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. If I check Twitter it’s usually because I’m waiting for a meeting to start and I never write posts during the day. Examples: Bin38. He’s committed to getting through every email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

See the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos for an example of product snags leading to a disaster. Funding is depleted before customer sales ramp up. Keep control by writing every check personally, and manage receivable and payables tightly. Marketing and sales take more time and effort than anticipated.

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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. Write a book; I did.

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Entrepreneur Writing .Net Sales 120

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months.

Blogging 286

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

You can ask them to come and watch your videos at your owned & operated websites (O&O) where you can make higher margins as well as ask directly for more meaningful customer information such as Facebook connections, Twitter oAuths, email addresses and the like. To produce content that people want to watch takes unique skills: Writing.

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Company Companies Technical Review Content 339

InfoChachkie

JULY 22, 2013

Brad is in the midst of writing a series of startup-oriented books. When writing Startup Life , Brad noted that he and Amy''s primary goal was to avoid a YARB (Yet Another Relationship Book). In Boulder for example, we''ll be at dinner and people will just come up to us and just start talking to us. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Writing Santa Barbara RSS 248

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

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Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2015

Sometimes this is called a white label strategy, because your customers offer your product as their own product, writing in their brand name on the blank label in your underlying offering. Bazaarvoice, a company in Austin, Texas is a great example of this kind of operation. Really, that’s a business?

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Outsource Social Media Commerce Writing 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2013

This is sad, since “how to write a business plan” is a frequent topic found in every business journal, and a common title in the business section of every book store. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. What is the definition of a good business plan?

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Sample Writing Startup Summary 92

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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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

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. Speak to people, rather than write a document every time you want a change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2012

This is sad, since “how to write a business plan” is a frequent topic found in every business journal, and a common title in the business section of every book store. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. What is the definition of a good business plan?

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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. Your commitments to investors must be significant enough to compel them to write you a check. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”. Share and Enjoy.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Sales people (and website customer acquisition folks) all think in terms of funnels and yet non-sales professionals seldom do. Every night before I went to bed I would say to myself, what one thing could I do to make progress on this hire, which is why people who worked with me on it probably noticed a lot of late-night emails.

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Startup Framework Sales Venture Capital 150

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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Satisfaction Examples Course Technical Review 167

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This is sad, since “how to write a business plan” is a frequent topic found in every business journal, and a common title in the business section of every book store. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. What is the definition of a good business plan?

Startup 91

Startup Funding Sample Writing 91

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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Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

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. Speak to people, rather than write a document every time you want a change.

Startup 85

Startup Slides Email Customer 85

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. I'm focusing on the sourcing ("lead gen" on her slide) aspect.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

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. Speak to people, rather than write a document every time you want a change.

Startup 93

Startup Customer Custom Slides 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. I’ll be covering my PUCCKA sales methodology.

Entrepreneur 267

Entrepreneur Startup SaaS San Diego 267

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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Mobile Sales Startup Sites 140

Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

After focusing on your site, it’s time to use an email marketing platform and move on to lead nurturing. It integrates with OptinMonster, allows you to craft beautiful emails, and more importantly, enables you to create automated workflows without writing a single line of code. GetResponse fits this bill perfectly.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current. Jimmy Hendricks: We make a percentage of every sale. For example, if a customer has a question on a purchase, we answer that. I was hired to run their tennis division, and I built our the sales division for their tennis team.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

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. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

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. Speak to people, rather than write a document every time you want a change.

Startup 90

Startup Slides Email Customer 90

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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Can you give a concrete example of how that might work? The traditional way to handle that is to write code. We can even automate interaction with a search engine, for example, if you might have 5,000 search strings you need to put into a search engine. However, as you can se eour our website, our motto is no code, no limits.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This article will cover two things; First, the top mistakes small business owners make that end with inquiries leading you to the exit door before making a sale. The word “convince” shouldn’t exist in sales. Perfect example; ShoeBoxed.com. Once you’ve answered these questions go ahead and contact them in a short email.

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Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. They all offer a list of requirements that might take 50 pages to address, but of course they ask you to write concisely. This one had better grab their attention, or they won’t look further. Executive team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Strictly for example sake I’ll take our mission at Upfront Ventures. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. They respond to email. I wanted to just write. I like writing.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

There are many signs to look for when receiving candid feedback from your customers, here’s a few examples of things Make It Work customers say and what we are doing about it: Customer (from a Delight Survey email): Why don’t you offer billing as an option, rather than require payment on demand at the end of the appointment?

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Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

For example, he explained a situation where his company could not meet payroll the next day and was about to go out of business. Liu began by talking about her background, eventually explaining how she sent an email to Marks to get into StartEngine in a no Wi-Fi zone. “A The two entrepreneurs then moved on to talk about college.

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Startup Los Angeles USC Southern California 107

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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Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

When I began gathering examples of Oprah’s wisdom, I expected to identify a handful of quotes relevant to entrepreneurs. The ratings were poor, the writing was uninspired and Oprah did not have enough time or energy to devote to the show. Her fans knew that she was not “for sale.” Photo by cliff1066™ on Flickr.

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Tips Startup Networking Entrepreneur 279

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. Market Size.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. Do you have sales productivity software? Write out the topic and maybe even the blog title. By definition, you read blogs.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373