Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

I’ve talked before about the need to get rid of “ that negative chip on your shoulder ” as it won’t help you in business. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Modern-society is also littered with over-networkers and over-introducers and professional conference attendees. It’s human nature to try and be helpful to others. In many instances this help is genuine, well-meaning and productive. That’s why focus is critical. It starts seemingly innocent enough.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

How did Sarah Penna create one of YouTube''s most successful networks? As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age , YouTube has progressed from its initial incarnation as a repository of random videos to a number of vertically focused, professionally managed networks. which evolved into the biggest YouTube network, called Maker Studios. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. It’s why many talent agencies or ad networks struggle to get scale advantages.

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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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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

Sean McDonald is founder of Jute Networks (www.jutenetworks.com), which is in a startup developing highly visual, graphical tools to help people use their professional networks and connections to further their business. What is Jute Networks? Our company, Jute Networks, is a startup that is about a year and a half old.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2011

Sign up with your email address, Facebook or Twitter account, and it allows you the early adopter, founder, designer, investor, or critic to join the site and track only what you find appealing. A static way to read what people were saying would be even more helpful ie a comment box. Founded by Nick Frost Startupli.st Startupli.st

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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!). Other deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. So why is this important for businesses?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2014

I recently received an email from a former student in which he described how he was able to secure a lunch meeting with a high-profile entrepreneur who is operating multiple ventures in parallel. I wasn''t surprised by Benedikt''s email, as I was aware of his confidence and politely aggressive personality. Meeting Adam Cheyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

It should stick in your head as a metaphor for networking. You send them update emails. Help them write other stories. One day they’ll write yours. 50 coffee meetings. For getting outside of your comfort zone. For starting relationships today that won’t pay off for a year. 50 coffee meetings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Give and you will receive.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

This is where tools like project management software can really help. Even better, many of these software provide other helpful features that can make tracking productivity even easier. Even better, many of these software provide other helpful features that can make tracking productivity even easier. Check In Effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Understand and write down every expense, and budget for required costs, especially initial inventory and accounts receivable delays. Skip the complex contracts by lawyers, but at least use an email to confirm terms and conditions to all parties. Don’t forget to do continuous marketing and networking. Details are important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Give and you will receive.

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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. That has a really large impact on early stage companies, who typically don't have a deep network of relationships, and the ability to get to those type of people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain. Give and you will receive.

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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. Your technical advisor can likely help. Do you have dollars to pay for development?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Really great feedback that’s going to help us build an awesome product. Why did you venture into fitness? There’s something like 4.5

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based FreedomSpeaks.com an online web site focused on political social networking, said Tuesday that it has launched a new application programming interface (API) targeted at helping developers tap into information about publicly elected officials. READ MORE>>

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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. Plus, show my you can write! We need help. I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After logging into your account via Facebook API, the platform uses your date of birth as the core data to help you calendar all of your friend’s birthdays and discover other people around you who also celebrate your special day. Writing a wish list for birthday presents at 10 years-old is expected. How great is that?!

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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. We have standing agreements to drive revenue share from all of those merchants in our network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain. Give and you will receive.

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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. In fact, they were recently bought by a publicly traded company called Ditech Networks).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. We're able to help throw some gasoline on the fire, plus also help people even at the earliest stages of a business. We're able to help throw some gasoline on the fire, plus also help people even at the earliest stages of a business. That's part one.

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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. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, A little Groucho Marx always helps.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. More importantly, start cultivating networks of friends who have a sense of pulse on the frontiers of the economy. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain. Give and you will receive.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. I rarely only read the post. It’s an awesome implementation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

I was thinking it would be awesome to have systems that could help track this so more authoritative people who were anonymous could rise to the top. All of this has become a lot more relevant lately given social networking. You originally had to have a.edu email address to even join. Social networks are like Iran.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Sure, a great operating system is one of the things Microsoft is most known for, but there are dozens of other Microsoft products and services that help businesses grow. Over 73% of large businesses in North America use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary email system. That makes it the first in console sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

So I have a short story to exemplify my credo and my friend Tyler Crowley has been telling me to write this story for a while so here goes. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings. So I didn’t ask.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. First Round Capital invests heavily in its own infrastructure to help add value to the portfolio companies. They have sixteen people on staff.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

And still able to make it out to LA networking events. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. She helps write press releases. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. Always meeting her product ship dates. Getting involved with political events and fund raisers. million Twitter followers.

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