Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. Often you ask somebody, “Did you see that article on Google buying so and so?”

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? If I were writing the book today, there would be a whole chapter or two…about how to use Facebook and Twitter. I think Google+ is a great, great mechanism for enchanting people.”. You even include your email address at the back of the book.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you looking for employment at a company or just wanting to expand your connections, don’t be afraid to email or tweet someone and see if they want to go for a coffee or a beer. I have applied at Google 1000 times, never heard back, but I used social media to finally get a call from them about a decade later. Ask for feedback.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you look at some high-profile tech companies funded in the last big VC cycle you had eBay, Amazon, Salesforce & Google each go public having raised < $100 million in VC TOTAL prior to IPO and their last private-market valuation were all sub $400 million. Maybe add your email to receive the next post delivered to your email box?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. 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. You then need a URL.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. So I often try to stay off of email during the day. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. OK, before you all tell me about Google Voice, let me say the following.

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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

JUNE 1, 2011

Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! What if Google had paid attention to Dodgeball – would there be no FourSquare today? That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. I started by writing 3-4 times / week. Less than 100 people read that original post 2 years ago.

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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. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. Really!). Enter Xobni.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. I mostly get hammered on HN if I write about a controversial topic like criticizing Apple (in fact, what prompted me to write this post today was that I was asked on Twitter to write a post about Facebook.

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News Tips Blogging Writing 258

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Understand and write down every expense, and budget for required costs, especially initial inventory and accounts receivable delays. One of the most useful tools for any small business is Excel or Google spreadsheets, for monthly profit-loss statements and operational tracking. Details are important.

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Customer Custom Tool Writing 125

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

times and my email newsletter subscribers more than doubled. Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. If you have not already signed up to my email newsletter, you can do so HERE.

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Newsletter Blogging Santa Barbara Content 205

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs. If they prefer not to meet (they’re rationally trying to be judicious with time) you can politely request that perhaps you could just do it on a web conference call (Xoom, Google Hangouts, Skype, whatever.)

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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. The ones who did leave were being poached by Google and Amazon, and moving North.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them. Capture the data – the currency of online direct marketing prior to Twitter was the email address. So why is this important for businesses?

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Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. If you worked for firms like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Goldman Sachs, Google and the like you’re probably more likely to rise to the top of the stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 I’m now back & ready for action.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

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. We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33. “How-to&# guides work well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. You should, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

You originally had to have a.edu email address to even join. And any even casual follower of the tech industry knows that Google Plus has been criticized for cracking down on anybody who wasn’t a “real person.” Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Quora, Tumblr. Along came Facebook. Thank you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions.

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

Normally, one would use analytics tools such as Google Analytics to obtain raw data on how a site performs. After focusing on your site, it’s time to use an email marketing platform and move on to lead nurturing. Maximizing conversions is all about ensuring the best experience possible to your users.

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Tool Customer Custom Sites 39

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

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. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. His email list became his power. He would occasionally give away free music in exchange for email addresses.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Email 356

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. Companies like Zefr, Scopely, and others I did not write a check, because you have a different mindset as an individual investors. Two, is I missed a bunch of deals because I did not have a fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics. &#.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. Be visible online and to traditional media, volunteer to lead, write guest posts for others, be responsive, give stuff away, and provide many ways to communicate. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days?

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Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Campaign setup and ad copy writing.

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SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The Viral Loop / User Email. Increase the production of your content.It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”.The Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts). Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. Refreshing Content.

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Web Social Media Content Sites 61

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. Be visible online and to traditional media, volunteer to lead, write guest posts for others, be responsive, give stuff away, and provide many ways to communicate. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days?

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Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. That student is Erin McCann who formerly worked in sales at Google, so she has some ground to stand on in her assertions. And that leads me to today’s post.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

If you found one of our user's items, there's a Google-like search box, which leads to to a form where you can describe how you found the item, or how the owner can pick it up or arrange for shipping of the item. All you need is an email address. You give us your email address, and register each of your items.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 > -jeff.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. Once you’ve answered these questions go ahead and contact them in a short email. If these companies have email lists even better! CALL THEM, not a tweet, or facebook wall post, or email and especially not a text.

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Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Test and adjust your projections, based on experienced advisor input and industry norms, rather than the Google high exception. Never write something you wouldn’t want to come back to you. Every one of us has sent a sensitive email to the wrong party, or had it misinterpreted by the receiver.

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