Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. Of course, previous successes provide more direct evidence of a network of the right people. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

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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. That used to be the standard. ” Funding IS the story. Funding is news.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2022

Thus, if you are like me, with no real background or experience in public speaking, I encourage you to start early with some traditional training, like a Dale Carnegie course, or read a good book on the subject, like the classic one by successful businesswoman and speaker Jan Yager, Ph.D., “ The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public.”

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MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? ” Of course not. They’re different. More strategic.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 If you invest early and then pull back in the next 3 rounds your multiples on cash invested are much higher than if you keep writing checks. Of course the media doesn’t do nuance well so this is an emotional topic.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

what is the importance of social media? what is wrong with today’s social media? Oh, and if you didn’t guess, the title, “if you don’t have a discrete hypothesis you are incapable of failing” is, of course, an Eric Ries quote. 35:29 Why people use social media. Eric is so damn good.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. TV of the future will not always have linear stories. Gangnam Style Meets Torso TV.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. Of course, previous successes provide more direct evidence of a network of the right people. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. If — and it’s a big if of course — they can do that on the cheap, then why should an LP care at all? How can you practice timing? Ditto people you met a while back. Written by Arman Tabatabai.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. Find other media outlets to tell your story. Journalists aren’t going to write about you all the time unless you’re Facebook. Use it as an excuse to get a journalist to write about you. Develop Trusted Advisors.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Of course that’s not disputable. He built & IPOd Demand Media. To some extent – of course they are. Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. Take the initiative to put yourself out there.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How does it work?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets. MSN & AOL.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. Take the initiative to put yourself out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2019

Thus, if you are like me, with no real background or experience in public speaking, I encourage you to start early with some traditional training, like a Dale Carnegie course, or read a good book on the subject, like the classic one by successful businesswoman and speaker Jan Yager, Ph.D., “ The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2017

Thus, if you are like me, with no real background or experience in public speaking, I encourage you to start early with some traditional training, like a Dale Carnegie course, or read a good book on the subject, like the classic one by successful businesswoman and speaker Jan Yager, Ph.D., “ The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public.”

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Of course, when I started thinking about Visible Networking , I immediately went to Cliff to check in to see how he's doing and to get his feedback, thoughts and ideas on the concept. I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. Are you leveraging social media at all?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

Thus, if you are like me, with no real background or experience in public speaking, I encourage you to start early with some traditional training, like a Dale Carnegie course, or read a good book on the subject, like the one just released by successful businesswoman and speaker Jan Yager, Ph.D., “ The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. Of course, previous successes provide more direct evidence of a network of the right people. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. There are many analogies here for software development. He was riveting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. Take the initiative to put yourself out there.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. And of course we had, TheMan. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

You need a CDN to improve the performance of your content, especially as the web is getting heavier, more complicated, and there's more rich media. Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Thus, if you are like me, with no real background or experience in public speaking, I encourage you to start early with some traditional training, like a Dale Carnegie course, or read a good book on the subject, like a recent one by successful businesswoman and speaker Jan Yager, Ph.D., “ The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2017

Effective communication in business requires an efficient flow of information to all constituents, and ability to share in any media, including speaking, writing, and listening. Of course, investors would prefer that all new businesses be led by entrepreneurs with a track record, and all the attributes highlighted here.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If you haven’t read Reed’s explanation of this split make sure you read it (of course, after you’re done with this post ) —> here. In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios).

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Something to write your notes, another to set reminders, and one that does both. No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon. And of course, one day, the Blackberry dies and erases everything.

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APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Especially for their stage of development. I know the product intimately and it rocks.

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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. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. Market Size.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

founder, Steve Cunningham, this is exactly the thought process he went through when developing a product to help you take in and use information faster. He thought, ‘of course they haven’t read them, when would they get time?’ In fact, many times they write a book to point you to these other tools.”. Readitfor.me

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

We have customers from so many different industries like software, financial services, healthcare, and media. On the product development side, we conduct retrospectives twice a month — there is an open exchange of ideas for improvement. Of course there are risks. Greathouse: Yea, that’s an impressive list.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

To cap off our 6th year at SXSW and follow up on last year’s amazingly successful Trend Lounge , we knew this year had to be bigger, better, more engaging, and of course, even more fun. Margaret Francis – Heroku XL , making large-scale app development easy. Setting the Stage : The Indiegogo/TechZulu Tech Cafe.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. It was at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in the media room when I overheard the founders being interviewed.

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