Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2009

I’ve posted three people’s examples to the left. While you’re at it put in a link (if you don’t blog or want to link to your company at least link to your LinkedIn or Facebook profile). And write a short bio about yourself. Tags: Social Media social networking Twitter. Anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Communication and writing skills are required. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Invest Platform 79

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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Technical Review Blogging Examples Startup 329

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 4, 2009

msuster for me) the message you write appears in my @msuster inbox on Twitter.com and on any of the desktop or mobile clients. For example, if you follow me but not @deblanda an I send her a message starting with an @ then you won’t see it at all. Sometimes I’ll see people who want to make people aware of a blog posting.

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Tips Social Media Social Network Venture Capital 291

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Use strong communication and writing skills. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Communication and writing skills are required. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 66

Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Communication and writing skills are required. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad – all free. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Communication and writing skills are required. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Communication and writing skills are required. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

You can also establish authority by writing and public speaking. Actively participating in social media is the place to start, including blogging and positively responding to customer feedback, to build a growing crowd of followers. Show your ability to build customer consensus. Demonstrate your commitments and consistency.

Social Media 58

Social Media Customer Custom Entrepreneur 58

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad, again free. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad, again free. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. That means skip the jargon and include explanations and examples. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor.

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Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad, again free. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

There are many signs to look for when receiving candid feedback from your customers, here’s a few examples of things Make It Work customers say and what we are doing about it: Customer (from a Delight Survey email): Why don’t you offer billing as an option, rather than require payment on demand at the end of the appointment?

Social Media 214

Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. That means skip the jargon and include explanations and examples. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor.

Startup 104

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 104

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. When I write an angel round check I always tell me wife, “let’s assume that money is lost.&# So goes angel investing. Example companies to avoid would be people like Twitter, Mint.com, Boxee, BillShrink. Ask them for advice. How much to raise?

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. That means skip the jargon and include explanations and examples. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor.

Startup 101

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 101

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.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. That means skip the jargon and include explanations and examples. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor.

Tips 88

Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter. Twitter’s retweet button was an incredible invention of a new social psychology. It’s no different for platforms.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing. Anima Sarah Lavoy – Connect , Geo locational convenience for your social networks. Margaret Francis – Heroku XL , making large-scale app development easy. Erin Korogosky – Beckon , Performance management for marketing companies.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? but: Something is Still Missing. What truth?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

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 Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2010

An example would be an economic shocks that causes mass job loss and unemployment as happened after the dot-com crash, 9/11 and again in Sept 08. Technological change is astounding and I think none more than the impact that social networks has had on our lives. Writing has a way of forcing focus and reflection.

Social Network 320

Social Network Journal News UCSD 320

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

We’ve gotten to the point where after the film The Social Network and now with our own ironic HBO drama “Silicon Valley,” (makes it sound like writing a algorithm can easily net you $10 million without trying) one might think starting a company is a bit like the gold rush where riches flow to you with ease.

Startup 419

Startup Entrepreneur Design Funding 419

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. This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. An example. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. Excite, Ask Jeeves and Lycos? Yeah, right.

Entrepreneur 338

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

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.

Blogging 135

Blogging Services Search Engine Optimization Web 135

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! I always wanted to work with Brad for this reason so I started blogging because I figured if transparency worked for Brad I would try the same approach. Mostly, no.

Startup 150

Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

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.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

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.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

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.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

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.

Blogging 96

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.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer. Here’s some examples you can infer from the social data: @SnoopDogg has more Twitter fans in Texas than he has in New York. Not so on Twitter.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307