TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

The program is expanding to Chicago in 2021, the blog post notes. The singular sentence underlines a key message I’ve heard from the Black tech community in the past two weeks: It should not have taken a murder to start thinking about racial inequality. Read the whole HBCUvc blog post here.

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Berkonomics

MAY 9, 2024

The best way to protect against failure is to attract a team with members who have experienced success and failure and can recognize the ways to manage toward success and avoid the pitfalls previously experienced from past failures. Note: All images created for this blog by Dave using AI prompts with Microsoft Designer (DALL-E).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2011

These past few months we have seen the rebirth of virtual worlds. Their latest addition to Worlize is the ability to for a “Chat Now” badge to be placed on your blog. When the badge is clicked on your blog, it will transport your visitors to the entrance room of your world.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

When you look at how much median valuations were driven up in the past 5 years alone it’s bananas. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. And reset they must. It’s just math.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

For the past few months I’ve been doing nearly daily “Snapstorms” or short videos with startup advice released on Snapchat. Among the most comical things to me in the past few years is just how much it annoys some people that I use Snapchat. I remember the same disdain from people when I started blogging or using Twitter.

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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. I saved it mostly for LP discussions that I had over the past year. When companies DO IPO they are worth much more at IPO time than in the past. Thus is a key point.

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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. And, I dont like to copy and paste.

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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. Needless to say, that number has shifted drastically over the past few months.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). At a big Hollywood fund raiser this past weekend a well-known entrepreneur pulled me aside to thank me for hiring Hamet. When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. But I miss blogging.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

Blumenthal explained the switch in a blog post. So, after shepherding 26 batches of thousands of founders over the past 10 years, 500 is shaking things up. Writing: In a business where timing is everything, I realized the current accelerator model was serving an injustice to founders.

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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. Leverage blog content.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, my blog took a hit. But now, it’s all gone; at least what I shared on my blog. The past is now officially the past. Maybe losing my blog content was exactly what needed to happen. I lost everything. The last few years have been my toughest. I wrote about it here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2023

Highlight the problem and your concerns in industry blogs, speaking in public forums, and making yourself visible on social media and networking opportunities. Start actively blogging on your own site, as well as on industry forums. Entrepreneurs who wait to be found are destined to spend a lot of time alone.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the vast network of entertainment and music related blogs and websites, said that it is now number one in entertainment news, according to rankings from comScore. The company, which is run by Tyler Goldman, says it is now seeing more than 502 million monthly page views across its sites.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

For our Insights and Opinions section this morning, we asked Michael Terpin , the founder of SocialRadius , to lend some hard-earned perspective on fake releases following the flap last week over a fake press release involving Google, ICOA, PRWeb, and half the Internet news and blogging sites. August 25, 2000. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 5, 2010

If you have used BuzzVoice in the past you will notice a substantial speed increase in the app. The new product allows users to create: Playlists – Create a top 20 blogs from the 1,600+ sources. I'm constantly on the go and don't really have time to listen to let alone read many blogs unless I'm on the road or in the gym.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

In the past two weeks we have entered perhaps to most surreal experience in any of our lives. I have lost friends who didn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel in past economic hardships. somebody we haven’t spoken to since before the crisis and acknowledge how bizarre we all feel right now. To say it simply …. Show empathy.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2020

We all know that the world of marketing has turned upside down these past years through the power of the Internet. Create groups in Facebook, followers on Twitter, a comments section on your blog or website, and more. Woe to those teaching yesterday’s methods.

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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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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2017

Snap, which rose to unicorn status based on a social media app that creates quickly vanishing photos, attracted solid investor interest in an IPO that raised $3.4 billion and sent shares up more than 50 percent above the initial offering price during the first day of trading today.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And over the past few years I had been egging him on from LA to get Cooley to take our market more seriously. It was very widely read.

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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. I picked questions that I had already covered in depth on my blog and answered them in shorter form.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. As somebody who invested his time heavily in writing and wanting to share his thoughts through a blog I learned that I had to Tweet a post 3 times to get it read: 5am, 8am and 10pm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. Almost all of the major ones have been formed in the past 6-7 years. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. That used to be the standard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2020

Highlight the problem and your concerns in industry blogs, speaking in public forums, and making yourself visible on social media and networking opportunities. Start actively blogging on your own site, as well as on industry forums. Entrepreneurs who wait to be found are destined to spend a lot of time alone.

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Ideas Tips Marketing Social Media 124

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO. If you haven’t read my blog posts on why Tracy chose the right strategy it’s worth a read.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2013

Lots of tragedies in the past couple of months. I cut-and-paste the text and saved it to my Trello board where I store blog ideas. I thought I might some day dust it off and try to deal with it in a blog post. Somebody commented that in 2013 I have done a lot more personal posts than usual. It just happened. Sandy Hook.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

It’s an online relationship and I actually believe that as of 2015 I’ve met more of my close connections in the past 5-7 years online before offline. Some through blog comments – your place or mine. I knew Shafqat as a reader on my blog and then I was introduced to him on a trip through New York. Blog is best.

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Xconomy

MAY 22, 2020

The filings come as an index of the largest and most liquid IPOs of the past two years reached an all-time high, according to. Gene therapy company Generation Bio, vaccines developer Vaxcyte, and cancer diagnostics maker Burning Rock Biotech each filed IPO paperwork just ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

Push marketing effectiveness has dropped sharply with the explosion of technology over the past decade. Inbound data, including site page visits, blog reads, and actual orders linked to content are much more relatable to return-on-investment than email blasts, sound-bites delivered, and TV show ratings.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Because the hundreds of millions that it takes to greenlight a theatrical film could never be absorbed by a startup and because they way we experience media & characters has evolved dramatically over the past 20 years to a point where the starting point for media is often digital, gaming or even graphic novel oriented.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

“Over the past year, Abodu co-founders John Geary and Eric McInerney have put homes in the backyards of parents bringing kids home from college, a mother-and-son pair that each bought one for their homes in Millbrae, a couple looking to eventually house a grandmother in San Jose and on and on.” The interior of an Abodu home.

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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. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2012

My hometown of Santa Monica and the surrounding region have surged onto the national landscape in the past 12 months as a hotbed of startup activity. And as might be expected, there is no shortage of advice, varying from blog postings to a seemingly limitless selection of events. This is terrific news for the community.

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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!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

These days, with the pervasive presence of social media, blogs, and online access to information, it’s easy to get your message out there, and engage a following. He used his expertise on rocket ships to sell the future potential in interviews, blogs, and public speaking opportunities, long before he started SpaceX as a company.

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