Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? I am a VC. I hand out money. How differentiated is that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Tracking and performance reporting. Other PPC experts will track your campaign from click to transaction, providing you with detailed reports on and return on investment (ROI). Advertising is all about getting the most results for the least cost.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. deals (1,796 companies) during the third quarter that ended September 30, according to the inaugural “Venture Monitor” report released today.

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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. If I check Twitter it’s usually because I’m waiting for a meeting to start and I never write posts during the day. By having 5 or 6 blog posts with different points of view they could draw more inferences.

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Xconomy

MARCH 24, 2017

Rao (pictured above right) will report directly to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, spokesman Daniel Francisco said today. Roughly seven months after Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) acquired San Diego-based Nervana Systems, the chipmaker is consolidating its portfolio of artificial intelligence businesses in one group, headed by former Nervana CEO Naveen Rao.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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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. We are doing what we do – writing larger checks and playing an active role at the company. You betcha.

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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. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. Don’t wait for journalists to find you; they all publish their email addresses, and they’re looking for something interesting to write. You need to do it yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2013

But it was reported compassionately by Christina Allen in this moving piece on Pando Daily. I started out this year writing about how much I hate December. 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.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. Don’t wait for journalists to find you; they all publish their email addresses, and they’re looking for something interesting to write. You need to do it yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My I decided well if I am going to be investing in this stuff at least I need to understand what it’s like to have a blog, to be generating content, and it was quite interesting at the very, very beginning.“.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2017

There is no Obamacare replacement, at least not as of this writing. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report Monday put the bill’s potential effects in stark relief: $321 billion in deficit reduction because of tax cuts and a Medicare rollback, and 22 million more people uninsured by 2026.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. Don’t wait for journalists to find you; they all publish their email addresses, and they’re looking for something interesting to write. You need to do it yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

By Mahesh Raj Mohan Writing a business plan can be a difficult process. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience. Your business plan’s writing style should take their preferences into account. So what writing styles should you use for these very different audiences? Hi, I’m writing this plan because.”

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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. The idea that people “report to you&# must validate some primal need. I’ll write about that in a couple of weeks. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me. That’s true.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. They are limited in size.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I still plan to publish on this blog occasionally, as well as more frequently on my blogs at Forbes , Huffington Post , and others. Blogging is a learning process as well as a sharing one. I learn something new every day in blogging. Doing the research to clarify allows you to share effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites.

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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. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2010

By Adam Hoeksema According to a report distributed by the Angel Capital Education Foundation , total startup funding from venture capital funds, state funds, and angel investors totals approximately $20.8 Today's guest blog is by Adam Hoeksema, founder of the ExecutivePlan. His blog is [link]. billion annually.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

For example, a startup may hire you as an accountant, but you may also be asked to do social media marketing content gearing towards finance for the company blog. Now, you’re handling payroll and doing writing as well. You may even discover that you enjoy writing more than crunching numbers. Startups are hiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Plus, show my you can write! I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. Monitoring & reporting on company performance. While it might sound antiquated to you, I want to know that you’re committed to this application rather than just chucking in your resume.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We get requests like that from people who are doing their own primary research, for their own business plans; people doing market analysis; from the financial community; but also from people writing things like iPhone apps, creating their own blogs, or commenting about the industry in the newspapers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Their “Notify your neighbors” feature lets people post messages (news reports, classifieds, etc.)

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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. Goldman release a report on us. Just don’t believe what they write about you. We were hot. Until we weren’t.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

As CEO Rao wrote in a blog post Monday , “Nervana started with the idea that we can engineer better solutions for computation by bringing together computer engineering, neuroscience, and machine learning.”. Just over a year later, Jurvetson led the Series A round of venture funding for Nervana Systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, “ Start a Successful Business ,” by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges. I often hear entrepreneurs who seem to rely wholly on their own passion, and the view of a few friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

Start a blog and write for industry forums and newsletters. Seek out and mingle with reporters at business events. Reporters are always looking for content, so they rarely turn away professionals they meet at conferences or events. Every business community sponsors a plethora of these events.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

5 letter to the House ethics committee, Polis writes, “It is clear that the existing disclosure laws and requirements adequately cover virtual currency.” Polis wants it to become a clear requirement. He urges the committee to provide guidance so that members and their staffers disclose their virtual currency.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

You're in the thick of it and about to write a small chunk of server-side code. It takes a bit more time for each developer, but it saves the effort of reporting, tracking, and dealing with bugs that leak beyond the developer's sieve. but getting work done requires shutting down the news feed and writing code.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Their “Notify your neighbors” feature lets people post messages (news reports, classifieds, etc.)

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

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. Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts).

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