and videos are all great ways to do this, since these all facilitate the one-to-many multiplier. Some people learn best from conferences, while other learn best from blogs and other information online. Provide a unique point of view. Build a team.

Social Media 63

Social Media Ideas Media Writing 63

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an untrustable country, or don’t have a clue. Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. They will exit quickly.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you don’t know what is “qualified” please read my fund-raising planning post but assume they’re all the right: Size, geography, industry focus, capacity available and they themselves have raised a new fund in the last 3–4 years so you know they have dry powder. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon!

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business. Simply write a great book? Mea culpa and get right back into line. ” Here are some examples: 1. But I wanted to understand it better.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic.To Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts).

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. While running my family wine business , I used Twitter’s search for market research and to find new customers. A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. Custom ad deals and partnerships. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Along the way many things came together: being able to find the right people, getting great customers, having lots of luck, being in the right place at the right time. From day one we focused on customers.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic. Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. You can search Technorati to find the most popular blogs on the web across various categories.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. Custom ad deals and partnerships. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

He had just received notice from a major media organization that they were going to run a very negative news story. I had outlined a blog post in support of their efforts and was ready to publish it. The story ran in the print edition of a major news journal. Is it being talked about in a place where your customers spend time?

Press 336

Press Blogging Journal News 336

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

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). There’s a downside, though.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. The apps can stream video, audio, news feeds, Twitter, Facebook, sell digital content, physical merchandise, and much more.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

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

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

To understand what most VC’s want between board meetings I think it’s useful to start with a quote from Mark Solon ’s blog for which I’m in complete agreement (along with agreeing with his entire post, which was brave, honest and accurate ). Make sure when you write it you assume this. VC’s Want to Help!

Startup 301

Startup Venture Capital Software Review Email 301

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318