Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Find potential partners. Populate your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2017

Based on my own experience as a startup investor, and feedback from like-minded friends, we all get pitches for at least ten startup ideas for every one new business plan. New business founders need to remember that investors fund business implementations, not ideas. Show evidence that your solution will create a viable business.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 20, 2009

On the other hand, you might blog your answers and post a link. Her other suggestions around blogging, LinkedIn, twitter use pretty well align with how I think about it. His other posts have similarly great ideas for twitter, LinkedIn Groups, and more. That way you get value both places. Thanks for the thoughts Serena.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. Feedback from your blog will tell you quickly whether anyone agrees with your assessment, and whether you have a customer base waiting. Find potential partners.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

All innovation and companies start off as an idea. Some will gain more traction than others over time, but we at Xconomy think that big ideas—and the people and companies in Boston’s life sciences community bold enough to try to implement them—are worth celebrating. Some of those ideas even go against conventional thinking.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2019

The finalists in the Big Idea category of the Xconomy Awards San Diego are pursuing ambitious goals in pursuit of better ways of improving health. Their approaches range, from a new way to deliver insulin to patients with Type 1 diabetes to an innovative method to detect brain trauma that could reduce the need for medical imaging.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. tew_cta text="Do you have an idea for a software project? Inquisitiveness: Prior to starting the project, you should receive an estimate of the work effort. Or do you need help evaluating software firms?

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2013

Santa Monica-based startup VIRURL said Thursday that it has launched its technology, which automatically publishes sponsored content into blogs. VIRURL is part of the move towards the somewhat controversial idea "native advertising", where sponsored content appears as part of a publisher''s news stream. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2023

It’s hard to convert an idea into a business, and it’s also hard to get back into the groove with all the distractions of other activities and your “real job.” If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. Frequency nurtures frequency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

Wish you could automatically hear and follow the latest tracks people are talking about on music blogs? That's the whole idea behind BEASTMODE.FM , the newest creation of Matthias Galica, the Los Angeles entrepreneur who runs StartupDigestLA and heads up QR code startup ShareSquare.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Get competitors to surface early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2020

It’s hard to convert an idea into a business, and it’s also hard to get back into the groove with all the distractions of other activities and your “real job.” If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. Frequency nurtures frequency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The common term for this is networking, but I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs like to do all the talking about their latest new idea and fail to listen. Reserve some time each day for your favorite blogs and influencers, follow up with social networking and expand your personal contacts offline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Get competitors to surface early.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Sometimes I make a blog entry. You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out? A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. A negative customer acquisition cost!

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. .” Now we know the the company: MediaLab.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Success is the right balance of both for fun and profit. Marketing is top priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2023

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Some people learn best from conferences, while other learn best from blogs and other information online. Continue to learn and grow. Build a team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical social networking in the same way that Quora is. It’s a highly engaged audience and the content generated from many of the blogs (not all) are highly valuable. If you use any standard commenting system on your blog or website you’re sub-optimizing engagement.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

I'm working on a start up idea in the XXX market with my partner and we are currently looking for full stack developer to join us as a technical co-founder. Homework I don't think that this founder has looked at my blog or my background. Here is the most recent version of an all too common email inquiry from a startup founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As a new business advisor and occasional investor, I get approached regularly by people who have a dream or a new business idea, and are looking for support and money to make it a reality. Thus, I’m more impressed with entrepreneurs who ask me to review their implementation plan, rather than listen again to their idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

Although most people believe that being a successful entrepreneur is all about having the right idea, I’m convinced from my years of experience as a startup advisor and investor that’s it’s more about you as a person. People need to see you as an “influencer,” who is able to sell your new ideas, as well as communicate the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is talking about the fact that there are over 2,000 billionaires in the world today, and how their innovative idea could make them one of the next ones. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. I started blogging 2 years ago. I did that? Back to zero.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

Also, for most of us, not having done it before, we have no idea where or how to start. It’s always good to have someone to test your ideas, keep your spirits up, and hone your business skills. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Explore finding a business partner. Learn how to incorporate a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your brand value, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Find potential partners. Populate your team.

Startup 101

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

I remember the same disdain from people when I started blogging or using Twitter. A bit like a blog that is put out regularly but not overly edited or self-conscious about word choices or typos. So it provides me with a less crowded audience than publishing on: blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Why would a VC do that?

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Snapchat Blogging Venture Capital Writing 200

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

The idea came from a full-day session we held last year at Upfront. He suggested an idea that comes from the NFL called “ The Rooney Rule ” enacted in 2003 in an effort to end the era of all-white football coaches in a league with > 75% African American players. We immediately realized this was a great idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Trust your own insights, and if you have to ask for business ideas from others, I recommend that you stay where you are until you’re certain of your own idea and solution. In business, there will always be someone out there with more money, a better location, or more resources, ready to take your idea and squeeze you out.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles gossip and technology blog Lalawag , run by Sean and Laurie Percival, has been sold. The blog--which the Percivals had announced on September 16th that they would shut down--has been acquired by Valley Girl Inc. , a publication that is run by Jesse Draper, the daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Start wherever you can to grow beyond the phone, texts, and email, to a blog, photos on Instagram /Pinterest, or YouTube. Keep your mind open to how your ideas might have to shift. The big opportunity for you is to do something based on ideas you have had lingering in your mind for a long time. Take action, any action.

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Framework Startup Entrepreneur Ideas 139

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Bushnell announced on his blog that the company has created a five episode mini-series for Best BUy featuring the company, which is described in the videos as a "unique team of mad genius innovators". Bushnell's personal website said that Two Bit Circus is a Los Angeles idea factory focused on software, hardware and machines READ MORE>>.

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Software Blogging Los Angeles Ideas 145

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.

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