Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. A website or blog without appealing or entertaining content for your market segment is not enchanting. Graphics, pictures, and videos make a website or blog more interesting and enchanting.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2012

Now that I think about it, I remember when we relaunched Myspace last year and the Pinterest team accused us of basically ripping off their layout. Of course, there has been no shortage of articles about Pinterest lately. While both of those things are relevant to my interests, this article is about neither. Hunter Walk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. A website or blog without appealing or entertaining content for your market segment is not enchanting. Graphics, pictures, and videos make a website or blog more interesting and enchanting.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

RingRevenue's unique technology allows online and offline advertisers and publishers to consistently increase revenues from mobile, print, search and email campaigns by tracking the phone calls generated by such ads. Consumers are calling advertisers tens of billions (yes billions) of times a year to inquire about products and to buy things.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately. I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. I got to thinking more broadly about social networks and the real-time web. On LinkedIn we rarely communicate with each other.

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APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33. Good comment community = viral blog.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 15, 2012

Because the fact is that you are about to enter into a new game where you are definitely not at the top of it, and probably don’t even really know the rules. What do you know about the reality of this world and the day-to-day of the lifestyle? Pinpoint, then Email. Email The Explorer Blog. BOTTOM LINE: Ask!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2013

Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. A website or blog without appealing or entertaining content for your market segment is not enchanting. Graphics, pictures, and videos make a website or blog more interesting and enchanting.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Fanzila , a startup that makes it easy to turn your Facebook pages into mini websites with blogs, contests, photo galleries and more, has just added ”Contact Us,” “About Us,” and RSS apps to its offering. To claim your premium account, send an email with your post to bloggers@fanzila.com.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2012

The following guest post comes from the blog of GraphEffect. At the Ad:Tech conference in April, our very own CEO James Borow gave a pretty awesome speech about why social gets to win, emphasizing the new tracking phenomenon of viral attribution. I an investor in GraphEffect via Rincon Venture Partners. Yes, Batman!

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

I recently spoke with Brad about his approach to guerilla marketing and how he instills eclectic marketing tactics in Foundry Group’s portfolio companies. In addition to the partners’ tireless blogging, they founded TechStars, one of North America’s premier startup accelerators. Foundry Group Goes Guerilla. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. What’s So Cool About Coull? When asked about Coull, Ophir Tanz, GumGum’s CEO candidly noted that, “ GumGum believes that the future of advertising will and should be integrated. Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Although I do not know all of these folks personally, I am sure they are all men of honor (I tried to find women to add to this list - if you are aware of great startup blogs authored by a women, please reference them in the comments). I promise I will never tweet random Instagram photos or tell you about that killer burrito I just ate.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

He conveyed his message in various ways, but the most memorable was a piece of literature he had them read called The Mouse Driver Chronicles , a true story about two Wharton MBA roommates who passed on their big salary job offers and followed the dream to launch their own business. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2012

Some things about recruiting and hiring are timeless; things us whippersnappers would do well to consider during our next round of hiring. Always make sure you’re having conversations about execution and results, not just methods and techniques. It’s all email and text – no one actually speaks to each other anymore!”.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing].

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2011

Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. A website or blog without appealing or entertaining content for your market segment is not enchanting. Graphics, pictures, and videos make a website or blog more interesting and enchanting.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

As Michael notes, "While we wrote a blog post about the theme, it went viral thanks largely to the tweet button front and center on GitHub. What’s the fun in a joke that only one person knows about?". People have become jaded about April Fool’s online because it’s seen as a marketing gimmick. Don’t Over Sell It.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

Since the London Olympic Games are about a month away, let’s explore the connection between small business ownership and elite athletics. It is about their performance trajectory– where they are going, not where they started. In a small business, how much does pedigree matter? Performance is the equalizer. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

Entrepreneurs are inundated with success stories, but far less is written about ventures that do not succeed. However, Eric recently posted the following insights on his blog. It’s simply about a team of dedicated individuals that failed. Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan. . It was over. Of course). Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. People are much more likely to buy into you as a person and us as a firm when they’ve been involved in a discussion with you about their problems, your solutions, who else has been using your product, etc. It’s a valid concern and we worry about it, too.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 1, 2012

Michael Phelps knows all about this one: he got as much press for partying at U of Michigan as he did for one of the greatest athletic performances of all time. It’s about messing up so many times the only choice left is the right one. The bigger they come…” holds true for Olympic legends and entrepreneurs alike. Share and Enjoy.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

If you don’t know, Instant Articles are Facebook’s new way to natively load articles within the app using an adapted RSS feed. Mark Zuckerberg announced native Instant Articles as a feature update about a year ago and Facebook has been slowly rolling out and improving the product ever since. pic.twitter.com/TB1GTGt9ss. Sound familiar?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Tell me about one case when you tried to solve a problem with a totally different approach than is normally used. Early hires must be extremely passionate about your vision and terrific at articulating it to others. Try asking some of the following questions to get a clear idea of where on the creativity scale your candidates sit.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although the exact sequence of events is a bit unclear, it appears that Hacker News user "lukethomas"(who is unaffiliated with Divshot) was prompted to create the Hacker News post after reading a tweet about the initiation of the company's private beta. The posting resulted in 40points and about 30comments. More Feedback, Less Neglect.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I promise I will never tweet random Instagram photos or tell you about that killer burrito I just ate. . • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. If you have a whole boatload then it's going to take some time for sure.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

What’s So Cool About Coull? When asked about Coull, Ophir Tanz, GumGum’s CEO candidly noted that, “ GumGum believes that the future of advertising will and should be integrated. I promise I will never Tweet about rainbows, unicorns or that killer burrito I just ate. Clickable Coull Ad Embedded In Video. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

According to Ambrosia Humphrey, the company’s Director of Human Resources, “We had a jobs@ email in place, but it was hard to manage once we decided to move forward with the hiring process.” I promise I will never tweet about fishing, reality TV or that killer burrito I just ate. Share and Enjoy.

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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 know it sounds crazy because you’re talking about friends or colleagues here. Yesterday I wrote a blog posting on founder vesting (see here ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

I’m not talk about the age old debate amongst investors whether you back entrepreneurs, markets or products (or as people like to hedge – product / market fit). Today’s post is about my investment thesis. He was telling me about a deal he had done. I have already written about this. I’m unequivocal on that topic.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

It takes 5 minutes: Google Analytics is about as easy to setup as setting your alarm clock. Where they go wrong is focusing on the goal behaviors such as “collect an email” or “add an item to the shopping cart” all the way to “spend $10.00 Head over to his blog and check out the books he’s written on the subject: [link] b.)

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

But I’m not going to talk about increasing Wordpress speed, I want to show you how to improve you page load speed by cutting down on the number of external scripts you’re loading on a particular page. You’re about halfway there but the next few steps differ depending on what platform your site uses.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging. Similarly, I reached about 45 people in my presentation.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Let us know in the comments if youve used JanRain Engage for your site or if theres anything else youd like to know about it. Your article is the only useful information Ive found about Engage but one thing I dont get is, what methods do you say we have to write? (in Posted on 9 September 2010 | 3:25 pm Hi Ben.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. This blog is to address these questions. Block email.

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