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.

Technical Review 329

Technical Review Blogging Examples Startup 329

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2020

Highlight the problem and your concerns in industry blogs, speaking in public forums, and making yourself visible on social media and networking opportunities. You want people to see you as an evangelist for hydrogen fuel, for example, so your later auto engine will have credibility by default. Craft and hone your elevator pitch early.

Ideas 124

Ideas Tips Marketing Social Media 124

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. At Upfront we’re totally fine funding entrepreneurs who have done multiple businesses in the past – in fact we like it. But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere.

Funding 373

Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 373

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

In the past, Spotify has been critiqued for not moving quickly enough into the podcast space. The greater podcast industry is consolidating, and Spotify’s acquisitions are an example of how that’s changing the podcast format itself. Today, blogging has been subsumed by the closed systems of social media.

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Acquisition Media News Platform 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2021

You can remove items from your article or blog, but people do notice, and may escalate their concerns on another forum. Refrain from bringing up the past to new customers, and celebrate every success with all your constituents. Resist cancelling existing social media accounts. Adding more positives is the best way to mask negatives.

Social Media 144

Social Media Media Summary Satisfaction 144

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

Example: Fred Wilson writing his end of 2012 post wrote. And as you may have gotten a taste in my Entrepreneurshit blog post, I spent too much of the year on the road, in random hotels, stuck in airports waiting out delays and dealing with the same stresses you deal with – fund raising.

Writing 313

Writing Venture Capital Blogging Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

Email 287

Email Blogging Venture Capital Writing 287

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Let me give you an example. If you want some more reading on this topic … I’ve written some relevant posts in the past here: A. How to get your Series A mojo back The rest of the outline I’ll write as a series to come back to this blog if you want to read more. … What to do about that chip on your shoulder ?

Funding 236

Funding Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 236

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. As you know, the comments at the foot of every blog out there that is really kind of a big waste of time. Who do you see using this most?

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Xconomy

JANUARY 26, 2018

Genomatica, a San Diego industrial biotech, has spent the past 12 years or more working to take the petroleum part out of the petrochemical industry. In 2008, for example, Genomatica showed it had bio-engineered E.

San Diego 59

San Diego Examples Technology Blogging 59

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. I loved the idea of “mobile first” but something always bothered me.

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. For example: 1. Think about whom you trust based on past advice. Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. What is a founder to do? Take more advice. Stir them around.

Startup 407

Startup Framework CTO Coach Sales 407

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Get exposure for your expertise.

Marketing 102

Marketing Funding Social Media SEM 102

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

I’ve covered Twitter topics much in the past. 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.

Social Network 347

Social Network Networking Blogging RSS 347

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Netflix announced the changes to its company via a blog post. A blog post! You don’t handle major announcements via a blog post and no touch points. Not a freakin’ blog post. Probably the 5 minutes before they wrote their blog post. Major change by blog post again ? So how will consumers react?

Netflix 287

Netflix Customer Custom Pricing 287

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

American Express is an example, they were early into this with their Open Forum site, where they are trying to drive engagement, authority, and trust, so they're now starting to look more like a publisher. In the past, companies were just blogging, or just creating content. What does this look like to brands and publishers?

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

Southern California 150

Southern California TechEmpower Technology Council Metrics 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Get exposure for your expertise.

Marketing 106

Marketing Startup Social Media SEM 106

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2019

For example, most people don’t realize many billionaires , including Mark Cuban, Jack Ma, and Richard Branson experienced multiple business failures before becoming recognized business leaders. Use past failure experience to inform the present and positively influence the future. Remember to approach “risk-of-failure” intelligently.

Guide 70

Guide Examples Ideas Blogging 70

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I still plan to publish on this blog occasionally, as well as more frequently on my blogs at Forbes , Huffington Post , and others. In my traditional notational style, I’ve taken a nostalgic look back over the ground covered and lessons learned in the past almost three years. I learn something new every day in blogging.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Blogging Social Media 96

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. Another great example is Bill Barhydt of m-Via. They recorded it.

Organization 280

Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2014

Highlight the problem and your concerns in industry blogs, speaking in public forums, and making yourself visible on social media and networking opportunities. You want people to see you as an evangelist for hydrogen fuel, for example, so your later auto engine will have credibility by default. Craft and hone your elevator pitch early.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Blogging 102

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

Example from this morning was a quick discussion on the “Brexit” and wether the UK will exit Europe. I call this process “ triangulation ” and highlighted it that blog post I wrote on the topic. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

Coach 150

Coach Technical Review Framework Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. Let me give you an example. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. Similar with product features.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2012

For example, we might know that you're really into crafts, like stationary, illustration, and we can use that to start recommending products you like. It's really good to work with people you've worked with in the past, because if it works, it works. How did you connect with Science--was that the MySpace connection with Mike?

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Userplane Startup Design Sites 182

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. This blog post lays out my case. In the end, Seth Godin’s comments on Fred’s blog post said it best: “His black swan is showing. And Facebook’s popularity has only increased in the past year.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

We want to create a great consumer experience, which is significantly different than cookie cutter, cut-and-paste coupon sites. It''s not just coupons and deals, we''ve also launched a blog with helpful shopping information, which helps introduce consumers to new brands they might not have heard of before.

Internet Brands 257

Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC. Examples – The book is filled with text excerpted from actual funding documents, rather than the generic templates usually found in academic textbooks. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

Venture Capital 205

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Writing Guide 205

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2016

Highlight the problem and your concerns in industry blogs, speaking in public forums, and making yourself visible on social media and networking opportunities. You want people to see you as an evangelist for hydrogen fuel, for example, so your later auto engine will have credibility by default. Craft and hone your elevator pitch early.

Customer 58

Customer Custom Social Media Startup 58

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Get exposure for your expertise.

Marketing 94

Marketing Startup Social Media SEM 94

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. So you actually lost $50 acquiring that customer.

Metrics 150

Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In the past, their reviews have been through blogs, and as you know, the second your write a blog post, it falls off a cliff. He was open to it, didn't have a blog, and is a very charismatic, budding comedian. We have someone who was commissioner of his Fantasy Football league, and also didn't have a blog.

Guide 203

Guide Software Review Twiistup Technical Review 203

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. To anyone who believes his data proves anything please do me a favor and go read The Black Swan – my favorite book of the past 5 years.

Startup 289

Startup Statistics Entrepreneur Study 289

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I will share what I’ve learned about affiliate marketing in the past few days with you now. I am anxious to see my blog post a month from now where I update my findings. An example of this process is evident right here on my blog. Affiliate marketing is nothing new to the Internet.

Santa Barbara 106

Santa Barbara PPC Blogging Google 106

Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

San Diego’s cybersecurity workforce has grown by nearly 15 percent over the past two years, according to a study released today by the Cyber Center of Excellence, a nonprofit industry group created to boost cybersecurity jobs and technologies in the region. Combs worked previously at the EDC and helped prepare the 2014 report.

San Diego 69

San Diego Study Outsource Development Report 69

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

For example, when you move to a new town, you might want to find people to go biking with, go to the gym with, play poker with, and there's no way to do that right now. I had been involved with a couple of startups in the past, mostly in the hard sciences, biotech, and hardware area. In a way, we're solving the issue that faces blogs.

UCLA 187

UCLA Culver City Startup Social Network 187