Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces.

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Media Tips Social Media Startup 118

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

As Brian Solis is fond of saying, “PR stands for public relations, not press release.&# That’s right. First, you’ll need a platform. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). New investors sometimes want early investors to put in money to “prove” they have confidence in the new price.

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Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? We just happen to have significantly more users than most of the group texting platforms you typically read about.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces.

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Media Social Media Startup Training 55

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). Hulu is the leading player for streaming television.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces.

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Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The traditional way to handle that is to write code. What makes us unique, is we've got an automation platform which allows you to deploy in any of those ways. We can deliver a very functional, automation platform for less than $2000. However, as you can se eour our website, our motto is no code, no limits. READ MORE>>.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Amanda explains hardware production and the company’s decision to build their platform on Clearwire , an independent mobile broadband company (which was recently acquired by Sprint), and the ultra-fast pace Karma wanted to build. They’ll tell friends, which helps us get more press and exposure.”

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Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Of course when you think about it it’s kind of obvious but when people make snap judgments about information they hear about companies or read about in the press they often don’t take the time to start to consider the details. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

I received a press pass to DeveloperWeek 2015 last week in order to attend the “Advice to Live by from Women Developers” career panel moderated by the lead of Dice’s engineering team, Jennifer Petersen. Several Gamergaters have also stated that she must have gotten others to write the code for her.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Instead of BS’ing me he said, “we spent 18 months building out our product and a set of graphic editing tools when we realized we had developed in the wrong platform. If you’re in front of a customer and you had some very public bad press that week don’t pretend it didn’t exist. Issue off the table.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. I will write about some of these topics soon. It is the new cocktail party conversation.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

What they do: They’re a website, platform, and now mobile-app for crowdsourced annotation of song lyrics and texts. What You Know: A lengthy stream of media and press that have the tech world scratching their heads in confusion and/or denouncing them as the rap beef rudos of Silicon Valley. Rap Genius, Black Sheeps of Tech.

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Startup Mobile Entertainment Sites 93

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

After a dozen bad ideas we stumbled upon the concept for Earbits, a radio-style marketing platform where bands bid for airtime just like on Google Adwords. By the time we got to San Diego we were rabid with ideas about how to turn radio into a music advertising platform, and we talked about the concept constantly for two more years.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. One of the interesting questions I’m keeping an eye on is at what level users will consume compute resources, in particular, where in the spectrum between infrastructure as a service and platform as a service.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

” He was writing to people. My advice always follows along the line of: Twitter is part media distribution platform. It shouldn’t be a one-way media publishing platform. As my friend Brian Solis once told me “PR stands for ‘public relations’ not ‘press release’ ” On Tweetstorming.

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Social Media Blogging Media Startup 307

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I just write. I told her I need “20 minutes” to write a blog post. Keep on writing. I took 2 of those morning to write blog posts and then read. Why do I write all of this? I don’t write perfect blog posts. I’ve been doing it for long enough that I can crank out posts quickly.

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Blogging Writing Email Startup 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Senior exec team is ex-QPass (mobile payments platform sold to Amdocs).

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

It is a communication platform. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. It’s awesome. But it’s not cutting VCs out.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand. So, I put him in charge of our data centers and technical operations. … mistake: Pushing too hard too early.

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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. The Importance of Twitter. That is what I Tweeted when I saw DataSift present as a finalist at TC Disrupt last year.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Your customers are all on this product so not trying to grok this platform gives you a few big handicaps: Some VCs on on Snapchat and interacting with them daily on Snapchat and you’re not. I’ve just been dying to find the time to write a how-to guide for many of my friends who don’t get Snapchat. Navigation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First, how did I handle things like unexpected surges in traffic to my site (let’s say after a major press release) and then the subsequent flattening of traffic as the crowd subsided? Cloud Data Platform. Okta solves this and more. Business Logic. So far in the stack we’ve only spoken about infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2016

So while this morning on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd we had to sit through 20 minutes of the Donald Trump side show / joke where he says things like “I’m not going to say that Ted Cruz has a problem, but many people say he has a problem. The featured a leading analyst from a bank who has been writing on the topic lately.

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