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. We have an informed point of view. He’s committed to getting through every email.

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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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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. In sales there are also three rules: Qualify, qualify, qualify.

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Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Looking for an entrance into a VC, an angel group, a bank, a CxO for a sales opportunity, or any other entity? Every sales person with a bit of street history will resonate with this question. Email readers, continue here…] Using your attorney or accountant to find who is close to the decision maker sometimes works.

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Ideas Sales Competition Venture Capital 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Email updates frequently. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

Talented brand sales people? You send them update emails. You know the drill – “informational interview.&# Life is an informational interview. Help them write other stories. One day they’ll write yours. Are you looking for great engineers? A smart young marketing exec? 50 coffee meetings.

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Startup Writing Press Venture Capital 410

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. All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). THE FULL STORY.

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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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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In reality, the opportunities are greater for starting with a micro-business , ideally from your special expertise or passion, with fewer than five employees, and just enough sales to comfortably support you and your team. Hobbyists tend to work informally with like-minded people. Meticulously manage cash inflow and outflow.

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Customer Custom Tool Writing 125

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). I shared with Brad that I often struggle with how much personal information I share in my public persona. It''s not true. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Writing Santa Barbara RSS 248

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2020

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

Writing 125

Writing Entrepreneur Summary Email 125

Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve remained a skeptic about the BBB and as a result of an email I received a couple of weeks ago from them, I have raised the skepticism threat level. So here’s the email I received: Eric, My name is Chad Ratliffe emailing from the Better Business Bureau. That’s how we do business at Make It Work.

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Santa Barbara Technical Advisors Email Technical Review 265

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not.

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Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

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. In the old days this was email addresses. Set design.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 2, 2010

I discovered the power of employee feelings of ownership early in my management career, establishing an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), once popular as incentive compensation as well as a tax write-off for corporations and even a way to slowly transfer ownership of a company from the founders to the employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. Want to take a year pursuing your dream to write a screenplay, travel through Asia, run a triathlon or start your own fashion line?

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Startup Email Technical Review Course 295

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Email readers continue here.] All other board functions are secondary.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Something to write your notes, another to set reminders, and one that does both. No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon. We’ve been there. We’ve all been there.

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Product Ideas Email Organization 99

Jason Nazar

JUNE 22, 2010

I’ve spent most of my career in sales (or some sales like function), and here are my thoughts on how to be better with your BD. Get Warm Introductions – Typically 1 out of 10 people will email or call you back from a cold outreach. Information, a deal does not close. 10 Tips for Better BD. Now the real work begins.

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Outsource Development Develop Development Tips 88

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

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. The ten companies selected for the programe are: • AccessDNA : – Think WebMD for genetic information. And of course we had, TheMan.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

An email subscription is coming! The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. Email me or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. As I’ve written before, consider this a soft launch.

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San Fernando Los Angeles Commerce News 217

InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

For instance, a senior executive from a major media agency, who did not attend the show, was prompted by a bearded-booth-babe tweet to contact the company’s VP of Sales. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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Marketing Conference RSS Angel 209

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

JANUARY 9, 2023

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

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Tips Writing Startup Summary 123

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

All you need is an email address. You give us your email address, and register each of your items. We give you a number, that you can then write on a label or put on the device, or in the case of something like sporting equipment you can write directly on the object. James Tamplin: There's a couple of reasons.

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Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

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Writing Entrepreneur Summary Email 109

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Or read the quick, informative summary below the image! Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. - o Everything is for sale but it’s the price that moves the timing. He told them it was now or never.

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Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

No board will know your business better than you do but if managed properly they should be the most informed people about your business than any full-time executive. It shouldn’t be the place where they ask why you have 8 sales reps and not 6. And half the time you know they’re zoned out and checking email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

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. But this should come by having your mental model of what is correct and only changing it if you can build a new model with new information. Conviction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2016

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

Writing 62

Writing Summary Email Ideas 62

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We're also aggregating lots of information about products, not just from companies, but also from our own point of view and experts, as well as parents who are our customers, in addition to bloggers from all over the Internet. We also are bringing together a community of like-minded people, so that they can share and exchange information.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The traditional way to handle that is to write code. We can take all those search results, put them into a spreadsheet, and automatically email it to interested parties. Gary Bishop: We've been able to make big use of available technology, plus about 30 to 45 percent of our sales are international.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

RetailNext data shows that sales over the 2015 Thanksgiving weekend were down by 4.7 In addition, apps can be a pain for users who have to download a retailer’s app to find product information. This forgoes having to take out a wallet in stores, or having to type in credit card information online or on mobile sites.

Mobile 40

Mobile Sites Customer Custom 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives. I’m sure it will be fun and informative. Sales is the lifeblood of every organization. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

You can use that to build out your information basis in your network from those aggregate data sources. You can also store information in there. What you see instead is all the information about their relationships. Their relationship with you is not as important as the one they have with the people that write them checks.

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Networking Startup Social Network Software 113

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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