Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

They get pissed off if a senior executive at Google doesn’t take a meeting with them, if people are late to their meetings or if they have emails that are unreturned. And they take out that resentment against anybody else that may show signs of one of these past patterns. But how do you get past gate keepers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For example, there are a dozen articles like this one for every area of expertise. Then lead by example. An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Yet, there are constant examples of new entrants into a niche that grow, prosper and sometimes even become dominant. There’s an example of avoiding the encounter and losing the lead position when an opportunity to compete surfaces unexpectedly. At least that is the conventional wisdom. So when do we know which course to take?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. ” I don’t doubt that he means it.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Dave’s note: Our guest author this week is John Huston, founder of the 300+ member Ohio TechAngel Funds and a past Chairman of both the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute. . Email readers, continue here…] But this too is an overly simplistic view. By John Huston.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] First there comes a sense of relief, knowing that you no longer need to worry over daily cash or threats to your net worth. Not many founders or entrepreneurs do experience the success of a favorable sale of the business they dreamed would make them rich. Many fail multiple times.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. Examples: Bin38. And look at the valuation creep across the board in the past year. He’s committed to getting through every email. I get way too many emails – many of them unsolicited.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

In past insights, we explored the need for a tangible goal and strategies that are measurable as steps toward achievement of the goal. Here are several examples of tactics from my recent experience with companies where I serve as board member. . Email readers continue here.] .

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. What does that look like?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2014

For example, there are a dozen articles like this one for every area of expertise. Then lead by example. An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

This month’s big question is Examples of Big Impact from Technology and I’ve taken it as an opportunity to go back and look at the elements of different projects that I’ve worked on over the years that have had a big impact. They can easily copy, paste and edit a goal/plan from one of the examples and have no real intent on implementing.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The Billion Dollar Email. A few months later, on December 30th, 2010, my friend appended the following text to a lengthy, non-Uber oriented email: “not sure if you guys are aware of uber ( ubercab.com ). s/w sales vs real-world fulfillment of a service). . one of my old <company name redacted> colleagues is the ceo.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

Example from this morning was a quick discussion on the “Brexit” and wether the UK will exit Europe. It is not uncommon for founders to fight amongst themselves or teams to develop silos that simple can’t stomach talking with other groups so they avoid human contact and revert to flaming wars on email or Slack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2012

For example, there are a dozen articles like this one for every area of expertise. Then lead by example. An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The ones who are doing it feverishly are a small niche of people, which really is all of the grocery bloggers today, who figure out what is on sale, what coupons are also available, and stack those coupons on top of those sales. The cover several regions, figuring out what''s on sale, what coupons there are, and match them up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2011

For example, there are a dozen articles like this one for every area of expertise. Then lead by example. An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

In the past, you'd also need a team of engineers to scale that, as well. An example of this is a famous sports team, which uses us to put phone numbers on billboards. They measure how many phones calls there are to sales from those billboards, based on our analytics engine. What's your next growth area?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. However, you are only paid for ads that generate sales. Such actions include sales, trials, leads, downloads, etc.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

The area which probably is really attuned to your readers, is we also serve many mid-market, growth oriented companies that are looking to grow and acquire customers, with paid and earned digital channels, paid search, paid media, social, email, and organic SEO, as well as digital PR and content. What are your thoughts on that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2010

For example, there are a dozen blogs like this one for every area of expertise. Then lead by example. An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences. He continued to tell the stories of his past, illustrating different lessons in each story. We live in a generation of startups,” Marks began.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms. However, industrial security is very different. more) READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad have completely revolutionized how consumers interact with the online world in the past few years. For example, they might be talking with a manager about how much a product is selling there versus other stores. The use cases range from sales enablement to human resources, to executive reporting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. I’m now at about 70k monthly uniques put the growth has been gradual over the past 9 months – not one great spurt. The obvious starting point is to email a few friends and let them know you have a new blog. How do I build an audience?

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I will share what I’ve learned about affiliate marketing in the past few days with you now. Through CJ’s website, Publishers/Affiliates bring hits to Advertisers’ websites by using Google Adwords, blogs, email, Twitter, Facebook and other means. An example of this process is evident right here on my blog.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. He decided that our largest customers would be involved in the setting of our priority lists (we did some of this internally in the early years but we saw it mostly as a sales process). Another great example is Bill Barhydt of m-Via.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. It is clearly a ploy by hotels to cut costs but it also benefits the environment.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

In fact, for the past 27-years, he has specialized in bringing exotic travel destinations to those of us who are healthy and active but whose competitive sporting days are long behind us. For example, some people have special destination experience, perhaps Peace Corps that they can parlay into a meaningful and unique travel experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. As you can see in this Cambridge Associates data, early-stage investing beat later stage investing in returns in 70% of the past 30 years. Take for example Accel. billion each, $7.5

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services. Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. VC Financings: 1.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online. We then evolved over the past year, to get from those 18 products to almost 1500 products. How long has the site been around?

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2015

For example, you might have a child with celiac disease or severe food allergies. I ran operations, strategy, sales, and technology for the online division of Warner Bros. We just put a beta version forth in the past month or so, and we just went out more widely in the LA market last week. So tell us, where is Momstamp now?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

For example, when you are standing near the Flatiron building in New York, you can get this Flatiron filter. In the past this was reserved through an application process that Snapchat controlled. Need a few examples? But, I for example was able to get a filter approved that just said my name: GaryVee. And submit!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 16, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] Are each set of goals consistent with the other’s including for example personal wealth, business success, and autonomy? Example: cash, assets, equipment, connections… Regardless of what it is, a partner’s contribution needs to increase the value of the business. Access to new markets.

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