InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.". Engagement.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. The biggest motivator for starting brightblu was John Greathouse’s Entrepreneurship class. Ben, Sid and Taylor started BrightBlu while still students. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Given the thousands of startups Venture Capitalists review annually, they must adopt efficient methods of quickly assessing if a person/opportunity is worth further diligence. Sales Guy who can package and promote the opportunity, but who has minimal product development capabilities. Hairy Pattern Matching.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

However, Oprah felt she had failed to deliver a quality product. After being rejected by ABC, Oprah left WLS, formed Harpo Productions and launched a national show. Soon after she launched her national show, a major diet soft drink brand asked Oprah to promote their product. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.”.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 2, 2012

Managerial Oversight And Performance Matter At A Startup. In the following 3-minute video I discuss the four categories that emerge when employees’ productivity and their required degree of managerial oversight are considered. If they do not adequately improve over time, consider counseling them out of your startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting. Brad on blogging.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

At the outset of their careers, they are forced to market themselves with little to no budget and differentiate their product so that they gain adequate attention without alienating too many potential customers. If you are not anxious, then you are probably not pushing yourself or your startup hard enough. Tweet this quote].

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

"When people would ask me when I was a little kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would tell them ''a waitress,'' much to my mother''s chagrin. It was that love of serving people that led me on my long journey of starting a company.". Sarah continued her story by describing her life growing up in an entrepreneurial household. "I

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. companies should… focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 15, 2013

In the business world, a fire subsisting on fuel wood is equivalent to a startup that has achieved scale. Scaling normally occurs after a startup achieves product-market fit. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. Don''t Define Scale Too Early. Photo credit: Flickr born1945. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Starting with 25% is even harder.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Early evidence is good.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks.

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MARCH 8, 2010

Don’t blog about what you think would be “cool.&# I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup. The new stuff: How do I get started? The advantage of the hosted version is that it’s easier to get started. Slice it up enough to do many posts.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 29, 2012

Because Your Big Break May Start As A Little One. Industry veterans know each other and freely share information about up-and-coming products, companies and people. Work hard to ensure that trusted opinion leaders say positive things about you and your startup. A bit of up-front research would have served the band well.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 18, 2012

Philo Farnsworth created a technology which underlies one of the 20 th Century’s most ubiquitous products, yet he died a man of modest means and is relatively unknown today. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. Philo was an inventor, not an innovator.

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MARCH 15, 2010

I’ve talked about how Twitter is a new form of RSS (curated RSS), it’s a a new form of IM / SMS , it’s a place where business is conducted and it’s a place where advertising will drive leads due to the link sharing nature of Twitter. I started reading Brad’s “term sheet&# series.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 29, 2013

The following six tactics will help ensure that your future matchmaking efforts will be welcomed and productive for all parties involved. However, if all you do is obtain approval before playing the role of corporate matchmaker, your impact as a startup mensch will grow exponentially. Share and Enjoy. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you are a startup seeking funding, convey your company's origins, your current status and your ideal exit. Too much of it and a portion of your audience will stop listening and start reading while the remaining folks will tune you out altogether. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. Share and Enjoy.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

What does your pain reliever look like, how is it implemented by the customer and what future products do you expect to roll out? Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

According to Tige, it all started when he fell in love with a woman from Fiji. In Tige''s words, “(It) started off falling in love with a girl who happened to be from Fiji. A lot of times we''re tied up and can''t even get out for a weekend because there''s a deadline due or a release date. (It We can start something.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 1, 2013

we hope to eventually complete our development, once we begin shipping product, etc.). You can also interject apologies throughout your talk, including: your unintelligible slides, your disheveled appearance, starting the presentation late, running over your allotted time, etc. Do Not Follow Up. You are winging it, remember?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 17, 2013

You have dream when you''re little and kinda want to be a pop star and then you start playing shows. In Mike''s words, "That''s where a lot of people run into problems, as they keep (focusing on) grandiose (ideas)and they don''t learn what holds their ideas up. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 10, 2013

if you''re a very shy person, that''s what ends up happening. I started making YouTube videos, just for fun. I started doing special effects and things like that.”. I watched Meridian in a theatre and the script, acting and production values were indistinguishable from a major studio release. I''ll try it.''".

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Frank's father was the founder of Think Technologies, which created Think Pascal and Think C, and was bought for a significant sum by Symantec in the 80's; Frank is following in his father's footsteps in running a startup. How did the company come about, and why'd you start it? Tell me a little bit about what Mefeedia is about?

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MARCH 18, 2013

Angel investors are often the sole source of funding for startups at the critical pre-launch stage. Angels with a strong brand offer credibility and validation that influences other constituents of the startup ecosystem. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. The Elusive Engaged, High-Profile Investor.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I talk to a lot of founders of startups. My initial conversations normally focus on the core of the business, important Startup Metrics , probably marketing strategy (ex. SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

The giant search engine is set to end less used products or combining a number of them into more resourceful ones. But to make the most of them, we need to focus—or we end up doing too much and not having the impact we strive for. So last fall we started a spring clean , and since then we’ve closed or combined more than 30 products”.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

No matter how rapidly a startup is growing, it can never afford to sacrifice employee quality as a means of achieving its hiring goals. A hiring mistake early in a startup’s life can be expensive, especially when opportunity costs are considered. might be the fastest way to get a job board up and running on your website.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Previously she worked for GigaOM, where she reported on startups and Silicon Valley. The San Francisco Bay Area is still the epicenter when it comes to tech, and Los Angeles has indeed been heating up as a startup hub in recent years. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. Enterprise. Headphones.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 29, 2013

How can you protect your company''s reputation when a rouge customer unjustly flames your startup? Startups should similarly communicate with an intimate and friendly tone and avoid the off-putting formality of a corporate spokesperson. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. Channeling Tige.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Facebook opens up Instant Articles to all publishers. If you don’t know, Instant Articles are Facebook’s new way to natively load articles within the app using an adapted RSS feed. Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post. pic.twitter.com/TB1GTGt9ss.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. Why You Should Write. Status / reputation.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

In addition, a number of advertisers have invested significant resources into creating libraries of video content which effectively communicate brand and product attributes but are incapable of eliciting a particular action, such as: clicking to a landing page, completing a lead form, or initiating a purchase. What’s So Cool About Coull?

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

At Rincon Venture Partners , we have a laser focus on identifying groundbreaking adtech and business productivity SaaS solutions. When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! and Overture Services. Share and Enjoy.

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MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? People often ask me why I started blogging. It really started simply enough. Not only would it be less authentic but if you’re a startup it’s not immediately clear that other startup CEOs are your target market.

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