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JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# I started blogging 2 years ago. Just like a sales person at the end of a quarter.

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JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. And the reality is that you might be better off doing less activity but doing “the right&# activities really well.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

As I talked about on many occasions when I was an entrepreneur – and blogged publicly about - I learned a lot about my business and myself in these meetings. I realized it was part of the process because it’s such a high-volume activity being a VC. I was an entrepreneur for years. Possibly more.

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MARCH 24, 2014

“Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” As a result of this activity I have now personally returned significantly more capital in my 5 years than I have invested. I have huge confidence in the companies that I’ve backed that are still active. The monkey on my back.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

A : Activation - What % have a "happy" initial experience? Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! R : Retention - Do they come back & re-visit over time?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Sean Percival, best known for founding Los Angeles tech blog lalawag, in addition to his work as an executive at MySpace, has booted up a new effort--Santa Monica-based Wittlebee , a new, online subscription service for baby supplies. The new effort emerged this week, revealing that it is backed by Science, Inc. , READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 3, 2010

MySpace said that beginning today, publishers on the site can create a profile and control what messages they would like to insert into their activity stream. squarely into a multi-way intersection of who's who in Southern California's blog and technology world. The link with MySpace pulls Ad.ly The link with MySpace pulls Ad.ly

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I discovered that the authenticity averages of these leading Twitter personalities is abysmal,with only 29% real and active, 30% fake and the remaining 41% inactive. However, for anyone interested, my average scores are: 3% fake, 13% inactive and 84% active. My apologies to anyone I inadvertently excluded from this list.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. If you look at many of the companies we invest in, sure they have traditional marketing activities, but most of their growth and momentum comes from delighting their users. “…companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Microsoft has been steadfast in their dedication to improving the performance of their.NET framework, and has been active in the Framework Benchmark community to further this goal. synopse I have written a blog post about TFB and object pascal - yes, we added our object pascal framework in round 22!

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And measuring activities or output can mislead you into thinking you’re doing a great job. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. We are doing what we do – writing larger checks and playing an active role at the company. Is this investor on AngelList?

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2010

Billshrink CEO Peter Pham , who is well known in Southern California for his efforts to organize and connect local entrepreneurs, has left his firm and become an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Trinity Ventures , one of Billshrink's backers, Pham said last week in a blog post.

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JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Example of publishers include: moviefone, Fandango, Jingle, SayNow, and voice blogs. Total raised: $30mm.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

The site will look at your activity on these sites and the content of what you share. You can partially control your interests via the Subscription page as shown below: This will change over time based on your LinkedIn and twitter activity. It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals.

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MAY 19, 2014

Incentive is led by Rickard Hansson; the company''s software offers up activity streams, wikis, blogs, and other social apps for companies, which operates behind a company''s firewall or in a private cloud. The startup--which has headquarters in Malmo, Sweden--said the funding will go towards launching in the United States.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Arguably the least-authentic personality on the list, Kim Kardashian, has the most legitimate followers of the Top 15 Tweeters, with 43% of her Twitter fans judged by StatusPeople to be real and active. In contrast, 53% of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's 910,000 followers are active and authentic, with 16% deemed fake and 31% inactive.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Suster, who has been one of the most visible and active venture capital bloggers in Southern California, beat such VCs as John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz, and Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital in the listing.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

Calacanis, in his blog, said that he's the only angel that is invested in the deal, and that he brokered the introduction to Sequoia Capital. Calacnis has been one of the more active angel investors in Southern California, particularly after he launched new angel investment group the Open Angel Forum last November.

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MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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JULY 16, 2013

What you really want to know is which campaigns drove “bottom of funnel activities” such as: Purchases, newsletter signups, subscribers, comments and so forth in the same way you’d be tracking this on Google Analytics for your SEO / SEM campaigns, direct referrals, etc. Startup Advice'

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

26 languages, 431 frameworks, 1774 benchmarks; and the knock on benefits to the the users of any framework that actively participates are enormous - you are truly doing great work! This is a longer-than-average TFB round announcement blog entry, but there is a lot to share, so bear with me. More on that later.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2011

A lot of the feedback we got from those users was that community was a killer, we love these communities, can we put them on our own site, on our own blog, can we skin the community so that it's in our own look and feel, and can we put all these features on our own site. So that's what the Lunch Network is.

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AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. Of course triangulation is a mathematics term that is used in sailing and other activities to help you better navigate when you don’t have your bearings. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless.

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JUNE 17, 2013

If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. Have you found a way to best link your potential marketing leads in social media into activity that leads to more business?”. The best form of sales is “active listening” where you’re engaged in what the customer is telling you.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. The analyst will be involved in the following activities: Tracking investment opportunities / companies.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Then I get people sending me Twitter comments, blog comments and tons & tons of email intros. Thanks for the tip – we’re now actively engaged in discussion.&#. Any readers of this blog will know that I have ADHD and therefore sitting through presentations is like water torture to me.

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JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. As the CEO you need to realize that doing PR is part of the piechart of activities called “your job.” I have no money?

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APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. Instead of publishing into the ether where 98% of blogs must get less than 10 page views / month, in Tumblr you have followers as you would in a social network.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. The firm just announced that new fund, and a new name, Upfront Ventures (www.upfront.com). Tell us about the new fund? Mark Suster: It''s a $200M fund.

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MAY 27, 2013

So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. Measuring my daily activity. Next up for me is measuring my daily activities.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In a blog post , Brisco said that the firm decided to become a private firm again, because it would be a "good deal" for shareholders, and also said it could become "even more focused" on long-term growth. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 27, 2012

My hometown of Santa Monica and the surrounding region have surged onto the national landscape in the past 12 months as a hotbed of startup activity. And as might be expected, there is no shortage of advice, varying from blog postings to a seemingly limitless selection of events. This is terrific news for the community.

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JUNE 27, 2013

GRP has been quite active in the local technology industry, having founded accelerator LaunchpadLA. The investment firm also had a high visibility partner in the form of Mark Suster, who has helped drive awareness of the formerly quiet investment firm via his extensive blogging, social media, and conference appearances.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. I loved the idea of “mobile first” but something always bothered me.

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