Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

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. But first you need to know about Reg D filings. ” Funding IS the story.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. You need somebody who is helping push out information on what is up-and-coming in the company. I write on my blog how I think in my head.

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Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

You want to say something informed. I often find somebody at a conference will say “I comment on your blog from time-to-time.” I write lots of people on Twitter. This can be at a conference, via an intro from a mutual friend or similar. Figuring out how to engage is tricky. You want to be respectful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. PHONE CALLS.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

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. One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. A technology that will surely revolutionize how viewers interact with content and television in the very near future.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Paul Graham on trends for the future - Business of Software Blog , August 25, 2010 Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Novel and creative campaigns like the recent YouTube campaign from Old Spice purportedly demonstrate the power of social in marketing.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Write it down…. Do you believe non-native Internet users (ages 35 and up) will migrate toward such a tradeoff, or do you think the unwillingness of older users to share private information is relatively intractable? “I Jeff and Brian are informal and very generous with ideas, input and feedback when they have time.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

First, I have chosen who to follow on Twitter so the information in my stream is self selected. This is why many people are so excited by how much traffic they’re now generating from social media. But then I went to the Parnassus Group’s Twitter 140 conference run by Steve Broback and Brett Schulte.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. But what Groupon (and Living Social’s) platforms have revealed is the social nature of contemporary couponing.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I needed to have a plan to be efficient with my time during the 3 day conference. The best way to get a journalist’s attention is to know who you are writing to and what interests them. As hard as it is to believe in this chaotic cyber information overload world, people’s brains are adverse to multitasking.

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Press Startup Technical Review Email 97

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

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. Information Asymmetry - The biggest problem that presenters face in large (5+ people) is information asymmetry. Congratulations. What could go wrong?

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

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JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Real-time information drives commerce.

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