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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. It’s why I wrote this article about Invoca (formerly RingRevenue) that the most obvious mobile Internet ad unit is, in fact, a phone call. Enter phone calls. We love to streamline and text people. Google knows it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

blog here ). If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. No – I’m not talking about YOU – everybody is doing it. I know we spoke about it this week.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

Fred Wilson immediately weighed in on her analysis , a meme was born and we were off to the races talking about “Unicorns.” I’m not talking about raising money at a billion dollars. I’m talking about making your company memorable by describing it with a narrative that people will later remember.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In this article you’ll discover how to start a blog that makes money. There are four types of blogs; written blogs, video blogs, photo blogs and a combination of these. We’ll primarily be discussing written blogs. There are two different components to make money blogging. Let’s discuss. Not really.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here are some items to think about: Have you defined the functionality? Some of the information below will apply. Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Is user interface and graphic design a necessity? Or is your project a clean slate?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2020

There’s lots more information you will find as you experiment and may need when selecting and learning the tools Dave lists. Have fun pasting in scenes or video clips to put you in an environment that illustrates your blog or posting to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or other media outlets. Postings to on-line sites?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. It’s how we inform ourselves these days. ” We inform ourselves through headlines.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Or more directly – they are likely narcissistic resuscitations of your newest features or bragging points that nobody but your marketing team and your mom care about. Will I have information that other journalists don’t have (otherwise known as a “scoop”)? Think about Luma Partners. I am a VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. 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. People often ask me why I started blogging. I never really expected a big audience or ever thought about it.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

We have been reading about the LA CTO Forum and we thought it would be a great place to find him/her. Please let me know if you can share this information with your members. I've written before about having an Initial Conversation with a Potential CTO. And I don't know anything about the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. Develop viral content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. Entrepreneurs don’t need to know everything about business before they start. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now. This year an associate from Upfront Ventures – Glenn Poppe – helped me pull together more information about how our industry is changing.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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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. But aside from choosing the time of day to focus on signal vs. noise, Brad’s post got me thinking about another question – what is signal and what is noise? We have an informed point of view.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2013

It''s almost always difficult to get people to share information about your startup to the world. He explained the sharing of cute dog photos came out of the company''s desire to create engaging content in Facebook, about something that people find interesting. Does it work?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals. We make it really easy for consumers to compare information across similar retailers, and find the best deals. For a consumer, that makes it difficult to find and compare information. What is Chippmunk?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The two said its joint research will measure various aspects of how consumers interact with brands, content, and influencers, and how consumers turn to information about brands. BUZZMEDIA operates an extensive network of music, celebrity, and other blogs and content sites. The company said it will debut the study in Q4.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Think about how you can project the voice you want, and make sure it is consistently used by all team members across all platforms used. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI).

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

In a blog post in May, Google announced it would begin reopening its offices from early July this year. This was only to allow those staff who wanted or needed to come back, and was done on a “limited, rotating basis”, the blog said. Remote Working: What Is Twitter Doing? Remote Working: What is Facebook doing?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

You know the old saying about trust … “It takes years to build and seconds to destroy.” I talk about this often with startups in which I’m involved. For example, I have had rigorous debates about the need to crack down on explicit online content – even in the face of lower growth.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2020

On the other hand, your target audience is already talking to their friends and associates about products and services they like and use. Create groups in Facebook, followers on Twitter, a comments section on your blog or website, and more. That’s an expensive proposition for small companies. Ask for endorsements when appropriate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. Owned media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

Founders don’t often think about “primary&# stock vs, “fully diluted&# stock in terms of voting rights. Liquidation preferences never say things like “participating preferred&# although we all talk about it. VCs were negotiating with asymmetric information. I never did. There was no guide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

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 business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. Here are some tips I’ve gleaned from experience: Make your blog your website. Anchor blog in your domain name.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) Others had very few connections and they used it to share personal information. I was always more the latter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm. I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post. What is said about you publicly matters. There is one carve out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. Entrepreneurs don’t need to know everything about business before they start. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately. I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. I got to thinking more broadly about social networks and the real-time web. It’s also how Jason Nazar and I started communicating.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. It’s all about content that will bring the masses to your business: Highly relevant. Yet it is the one element that too many entrepreneurs focus on only as an afterthought.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

According to Julie Ask, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester in this CNBC article , developing a retail app costs about $2 million, plus 80 percent on top of that each year to maintain it. In addition, apps can be a pain for users who have to download a retailer’s app to find product information.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

I find myself struggling to fully relax at bedtime, with my mind spinning about the world that lies ahead and the infinite amount of weekly decisions I’m having to process. But at the margin if there are things you can do to be compassionate about severance or medical benefits or helping people navigate government assistance?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. But I find that the more informed your board is and the more you’re staying on their radar screen the more effective they’ll be for you. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it.

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