SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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JUNE 29, 2014

Fred Wilson wrote a Tweetstorm and then did a blog post on the topic. I never asked Marc why he stopped blogging but I presume it is some combo of having started a venture capital firm (which you might guess takes a bit of time) and also allowing some air time for his then-less-well-known compadre. Engagement. Many people. Any people.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Develop an efficient and effective writing style.

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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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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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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 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. You betcha.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Plus, show my you can write! 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. I will not consider applicants without a cover letter. Yesterday.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

Lawrence) both helped me master the rules of writing and tap into my creativity. I know that I make grammar and spelling errors in this blog but I promise it’s through speed of writing, typing and publishing and not through a lack of knowledge. Wolters) and high school (Mr. I’m forever grateful for this.

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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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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. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. It sucked. It still does.

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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. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. Tell us about the new 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. Email updates frequently.

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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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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?”. Write down the customer pains so you’ll have them for later. Click here.

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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. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. then mobile is awesome.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2020

It’s hard to convert an idea into a business, and it’s also hard to get back into the groove with all the distractions of other activities and your “real job.” If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. You're quite an active investor, as well - are you still making investments?

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APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My I decided well if I am going to be investing in this stuff at least I need to understand what it’s like to have a blog, to be generating content, and it was quite interesting at the very, very beginning.“. was starting.

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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. Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious.

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JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. Mostly kidding. Any other angle is just sour grapes.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I’m a pretty natural public speaker so I can write my presentation the day before and do just fine. The Urgency Addiction – Deep down I’m a procrastinator.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. Meanwhile, this year’s deal count is declining sharply, a sign that venture investors are still writing bigger checks for fewer deals.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In addition to his investing efforts, Brad has been active with several non-profit organizations and currently is chair of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (link is external), co-chair of Startup Colorado (link is external), and on the board of Path Forward (link is external).

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

3) If you were writing your book Pitching Hacks today, how would your advice differ ? 2) About 18-months ago, on your Startup Boy blog, you wrote a post entitled “ Why You Need to be in Silicon Valley.” The whole environment has changed. The whole thing in some ways is obsolete because the environment has changed.

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JANUARY 10, 2021

You can also follow me on Twitter ] There is no diet or not fitness activity that will help you over the long haul if you don’t have the right mental plan. Noom worked really well initially because it dealt with the psychology of why people make bad food choices and forced me to write down what some of my bad behaviors actually were.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. You are writing about the essentials of business. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. It provides a more active opportunity for people to get to know each other, and in more detail.

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MARCH 1, 2011

He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup. If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog.

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MARCH 10, 2012

Negotiating was a subset of every activity in a startup – it really was a way of life. Persuading a journalist to write about you rather than the 1,000 other companies bugging them. ” Stuart is the main guy who persuaded me to start blogging some of the lessons we learned together. But you should see my other son.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

This experience made me want to dig into my archives, re-write & publish this piece. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones. You’ll want to know: How knowledgeable / active is the partner in your specific space? I’m the same.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. Communication and writing skills are required. In additional to strong journalistic writing and storytelling, you need business acumen, strategic thinking and planning, and the ability to do the right research.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

A well-performing application will not slow, block, or otherwise frustrate the fulfillment of requests based on other users’ concurrent activities. Todd Hoff’s comprehensive 2009 blog entry on the costs of latency in web applications is still relevant today. However, most web applications are not blogs or news sites.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. ” In it Brooks talks about his recent trip to Africa with his 12-year-old son.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

Yet from my own years of experience in the startup community, here are ten common steps that have worked for other entrepreneurs: Write a "job description" for that ideal partner. Take a hard look at your own business strengths and weaknesses, and write down what partner skills and experiences would best complement yours.

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