SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. I've been following both of your blogs for a while.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 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.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. Below is the outline Upfront.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Little did I know when the call began, that it would end up being the worst networking call in which I have ever partaken. A Little Research Goes a Long Way. If he had spent any time reading my blog, he would have understood that I am not a fan of consultants , especially at startups. Research? –

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Most business advisors I know will say that writing a business plan is the first step to starting your own business, but I believe that a better first step is to do a self-analysis of your real drivers, strengths, and assumptions before committing to this lifestyle. You can’t really succeed in life if you are not happy.

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Social Media Writing Ideas Resource 105

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post about the " Urgency Addiction ” and how many people start important tasks late and then motivate with a huge wave of productivity and inspiration driven by deadlines and commitments to others. This comment and blog post prompted me to write a post that has been in my queue for a long time.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons”. 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. I could be TC50 or any other high profile event. We closed a $16.5

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

The rise of startups is becoming one of the strongest engines of job growth and economic growth all around the world. As the capital needed to start a small business continues to fall, the number of software companies being started is exploding. There’s a lot of uncertainty in startup companies.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2014

It was a rather hapless soul who was seeking my help networking within Santa Barbara''s startup community. It started when a well-intentioned colleague introduced me to the caller via email, without first confirming with me that the intro was welcomed. It turned out that he was seeking consulting projects at startups.

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Networking Santa Barbara Research Blogging 232

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Keyword research and budget forecasting. All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. PPC experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you. Campaign setup and ad copy writing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! The same kind of tasks that a startup team has. I met for coffee with one of my favorite “startup advisors” in LA. I like to meet people like this because in an hour I get catch up on everything going on in the startup community. He has a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer. It should end by asking for something, to start the relationship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

As of today, I will have published an article here for entrepreneurs and startups every day for the last 1001 days, since I started Startup Professionals Musings near the close of 2008. I still plan to publish on this blog occasionally, as well as more frequently on my blogs at Forbes , Huffington Post , and others.

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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 In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. was starting. Is that when it became big?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

I recently caught up with James to discuss his wellness philosophy. Without a boss directing your actions, it is up to you to filter the constant stream of opportunities, challenges and problems and decide where to focus your time, attention and resources. I started thinking about this because I heard this story about the lion tamer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I’m sure he’s way more versed on the research in corporate psychology than I. Should Jeff Bezos be required to address every written complaint that shows up in Seattle or Satya Nadella at Microsoft? I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek. By the way, I don’t spell check my blog posts either.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I grew up believing that human behavior was 20% nature, 80% nurture. Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. That is true of all my blog posts. of all data is made up. OK, not literally made up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer. It should end by asking for something, to start the relationship.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. In my post “ Measure twice, cut once ” I’ve outlined how to plan before you start raising. You can short-hand this as “engagement.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer. It should end by asking for something, to start the relationship.

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Entrepreneur Tips Startup Social Network 108

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

There are hundreds of consultants out there who will take your money for guidance in this area, but I recommend that you start with some free resources on the Internet, or one of the many recent books on this topic. As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” Of course you could start your own company. But not everybody has the right skills to build a highly successful and valuable startup from scratch.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). Go research it. And a great product starts with the founder. Their name alone is enough to get meetings set up. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. I get that.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Biologists have been using artificially created DNA, produced through what’s known as chemical DNA synthesis, as a research tool for decades. Now, as demand for engineered DNA rises, a handful of startups are vying to become the go-to provider for researchers looking for improved versions of the DNA sequences.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. What people don't know is how First Round got started and often people know less about the amazing background of one of its co-founders, Howard Morgan (everyone tends to know Josh Kopelman as one of the highest profile players in our industry overall).

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Capital Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 284

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

There are hundreds of consultants out there who will take your money for guidance in this area, but I recommend that you start with some free resources on the Internet, or one of the many recent books on this topic. As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Invest Platform 79

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I talk about this often with startups in which I’m involved. 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.

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Blogging Content Press Startup 328

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

What most people don’t realize is that, according to new research , 90% of search engine users rarely look at the paid results. Keyword research and budget forecasting. All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. Campaign setup and ad copy writing.

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

We caught up with Tara--who some might know from her efforts on RepresentLA--on what LA Makerspace is all about--and how places like LA Makerspace are key to bringing the technology and technical community together. My husband started Crashspace, the first hackerpsace in LA. Tara Tiger Brown: It was a couple of different things.

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Startup Tool Ideas Class 227

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Starting with 25% is even harder. Register a company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Keyword research and budget forecasting. All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. SEM experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you. Campaign setup and ad copy writing.

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

There are hundreds of consultants out there who will take your money for guidance in this area, but I recommend that you start with some free resources on the Internet, or one of the many recent books on this topic. As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression.

Social Media 66

Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

There are hundreds of consultants out there who will take your money for guidance in this area, but I recommend that you start with some free resources on the Internet, or one of the many recent books on this topic. As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Based on my experience and data from the field, over seventy-five percent of new startups fail, even with venture backing. I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

There are hundreds of consultants out there who will take your money for guidance in this area, but I recommend that you start with some free resources on the Internet, or one of the many recent books on this topic. As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression.

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Social Media Media Platform Tool 58