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. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

But for some strange reason they make you file your progress on fund raising, which is the widely picked up by the press. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. But it’s hard to know that from the press. The press who trusted me enough to report on our successes. My employees.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict. Those seldom get reported. Sometimes it comes because investors believe the company needs more experienced leadership to run the company or more often to help run the company.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - lament the coverage they get from journalists who reported the details unfairly. Make yourself available.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This does not mean you shouldn’t solve big, complex problems or write complex code. But the narrative in the press about Al Gore was that he was a smarmy know-it-all. Bush had the opposite narrative in the press. Obviously press narratives of people are characterizations that seldom match reality.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

So I know I’m getting myself into a bit of trouble by writing this. They will often run all of the daily reports into them covering off for finance, sales, marketing, biz dev & HR. I had an amazing CFO who helped me lead budgeting, planning, board reporting and legal matters.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. We are doing what we do – writing larger checks and playing an active role at the company.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Goldman release a report on us. We listened way too much to what the press said. Create a great press-kit that you have easily accessible on your website. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. We were hot. That’s OK.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I even had some reservations about writing this blog post this because I have no desire to p**s off other investors or great entrepreneurs. You may already know all this since it occurred a couple of weeks ago and was already in the press. We all remember the brushback Facebook had when they launched Beacon.

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MARCH 2, 2011

I’m sitting at my computer now at 9.00pm writing this – which is an hour earlier than I normally write (there are about 8 women at my kitchen table having a book club (aka excuse to drink wine & gossip so I’m locked in another room writing. Mostly during the day I’m in meetings or doing work.

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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. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

It was a surprise knowing these start ups have spent $1000s for the chance to be noticed by the right influencer, whether it be a venture capitalist, early adopter or the press. To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. 1 Pre Planning.

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MAY 5, 2011

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. They can then direct staff, allocate budgets, talk to the press, connect you with politicians and attend events. Marketing Muscle.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

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). DVDs won’t die quickly – As Mark Twain would say, “ The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.&# For investors this is huge.

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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. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

It’s now in the press that Jody committed suicide. But it was reported compassionately by Christina Allen in this moving piece on Pando Daily. I started out this year writing about how much I hate December. But I hope you’ll indulge me one last personal post. How to say it? Mutter those words.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Photo by Hope House Press - Leather Diary Studio on Unsplash It’s also true that there will be tough moments in your company’s journey where you will want to be able to carry people behind the tough decisions you want. You can write this as a narrative in 3–5 key bullet points. and even that can be “seat of the pants” sometimes).

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APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. One of the interesting things about being a VC is that you often see companies in transition.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Referring Traffic / Press. Referring Traffic / Press. The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic.To There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) Search Engines.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. Daily Candy was one of the earliest successes in the newsletter business, which ultimately sold to Comcast for a reported $125 million. And that’s what I love about her narrative.

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MARCH 6, 2010

The idea that people “report to you&# must validate some primal need. When your site crashes and you get slammed by customers and in the press – you’re all in the sh*tter together. I’ll write about that in a couple of weeks. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

I read reports this week that when he was unhappy with some actions of his players he sent in an emissary to deal with them because he didn’t have the time or patience to deal with the drama that comes from having talented, high-paid professionals with opinions (as opposed to college players who have little choice). I like writing.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

Michael Carney , a tech reporter for Pandodaily , taught how to craft a compelling press release. Following her experience teaching the class, she was inspired to write this article for Forbes where she expressed her amazement at the number of women in LA who are in tech or interested in making the leap into tech.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Ultimately, what that means is customers want to enter their data once, and have that carry through clearing, to back office settlement, to system reporting, to confirmation delivery, to trading partners you are involved with, and all of that. The traditional way to handle that is to write code. READ MORE>>.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Referring Traffic / Press. Referring Traffic / Press - The web is interconnected, and traffic flows among sites that interlink. The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic. Search Engines. Social Media.

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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). I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Still, my wife had seen a report that almost all sun blocks for kids had a chemical known to be dangerous to kids. Jody soon met with Dave McClure who ended up immediately writing a check as a placeholder investment and offering help to get EcoMom press coverage. I’ve had to do this with 2 companies at the same time.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

National and local press coverage so far is listed below. If u see an article or write a blog post, email us or leave a comment below with a link to your story and we’ll add it in. We’re also collecting pics from the hubs and press and will release more pics as we get them. & #celebrity to pull off anything!

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

A Writer Is Someone Who Writes. A writer is someone who writes, not someone who goes about telling their friends that they are “a writer”. Like a successful entrepreneur, Winston did not believe his own press clippings. They seemed as surprised by their popularity as the reporters who covered Beatlemania.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. One hour I might be spending time working with customers and partners, the next day raising capital, the day after that working on product vision and the next hour talking to the press. Find a Simple Way to Tell a Complex Story (and ano. Where's Jack Bauer?

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