TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

An additional way the government could juice the auto industry — and specifically electric vehicles — is by providing point of sale rebates for all vehicles that could be issued through car dealerships, according to the proposal. billion set aside for workforce retraining and education.

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Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

I am chairman of a company that, as I write this, is twelve years old and has not yet taken a dollar of outside investment. Grant writing takes skill and immense amounts of time. First, here’s a link to my recent TEDx talk, “Smiling at success; laughing at failure.”

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Company Companies Writing Education 166

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2019

Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. If you want to connect with customers, put aside your writing formalities. Then write it down. Lacks a sales angle. Your content must continue to deliver new ideas. Easy to digest.

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Customer Custom Marketing Tips 93

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries. .

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Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. So, I sat down and started spending about 50% of my time writing the book.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There is a rather new term for those large, individual investors who are usually former entrepreneurs made rich through sale of their previous ventures. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Individual super angel investors. Accelerators. And the one thing in common?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Not many founders or entrepreneurs do experience the success of a favorable sale of the business they dreamed would make them rich. Others are diluted by subsequent investors to the point where there was nothing for them to celebrate at all in a sale. Write a book; I did. Many fail multiple times.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

The primary stipulation is that each Thiel Fellow must drop out of college, for at least two years, and pursue their “entrepreneurial ventures, research and self-education.”. Bill Gates – “The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written.

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Tips Startup Education Entrepreneur 279

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

You probably haven’t heard of Raymond “Pappy” Smith, but he parlayed his Junior High education into an entertainment empire that changed the way Americans viewed gambling. Education – When he opened his first casino, gambling was not mainstream. Thus, he had to educate his gamblers. Lessons: (i) Over deliver value to your users.

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Education Zag Entertainment Sales 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2017

Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. If you want to connect with customers, put aside your writing formalities. Then write it down. Lacks a sales angle. Your content must continue to deliver new ideas. Easy to digest.

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Content Marketing Newsletter Writing 67

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. It's a hands-on kind of education. What is CreatorUp all about?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. So, I sat down and started spending about 50% of my time writing the book.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2014

Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. If you want to connect with customers, put aside your writing formalities. Then write it down. Lacks a sales angle. Your content must continue to deliver new ideas. Easy to digest.

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Startup Content Newsletter Writing 103

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

As an entrepreneur, I helped create companies which achieved two IPOs and two trade sales totaling $385 million. Public relations at a startup is a sales process. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”. Grant Exclusivity.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. Rationale: I cannot afford to hire a direct sales force. Fallacy: Third-party, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) representatives succeed once the sales process is defined, proven and documented. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements.

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Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

By avoiding an entire semester of Core classes (one fourth of my entire Wharton education), I was able to take every single entrepreneurial course offered by the University, while simultaneously earning a Minor Degree in drinking beer and playing poker. marketing, finance, sales, etc.). Writing / English / Public Speaking.

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Entrepreneur Class Course Writing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. If you want to connect with customers, put aside your writing formalities. Then write it down. Lacks a sales angle. Your content must continue to deliver new ideas. Easy to digest.

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Content Startup Newsletter Writing 99

Technology Council

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Phil Becker writes: On Wednesday, September 24, I had the opportunity to moderate a truly interesting and educational dinner meeting of that Tech Council's Marketing SIG.

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Blogging Marketing Writing Education 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. Frankly, it’s the life of ANY executives with whom you want to sell product, do a business development deal with, execute M&A, a journalist you want to write about your company?—?anybody. everything.

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Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Writing specialists. Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. Today we are seeing a rapid transition to independent specialists.

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Entrepreneur Services Search Engine Optimization Startup 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2011

Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. If you want to connect with customers, put aside your writing formalities. Then write it down. Lacks a sales angle. Your content must continue to deliver new ideas. Easy to digest.

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Content Startup Newsletter Writing 94

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

With all these companies vying for attention & others just here to soak up the vibe I thought I’d write a much broader piece on how startups can make the most of their attendance at conferences & events. Write them in advance and request meetings. And those 10% all probably all sales people.

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Conference Startup Technical Review Writing 289

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - Many other great companies are not. -

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Mo’s other degree was English, mine was Political Science.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

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. Once again, there is a need to educate board members that in conflict of interest cases, the corporation comes first.

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Class Coach Invest Sales 179

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. That''s when we started looking at credit repair, online education, and others.

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. The world’s best brains are on sale.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

We've had event companies, and clubs, and web businesses, all vertically focused on either passions or really exciting subjects like knowledge management, sales, field force automation, and home office computing, small business, bedtime reading. We have published 74 different magazine titles over the last 30 years.

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Media Report Advertising Content 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. It’s not always the obvious sources of education that shape you the most. He writes about the fabric of American life, often from the perspective of his Jewish, New Jersey roots. Don’t get me wrong – I loved economics.

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Class Writing Web 2.0 Offshore 334

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

After more than three decades as an educator -- in both the classroom and the corporate world -- I've found that the most impactful learning and development program integrates this theory from beginning to end with three main strategies. Make it learner-centric. Why should an employee take this training?

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Training Writing Conference Slides 48

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

The TechCrunch team was judicious in its determination of qualifiers, insisting that the accelerators be, “fixed-term, cohort-based, with educational and mentorship components, culminating in a public pitch or demo day.” If the sales aren’t there, it might be time for the entrepreneurs to either pivot or seek out a new venture.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Business Sales Techniques. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

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Class Course Writing Slides 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). 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. Higher education.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. Having recurring revenue allows you to keep the original purchase price down, which in turn increases sales.

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Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Writing specialists. Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. Today we are seeing a rapid transition to independent specialists.

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Entrepreneur Services Product Search Engine Optimization 89

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. And covered we did.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274