Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2019

If you are proud of the fact that you were first to market with a product or service, you might define yourself as the “first and best”. Press releases and PowerPoint presentations with a uniform use of the mantra or phrase will reinforce your effort. Sometimes it is best that you do it first. How do you define yourself?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. PHONE CALLS.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Netflix as a service has always prided itself on movie recommendations that are tailored specifically to you plus user ratings on the quality of films. Netflix announced the changes to its company via a blog post. A blog post! You need to invite the press, talk to them, let them ask questions. You need some showmanship.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are. File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. Robert’s article is worth reading. Total waste.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. I know that many management teams think blogging is a time suck and a distraction.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is in charge of the government insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid, negotiate the price of “the bare minimum” of 25 high-priced drugs a year that don’t have generic or biosimilar competition. In a press conference Thursday, Pelosi (pictured.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2009

According to Mahalo head Calacanis, he is offering the micro blogging service $500,000, to have Mahalo's new Answers service featured as a "suggested user" for three years. Mahalo Answers is Mahalo's question and answer service, where users can post questions and answers, with the best answer getting paid. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Bentonville, AR, retailer announced Thursday it has acquired Cornershop, an on-demand online service that delivers products from supermarkets, pharmacies, and specialty shops in Mexico and Chile, for $225 million. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Ask for help reviewing your press release. Rob does it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

The most active person responding negatively said, “so an ENITRE industry is undervaluing their services? 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. Not possible. ” Or there was this one. And I agree entirely.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

My own view is that for most services it is explicit actions (likes, shares, vote ups, etc.) 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. Does it risk disclosing sensitive information that could affect their relationships?”

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

To prevent expensive downtime, interrupted service, and stolen data, carriers should identify and address potential network infrastructure vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. Hackers targeting the financial services sector frequently target telecom carriers’ Signaling System No. SS7 and Diameter Signaling .

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I really enjoy his blog and I can't wait to mix it up with him some more on the value of Hollywood money / connections. But to the point here, when we were talking about networking events, Mark and the group generally were hard pressed to say what events were worth attending. So, clearly it would make sense to do this in my blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Generate leads for your product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

The following guest post is from Eric Greenspan, Founder and CEO of MakeItWork, a consumer facing, in-home tech support service. However, Eric recently posted the following insights on his blog. Make It Work sold its services in pre-paid hours, at a discount from our pay-as-you-go pricing. Make It Work was an amazing company.

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Both Sides of the Table

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 started building 4 products so that our end-to-end, supply-chain services would be complete (MVP? We closed a $16.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Generate leads for your product.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. Sometimes I make a blog entry. You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Among some tech press releases from this week include a few announcements from local LA-based venture, ImageCollect , a micro-stock celebrity photo library, high-res and all prelicensed. All images are pre-approved for use in editorials, magazines, e-publications like blogs and pages, and personal prints.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Generate leads for your product.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. Criteo – Provider of online ad retargeting services and personalized recommendation service.

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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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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Referring Traffic / Press. Referring Traffic / Press. The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic.To Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. Search Engines.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

We caught up with co-founder Michael Wong , who told us about how the company is looking to change the model for local check-ins, and also help businesses with getting the word out about their services. What is MergeLocal? Since we started our free site last week, we've organically grown faster than we ever thought we would.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. I was always in a “service&# industry. You call in from your vacation because you’ve had a service outage. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me. That’s true. Here’s why: 1.

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