Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. All of this has become a lot more relevant lately given social networking. Social networks are like Iran.

Social Network 329

Social Network Startup Blogging Venture Capital 329

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

PR isn’t something that can be delegated – The other thing that tech execs often want to do is to delegate the PR to their marketing person. 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.

Startup 349

Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. He wrote a blog post that always stuck with me about how there are regulars on his blog who hang out there a bit like “Cheers&# just having a chat with a metaphorical beer in hand. If I’m totally honest it started as a marketing exercise. It’s true.

Blogging 301

Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. In addition to we’re taking GumGum and their very cool advertising opportunities to market. What are some of the top things you've published online, e.g., blog posts?

Startup 225

Startup Los Angeles Social Network Twiistup 225

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!?

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Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. It was interesting for me to read Fred Wilson’s email bankruptcy blog post this morning. It’s not just the spammers or marketers trying to sell you products or services.

Email 265

Email Startup Writing Blogging 265

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

AUGUST 2, 2009

On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. Facebook. So why is this important for businesses?

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Big market.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

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. I first discovered him or her as a commenter on Fred Wilson’s blog. There are many things I am – but different than what I say on this blog is not one of them!

Technical Review 329

Technical Review Blogging Examples Startup 329

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

You too can become an influencer through social media, videos and blogs, and people will follow you on what to buy, what causes to support, and who to vote for. Now customers judge you by your visibility to them at public forums, your writing, videos, and what other public figures say.

Customer 93

Customer Custom IBM IBM 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence. For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. Use strong communication and writing skills.

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

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

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. Publish the site and now you are in business. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7. An example is after the earthquake in Japan, you could see what people who follow the Japanese market were saying in real time, what are people trading those stocks saying right now. It's fun, I guess.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Then came blogs. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

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

AUGUST 20, 2013

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). And so it goes with social networking.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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. Publish the site and now you are in business. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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. Publish the site and now you are in business. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

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.

Social Media 58

Social Media Customer Custom Entrepreneur 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Tough, but true.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

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. Publish the site and now you are in business. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious.

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an untrustable country, or don’t have a clue.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

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. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

Funding 112

Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product. Market validation – This one is optional but important. At an angel round you can get away with no market validation. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you.

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

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. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

Startup 104

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 104

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. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

Startup 101

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 101

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. While running my family wine business , I used Twitter’s search for market research and to find new customers. A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

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. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

Tips 88

Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you? How does it work?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. Milo Sindell: There are three broad markets.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100