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Chartbeat is to Blogs as Google Analytics is to Print Newspapers

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been using Chartbeat for over a month now to track performance of my blog and I find myself looking at Google Analytics much less these days. I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. The next users after that is reading a blog post that I wrote nearly 9 months ago.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. Is Funding a Worthy Announcement?

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

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Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. He wrote a blog post that always stuck with me about how there are regulars on his blog who hang out there a bit like “Cheers&# just having a chat with a metaphorical beer in hand. I picked questions that I had already covered in depth on my blog and answered them in shorter form.

Blogging 301
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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Let me start with the power of blogging. Mostly, I love writing.

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Web Second, Mobile First

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” 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. The power of large screen real estate. The power of a keyboard.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

You likely are writing your first one of these. Examples (these are going to be more detailed than you need to get to at this point): Sample Spec Functional Specification Example Wireframes, Comps, Clickable Prototype Create wireframes for a few key screens that sketch your concept using a tool like Balsamiq. Don't stress over format.

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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

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You’re writing a freaking blog post! Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog. I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice. I know many people think I blog all day long. Or ask Tasha to send you a screen shot of my weekly calendar. “But WAIT !!!

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