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JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. Is Funding a Worthy Announcement?

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

On his first day of work my wife was kind enough to write down words of wisdom from her years on the job. I don’t write about Tania very often – mostly at her request. ” She gave me a special one-time permission to write about her in a blog post so I could publish the advice she gave our friend.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? I am a VC. I hand out money. How differentiated is that?

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

Although an additional 140 Oswald episodes were produced over the next 14 years, none of them was nearly as successful as the first 26 installments, which were developed under Walt Disney’s tutelage. I write a bit more about how entrepreneurs can protect their ideas here: Spilling The Beans. Timing and luck also play a role.

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MAY 28, 2015

1/ Twitter started off positioned as a micro-blogging platform but in the end became more of an RSS reader. It forces clarity of writing & discrete ideas. 5/ Twitter doesn’t support Tweetstorms so the community developed the norm of responding to your own Tweetstorms to create a single thread.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

synopse I have written a blog post about TFB and object pascal - yes, we added our object pascal framework in round 22! So the user can write its business code with high level of abstraction and safety, but the framework core could be tuned to the assembly level, to leverage the hardware it runs on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yowie--which develops interactive streaming technology which allows people to conduct video chats with friends and celebrities--said that candidate Johnson will participate in a live, un-moderated online video town hall on November 2nd, at 5pm PT, using its platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Populate your team. Cultivate early customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Let that ideal co-founder find you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

He had followed me on Twitter and sent me a nice message about my blog. So when I saw the merely mortal Tristan with a normal sized Twitter following I clicked through to his link, saw his blog, saw that he was a second year at Stanford and just thought, “hey, he seems like an interesting guy. before having 300k followers!).

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AUGUST 17, 2014

Just back from vacation and also some work travel and want to get back to blogging so expect a few posts over the next couple weeks. I’ll try to get write-ups shortly but for now here is an overview of my interview with Nanea Reeves – President and COO of textPlus. Have a listen and see for yourself.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

When frameworks and platforms lift their performance ceiling upward, application developers enjoy the freedom and peace of mind of knowing they control their applications' performance fate. High-performance frameworks take but a small slice and give the bulk of the pie to the application developer to do with as they please.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. Having been through the experience as an entrepreneur twice myself I have developed a list of what I think it takes. This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. Next on the checklist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. So finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Find potential partners. Populate your team. Cultivate early customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Nobody likes to hear you say, “we can’t tell you anything we’re in stealth mode&# so develop some generic talking points that don’t give anything away when you’re asked what you do. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. It’s just math.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

People expect blog posts, Tweets, panels, speeches. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same. And every leader also has teams with constant priorities where they need: Input, feedback, decisions or meetings. The modern world is daunting.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. blogging, in a sense.

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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.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

This is a longer-than-average TFB round announcement blog entry, but there is a lot to share, so bear with me. Expect to hear more about this as the plan develops during Round 17. We also want the ever-increasing diversity of options for web development to be represented. More on that later. Continuous benchmarking.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. I’m reluctant to put it into writing because people get so passionate about this issue and many disagree. Yesterday I wrote a blog posting on founder vesting (see here ).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog. I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice. I know many people think I blog all day long. Research & Development. “But WAIT !!! ” I never said that. Marketing.

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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. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. Fred’s post was right.

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JULY 9, 2012

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. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. My pal Dave occasionally presents “headline risks” for investors. I’ve been told so.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. write(HelloDbResponse.mapper.writeValueAsString(worlds)); } catch (IOException ex) { } } }); return response; }. About this blog. March 28, 2013.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. What are some of the top things you've published online, e.g., blog posts? Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. It sucked. It still does.

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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. Write Your Own Playbook.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

June 2019 (left) and November 2020 (right) I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post because historically I don’t like talking about weight. I’ve been reluctant to write about weight in part because I don’t want to sound self righteous. Then should write down your “target goal.” How to Get Started? Your “first push.”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog post appealing to the industry to make these simplified term sheets standard. I have this mentality, too.

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AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them. Take action – Obviously when Michael Arrington is writing something scathing about your product you want to pay attention and take action.

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