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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?
My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.
Ok, well not that pretty since I do my own slides and often at 1am. But my slides are linked above and you can also download from SlideShare. It’s all in this deck in a prettier format.
This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. This involves a person who leads a PowerPoint presentation in which the presenter feels more comfortable racing through pre-practiced slides and rattling off charts & bullet points than having a discussion. We used to do this in our sales slides.
The metrics, and how they relate, are captured in his slide: Note the relationship between retention/referral efforts and lifetime value. 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 !
All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC &# tab). Remember that most people are visual thinkers and Powerpoint slides simply help frame the conversations. A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close.
If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. Too many sales reps walk into customer meetings with their pre-canned sales decks and proudly squawk through 30 of their favorite slides without engaging the customer in a discussion. This article initially appeared on Inc.
I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. The first was to do a 5 minute “ignite&# presentation – 5 minutes, 15 slides. I did the outline of the 15 slides on the flight over (after a few beers).
Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company.
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. Kind of the obvious next step.
It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. No matter.
" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone. gave him my favorite, "keep it to six slides." Delegate and automate.
I do not often write blog entries which reference other blog articles. As he lowers his loupe for a moment and glances up from his slides, he suddenly notices a flash of brown amidst all the white outside his window. A UPS truck is pulling up in front of his studio.
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.
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Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. new features need to go into the sale people’s slides so that they know the latest and greatest about how to differentiate from the competition. I have much experience in this domain.
Initially that means a creative, collaborative toolset for visual communications, allowing users to develop really compelling slides, print materials or social media posts that are more visually compelling and easier-to-build for those who aren’t naturally gifted as visual story tellers. A piece of cake in Projector.
Some readers of this blog also pointed out that “pivoting&# can be disruptive on the employees of an organization. Often entrepreneurs show me their management team slides with the names of the people who are going to join him once they’re funded. Some “kick it up a gear&# and react how Toby did.
And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? It launches November 16.
StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.
Management teams whisk through slides trying to get through a presentation to share how great things are going and they are eager to get through the meeting so they can get back to their real jobs. Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. And you simply can’t build relationships on the phone.
Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. When I decided to start blogging again (I had done so as an entrepreneur) I thought about how to brand myself. If you ever want a quick way to my blog, btw, you can just type that. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe.
I’ve said versions of it on this blog before so I hope it’s not too repetitive. Join because you know you’ll be earning less than you could elsewhere at some meaningless job cranking out non-core code, producing Powerpoint slides or shuffling paper. So I developed this standard line that I used for all employees.
.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.
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People cite sources like this Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” A perfect size is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. Investor and strategic partner pitch.
Put it in the slides: At the 2016 event, Liu & Huang overlooked the need to include some of their key findings in their slide deck. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog. Speaking of time: They were smarter about allocating enough tick-tock for each phase of the process leading up to their final presentation.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have seen dramatic but volatile price surges during the past year. But this month their billions in estimated market value are eroding , amid widening suspicions against one trading platform, a half-billion-dollar heist from another exchange, and an awakened global regulatory community.
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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0
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. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following.
For example, there are a dozen blogs like this one for every area of expertise. Results” these days are not Powerpoint slides, or theories and recommendations. If you need to know how to do something, just look it up online. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you. Dress to fit into the company culture, no more, no less.
According to Andrey Doronichev, head of YouTube mobile in a blog post today said, “All diehard YouTube fans starting today can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store. The presentations have speaker notes, full-screen mode and can be swiped between slides. Now Available on the App Store.
But apart from building traffic, what I find most challenging is incorporating a lead capture strategy that will actually generate some blog subscribers. But if you want to level things up, you can use a platform like OptinMonster to create popup forms, sliding forms, floating bars, and sidebars.
The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.
According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog. Slide taken from MorganLewis Immigration presentation. Accelerating the commercialization of university research. Attracting and retaining entrepreneurial talent. Encouraging pro-growth state and local policies,”. Requires an employer.
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
People cite sources like this recent Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” A perfect size is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. Investor and strategic partner pitch.
It’s possible to take a blog post and turn it into a slide show, infographic and video, for example. It’s never in your best interest to get caught up in social media flame wars. Not Making the Most of Your Content. You can get a surprising amount of leverage from good content.
The product is believed to be the first to combine the features of an upright microscope (for viewing prepared microorganisms in glass slides) and an inverted microscope (for viewing live samples. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.
I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post?
We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million.
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