Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

B2C Companies We talked about how some companies saw an immediate decline in purchasing (for example if you’re in travel or hospitality). Seed deals, for example, are easier to get funded than a late-stage deal for obvious reasons. Burn through your cash quickly at your peril. That may happen. But I doubt it. In a word: Yes.

Venture Capital 263

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Writing 263

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

Platform 170

Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Use strong communication and writing skills.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

socalTECH

MAY 20, 2016

In particular, there are many platforms who enable taking ticket payments for sporting events, donation payments for non profits and rent payments for property managers, who don't fit into the current legacy way payments are handled. In the middle section are platforms like Uber, Airbnb, or Taskrabbit. What is Digitzs?

Platform 113

Platform Startup Ticketmaster Writing 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 66

Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. If you’ve done a good job in the sales process you’ve already written out a needs document in which your wrote out what you believe the customer problems are with specific examples. Maybe they don’t?

Sales 328

Sales Custom Customer Examples 328

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. An informal writing style is generally recommended. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

Demand 240

Demand Media eHow Content 240

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. By definition, you read blogs.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly. A winning USP example is the FedEx lead “When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.” Another investment barrier is good social solutions which appeal only to people with little money.

.Net 73

.Net Examples Custom Customer 73

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? Final example. Think about Luma Partners.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. ” “Sam?

Startup 372

Startup Course Ideas Invest 372

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly The Importance of Twitter.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). Richard coincidentally cites Mike Yavondite’s Qiigo as an example; Mike was a guest on TWIVC later that day. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company.

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka. think Apple.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Nowhere is social proof more prevalent than in angel investing. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. An informal writing style is generally recommended. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? For example, look at the following graph. For example, if you sell your product through a third-party reseller who charges 30% of any sale then your COGS will be 30% of revenue (assuming no other costs of sales).

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. An informal writing style is generally recommended. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Can you give a concrete example of how that might work? The traditional way to handle that is to write code. We can even automate interaction with a search engine, for example, if you might have 5,000 search strings you need to put into a search engine. We can deliver a very functional, automation platform for less than $2000.

Networking 214

Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. An informal writing style is generally recommended. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We caught up with Steve Seigel , the executive producer and one of the stars of the new startup pitch program Hatched (www.hatchedtv.com), to learn more about those areas, as well as how he ended up going from investment banking, to running a healthcare startup here in LA, to hosting a television pitch show.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Invest Competition 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Here’s just one example post featuring the wisdom I learned from Stuart about negotiations. Writing a book will be fun. You hire people who look good on paper. After 6 months – you know. You REALLY know.

CTO Hire 320

CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Under Bruce’s innovative guidance, the company was an early adopter of the Internet, creating online videos long before platforms such as YouTube became ubiquitous. I had problems with reading and writing and comprehension and a lot of social abilities. Certain things like sales was a good example. I am NOT the salesperson.”.

Sales 113

Sales Education Startup Class 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. I’ve always believed that you learn a great deal when you’re presenting, teaching or writing about what you know. It’s just my writing style.

Blogging 250

Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

Luckily, there’s an abundance of lead generation tools that busy professionals can use to start building a subscriber base without investing too much time. But if you want to level things up, you can use a platform like OptinMonster to create popup forms, sliding forms, floating bars, and sidebars. GetResponse.

Tool 39

Tool Custom Customer Sites 39

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

An obvious example would be in sales. I had long ago ceded the knowledge and responsibility for making the detailed technical recommendations about platforms, databases, hosting solutions, etc. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres. A quick example.

Startup 308

Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. An informal writing style is generally recommended. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

But wait, aren’t you the guy who invested in Ad.ly, the in-stream advertising company? Two things : 1) when I invested in Ad.ly It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. But in any platform community this happens. No, I don’t think so.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Regarding information asymmetry – take me as an example. In our current portfolio 3 or his 4 investments are in the Fin Svcs space. Congratulations.

Venture Capital 318

Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

Bill Curtis: It's by far the most exciting platform right now. In our current case, we realized that radio is seeing channel and platform flipping like never before, websites are calling a three second view of an ad an impression, and the bounce rates for websites so high, it's kind of embarrassing. It ends up being good for both.

Media 150

Media Report Advertising Content 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. AdSonar’s advertising platform applied proprietary semantic algorithms to automatically serve the most relevant ads to each particular content page. Thank you, John.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302