Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

The company said its data can be used by startups and small tech companies looking for R&D grants, to write more targeted proposals and to understand the competition and needs of Federal agencies. READ MORE>>. sbir source grantiq database small business innovation research grant funding'

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2014

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

There are the new tools like Tumblr and Posterous. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

OpenCue doesn’t handle any of the actual rendering processes but it provides all the tools to break down those different steps and then schedule and manage the different rendering jobs across large rendering farms, both local and in the cloud. ” It’s worth noting that this isn’t Sony’s for foray into open source.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2012

On his first day of work my wife was kind enough to write down words of wisdom from her years on the job. I don’t write about Tania very often – mostly at her request. ” She gave me a special one-time permission to write about her in a blog post so I could publish the advice she gave our friend.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. One in a list, one with a quiz, one with a cut-out tool – let’s see what takes off. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2014

Carpinteria-based online video education site Lynda.com said today that it has acquired Compilr , a developer of a software coding and development environment which lets people learn how to write, compile, and test code from their web browser. According to Lynda.com, it will use the acquisition to expand its programming learning tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2015

It forces clarity of writing & discrete ideas. 9/ I think Medium is closest tool to a microblogging platform since it comments on a single concept within a post vs. comment at end. The post Some Thoughts on Twitter as a Micro-Blogging Tool appeared first on Bothsides of the Table. . — Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. He told me that it has become an essential tool to their business. But I can always see the correlation between writing a blog or publishing on a social network and traffic. Like most analytics tools I can get my geo map from Chartbeat.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Wish you could design and develop your own mobile games, but don't know how to write software? GameSalad Academy features a long lineup of tutorials and learning tools specifically aimed at helping to take users from creating their first game, to publishing their games through GameSalad's own marketplace. No problem! READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A I use tools to invoke my creative self. 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.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

GameSalad's tools allow users to create mobile applications and games without having to write code. The startup--which has been supporting Windows development since May--said its latest version, 0.10.0 supports Windows 8 and a number of the features of the Windows 8 environment. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2010

I next write a paragraph to describe what I mean by each comment. Next time write it down when it happened. Don’t have your staff write their own reviews. If you don’t have the time, insights and responsibility to write your direct reports annual evaluations (read: one time per year!!) Put it in writing.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 9, 2021

Users don’t need to walk through the mechanics of setting up a wallet or writing down a seed phrase either. Users can purchase avatars on the platform with cryptocurrency through BitPay but they can also pay with a credit card. “We think this will actually change gaming for the long haul.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. margin range to more sustainable 50-60% margin businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

June 2019 (left) and November 2020 (right) I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post because historically I don’t like talking about weight. I’ve been reluctant to write about weight in part because I don’t want to sound self righteous. Then should write down your “target goal.” I figured out something that worked for me.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The service--headed by Will Heshall--said its public beta will let a wider set of users test and evaluate its tool, which helps select and play music that enables users to better work, study, write, and read. Focus@will explained that the public beta comes after the signup of over 9,000 private beta users.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools. Conclusion Startup metrics are an invaluable tool for founders and innovators. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Quite often the goal is to get them into a spreadsheet in a form that allows people to easily play with them. Finally, review the numbers with your partners.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? If I were writing the book today, there would be a whole chapter or two…about how to use Facebook and Twitter. You don’t really buy servers anymore…the tools are all open source. That doesn’t work.”. Basically, everything is free.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The old standard business networking tool. If you take the time to write me a small, private note on LinkedIn then I’ll add you 95% of the time. The main message here is … if you REALLY want to connect with somebody show them some respect and at least write a one sentence original line to ask for the intro or say hello.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2016

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Best damn marketing tool by an order of magnitude. Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing. It has changed my life. It has changed my perspective.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve always thought about writing a few posts on features in products that drive me nuts. While “to&# and “cc&# are mostly treated the same (although newer productivity / filtering tools are starting to see them differently), the feature that really chaps my hide is “ Bcc &# – the “blind&# carbon copy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Really!). 5.0mm in Series C.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2019

Yet as somebody who has to read and write decks as a major portion of his job I can tell you that most people struggle with how to tell stories visually and when I need to do it I am aware of how difficult the modern toolsets make it to do this alone, let alone collaboratively. Projector lets you layer all types of media together.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? It’s a communication tool. A few reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

<Small plug> – I invested in an awesome company called … awe.sm … that is a performance tracking tool that let’s you measure efficacy of channels like this (email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.) Any takers in a trade for helping do some write-ups against whatever you want? Advice, coaching, intros?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. Learn how to test and possibly use testing and load tools. What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. tip: write it down when asked / parked). Let me write that down.&#. - The best tool for engagement is the question. Congratulations.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I concluded that it is an effective tool for leveling the playing field between sophisticated investors and emerging entrepreneurs. Writing a book is very different from writing a blog. One, I wanted to know what it was like to write a book. Jason and I have a pretty good back-and-forth writing style.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

If experiences are the best tools to foster entrepreneurial edification, a natural corollary question is, “How can you get the most out of your startup experiences?”. Journal or Blog – Writing about your experiences will force you to be contemplative and thoughtful. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

RunwayML Runway is an applied AI tool artists can use to create AI-generated media, like video, audio and text. Founded in 2020 by two former Meta executives, Tome is a business-focused storytelling and presentation tool that leverages generative AI. Vibrant Planet's Land Tender tool. million site visits in October alone.

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