InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

"When people would ask me when I was a little kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would tell them ''a waitress,'' much to my mother''s chagrin. What I really liked was serving people, I really liked helping people, and in my little seven-year-old mind, that meant being a waitress. what started it all.". That video is.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Fortunately, for such startups, there are a number of precursors to paid customers, such as: trial users, freemium customers and qualified prospects. These updates will demonstrate your ability to execute upon your stated objectives and will help you stay top-of-mind in the VC's chaotic world. Photo Credit: ralphbijker via Flickr.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 29, 2013

When I am not complaining, I strive to be a mensch and I pride myself in helping as many people as my time and talents allow. The following six tactics will help ensure that your future matchmaking efforts will be welcomed and productive for all parties involved. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. For a long time, I had a line which was, ‘Whenever I hear the word marketing, it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.’”. Write Your Own Playbook.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

All you need do to become an Angel is identify a promising venture and write a check. In contrast, the operational experiences required to take a company from its founding through a successful exit are additive to early-stage startups. This probably won't lead directly to a job as a VC, but it will help you execute the next task.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Starting with 25% is even harder. Register a company.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Hopefully this straightforward format will help you avoid overly obtuse verbiage, while keeping your executive summary to two pages. Who do I write the check to and where do I send it? Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. Any errors or omissions in the subtext are my own. Opportunity. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 18, 2013

Angel investors are often the sole source of funding for startups at the critical pre-launch stage. Ideally, such early-stage investors should have the experiences and motivation to help their ventures establish a sustainable business model, rather than simply writing a check before moving on to their next investment.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

As an entrepreneur, I helped create companies which achieved two IPOs and two trade sales totaling $385 million. Hopefully this article and the accompanying six-minute video will help you avoid learning these mission-critical lessons the hard way. Public relations at a startup is a sales process.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2013

They often write their own material, book their gigs, arrange their travel and negotiate and collect their compensation from club owners. Strong Start – Grab your audience’s attention and tell them who you are and why they must listen. However, soliciting their participation can help keep an audience engaged. Comedic Tips.

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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. We caught up with Jason and Kurt to hear more about the company. What's the story behind the company and how it started? Jason Kiesel: Yes.

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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. People often ask me why I started blogging. It really started simply enough. By definition, you read blogs.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

Be Closing, No Posing – The ultimate measure of effective marketing, especially at a startup, is revenue. Of the 228 exhibitors at ad:tech, Brittany Fleit, writing for Allvoices , voted Central Desktop’s booth as her favorite, despite the fact that the company was outspent by nearly all the other attendees. Don’t Try Too Hard.

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JUNE 11, 2013

You’re a startup. You’ve got some friends interested in helping out and you think you can make this work. Ultimately, the more you move your application “up the stack”, the fewer resources you are required to manage. Apps & Software Dev & Design Django IaaS PaaS PastCGI Rails Saas Software Startups WSGI'

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MAY 6, 2012

Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. We want to help them, and will. Idea Mensch.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Creating Your Application Start by going to JanRain Engage and signing in. Then click "Get Started" and you can start deploying the widget. A Helpful Login Class Some code examples are provided by JanRain Engage. These are good for getting started. Of course, youll need to use a social login to get into the site.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. Share Buttons Work… In A Way Share buttons on your post help your content reach a greater audience by creating easy channels to social networks. Just a thought.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. If you asked me to tell you a list of three of the best decisions in my life, I can certainly tell you that regularly writing is one of them. Why You Should Write. It's human nature," he writes.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

I’ll try to get write-ups shortly but for now here is an overview of my interview with Nanea Reeves – President and COO of textPlus. In this clip we discuss why Nanea is a proponent of a lean startup and data driven development methodology. Leadership Startup Lessons' Company Organization.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links. Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging. Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. This is that post.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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MARCH 1, 2010

It’s the view that I back great entrepreneurs and help them pursue their dreams no matter what. In 2006, Steven Dietz, a partner at my firm, GRP Partners, had given me $500,000 in a seed in convertible debt when I started my second company, Koral. So what is the “entrepreneur thesis?” GRP Partners had also funded my first company.

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