From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Today Blodget is running one of the most successful financial online magazines, Business Insider. Blodget’s story provides a great insight into the changing landscape of the three world’s that intersect at Blodget’s desk: financial analysis, on-line magazines and journalism. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

I recently wrote a post about how to manage relationships when you’re at a startup or are busy executive. Anyway, as I winnowed my way through the comments section of my blog post on relationships I realized my own wife has posted a response! We started when Jacob was about 12 weeks old if you can believe it.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Today Blodget is running one of the most successful financial online magazines, Business Insider. Blodget’s story provides a great insight into the changing landscape of the three world’s that intersect at Blodget’s desk: financial analysis, on-line magazines and journalism. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.

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Blogging News Journal Invest 40

Both Sides of the Table

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. It’s the new magazine. They are limited in size. They do both well.

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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. I want to talk about that day after the event. I’ll talk about all that in a future post. Don’t drink it.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2010

The measure of an entrepreneur used to be the number of real friends claimed, but times have changed. The second search turned up a personal blog (a good one, actually). There’s still a bit of the “wild west” left in the Internet, especially as it relates to social networking sites, so keep your wits about you as you explore and act.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. What is Aggregage? Robert Flynn: I'm actually an LA native.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

We caught up with Tara--who some might know from her efforts on RepresentLA--on what LA Makerspace is all about--and how places like LA Makerspace are key to bringing the technology and technical community together. One day, I wrote a blog post seeing if anyone else was into this, and people said yea--let's set up a meeting at Crashspace.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. Early online newspapers and magazines were merely digital versions of their physical self. “People still want calls …&#. to 2x the average order value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2011

The measure of an entrepreneur used to be the number of real friends claimed, but times have changed. " The second search turned up a personal blog (a good one, actually). If you don’t define yourself effectively, the Internet will do it for you in ways you never imagined. The first search turned up a MySpace page.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. What have they written about?

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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. The caveat is that these young entrepreneurs have to drop out of college to do it. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

And can you talk about your prior experience, for folks who aren't familiar with your background? So let's talk about ThisNext. There are many style and fashion blogs, and are in a space to become influencers for women, however, none of them as of yet have as much influence as people who actually influence those bloggers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. My advice to people thinking about getting an MBA is to think about the five C’s. What about strategy?

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. We were supposed to launch in October, but because they were so excited about the new concept, we launched a campaign in August. What is Gloss Network? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We caught up with Zach James and Rich Raddon , co-founders of MOVIECLIPS, to learn more about the company and also hear about the firm's funding round. First of all, what is MOVIECLIPS.COM about? Why don't you talk about your backgrounds? Thanks for the time today.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

We spoke to Kevin earlier about his new firm and the move. Talk about how you got here? Our original vision was about the convergence of technology and media in Southern California and globally. I'm very excited about helping companies in LA raise capital and complete successful strategic exits. Montgomery & Co.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Talia, tell me a little about yourself. Val and I started this single’s website/blog just for fun and on the side. I ran things for about a year until Val was able to join on full time. It was as if they were reading a Cosmo magazine to see what we were talking about. Entertainment. While at E!,

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. We'll use all the panel members' experiences to tell a "how to story" about bootstrapping to million. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Having been through this all before myself I would like to tell a cautionary tale that can happen to the best of us: The Yo-Yo life of the tech entrepreneur. We were based in London.

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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

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. In the past century, curators for business information were specialized news magazines like Forbes and Inc., Both Sides of the Table , by Mark Suster.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I’m in Seattle this week.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

All this heavy talk about angels, VCs, bubbles lately. He had a ton of great ideas about what he wanted to do with TechStars NY. I’ve agreed to come out in the new year and spend a few days with the entrepreneurs who join TechStars NYC (as well as Boulder). Let’s be explicit about it. Surprisingly so.

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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. Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia. I have talked about this before.

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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. Zynga wasn’t founded because they read about similar successes on TechCrunch, they built early and pioneered. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for. I love that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2010

Just for starters, Wikipedia lists about 300 sites by name, which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. CEOWorld Magazine prioritizes about 40 of the most famous business networking sites. Tags: startup failure entrepreneurs opportunities business. For some ideas, the wave has simply passed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

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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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

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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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

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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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I’m not talking about the overwhelming weight of responsibility of thinking about extreme global poverty. I’m talking about little African American, Latino & rural Caucasian children in our own backyard and on whom we can have an impact without having to change the world. and villan of the film.

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