Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

Writing 19

Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Whether it be for publications, social marketing, or even those once-necessary postal mailers, we have tools now that were not available just a few years ago. You’ll have less competition. Here’s a quick nod to the folks at Colour Graphics for urging me to write this insight. What Is niche marketing? – Dave.

Marketing 266

Marketing Advertising Resource Social Media 266

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. This revenue share comes after the YouTube split.

Networking 366

Networking Media Content Customer 366

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. tip: write it down when asked / parked). Let me write that down.&#. - Congratulations. Do you mind if I answer that a little later in the presentation?

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. Competition isn’t won or lost by your marketing decks?—?it’s it’s won by how you innovate and by how you execute.

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Funding Venture Capital IP Email 239

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2023

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. In the competitive realm of business, you only get one chance to make a great first impression. Keep your writing voice friendly and courteous.

Tips 123

Tips Writing Startup Summary 123

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. Write things down. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. I don’t want to lose next time.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. Write things down. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. I don’t want to lose next time.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2016

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. In the competitive realm of business, you only get one chance to make a great first impression. Keep your writing voice friendly and courteous.

Writing 62

Writing Summary Email Ideas 62

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. Therefore of course they need to be more selection when writing checks and can’t spread their bets across 75 deals. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2 This is the same way VC firms, by the way.

Venture Capital 356

Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. Vibrant Planet's Land Tender tool.

Startup 194

Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 194

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. But make it competitive.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. As of this writing nearly 50,000 versions have been created and uploaded and watched by some 200,000,000 people. Harlem Shake. million views).

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition. By the time of my second company MySQL was a much more robust solution and worked well when you had to read a lot of information but was less performant on “write&# activities.

Startup 308

Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here are some of the tools in the Swiss Army Knife that your team needs to be armed with to scale: (this article was originally posted on GigaOm in a shorter format.). The process in and of itself was pretty lengthy and at some point I’d like to write about it in more detail. We built standard tools in Excel spreadsheets.

Sales 296

Sales Pricing Startup Customer 296

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Here is what I imagine Rob would say were his most effective tools. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. That in itself is quite a challenge. Email updates frequently. Rob is an over communicator.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

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. But photo sharing sites ought to have web tools that allow me to create “collections” of photos – mine or otherwise. They do both well.

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Berkonomics

MAY 29, 2014

Included in a business plan are financials, competitive landscape, marketing plans, and projected sales to name a few. Serves as management tool. Studies found that people who write plans are more likely to put their goals in action and increases your likelihood of success. assess past performances. Helps you to be more focused.

Startup 166

Startup Guide Help Mentor 166

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2020

I agree with Dr. Ardi’s writing, that most successful workplaces of the future need to adopt the following beta characteristics, and align themselves more with the beta leadership model: Do away with archaic command-and-control models. Become their sponsor – onboarding with training and tools is essential. These would never happen.

Organization 149

Organization Competition Entrepreneur Startup 149

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” of course there are MUCH more sophisticated financial tools than either of these, but PEG is a short-hand many people use].

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

I've been doing that, and building the tools and networks for those brands for a long time, but I wanted to try my hand at an actual, physical product. There was a real opportunity for me to arbitrage the last decade and a half of my experience in the Internet, and apply that to a products company, and to get some real competitive advantage.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. For us, the audience was perfect. to actionable user feedback, "Just went through the demo.

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

On the back end of its service, Fiction Riot is using blockchain-based tools to create a more transparent way to share revenue and manage payments among writers, artists and producers of new series, according to company founder and chief executive Mike Esola. Michael Scott is simultaneously writing a pilot for linear television.

Services 167

Services Report Netflix Content 167

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. We spoke with founder Neal Roche about his startup, which provides testing tools for the electric vehicle (EV) market.

Help 178

Help Startup Southern California San Fernando 178

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I still think it’s best to take money from Dave when you’re also partnered with a more focused, hands-on seed-stage VC who brings different things to the table – like more ability to write larger checks in a downturn (for one) or solving a deep crisis that involves super hands-on involvement.

Startup 292

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Acquire and get familiar with required business tools. You can’t start and run a business these days with a working knowledge and access to online and standalone tools, including a word processor, spreadsheet editing, and presentation software. You will also need business management tools, such as Quickbooks, Zoom, and Hubspot.

Startup 114

Startup Tips Coach Satisfaction 114

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

Startup 151

Startup Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review 151

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. He’s a natural leader, appropriately competitive, very customer focused and a pleasure to work with.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Companies Company 282

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Who do you view as your biggest competition? 3) Besides RingRevenue, what other emerging, online marketing tools and technologies will define users’ Internet experience during the coming decade? You’re right. Scuba or skydiving?

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2023

I agree with Dr. Ardi’s writing, that most successful workplaces of the future need to adopt the following beta characteristics, and align themselves more with the beta leadership model: Do away with archaic command-and-control models. Become their sponsor – onboarding with training and tools is essential. These would never happen.

Organization 113

Organization Competition Entrepreneur Writing 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We wanted to be able to invest in our software and our learning tools. With most online, interactive tools, if you get a question wrong, they'll say you put "B" here but it should be "D", and here's why. It's a very rich learning tool for classroom instructors. They can go online, and answer questions.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. Technologies are not solutions, but understanding a technology, in the context of a customer need, will result in more competitive and long-lasting solutions.

Social Media 127

Social Media Startup Education Entrepreneur 127

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition. We grew out of an interesting use case. It ran in April of 2008.

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Journal USC News Startup 187