Both Sides of the Table

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. In business you spend your life in email. Really!). Enter Xobni.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. margin range to more sustainable 50-60% margin businesses.

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Berkonomics

MAY 29, 2014

If you don’t know these things, how are you going to course-correct if things go differently than forecast? Serves as management tool. Email readers, continue here.] A business plan is yours alone. Studies found that people who write plans are more likely to put their goals in action and increases your likelihood of success.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion. Most bloggers wouldn’t turn down the opportunity to make a full time income from writing their blog. This means more people sign up for your email list when you have the pop up box than when you don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? It’s a communication tool. A few reasons.

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Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

This is where tools like project management software can really help. From analytical reporting tools to helpful integrations such as email and Slack prompts, you'll be able to run your whole business, not just your remote work teams, in a more efficient manner. Check In Effectively. Project Management Software. See Reviews.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Here's an example of that kind of email. Of course, you are looking for something a little different - a technical Cofounder.

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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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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. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. Now begins the 6-month journey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Make sure you have the five basic platform tools in place well before the launch – social media profiles with a great headshot (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube), website (with blog), business cards, email signature block, and an email address on your domain name. Using the platform to expand your reach.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Email readers continue here.] Of course they should not.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

So it was my great pleasure to host Chamillionaire on This Week in VC this week talking marketing, entrepreneurship, old media and, of course, music. As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. This was in the 90′s.

Entrepreneur 356

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names. For example, if you are writing about Barack Obama, you can, with a single click, vote him up or down in the article.

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Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Make sure you have the five basic platform tools in place well before the launch – social media profiles with a great headshot (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube), website (with blog), business cards, email signature block, and an email address on your domain name. Using the platform to expand your reach.

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Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I've watched businesses operate throughout my career, and saw that so many times business users struggle with relatively simple applications, where they can't get them build, can't get them to work, and where they have to kludge together an email system to route things to get things approved. It was a very manual process.

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Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

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. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

There are many ways to use social media for this purpose, but the main thing to keep in mind is to make sure you are using the tools to listen and engage, while considering making changes to how your company operates based on the precious feedback you will certainly receive. MIW: We offer our pre-paid support option to satisfy this need.

Social Media 214

Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As long as you have a well architected site that allows Google to properly spider your content, spend the rest of your time and money focusing on maximizing the remaining marketing tools listed below. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . As described more fully in Thrill The Messenger.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. From day one we focused on customers. What is your personal practical joke favorite?

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

He thought, ‘of course they haven’t read them, when would they get time?’ And it really genuinely worked… until Cunningham found himself in a flurry of emails regarding partnerships, more videos, and customer requests for selections. In fact, many times they write a book to point you to these other tools.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve always thought about writing a few posts on features in products that drive me nuts. We all use email in our daily lives. For the most part you send emails to one or many people and you include them all in the “to&# field. Naw, of course not. Is this evil? Here’s where I use it: 1.

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Email Writing Venture Capital Course 276

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Best damn marketing tool by an order of magnitude. Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Of course, those are highly suspect numbers from Feedburner. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing.

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Social Media Services Media Blogging 222

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Sure, of course I am. He started by using email (send your eCard to a friend) and there he sees 3-4 clicks back per share action. Appendix: ** I have enjoyed every episode that I’ve done and keep wanting to write up the notes from some of the previous shows but it’s time consuming. Sign me up.&# Awesome.

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Startup Venture Capital Pricing Writing 303

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

But of course customers will have to do some technical work to migrate products and will lose DataSift functionality that Twitter / Gnip does not possess directly. Never mind that Twitter in writing specifically asked us to build this re-syndication product with them and that every step of the way encouraged us to build out the service.

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Platform Course Customer Custom 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. But before I sent it I had made 10 private phone calls, sent emails & built support. It worked like a charm.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. Somehow this is more honest.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business. Mike told the potential evangelists that Hashable would love their support, and he asked them to tell Hashable what they didn’t like about the tool.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. And of course in my 700 are people like Bill Gates and Barack Obama, neither of whom follows me just yet Asymmetric works both ways.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on. So get over it.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As of this morning Clinton still holds a lead in the popular vote but even that as I write is only by 0.2% And I want to blame Clinton for using that damn email server but of course I know if it weren’t that it would just have been something else. Of course we need to do this. And yet he won. Their voice will be heard.

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