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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. Put it this way – Upfront Ventures spend on PR per year = $0. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. I do it myself. Talk like a human.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

TechCrunch LA

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. IPO Update.

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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

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I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. The Walt Disney Corporation. We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. In addition to the partners’ tireless blogging, they founded TechStars, one of North America’s premier startup accelerators. We have never done a press release.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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Quiet-as-a-mouse Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures. True-to-his-heritage Rory O’Driscoll from Scale Ventures. 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. Ask for help reviewing your press release.

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What Do Boards Actually Do?

Both Sides of the Table

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

However, a number of them wanted to vicariously experience the startup world through John and Kyle''s venture. Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. According to John, "So, we, we sent.(an