Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. So I often try to stay off of email during the day. They take all incoming calls on my mobile phone and work phone, transcribe them for me and send me an email with a text transcription and a.WAV file to listen to messages if I feel the need to.

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Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] Second: channels. Google became an overnight industry standard for search strictly by word of mouth, never spending a dime on advertising in its early years. So, the lesson is: always find a way to make a second-generation recipient or buyer a future raving fan.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

Whoever wins, these are some of the local firms in interesting markets--and their tough, well-backed head-to-head competition--worth watching. Backers: ACME Group, Google, Idealab, NRG, Oak Investment Partners, The Quercus Trust of California. Let us know in comments or email!). DocStoc vs. Scribd. DocStoc - Profile.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!” Nice sweep!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Accelerate: speed is life in this new world.

Technology 97

Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. At the same time, there's not that intensity of competition for engineers as in Silicon Valley.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] But the competition among sites has overwhelmed available inventory of paying advertisers, greatly reducing the cost per thousand views, and making display ads no longer a preferred revenue source for marginal sites. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Rather than punish them, it may pay you to nurture and manage their outside-the-box thinking, and capitalize on their innovations that help your customers and keep you ahead of the competition. He created a simple Gmail for internal use, and later it became one of the biggest Google offerings.

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IBM IBM Java Google 53

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. That student is Erin McCann who formerly worked in sales at Google, so she has some ground to stand on in her assertions. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support.

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Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

This morning’s show took on the topic of “teams” and highlighted research that Julia Rozovsky and Google has conducted called Project Aristotle and profiled in Charles Duhigg’s book Smarter, Faster, Better. I have a board meeting coming up this week and I just reviewed the agenda.

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Coach Technical Review Framework Google 150

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. Our cost is very low, which allows us a key, competitive advantage. What is Ulevate? Instead, we give it to them for free. Eighteen to twenty percent of the revenue is services.

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Template Beverly Hills Startup SEM 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Innovation is key in setting your company apart from the onslaught of promotional media out there today, including email blasts, banner ads on the Internet, and pervasive television spots. Do the research to find your best competitive advantage, and then highlight and live the differentiation.

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Social Media Custom Customer Mobile 73

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Avoid too much specificity, as you may risk sounding like yet another startup that is, “Waiting For Google.” Like Godot, you will likely find that Google will never come knocking. Response : Offer a straightforward recitation of the market and competitive risks. Image courtesy of The Lolbrary. Share and Enjoy.

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Entrepreneur Google Invest RSS 253

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions.

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

It sure would put pressure on Google if they had Facebook competing on one side of them for share of users’ time and Amazon flanking them on the other side by providing search to every website out there that might threaten AdSense and even Google’s core search business. Not Google. That little online book company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics. &#.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> Most importantly, it just doesn't feel right to us to hold positions in competitive companies.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. exabytes per month at the end of 2016, of which half was video. Make strategic versus opportunistic decisions.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. People are more distracted than ever, and competition has never been greater. According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012.

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Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Often you ask somebody, “Did you see that article on Google buying so and so?” I would delete my Tweet and then write something like, “ Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. So I need to stand out in two areas in which I compete for attention – social media and news readers.

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Writing Buzzfeed Social Media Blogging 326

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

He forwarded an annoyed email to my main contact at Salesforce. It’s easier when you have traction and a competitive process for your funding is likely. What competitive products did they consider? One VC (I won’t name but with whom I still won’t work today) called Marc Benioff directly. What did he do?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Custom Customer 316

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per click (CPC).

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SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Google, Amazon and Ebay have been at the game for a long time. Through CJ’s website, Publishers/Affiliates bring hits to Advertisers’ websites by using Google Adwords, blogs, email, Twitter, Facebook and other means. Be careful out there as many have perfected this process and they are your competition.

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Santa Barbara PPC Blogging Google 106

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. People are more distracted than ever, and competition has never been greater. According to a recent study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 in the US alone, which is a 15-year high.

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Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. like Google. It’s sharing features built into your web site content, like social bookmarking, emailing, or auto posting and interactive features like comments and voting. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Search engines.

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Startup Social Media Content Paid Search 96

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Are people giving you feature requests, complaining about your service or comparing you to the competition? Capture the data – the currency of online direct marketing prior to Twitter was the email address. Are they recommending you to friends or telling people how badly you suck?

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Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Avoid too much specificity, as you may risk sounding like yet another startup that is, “Waiting For Google.” Like Godot, you will likely find that Google will never come knocking. Response : Offer a straightforward recitation of the market and competitive risks. Image courtesy of The Lolbrary. Share and Enjoy.

Entrepreneur 145

Entrepreneur Google Invest RSS 145

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Jenna can write a recommendation on Andy’s profile or send an email to friends recommending Andy, one of his workout plans or the fitness event she’s registered for. Any competition in LA? We haven’t identified any competition in LA, specifically. Our team is very well-rounded, so we don’t worry too much about the competition.

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Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Search engines like Google are still the primary method for finding information on the Internet. It’s sharing features built into your web site content like social bookmarking, emailing, or auto posting and interactive features like comments and voting.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Test and adjust your projections, based on experienced advisor input and industry norms, rather than the Google high exception. Don’t focus too much on the competition. Every one of us has sent a sensitive email to the wrong party, or had it misinterpreted by the receiver. Don’t hire people who like your ideas all the time.

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Entrepreneur Tips Startup Ideas 97

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. On top of that, we allow users to comment and read other comments, and email other users within the system.

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PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

But while competition remains fierce, the advancement and accessibility of smart solutions are making it easy than ever for startups to find their feet. Read our guide to the best VoIP desk phones to check out its competition. Launching and growing a startup is one of the biggest missions an entrepreneur can undertake. From its 4.3-inch

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Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 128

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). Although they might have more people in the field up in the Bay Area, there''s more competition for those people.

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 16, 2012

According to the firm, you can buy and send cards directly to friends on any occasion like birthdays, weddings, anniversaries - via Facebook, email or text. Any competition? We’ve raised $1.25m in funding, in a round led by Google Ventures. This can later be redeemed in-store or online from a phone. Confidential.

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Mobile Google Email Competition 70