Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

How to Interpret Analyst Reports. The stats are often quoted from the latest reports. I’m writing this post to make sure you’re all on that same playing field. I had reports from Gartner Group, Yankee Group, IDC, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and a couple of others. Stats sell. What are you on about?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 9, 2016

This story has been making the rounds lately, and I confess that our research cannot find the source. So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. The funding rounds will also build customer confidence and they’ll help journalists feel air cover in writing your more important pieces when you brag about customers, traction, revenue or whatever. When you file, you must be prepared.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

Search the Internet for blogs in your industry and do a little research before you start. An informal writing style is generally recommended. You can repurpose your posts into articles, books and reports. Don’t be shy, I don’t know many CEOs today that write their own speeches and marketing materials. Add outgoing links.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Companies like Cornea , Emergency Reporting , Zonehaven are trying to solve different facets of the fire problem; while flood prediction and weather monitoring startups are floating up their services too. Another $30 billion is designed to be targeted toward rural development; and finally the $40 billion in upgrading research infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2017

This past week he was accused of having made sexual advances on 6 women in a well-researched article published by Bloomberg’s Emily Chang. Here’s the thing — I know the journalist Emily Chang and trust her reporting. Shervin is apparently threatening lawsuits for defamation and claiming it’s the equivalent of a “right wing conspiracy.”

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. This is where investigative reporting, enterprise pieces and analysis on transportation lives. This investment would give Uber ATG a valuation of between $5 billion and $10 billion, WSJ reported.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Tech Reporters: These individuals will write and edit informative and practical articles on a range of topics including Startups/Entrepreneurs, Gadgets, Mobile Tech, Tech in Entertainment, Gaming, Apps & Software, productivity, and cover breaking tech news. Will also report on local tech events in their respected area.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

People also user our data for general market trending or academic research. Our core business is the consulting and research services, and The Numbers really acts as a portal into what we do, a source of traffic, and getting the word out about what we do. a month per user, primarily someone using it for research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

By Mahesh Raj Mohan Writing a business plan can be a difficult process. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience. Your business plan’s writing style should take their preferences into account. So what writing styles should you use for these very different audiences? Hi, I’m writing this plan because.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2018

And my specific response that I recommended was to say, “I can send you our standard data pack but honestly I have too many other firms asking for customized data and we simply can’t send each person custom reports. This is part of a series I’ve been writing on fund raising. We don’t think we work that way, we do. Want to read more?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Search the Internet for blogs in your industry and do a little research before you start. An informal writing style is generally recommended. You can repurpose your posts into articles, books and reports. Don’t be shy, I don’t know many CEOs today that write their own speeches and marketing materials. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 69

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Search the Internet for blogs in your industry and do a little research before you start. An informal writing style is generally recommended. You can repurpose your posts into articles, books and reports. Don’t be shy, I don’t know many CEOs today that write their own speeches and marketing materials. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 95

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

What most people don’t realize is that, according to new research , 90% of search engine users rarely look at the paid results. Keyword research and budget forecasting. PPC experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Search the Internet for blogs in your industry and do a little research before you start. An informal writing style is generally recommended. You can repurpose your posts into articles, books and reports. Don’t be shy, I don’t know many CEOs today that write their own speeches and marketing materials. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 96

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. We''re able to track everything we''re doing, and report back on it. We became friends, and found we were both very like minded, goal oriented, and had the same core values.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 29, 2018

The quote “knowledge is power,” often attributed to Francis Bacon from his writings Meditationes Sacrae in 1597, definitely resonates with founders, Most because gaining knowledge about your market, landscape, and competitors, is a key way to gain strength and momentum. Get Your Playbook Together. Add Mentors to Your Roster.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Now, you’re handling payroll and doing writing as well. You may even discover that you enjoy writing more than crunching numbers. Piaw Na, who spent over six years at Google, writes on Quora that she recommends fresh grads to join a startup instead of big companies. Startups also usually have no playbook yet.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. As Ivan points out, what if somebody was researching “How to come out to my parents” or “how to cope with cancer” or anything similar. The guy was understandably pissed off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Search the Internet for blogs in your industry and do a little research before you start. An informal writing style is generally recommended. You can repurpose your posts into articles, books and reports. Don’t be shy, I don’t know many CEOs today that write their own speeches and marketing materials. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 91

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

We were looking at it, and saw that if we could take all these off-the-shelf sensors, and put it all together, and write some code, and make a user interface, it''s basically done. So, very early on was our project-Voxel Research, how our name got created and mashed up to Voxearch. What''s going to get you through the next cut?

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 6, 2020

Today, major media prognosticators including market research company Forrester and the Interactive Advertising Bureau foresee podcasting as the next billion-dollar media market , with a report from the latter saying that one-billion-dollar mark could be surpassed as soon as 2021. iHeartRadio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, “ Start a Successful Business ,” by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges. I often hear entrepreneurs who seem to rely wholly on their own passion, and the view of a few friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Keyword research and budget forecasting. SEM experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Tracking and performance reporting. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Although we spend plenty of time researching and developing with new technologies based on desire and need, we don't want our clients to be guinea pigs (unless that's the nature of their business, of course). You're in the thick of it and about to write a small chunk of server-side code. We'll satisfy those cravings after-hours.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We’ve all used Microsoft at one point or another, whether it’s when we run Windows on our laptop, write up a report in MS Words, play the last game on Kinect, or send an email to a coworker through Exchange (using Outlook). And that’s just a few of the scenarios. And that’s why businesses continue to depend on Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Be respectful.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Peter Marx: I started in the technology industry by writing software for imaging microscopes--looking at things like cell populations using early CCD cameras and understanding cell morphology; working on video compression; working on networking stuff and software for early digital telephony like ISDN and on forward.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company. actually did the fundamental research in the 90’s at the Medialab. “So Is that when it became big?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Gartner, Forrester, Jupiter and AMR Research all had good things to say about us. Goldman release a report on us. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months. We were hot. Until we weren’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. BUT … I’ve talked to a number of eCommerce sites that also report much higher conversion rates than standard web. BUT … try doing proper restaurant research on a mobile device.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Jones Graduate School of Business found that 66 percent of the 150 businesses surveyed reported that Groupon promotions [were] profitable. For example, Cornell University reported that many Groupon users see themselves as “marketing mavens”… “on the front edge of market trends and price information.”

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Many retailers report $100,000 is the minimum price of entry. Fifty-six percent of retailers surveyed in a 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research repor t say apps aren’t a key component of their mobile marketing strategy, even as 58 percent placed mobile at the top of their priority lists. percent in brick and mortar stores.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Search the Internet for blogs in your industry and do a little research before you start. An informal writing style is generally recommended. You can repurpose your posts into articles, books and reports. Finally, if you don’t have the time, energy, or skills to write a blog, it may be a good investment to hire a ghost writer.

Blogging 48

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

My advice: be cautious, start early, get to know investors before you need capital, do your research on who is a likely good fit and understand that fund-raising is always part of your job – not something you do in “fund-raising season” for 2-3 months every other year. Are Your Existing Investors Over Their Skis?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. A program manager would traditionally be responsible for: Writing the detailed specification for how the software should work. Communicating with the developers who write code. Defensibility in Software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

You may think you are an expert in your domain, but until you try to write things down in simple terms in a blog for other people, you don’t realize what you don’t know. Doing the research to clarify allows you to share effectively. Blogging is a learning process as well as a sharing one. I learn something new every day in blogging.

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