Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I’m not an advisor & I’m not privy to any internal information at your company, I have no right to tell you what to do. Even writing this could hurt me. I writing as a friend. Hell, even cable operators do that when they have disputes with networks. I don’t want that. Twitter, I’m a friend.

Writing 301

Writing Email Press Mobile 301

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. You need somebody who is helping push out information on what is up-and-coming in the company. I write on my blog how I think in my head.

Startup 349

Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

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?

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

Marketing 232

Marketing Funding Content Writing 232

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.

Company 339

Company Companies Technical Review Content 339

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. The funding rounds will also build customer confidence and they’ll help journalists feel air cover in writing your more important pieces when you brag about customers, traction, revenue or whatever. But first you need to know about Reg D filings.

Startup 355

Startup Funding News Press 355

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

More Visible Networking? Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Tony: I personally am torn by choices around Networking Events in Los Angeles – you can go to something almost every night. this time with Vince Thompson.

Startup 225

Startup Los Angeles Twiistup Social Network 225

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

I worked with an entrepreneur who was to appear at a startup networking event where he was to talk about his company’s plans. In my experience, entrepreneurs who are overly paranoid or are information hoarders rarely do well. Nobody likes writing re-hashed stories. Not everyone has a spare 40 mill for a re-do.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

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. Information Asymmetry - The biggest problem that presenters face in large (5+ people) is information asymmetry. tip: write it down when asked / parked).

Venture Capital 318

Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

If you live somewhere where this is the case you’re better off discussing with your employer that you may from time-to-time work on private projects outside of work hours and you want their clearance in writing that this is OK. You can probably get loads of information on Legal Zoom also. Register a company.

Startup 366

Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 366

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. But I can always see the correlation between writing a blog or publishing on a social network and traffic. In fact, I’m surprised by how antiquated Google Analytics feels. Chartbeat is a relatively young company and product.

Blogging 287

Blogging Google Screening Mahalo 287

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

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. It was a break from information overload of Facebook. My friends said, “I don’t need another network. That’s what happens when you join a network and have kids. Right now it’s my favorite network.

Snapchat 230

Snapchat Product Startup AMA 230

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2015

To make his point that the message matters more than messenger, Professor Berger writes, “…think about a forest fire. The more we care about a piece of information or the more we’re feeling physiologically aroused, the more likely we pass something on.”. We share information to help others, to make them better off.”.

Tips 224

Tips Ideas Class Writing 224

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing. And make sure you spend time visible networking. Put yourself in the middle of a blog network. Topic Hubs.

Social Media 222

Social Media Services Media Blogging 222

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. Therefore of course they need to be more selection when writing checks and can’t spread their bets across 75 deals. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2 Angels have additional networks.

Venture Capital 356

Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It makes networking much more difficult / awkward. Those are the two things every single person who is networking at your event wants to know – name & company. Don’t waste space with meaningless information - I know you want to put your event name really big on the tag. Maybe more. That’s great.

Conference 291

Conference Organization Startup Writing 291

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

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!, I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. And there’s conferences. Web Summit.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

They told me all about why this is such a good idea: hard to manage price discovery in the commercial real estate market; fragmented information about vacancies obtained from landlords and brokers; and the large scale of transactions. They wanted to come to pitch to my angel network. I told them they lacked an inciting incident.

Invest 237

Invest Examples Networking Writing 237

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. I got to thinking more broadly about social networks and the real-time web. Facebook has much more value to me as a networking tool. I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately. Powerful stuff.

Startup 276

Startup Blogging Social Network Networking 276

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.

Companies 276

Companies Company Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

For the next four days if you’re in the tech industry you’re going to hear a non-stop stream of information about SXSW. Write them in advance and request meetings. That way you’re all extending your networks and splitting the costs. You’re there to network and connect with new people.

Conference 289

Conference Startup Technical Review Writing 289

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve?

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But my contact told me that many viral videos start through close networks on Reddit where a degree of formal and informal collaboration of individuals takes place. If you have NO network of promotion for your story? Simply write a great book? Of course websites like Reddit and HackerNews try to weed out such behavior.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

June 2019 (left) and November 2020 (right) I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post because historically I don’t like talking about weight. I’m going to follow up with a series of detailed posts about what I did so that if you want more information, help, support or insights I can go deeper. Then should write down your “target goal.”

Startup 526

Startup Course Writing Help 526

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Open, democratic, leveling, freeing information from closed networks. but I wanted to be sure I wasn’t writing just for my mom. If I’m wrong please write a comment (even if anonymous). The wisdom of the crowds. Or so it seems. I didn’t want to obsess with it (I have a day job!)

News 284

News Blogging Search Engine Optimization SEO 284

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

And still able to make it out to LA networking events. She helps write press releases. Soleil is paranoid about leaking design & product information because she’s been burned. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. Always meeting her product ship dates. million Twitter followers.

Startup 398

Startup Design Downey Activity 398

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. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

See Environment Details below for more information. Although we expect that the external service is itself caching the small number of rows our test consumes, the framework is not allowed to avoid the network transmission and data mapping portion of the work. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. JSON serialization test.

Framework 560

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. He knows the ad management and ad network businesses. At its core it provides a free and open “mediation&# layer that can work with any ad network or ad exchange.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

In modern society we’re all over-worked and over-loaded with information and tasks and to-dos and obligations. Modern-society is also littered with over-networkers and over-introducers and professional conference attendees. That’s why focus is critical. I introduce people constantly and it’s an important part of my job.

Innocal 255

Innocal Conference Help Study 255

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

DataSift was selected as the topic data supplier for Facebook , which allows companies to analyze a data feed that is > 20x larger than the entire Twitter feed and creates privacy-safe insights from a network of 1.4 DataSift crawls the links that are shared and categorizes the upstream information providing exponential insight.

Platform 317

Platform Course Customer Custom 317

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. An example is Melissa Rundle, who was been writing for the industry doing FunnyOrDie type comedies. I also worked with content partnership with Flip Networks. READ MORE>>.

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

I provided information for my customers to make their lives easier.&# A really good sales person can get people excited and get people to tell you information they won’t tell other people. In the next generation everybody (including women (are going to write code).&#. “A lot of sales is innate. Say very little.

Startup 311

Startup Sales Venture Capital Entrepreneur 311

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

Intros.They’re the lifeblood of networking – the currency of mavens. Helping with a Job Opportunity / Career / Information Interview. I know the individual well and they’re wanting information interviews to find a good home. If you find yourself writing this in an email – think twice about sending it.

Email 359

Email Venture Capital Startup Technical Review 359

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

See Environment Details below for more information. Although we expect that the external service is itself caching the small number of rows our test consumes, the framework is not allowed to avoid the network transmission and data mapping portion of the work. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. JSON serialization test.

Framework 544

Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In many applications, network effects mean that as usage grows, so does the amount of “hot” data in play. But for the rest of us, those of us lucky/unlucky enough to know we need high-performance, or are uncertain whether performance is a concern, and for whom I write the remainder of this article, performance should be on our minds early.

Web 330

Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 330