TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. And when the press releases and the attaboys wear off it still comes down to real work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Handling different media formats.

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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. If I check Twitter it’s usually because I’m waiting for a meeting to start and I never write posts during the day. Just look at what happened with Yuri & Ron funding the YC deals. I enjoy that.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. But for some strange reason they make you file your progress on fund raising, which is the widely picked up by the press. So it is now publicly known that we have closed $150 million in our 4th fund.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Most newspapers are written at a third-grade reading level, White House press releases average a fourth-grade reading level and the New York Times is easily digestible by the average fifth grader. No VC Fit - Match your venture with appropriate funding source. Who do I write the check to and where do I send it? Financials.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I am inspired by the constant innovation in our industry by First Round Capital like the Dorm Room Fund , their expansion to Philadelphia (I hope they also have a secret plot to replace Andy Reid while there), the exchange fund and other initiative. Do you find yourself too much in email mode? How can I raise the bar?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Getting involved with political events and fund raisers. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. She helps write press releases. When I told them I really wanted to work with them and lead their funding round they each had their, “but can you please save some space for …” moment. Kara perfected that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Handling different media formats.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. We like to hire people and fund people who are deeply ethical and we try to be long-term in our investment thinking. They respond to email. We chose the word “upfront” to represent our culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Handling different media formats.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There have been a lot of entrepreneurs here in software and other industries, and interestingly enough there seem to be more self-funded, bootstrapped firms here, rather than those looking for venture capital to get off the group. You are self funded too, we recall. The traditional way to handle that is to write code.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. Yeah, true.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

They don’t show up in a calculation that says I spent $7,000 and I got X-thousands inches of press. Fund Raising – No self respecting VC would admit (even to themselves) that they are influenced by what they read about you in the press. It’s much hard to get funded as a company nobody has heard of.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. His follow-on rounds & problems: • Hit funding nuclear winter, impossible to get anyone to invest in follow on, • The concept did not connect with VC’s.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

Their relationship with you is not as important as the one they have with the people that write them checks. An example is a law firm, inside of a firm with a dozen attorneys, they are rich with relationships that they are hard pressed to share with each other. How are you funded?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I answered. ” Ezra was recently a Kauffman Fellow (meaning a tribe of aspiring VCs who get apprenticeship and have a cohort of classmates, many of whom will go on to be VCs), is a senior associate at a Chicago-based fund called Chicago Ventures and is an alum of my alma mater, University of Chicago, GSB. I just write.

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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. He grabbed all the user email addresses I had collected and started talking to potential customers to find out what they wanted to do. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later. Same everywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. He’s been steadily emailing me for the past 18 months with ideas for local entrepreneurs I “have to meet&# and has been egging me on to spend more time in Seattle.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Venture Capital Funding 7. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.).

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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

APRIL 27, 2010

No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. I sent numerous emails for another for a job opportunity and he is now a senior exec at a very prominent startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

As a former hedge fund guy, Roger immediately saw the value in helping companies better sift through the masses of data; often to gain better insights into financial information. Our Twitter handle has become our identity, on par with an email address. Most wont write stuff publicly because they fear retribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

It’s more like writing a Tweet vs. sending a Direct Message (DM) in Twitter, which feels more intimate and intrusive or a FB post vs. a Private Message. Click on the top right tool button and you’ll see your settings with your user name, birth date, email account, etc. Stories is the place to find your sea legs. Navigation.

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