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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

And what’s up with this crazy new blog design? I look forward to being back to blogging next week. not that I can take any credit for it, but I’ll pass along the credit when I talk about my new spiffy blog). You disappeared? What the fork happened to you? Well … more on that next week. I will tell more.

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MARCH 10, 2014

My blog had been looking tired for a year or two. I considered changing to a blog publishing platform that would allow me to change the visual design more easily myself. He wrote a nice blog post describing the project to redesign my website. He was able to take Jess’s design concepts and get them built into my blog.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. .” From this I learned the best times to post and how frequently to Tweet a blog post.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO. If you haven’t read my blog posts on why Tracy chose the right strategy it’s worth a read.

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MARCH 14, 2013

The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.” And I’m sure it’s not lost on you that my tips and my blogging are, in fact, POV marketing.

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JUNE 1, 2011

I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. Building a blog & name recognition is only one small, small part of my job. That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. Just like a sales person at the end of a quarter.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

@sebastienros reports that Stephen Toub posted an excellent blog containing detail on all the performance improvements in.NET 5. More information can be found in OfficeFloor's blog post about round 20. Please reach out if you are a contributor and didn't yet get a chance to share your updates.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. So I put the blog on the back burner to stay focused on those busy times. But I miss blogging. I couldn’t believe the quality intro.”

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JUNE 29, 2014

I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now. The biggest problem with the report was that it pulled together data from more than a decade ago to proclaim what the future of our industry would look like.

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JULY 27, 2013

Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. My friend Seth Levine covered this well in his blog post on “ Handling Rejection ” which you should also read. I could link to a bunch of blog posts that come across this way but prefer not to single anybody out. Here’s the deal.

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JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. So your goal should be a steady stream of news across many different news outlets and your own blog.

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AUGUST 17, 2014

Just back from vacation and also some work travel and want to get back to blogging so expect a few posts over the next couple weeks. I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. Have a listen and see for yourself.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

His personal blog with some great example is here. I’m a huge believer in Info Graphics and the ability to create deeper understanding of complicated topics through visual means. As “Big Data” becomes more pervasive the power to visualize will become increasingly important. And Jess is awesome at his trade.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I had outlined a blog post in support of their efforts and was ready to publish it. They were about to write a blog post defending the privacy issue and calling out why that journalist misunderstood the story. Had we written the blog post the storm clouds would have gathered for longer. The company had their holding statement.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

I cut-and-paste the text and saved it to my Trello board where I store blog ideas. I thought I might some day dust it off and try to deal with it in a blog post. I took the longer piece out because it seemed too focused on depression inspired by reading about Aaron Swartz and not enough on the positives of January that I was feeling.

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JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. It’s why whenever he does ask my answer is “yes” before even knowing what he’s asking. Think about it – who knows angels the best?

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

Check out our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Founder-Developer Gap How big is your startup’s Founder-Developer Gap? Is it a tiny crack, or a widening chasm? And how can you tell? If you’re not hearing those questions from your developers, you’ve got the gap.

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MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. About this blog. Subscribe to our blogs feed. You are viewing a single entry. Please also check out the most recent entries. March 28, 2013. Framework Benchmarks. How much does your framework choice affect performance? The answer may surprise you. Questions or comments? Contact us.

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MARCH 15, 2014

” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. I first discovered him or her as a commenter on Fred Wilson’s blog. There are many things I am – but different than what I say on this blog is not one of them!

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JANUARY 11, 2014

I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs. We go through case studies like how Mint.com & Magento drove large audiences through great content marketing strategies.

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APRIL 12, 2017

People expect blog posts, Tweets, panels, speeches. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same. And every leader also has teams with constant priorities where they need: Input, feedback, decisions or meetings. The modern world is daunting. Get non-core things out of your way.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

” 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. So consider this my first-ever guest blog post. She’s “type A” and I’m “type ADD.” With a tiny bit of ghost writing from me. Cheesy stock photo mine, not hers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. A website or blog without appealing or entertaining content for your market segment is not enchanting. Graphics, pictures, and videos make a website or blog more interesting and enchanting.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

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 ! Focus on building an MVP to gather startup metrics. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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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. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs? Is this investor on AngelList? You betcha. Speaks on CNBC.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Apex builds satellite buses quicker and more affordably than ever before, allowing companies to rapidly expand critical satellite deployment. Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Ian on This Week in Startups.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Write a blog entry and post the Round. We want an official Round to have a solid showing by as many frameworks as feasible given limited personnel bandwidth. Select a continuous run on the physical hardware (named "Citrine") that looks good and identify its Git commit. Run the same commit on cloud (Azure).

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I read this story on Ivan Kirigin’s blog that shows that Quora was posting which articles you’re reading to other people without your consent. 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.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

The program is expanding to Chicago in 2021, the blog post notes. Read the whole HBCUvc blog post here. HBCUvc, which we first wrote about in 2017, currently holds a number of programs to help Black and Hispanic students enter the world of tech, from fellowships to micro-grants.

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

But since I have a blog and the history of my falling in love with Andrew & Petri’s vision was public and is relevant to how we make decisions I wanted a chance to tell all of their stories. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take.

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JUNE 30, 2014

If you read my blog regularly you know this is a topic close to my heart – so it was great to get perspective from someone running a company in the space (a company which just raised an additional $25 million).

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 10, 2019

My favorite car blog Jalopnik said it best: “Cars Sales Could Be Heading Straight Into the Toilet.” After all, a vehicle traditionally loses its value at a dramatic rate. Some startups are attempting to reinvent car ownership rather than car buying. Don’t buy, lease.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

synopse I have written a blog post about TFB and object pascal - yes, we added our object pascal framework in round 22! Context and use case determines how you optimize your code. btw: xitca-web (bench code not including dependencies) does not do 2,3,5 and still remains competitive in micro bench can be used as a reference.

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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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JUNE 6, 2018

This is a longer-than-average TFB round announcement blog entry, but there is a lot to share, so bear with me. Mostly so that we can use the opportunity to write a blog entry and generate hype!) More on that later. Dockerification… Dockerifying… Docking?

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APRIL 17, 2013

Take some comfort in Fred Wilson’s blog post about MeetUp and the 20-year-build. The golden rule of management is to set low expectations and beat them. Lightning in a bottle breaks the cardinal rule. So be prepared for the marathon. Expects a long, slow linear climb. After all – some people win the lottery.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Since it is sometimes hard to get the full context from a conference presentation, I have included blog posts links on the topics in which I have written fuller posts in the presentation itself. But my slides are linked above and you can also download from SlideShare. I’d love to hear your view on the presentation.

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