Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. bootstrapping business entrepreneur investor organic growth' Practice creative marketing. Marty Zwilling.

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

Arnold Waldstein , who stops by periodically on my blog and always leaves relevant comments, made the observation that, “if I want to connect with you, I’ll engage with you on this blog …from there, a follow on Twitter, a link on LinkedIn are closing the loop of connection rather that opening a cold door.&# This is so true.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project. In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. Organic traffic.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Here’s how I learned: When I first started blogging 18 months ago or so I started asking people the best way to get distribution. I had a few friends help with the initial distribution and explained how to do that in this post on how to blog effectively. I didn’t want to obsess with it (I have a day job!)

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it. Fred Wilson wrote on his blog this week about learning from failures here and quoted Obama’s speech from tonight: you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. Continue to meet with senior executives at the buying organization.

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JULY 19, 2010

I saw him speak at the Twitter conference last year in LA organized by the Parnassus Group. My wife reads a blog every day that she loves (and highly recommends to everybody) called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She loves it and always has such great stories to tell me about the blog in the evenings when we talk about life.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it as a way to learn, improve and increase my win rates. They may solicit the support of people more senior in the buying organization. Continue to meet with senior executives at the buying organization. I won, that is, until I lost.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

San Diego-based Sirenas , which has developed technology to rapidly isolate and synthesize potential drug compounds from marine organisms, said it has received a $775,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sirenas mounts underwater expeditions three or four times a year to collect organisms, Esquenazi said.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

Some firms have said that they’re going to turn to HBCUvc , a nonprofit organization that helps students from historically Black colleges and universities enter venture and tech. The program is expanding to Chicago in 2021, the blog post notes. Read the whole HBCUvc blog post here. Among the strategies?

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Numerous individuals and organizations leverage the insights from The TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks to enhance their framework’s performance. synopse I have written a blog post about TFB and object pascal - yes, we added our object pascal framework in round 22! Context and use case determines how you optimize your code.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2012

She is the disciplined, organized and detail-oriented member of the Suster household. ” She gave me a special one-time permission to write about her in a blog post so I could publish the advice she gave our friend. So consider this my first-ever guest blog post. With a tiny bit of ghost writing from me. Hope you enjoy. **.

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2019

One of them was the work of surgeon Suzanne Ildstad, who has spent decades trying to develop a new way to improve the health outcomes of patients who need organ transplants. When Novartis dissolved its gene and cell therapy unit a few years ago, a bunch of projects the Swiss pharma giant had incubated were tossed aside.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We'll keep this blog entry short and sweet. New dependency tool that helps organize, unify, and simplify required software (e.g., Round 11 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! The highlights for Round 11. Three new languages are represented in Round 11: Crystal , D , and Rust. aleph (clojure). jawn (java).

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JULY 20, 2010

I promise not to turn this blog into a personal self-help blog! And thus the reason for today’s blog. And I know that I’m not the easiest person in the world: I have strong opinions, I’m self righteous, I’m stubborn and I’m less organized at home than I could be. More later in the post.

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JULY 14, 2010

There is a corollary to that advice, which is “doing the right things is more important than doing things right.&# Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. You have a marketing department with three people.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. It’s why before every speech I call the organizer and drill them about who will be in the audience. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more. They are the absolute lifeblood of any organization. You’re very organized. And I know that it sounds almost silly to say that some people Think too much and don’t Do enough. But that’s exactly what happens to many people.

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JUNE 17, 2013

If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. The pain was that somebody senior in the organization had read about the importance of Facebook for business and had begun asking loud questions about why the organization didn’t have a strong Facebook presence.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. Last night I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum event started by Jason Calacanis , a fellow LA resident.

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APRIL 20, 2010

A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. However, it is one of the more critical roles as you scale your organization. I don’t believe that one exists.

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MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . That in itself is quite a challenge. Rob does it.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

In case you missed all the kerfuffle this weekend, I posted this blog post originally on TechCrunch. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. Still, as I’ve written in the past, what I love about blogging is the ability to have a public debate where we can all learn. The post is balanced and worth reading.

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MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2017

The $38 million Series A round announced by Cambridge, MA-based firm eGenesis comes as the field of human-compatible organs grown in animals, while still years from real products, is back in play because of advances in new biological modification techniques including the genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2014

ReachLocal said the new software helps SMBs to drive organic search traffic to their websites. The offering starts at $999 per month for six motnhs, and provides one blog post created per week as part of the content optimization. READ MORE>>. reachlocal search engine optimization marketing automation reachseo reachedge'

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. 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.

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JULY 16, 2013

awe.sm (I have been an investor since 2009) has always provided these data through an API to allow developers to have social analytics embedded in their products or for internal use in their organization to drive more effective campaigns. the data would be a lot more important to my bottom line. Startup Advice'

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

There's a lot on my blog already around this topic. I've organized the LA CTO Forum (a private group of 150+ CTOs in Los Angeles) for 10+ years. It's very different than at large organizations. Several years, ideally in a couple organizations. You now have two issues: sourcing and hiring. This is a must.

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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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OCTOBER 5, 2014

The problem with consulting is that they hire very smart, young people out of top colleges who come in to evaluate data and advise large organizations but the people doing the work are often only book smart. ” I’ve already blogged about how I work through this process: I triangulate. Don’t feel that you need to.

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AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. This is generally how I try to organize my own views and how I try to give 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? Draw from Frameworks.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. We met everybody in the organization.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. We met everybody in the organization.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog. And Nicole Glaros organized a full day and evening for me in Boulder. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Some I still speak with.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Dedicated and shared connections are two common internet configurations that organizations. As part of leveraging a dedicated internet solution, organizations agree to a service level agreement which guarantees a minimum level of downtime to fix connectivity issues which promote a reliable connection. Here’s what you. Performance.

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