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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Brad Feld is a fountain of knowledge & wisdom. Brad on blogging. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, my email address is Brad@Feld.com. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups. How did you start blogging? “My

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

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After the weekend kerfuffle over AngelList I was reading Brad Feld’s post on Signal vs. Noise. But aside from choosing the time of day to focus on signal vs. noise, Brad’s post got me thinking about another question – what is signal and what is noise? Brad is a zero inbox kind of guy. I enjoy that.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. The best way to describe this is by example.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. We noticed that many of those sites were not pre-populating the site with content, were not drawing from external channels, and were not starting conversations on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere.

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6 Steps To Raising Venture Capital – Hint: Preparation Matters More Than Your Pitch

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Step 1: The Person, Not The Firm – As Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson make clear in their book Venture Deals , entrepreneurs should identify specific venture partners, rather than target firms as a whole. If this is the case, offer to make a meaningful introduction to a potential customer or partner of one of their portfolio companies.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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The reason I have so many typos is that I value cranking out more content rather than perfect posts. Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.