Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. In a startup this is a mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Here is an example from pw0ncakes. Here is a n example from Brerrabbit , whoever that is. I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. For anyone who attacked me on my blog but used their actual names I left their comments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. ” ( as I did very early talking in favor gay marriage - it seems that if you’re an NFL player you don’t have this same latitude , for example. But more to the point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and Instagram leads as the top social media app for teens. Communication and writing skills are required. Heavy texting experience is not a qualification for communicating via social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd. Use strong communication and writing skills. In additional to strong journalistic writing and storytelling, you need business acumen, strategic thinking and planning, and the ability to do the right research.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. ” Here are some examples: 1. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Simply write a great book?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

Let me give you some examples: Tristan Walker : I first met Tristan online when he was merely human (e.g. He had followed me on Twitter and sent me a nice message about my blog. Brad Feld : I first learned of Brad Feld like many of you – through his blog. Brad googled him on his Iphone. Strange, huh?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and Instagram leads as the top social media app for teens. Communication and writing skills are required. Heavy texting experience is not a qualification for communicating via social media.

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Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Angels are writing smaller checks so they typically don’t want the overhead of complex analysis in order to make their decision. You should, too.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

For example, a startup may hire you as an accountant, but you may also be asked to do social media marketing content gearing towards finance for the company blog. Now, you’re handling payroll and doing writing as well. You may even discover that you enjoy writing more than crunching numbers. Startups are hiring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and the fading MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Get familiar with current social media tools, such as Google Analytics, SproutSocial, and HootSuite analytics.

Social Media 101

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area. He's fairly well known, he funded another company called Punchd, which recently sold to Google. He was open to it, didn't have a blog, and is a very charismatic, budding comedian.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Perfect example; ShoeBoxed.com. On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. A great example of a website displaying amazing social proof with client results is Killian’s Workshop for how to book commercials. Blogs and Forums. See the example below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and the fading MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Get familiar with current social media tools, such as Google Analytics, Omniture, and HootSuite analytics.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2011

A few weeks ago I was reading a blog post by MG Siegler that really struck a chord. I then asked for editing rights to his Google Doc and I rewrote a version of it. Of course I can’t write every press release for the company nor would I want to. I then walked him through the logic of why I changed what I did.

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Press Venture Capital Doc Summary 337

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

Writing 209

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday.Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site.Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.To

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Get familiar with current social media tools, such as Google Analytics, Omniture, and HootSuite analytics.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Here’s just one example post featuring the wisdom I learned from Stuart about negotiations. In fact, just a short Google search reveals that I’ve referred to him frequently through the years. You REALLY know.

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

But apart from building traffic, what I find most challenging is incorporating a lead capture strategy that will actually generate some blog subscribers. Normally, one would use analytics tools such as Google Analytics to obtain raw data on how a site performs. GetResponse fits this bill perfectly.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. I hate Silicon Whatever.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Just about anything you’ve heard [about] at Google that sounds interesting and new is based on machine learning,” Jurvetson said at the time. In a 2013 panel discussion at Silicon Valley’s Churchill Club, the DFJ partner said “machine learning” was his pick as the most important tech trend to watch for the next three to five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As an example, I was just reading a plan for a new dating app with a tagline of moving users quickly from the virtual world into the real world of offline dating. Of course, you may not have the time or desire to read through every document in your space, but it’s not so hard to find and follow some key influencer blogs on social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Examples include PartnerUp , StartupAgents , and Cofoundr. Don’t forget the wealth of business blogs frequented by entrepreneurs and investors, where you make your interests known. Get this in writing as a standard pre-nuptial. Of course, if you’re the next Google, you may only need one. Use local university connections.

Startup 95

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” And one that you get to write. But if you want it in it’s full V1 glory read on … You’ve never been a CEO but might like to be one some day. She joined Yahoo!

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you want it to be private, for example if you're a consultant or teacher, you can share it with a pre-identified audience for that knowledge by publishing it privately and inviting others to log into Knowledge Genie to share that knowledge. The second example, is you can publish it in public. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

But as I explain in a longer blog post , what is copied is a common motif in song composition, effectively a design tool. For example, coders use modular concepts that are then implemented in specific code: sometimes directly copied from earlier code, sometimes written differently. There may be vocals, guitars, bass, drums, etc.

Tool 55

Tool Design IP Examples 55

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. It is true that every few years a fund exits that delivers smashing results because it has Facebook, Google or Twitter in it. Take for example Accel. And to finally admitting that ads weren’t evil so that Google could copy the model of the fast growing Overture.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”. Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. Online Partnerships / Distribution Deals.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Horvitz, is pictured above at left with founding members of the partnership, Francesca Rossi, IBM; Yann LeCun, Facebook; and Mustafa Suleyman, Google/DeepMind.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. If you’re not in the mood for a personal essay as an example of personal brand management you might want to wait for my next post. It wasn’t meant to be. You really can’t win.

Technical Advisors 385

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2010

Examples include PartnerUp , StartupAgents , and Cofoundr. Don’t forget the wealth of business blogs frequented by entrepreneurs and investors, where you make your interests known. Get this in writing as a standard pre-nuptial. Of course, if you’re the next Google, you only need one. Use local university connections.

Startup 54

Startup Entrepreneur Activity High Tech 54

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. And what I mean is, I told this story in a blog post I wrote called, “ Is It Time to Earn or Is It Time to Learn ?” If I write $2 million and we hit a bump in the road, I can write another $2 million.

Startup 337

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

This includes support for Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and over a dozen additional services. A Helpful Login Class Some code examples are provided by JanRain Engage. A Very Simple Example Ive set up a site where you can try out the Twitter login. Is this error related to what Im supposed to write?

Software Review 40

Software Review PHP Class Startup 40

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, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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