Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the LA event, for example, they will not only have a selection of great LA VCs but also 10+ senior VC women from the SF Bay Area will be coming down for it. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). Many VCs simply wait for referrals to come to them via email or introductions they get at conferences or demo days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Now may be the time to build new credentials is this digital age by taking time for education courses and attending digital conferences. For example, with a strong background in traditional marketing, you may reposition yourself as a digital marketing expert, with a much better opportunity. Don’t be too humble.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

This week the SBW2012 Conference in DC offers sessions geared for small businesses including a Social Media forum, Business Matchmaking, and Federal Contracting 101. The conference ends with the Champion Awards Dinner. Every small business owner who succeeds sets an example for those who go after them. It’s also infectious.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. You may enjoy this post as an example that talks about my first meetings with Brad Feld, Tristan Walker, Justyn Howard and more. Whom to Meet?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Every conference is different. This was my second TCDisrupt conference, however my first attending as press. This was my second TCDisrupt conference, however my first attending as press. I received dozens of long emails each day with press releases, pitches, news and information. Send a very brief follow up email.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

How do you cut out all of the effort required to discover, find, and book venues for your event, wedding, or conference? I think it could be as simple as an email to let them know when people have booked, negotiations within that, and book it online. I also had the chance to do a conference, and had knowledge of that.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

Suggest a Panel : Email panel ideas including title, description, moderator and 3-5 speakers you’ve confirmed HERE with SBF as subject. For example: Uber is offering a town car ride credit code. Email HERE with SBF as subject. Email HERE with SBF as subject. Help make it what u want it to be! to help run the fest.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

It’s why I don’t invest in Conference Ho’s. Examples from discussions I’ve had this month that might resonate with your internal debates about how to prioritize. Sorry if you received an email with a draft version of this post. And nobody is more important in this regard than senior management.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. We soon had Steve Ballmer doing his monkey dance at our conferences every year. They used Gmail and Gsuite for email and calendar. I'll give you an example.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We were talking about an upcoming conference when he declared, "I hate PowerPoint. Pretend You're A TEDster - Hundreds of instructive examples of effective PowerPoint and Keynote slides reside online. Instead, the presenters told their story in a conversation manner, rather than via the typical monologue approach. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

There are a lot of users, with lots of different email and instant messaging accounts, who are finding that there are too many ways to communicate with their friends and associates. People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

They generated an enormous amount of inbound leads through PR, email blasts and heavy efforts with analysts such as Gartner Group, IDC, Aberdeen Group, etc. If you’re not ready to buy then you go into an email database. Your goal as a website is to elicit my email address out of me with as little else required as possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Oh, the conferences. I don’t need to name companies for you to come up with your own examples. Web Summit. Fortune Brainstorm. Probably more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Yet if your service is consulting, for example, real travel is required to deliver the product. It’s always valuable to meet new prospect clients face to face, rather than just by phone or email. Trade show and conference participation. Sharing your passion for the business live. Networking events with other entrepreneurs.

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

The good news is you can do it, too, and there are great examples in Socal. The Founders at Swing by Swing keep up a running email dialogue with their users and circulate the key conversations to their whole team. They have periodic conference calls with groups of users. Why do so many of us have iPhones? What’s it worth?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

An example might be a business development conversation, a first customer meeting, the first candidate in a recruiting process, the first time you talk with a journalist at TechCrunch or the first meeting to consider your business strategy. We all know the type of person who lives in the top end of the funnel.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. This means more people sign up for your email list when you have the pop up box than when you don’t. Have an email capture.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup. So the way I would do it is to find examples of specific startups that have grown up locally and who marketed similar to how you plan to market. I suggested that they should look for someone like me, but on the business end.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Perfect example; ShoeBoxed.com. Being in business since I was 18 years old has led to a lot of conferences, meetings, mixers, classes, tradeshows and after parties. It was at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in the media room when I overheard the founders being interviewed. I meet A LOT of people.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

For example, not only can publishers create and distribute mobile-friendly content, but it also allows the ability for publishers to monetize the ad space within each article. However, as of today, Instant Articles become available to anybody with a Facebook page and a blog. By that I mean: Let me explain.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

They were talking on their phone, checking Facebook or their email. I know lots of people think they don't have time for that, but there are those moments when you're in a coffee shop with twenty minutes of free time, or when you're plane delayed, or even if you're at a networking event or conference, and you are curious who is around you.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We track and record every call, email, post and tweet and we constantly bring our sponsors into the mix to share in the exposure. .&# What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2015

For example, let’s say you’re a company. Johnny Cupcakes , a successful clothing brand, grew customer base enormously by segmenting their audience by age and gender, then sending tailored email ads fitted to each group. Really dig into the nuts and bolts of how you want to promote your business.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

You get an email, tap on a link, a notification pops up, and the app installs on your phone. For example, if you''re just a major crash on an iPad in Japan. In that example, we can let you know you''re seeing iPad mini crashes in Japan, and start tracking those. People at the Apple conference were completely in awe.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In the beginning YouTuber Olga Kay was extremely proactive about trying to figure out the YouTube game leveraging credit cards to attend as many meetups, conferences and events related to YouTube around the country. The 100,000 subscriber level is the tipping point for a YouTube channel to have accelerated growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Take for example Accel. The best VCs I know take 11pm conference calls. Many don’t return my emails on time. Everybody always thinks they can do your job because they’re doing the hard work while you get to fly off to conference, speak with the press, go to fancy board meetings & dinners. Many are late.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. Building relationships, partnering with social media experts on events (SBTwestival and 140 Conference Meetup), learning at events, building a following, testing any and all formats/venues, integrating social media into our radio show.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

They offer small UIs that interact with apps on their smartphone counterparts, allowing the user to manage their emails, messages, music, maps, photos, and more at the literal flick of a wrist. This allows for the user to project TV screens, complex 3d models, videogames, and even video conferences onto the real world.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. What are the barriers to entry here--it seems like there have been a number of web startups who are doing some aspects of this--if not conference calls, at least transcribing voicemails?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Strictly for example sake I’ll take our mission at Upfront Ventures. ” They prefer to sit in front of a computer doing spreadsheets or coding or writing emails and working on marketing materials than they do investing time in human relationships. They respond to email. They attend conferences and do marketing.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

I was speaking on a conference and panel about branding and experience with my last company, we got along, and chatted. For example, it's Jessica's birthday, we're buying her an iPod--and you can send a custom messages to guests. A customized email then goes out, and you're done. Let's start with eDivvy. How did you end up here?

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

The system also does the sometime annoying job of tracking down parties, and follows up automatically via email, and finds people where they are. For example, if a contract is disputed, you have various layers of protection--there's a digital archive of the original and the completed contract. It's a big step forward over the FAX.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In fact, it does take time, but in my view brings far more value than many of the things you might otherwise be doing, including expensive advertising, extensive networking, or email blasts. A good example of this impact is Tony Hsieh , who wrote his own book, as well as one about the culture he was building at Zappos.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

What are some examples of successful companies that were started here? It’s been my experience that the more focused and intimate events far ‘out-perform’ (however you’d like to characterize it) the mega-conferences. Not to mention the great weather, beaches, and beautiful people. Want to sponsor?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

A Helpful Login Class Some code examples are provided by JanRain Engage. A Very Simple Example Ive set up a site where you can try out the Twitter login. For now, remove the default providers and add one or two login providers that dont require configuration. Make sure you choose at least one provider where you have an account.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. If you fold at the first un-returned email what hope to you have as an entrepreneur? An example. It is really what separates the wheat from the chaff.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2016

Let’s break this down into two examples using Bob and John. He is certain that a mother will not focus on her career, missing work to care for her sick child or to attend a parent–teacher conference. Email readers, continue here…] John asked the same questions, but for very different reasons.

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