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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

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I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. But succinctly this press places a marker in the ground for your company. When thinking about how to get press coverage you have to realize that any quality journalist looking to write a story has to have an “angle” to write something.

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Future of TV: The Quick Version

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I’m still planning to write some in depth pieces on the topic but I thought, “given that this is about how video will consume the Internet over the next 5 years, what better way to exemplify this than with a 10-minute video.” I recently gave a talk about the Future of Television. It’s not as easy as text.

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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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I want to say that we are deeply committed to inclusion on screen and behind the camera and in our workplace,” Sarandos told the Hollywood Reporter. But Sarandos doubled down on his defense of the special, writing an internal email that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.” brb walking out.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? (1/11) – Tenacity

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This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. There were also press and other senior executives from the sector. Next on the checklist.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Want to Know What Marc Andreessen’s Magic on Twitter is? Hint: It’s Not Tweetstorming

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” He was writing to people. To get on his radar screen. As my friend Brian Solis once told me “PR stands for ‘public relations’ not ‘press release’ ” On Tweetstorming. In the first 2 weeks I even saw a few people on Twitter say, “Is that the real Marc Andreessen?” Any people.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

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