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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.
How do you then reference check your VC to be sure that you’ve chosen a good firm and partner? Get a reference list - Most entrepreneurs do almost no reference checks or at least do them very informally. Some VC’s will go out of their way to give you all their references as Fred Wilson says in his post.
I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Since it’s already written (and since I promised not to republish on my blog other than a summary) if you’re interested please have a read over there. Summary notes and then I’ll extend: Should you blog? What should you blog about?
It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. The second most referenced author on my blog, after Kawasaki, is Robert Cialdini, co-author of Yes! For instance, Guy refers to an entrepreneur’s venture as their “cause.” I was not disapointed. Tricking The Jedi.
People had been steadily blogging for 2-3 years and this crowd seemed to bifurcate. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo. So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. started blogging again outlined here.
if you don’t have the reference and want it you can click the image above). 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.
But since I have a blog and the history of my falling in love with Andrew & Petri’s vision was public and is relevant to how we make decisions I wanted a chance to tell all of their stories. Andrew & Petri posed a question to me, “If Walt Disney were starting his company today, what kind of company would he build?
btw: xitca-web (bench code not including dependencies) does not do 2,3,5 and still remains competitive in micro bench can be used as a reference. 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.
channels (search, social, viral, new media), cost-efficient distribution We often reference Dave’s work when talking to innovators. Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach. Please write us at blog@techempower.com !
Back to Mr. Christensen, “We subsidize their education in fields for which there are no jobs” he said in referring to the fact that many courses at universities are still taught with skills that aren’t relevant to the 21st century needs of the US workforce. The numerator (return) encourages more sales, which is fine.
Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. References: The company should willingly provide references. Inquisitiveness: Prior to starting the project, you should receive an estimate of the work effort. How do they handle hosting and support?
There's a lot on my blog already around this topic. Make sure you do reference checks. Most often I ignore the list of references they provide. The references they provide are often a last resort. They are bright, eager, a good fit.
Here’s the block that you see when you look at a blog enabled by Disqus (a third party commenting tool that can be embedded in blogs and other content): It allows you to authenticate yourself using Facebook Connect , Twitter Oauth (sign in with Twitter), OpenID , and Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication. Example What do I mean?
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If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. These references make for great discussions with customers. If you have enough references in your arsenal you obviously want to pick out ones that you believe will resonate with your prospect due to job function or industry.
Journal or Blog – Writing about your experiences will force you to be contemplative and thoughtful. It will also allow you to refer back to past experiences without risking an erroneous decision based on a false memory. Journal or Blog – Writing about your experiences will force you to be contemplative and thoughtful.
It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! As it is I have been able to determine who drives the most clicks for my posts and how many page views each of those commensurate readers stick around for once on my blog. End of story. Or Likes – LIKES!
If he had spent any time reading my blog, he would have understood that I am not a fan of consultants , especially at startups. I do not expect everyone I speak with to be a fan of my humble blog. In addition to the inclusion of my bio on my blog, there is also an easily accessible description of my professional career on LinkedIn.
My favorite two quotes of the weekend were: “Never trade your cat for somebody else’s dog” (referring to selling your company for stock to another privately held company – quote was from Alan. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. Nail it before you scale it” – I missed who said this but I love this quote.
I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. These engagements went well and he came highly referred by my friend Gary Swart who runs oDesk. My pal Dave occasionally presents “headline risks” for investors. I’ve been told so. We all love you, Dave.
Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. I see Visible Networking as a series of conversations around blog posts, and encouraging a group of people to actively participate. Cliff create a great image for the group.
There's a lot on my blog already around this topic. Make sure you do reference checks. Most often I ignore the list of references they provide. The references they provide are often a last resort. They are bright, eager, a good fit.
When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. Just literally this week I had breakfast with a guy giving a reference who said, “He’s brilliant. In fact, just a short Google search reveals that I’ve referred to him frequently through the years. But he knows it.
Although I do not know all of these folks personally, I am sure they are all men of honor (I tried to find women to add to this list - if you are aware of great startup blogs authored by a women, please reference them in the comments). Reality Checking.
I do not often write blog entries which reference other blog articles. However, I recently came across a truly delightful post entitled, Jeffrey Aaronson’s Improbable Journey with Steve Jobs, the Guy Who Changed His World (and Ours).
In another post I’ll talk about how PR has changed dramatically in the past 10 years or you can just read Brian Solis’s blog or buy his book on the subject. Most notably you need to understand Earned Media and how blogging, public speaking and social media play an important role in the new PR landscape.
A few weeks ago I was reading a blog post by MG Siegler that really struck a chord. The title was “The Jerk,” which is a reference to both the Steve Martin film but more precisely to Robert Scoble’s interpretation of Steve Jobs having just read his biography.
When I wrote about Lines, Not Dots (probably my most often quote blog post) I made it clear that “lines” go both ways. And that’s why it’s super important to reference check your VC as I wrote in the linked post. And yes, there are some bad actors. Luckily word travels quickly.
They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. I’ve talked many times on my blog about how they’re the lifeblood of most businesses – even those that pretend like they’re above it all. Please call our references.
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.
Web design typically refers to the process of interface design and graphic design. Web development refers to the design and creation of the database, code, and dynamic elements of the site. For anyone who reads this blog, if you are looking for particular kind of web developers in Los Angeles, feel free to contact me.
We live in interesting times where working at a startup is glamorized to the point that many founders even refer to their team members as “rock stars,” which to my ears is cringe worthy. We first met five years ago through serendipity as I described in this 2009 blog post and elaborated on again in more detail 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. Anchor blog in your domain name.
Even tech blogs know this. Tech blogs can theoretically scale, tech conferences are pure service businesses. If a customer is faced with two equal choices for companies who can implement Salesforce.com – how do they choose one other than references & price? But this lesson in business was never lost on me.
Help somebody negotiate their compensation package, introduce someone to your favorite startup CEO, agree proactively to be a reference client for somebody who didn’t ask. I started blogging because Brad Feld blogged. It turned into this blog. His term sheet series helped me at a time when I needed help.
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. I read this post from Marc Hedlund at Wesabe on why they lost to Mint. I don’t know Marc but now I feel I want to work with him after reading this.
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. I read this post from Marc Hedlund at Wesabe on why they lost to Mint. I don’t know Marc but now I feel I want to work with him after reading this.
I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. More often what happens is that someone I meet will know someone who has a legal or business (or both) problem and then refer that person to us because they know what we do. What are some good posts that I should check out on your blog?
And while John & I have been through these phases ourselves (and have even written several blog posts on the topic like this one and John keeps a great blog with many similar concepts) we simply haven’t been running large sales teams for the past 8+ years.
This can be a blog article that helped you make a particular decision or a link in a Tweet that you found helpful. However, I read all of my email, as well as most of the Tweets which reference @johngreathouse. Caution: contrived congratulations will backfire and mark you as a rookie to be ignored.
We actually go to Quora all the time, and refer back to Quora as a knowledge source. But, I'd like to extend a personal invite to socalTECH readers, because I've been reading the blog forever, and if they click on this link they can access Namesake directly. But, our end goals are different. Thanks, and good luck!
Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC. Since its publication, I have referred hundreds of entrepreneurs to Venture Deals , most recently at a keynote talk I gave to 300-budding entrepreneurs at Cal Tech.
Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business.
Each of these decisions could be a blog post in its own right but for today I want to avoid tactical advice and offer something more about your temperament as you wade through complexity and deal with decisions that affects the lives and the livelihoods of others. you should do all that you can. you should do it.
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