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How to use PR Firms at Startups

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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. I pointed out the fact that they only ever talked to the press when the had an announcement and that it was a continual process. Always more appealing.

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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. Yeah, right.

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Every Startup Needs To Be Ready To Meet The Press

Startup Professionals Musings

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. Marty Zwilling.

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As An Entrepreneur, Are You Ready To Meet The Press?

Startup Professionals Musings

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites.

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Deal with Your Elephant in the Room

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million for a social networking site 18 months ago. 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. If you do, make sure you write them out and think about what you’re answers will be. Your A round investors are not stepping up. -

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Interview with Gary Bishop, Network Automation

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The traditional way to handle that is to write code. We use all of the technology out there, including social networking, LinkedIn--where recommendations from our customers are very strong--and we have a community based capability, where our users can talk via forums. We have a very strong fan base.

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How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?

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” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. And we’re promoting apps like this in the tech press and funding it. As the old joke goes, “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.” Kill a fat person. So so funny.