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. But succinctly this press places a marker in the ground for your company. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. Funding is news.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Entrepreneurs get so used to friends and family congratulating them on their press coverage that they forget sometimes that this isn’t real. Press doesn’t mean anything other than free advertising. Press coverage really matters – The good news – your press coverage really does matter.

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Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

Stop reading their press releases or hearing their founder talk about he is crushing it. You see them in their tuxedos or cocktail dresses because you’re reading their press releases or following them on Instagram. getting too much press before we were ready. Inside your own corridors you’re naked. There is less ego.

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Startup Press Course Entrepreneur 412

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. When you want press, it will come. It’s why whenever he does ask my answer is “yes” before even knowing what he’s asking. Be helpful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

Fred Wilson wrote a Tweetstorm and then did a blog post on the topic. I never asked Marc why he stopped blogging but I presume it is some combo of having started a venture capital firm (which you might guess takes a bit of time) and also allowing some air time for his then-less-well-known compadre. Engagement. They are synergistic.

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Social Media Blogging Media Startup 307

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I don’t know Ezra yet but since he’s taking the time to blog (which I hugesly respect) and share thoughts I thought I’d take him up on his challenge and also spill the beans on my secrets. On blogging I blog because I love it. Mostly I’m Blogging for the Hell of It, Not Blogging to Stay Relevant.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2011

A few weeks ago I was reading a blog post by MG Siegler that really struck a chord. I recently was reviewing a press release for a company in which I’m an investor. I told him that I thought the press release was crap (I think my words, exactly). ” to “we’re so excited to work with you.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

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. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

But don’t let this information get out into the general press and don’t market more than a few months out. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. I talked about that in detail on this post about how to blog as a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) If you haven’t read my blog posts on why Tracy chose the right strategy it’s worth a read.

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Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

So the only thing that can be driving this all is that Uber has become un-liked for a period of time amongst the press. Clearly the press don’t want to have rich, powerful companies researching their private lives. It’s easy to see why companies like Uber can get mad at the part of the press that can be lazy.

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MARCH 24, 2014

“Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” And while the press always likes to mention the other big media investors who participated in the investments (Time Warner, Canal+, Astro, Singtel, Elisabeth Murdoch, Robert Downey, Jr. The monkey on my back. ” Yup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2010

When you read the press you only read the glamorous bits. 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. Startups are hard.

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Blogging Tips Press Startup 407

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But it seemed strange to me that we would openly talk about stuff rather than waiting for a big announcement to the press. I know that many management teams think blogging is a time suck and a distraction.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. The ability to get inches in major journals (NY Times, WSJ, The Economist) as well as your industry trade journals and tech blogs in invaluable in shaping influencers. Just don’t spam people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. Brad Phillips entrepreneur media training meet the press startup' People judge you and your company in the first few seconds.

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Press Social Media Startup Training 105

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APRIL 17, 2013

They want the perfect feature set, the PR company lined up to do the perfect press release, they want maximum coverage, rave reviews, viral adoption and they want to sit back and then wait for the signups to come roaring in. Take some comfort in Fred Wilson’s blog post about MeetUp and the 20-year-build.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. We listened way too much to what the press said. Create a great press-kit that you have easily accessible on your website.

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Startup Venture Capital Press Journal 310

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. ” Don’t.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

She was lamenting that some startups simply see their PR company as merely somebody who corrals the press when you want to get some inches. She felt that her firm provides significantly more value as an advisor than simply a press shop. I had dinner with my friend Brooke Hammerling , founder of Brew PR recently. And I agree entirely.

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Startup Venture Capital Coach Press 363

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs? How founders get screwed on convertible notes.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Email Blogging 352

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

And anybody who follows this blog knows that I believe television disruption has already begun and it is more likely to resemble Internet content than streaming long-form content to our living rooms. It was founded by Danny Zappin, Lisa Donovan & Ben Donovan. For one, the consumer-driven startup world has become immensely hits driven.

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Carson Content Los Angeles Press 291

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay.

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Press Entrepreneur Social Media Training 96

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Anybody who follows this blog knows that my mom was the most influential person on my entrepreneurial career. He felt that any time there were tech events, tech conferences or press it was always the CEO who got to attend and got his name in the press when it was supposed to a partnership. We sat down the three of us.

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Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I read this story on Ivan Kirigin’s blog that shows that Quora was posting which articles you’re reading to other people without your consent. I even had some reservations about writing this blog post this because I have no desire to p**s off other investors or great entrepreneurs.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. We just knew that we were onto an idea that no one had thought of and we had better be in the press first because, of course, there is a first-mover advantage. Getting press is sales. Flip Burgers. Number one is sales.

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

We did a full-court press led by Steven because once we decided this was the team we wanted to work with and this opportunity mapped to our belief system that content + tech will build a generation of great Internet companies. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take.

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Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 373

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both.

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Product Startup Design Blogging 348

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

Review the company''s press releases, the recipient''s LinkedIn profile, etc. This can be a blog article that helped you make a particular decision or a link in a Tweet that you found helpful. BCC Email – If you don''t have your target''s email address, review the press releases issued by their company. Congratulations.

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Networking Software Review Email Press 241

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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. And we’re promoting apps like this in the tech press and funding it. I have a blog and a voice.

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Technical Review Blogging Examples Startup 329

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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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. I just read their press release and found out that they went one step further. It was very widely read. It should be: Local; Right-sized; and.

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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

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JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. It just so happened that there was a conference coming up run by a guy named Ismael Ghalimi, a very well respected software executive who also was keeping a blog at the time for companies in the space.

Entrepreneur 338

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338

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JUNE 27, 2013

If you’ve been following the press about VC funds you’ll know this is no small feat. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million. We have long wanted to move but wanted to wait for the perfect space.

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