Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He started the call by telling me he had exciting news. He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. A positive news story means NOTHING about the core performance of your business. I’d love to do a 30 minute call just to update you on our exciting news.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Historically you are your email address. Think about your local news anchor saying, “if you want to get in touch email me at xxxx.” So again your local news anchor doesn’t exactly want to follow back all of her viewers. Yes, I know a lot of this could just come from existing IT systems and email.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

How did an email marketing provider turn into a provider of software which mashes up a combination of email marketing, wiki, customer service management, event and meeting management tool, project management software, and much more? Lars Helgeson: We started about ten years ago, with an email marketing platform called CoolerEmail.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

Most board members don’t have the intention of checking email, reading the news or sending a quick text message but just like most smokers don’t want to pull out a cigarette?—?the It’s super distracting when your executives are typing away at email while the rest of the board is meant to be engaged in a discussion.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Nimble--which is led by CRM software vet Jon Ferrara--said that the new enhancements lets users pull in external data, such as maps, invoices, news, and much more. Nimble's web-based software lets users track all of their interaction with a customer or client, including emails, social networking activity, phone calls, and more.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal said today that it has launched a new, beta of a local business site called Bizzy. ReachLocal said that Bizzy will allow users to connect with local businesses, receive exclusive offers, invitations to events, tips, and news from their favorite businesses.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Yes, sometimes the news is not good. Email readers, continue here…] Your fear that the confidential information may get out to the industry competitors should be tempered by the fact that you are not giving out the secret sauce, just the results of the past period’s performance.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

I spoke about the topic on Fox Business News yesterday in a great session with TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon and will post it along with my other VC Videos when Fox puts it on their website. So don’t expect an unprompted email or phone call next week. Start with a very short thank you email the day after your pitch.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Initial news of the cuts, which were made in the last couple of days, came through recruiters and others close to the company. Citygrid did not respond to emails for comment yesterday from socalTECH, however, TechCrunch is placing the size of the cuts at 15 percent of the company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2010

in a legal settlement over the firm's use of promotional emails implying that former classmates were looking to contact free members. According to the class action settlement, Classmates.com will pay $3 in cash for every Classmates.com member who upgraded to "gold" membership after one of those promotional emails.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2013

The firm's software is one of the few which helps enable the trend of using content curation to automate content publishing.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

CPM, as well as email, with a CPM of $0.94. Other high CPM earners are general news sites, at $6.14 According to comScore, in April 2010 the CPMs for display ad impressions were $6.99 for newspaper sites, and $6.29 for sports sites. Among the lowest CPMs are social networking sites, which garnered only an $0.56

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Well, after all the disappointments, pressure and outright failures, this is NEWS. Email readers, continue here…] A moment, please…. One thing a senior manager can count on is that someday, something will go right, very right. So we tend to go overboard a bit. Remember to think of the many steps in the supply chain.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Make sure to send a monthly email to all board members / investors with a link to your spreadsheet saying, “I’ve made a few updates. But we barely get through all our email let alone log into online spreadsheets. Partners will ask about “recent high profile news&# that might affect the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

So I need to stand out in two areas in which I compete for attention – social media and news readers. Sometimes I just scan and other times it serves as a launching-off point for me to digest the daily news. Titles are an enticement to read a post. It’s how we inform ourselves these days. People looooove lists.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The bible of entertainment industry news, Variety , has been acquired by Internet entrepreneur Jay Penske, via his firm, Penske Media , the companies said today. Variety has been covering entertainment and Hollywood news since 1905. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. As with tonight I got my kids to bed, did some email, caught 30 minutes of the news then sat down to type. But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 28, 2012

The reaction to bad news by VC’s controlling the board by virtue of their power to supply additional money, often includes the threat – or reality – of starting the process to find a replacement CEO. So the combination of bad news and VC or professional investors on the Board can be volatile for the founders or management.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. It''s how do you gather that news at scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. It got me thinking about the advice that I often give to new VCs. What I’m saying is that you can’t spend all of your time in email working your inbox.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Perhaps better examples to point to are easy to find in the toy industry, where recalls because of small parts that could be swallowed by infants or lead-based paint or flammable components make the news on a regular basis.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2009

Just read this article - Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue That could be really bad news. Recently, I've been feeling like it's really just a messaging platform like email or IM. Part of the appeal of twitter is that it's a fairly open platform and that there are a lot of people building tools that live on top of the platform.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Email readers continue here.] These informal advisors will appreciate occasional updates in the form of emails just as you would email board members with news of progress. But a scheduled visit for more than a tour and meeting management is asking too much unless offered.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We track and record every call, email, post and tweet and we constantly bring our sponsors into the mix to share in the exposure. Tech News, powered by Make It Work on CBS’s KNX1070 was our first show. After Tech News, we run Jeremy’s Desktop. OSN 101 – Online Social Networking news and tips.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2010

What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? Jamie Siminoff - anybody who can help me manage my email inbox is a hero!!! We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

Do you feel protected from new media? 10:00 Is news being disaggregated? 30:30 Are you investing in email? 7:00 Thank you to Walker Corporate Law for sponsoring the show. Everyone follow @ScottEdWalker for some great insight into the legal process. 8:15 How do you feel about your properties? Check out detroitventurepartners.com.

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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. Here's an example of that kind of email. The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And now they want to revolutionize email.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

times and my email newsletter subscribers more than doubled. Hacker News and LinkedIn gave it some love. The kind words I receive in comments, Tweets and emails are highly motivational and most appreciated. If you have not already signed up to my email newsletter, you can do so HERE. Multimedia And Syndication.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 11, 2018

“That’s news to us, we have a contract with both,” wrote an executive at a leading scooter company, when asked about the deal and its implications for the scooter business. Meanwhile, other companies in the market believe that this agreement is much less than it seems.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Similar to their prior guerilla-marketing stunt, their April Fool''s Day posting topped Hacker News. We didn''t ask people to tweet it, they just did.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

One of the folks in media who has been helping to define that shift is Cenk Uygur , the head of Culver City-based The Young Turks (www.tytnetwork.com), and online news and politics show. Cenk Uygur: We do news coverage, and dominate the field online. We operate the largest online news network overall, with about 1.25

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2010

Second, the email features are far superior to other devices. In my left hand is my Blackberry Bold which is my phone device, and in my right hand is my iPhone, which I use for Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics, company stats, YouTube, reading sites and news apps and email, if I must. I hope Blackberry reads this post.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Email readers, continue here…] That form of open book management surprises many, but if the employees are stakeholders with a taste of equity, why not underscore the value of that equity by treating them as cohorts? Yes, sometimes the news is not good. Would bad news drive your best employees out the door?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The firm provides news, information, email, chat, and other content via mobile phone, and has a number of deals inked with African telecom carriers. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. Mobile-XL is developing SMS-based mobile applications specifically geared towards areas with limited or expensive internet access.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), which operates the Mail.com email service and portal, as well as its own network of content-focused web sites, said today that it has acquired BGR.com , a mobile/gadget review and news site. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2013

And it was the first word I muttered when I heard the news tonight. Please don’t email David Hornik. We still had so many more times to spend together. I loved this image I saw posted by Andy Rankin. Because this is the one word that was not in your vocabulary. I remember when we met years ago. I told you what a dumb idea it was.

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