Both Sides of the Table

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.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. Plus they run conferences with the top people (which is another form of POV marketing by the way). Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.”

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. The power to me was that I had already been blogging about my personal life and my children as well as separately about my startup. As usual we began a dialog with lots of people sharing their points of view.

Startup 276

Startup Blogging Social Network Networking 276

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. ’ It’s pretty terrible to have to go to conferences… with people who are talking about… stuff that not only do I know nothing about, but I could give two $hits about.” Start Lean. Flip Burgers.

Entrepreneur 272

Entrepreneur Startup Conference Santa Barbara 272

Both Sides of the Table

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. You’d see them speak at conferences using their favorite euphemisms for businesses that grow rapidly or for really profitable businesses. Possibly more.

Venture Capital 292

Venture Capital Blogging Conference Google 292

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

People had been steadily blogging for 2-3 years and this crowd seemed to bifurcate. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo. So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. started blogging again outlined here.

Blogging 219

Blogging Venture Capital Startup Social Media 219

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2010

I saw him speak at the Twitter conference last year in LA organized by the Parnassus Group. My wife reads a blog every day that she loves (and highly recommends to everybody) called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She loves it and always has such great stories to tell me about the blog in the evenings when we talk about life.

Blogging 407

Blogging Tips Press Startup 407

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I speak at conferences where I might meet 75-100 people and have conversations. I have Twitter chats, respond to blog comments, trade emails, respond to comments on This Week in VC. I remember! &# You’re the guy who built the Twitter plug-in for blogs. Sometimes more. I do dinners too often as my waistline can attest.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Blogging Conference Email 288

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. It just so happened that there was a conference coming up run by a guy named Ismael Ghalimi, a very well respected software executive who also was keeping a blog at the time for companies in the space.

Entrepreneur 338

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Conferences. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? I was at the Lobby Conference a few weeks ago in Mexico. The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more.

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Venture Capital Conference Ideas Entrepreneur 400

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. It was interesting for me to read Fred Wilson’s email bankruptcy blog post this morning. Or I’m at BOD meetings or conferences. But what has really killed me is email.

Email 265

Email Startup Writing Blogging 265

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2011

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the third party Twitter client software firm headed by Bill Gross, said today that it has linked with blog site Mashable for a SXSW promotion. Financial details of the cross promotion were not disclosed.

Conference 167

Conference Pasadena Blogging Sites 167

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

You need somebody who is thinking laterally about how to creatively get extra attention at conferences or trade-shows. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. That’s why keeping a personal blog is so great. I write on my blog how I think in my head.

Startup 349

Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

Technology Council

JUNE 13, 2008

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Technology Council 100

Technology Council Southern California Blogging Hollywood 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The move comes a month after Calacanis said he was launching his own competitor to Michael Arrington's TechCrunch Disrupt conference, called the LAUNCH Conference. Calacanis said in November that his LAUNCH conference will afford startup with the ability to reach investors and launch products to the world.

Newsletter 150

Newsletter Santa Monica Conference Blogging 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

We’re expected to be at conferences, events, sales meetings and be publicly visible. People expect blog posts, Tweets, panels, speeches. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same. And then there are investors who want updates, calls, reports, check-ins.

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Activity Blogging Email Startup 297

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

I have to admit when I first walked through the doors of the Los Angeles Convention Center to attend Blog World I asked myself why I was wasting my time. Haven’t I learned by now that it’s better to be disciplined, focused in my office, at the computer, than “on the go” in a daze at a conference. That’s a conference worth going to.

Conference 88

Conference Networking Blogging SEO 88

Both Sides of the Table

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. Journalists don’t often write stories that talk about, “This cool new company I met at a conference.” ” Why? Funding is news.

Startup 355

Startup Funding News Press 355

Both Sides of the Table

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. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. You get a lot of traffic – not always results.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Both Sides of the Table

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. Ok, well not that pretty since I do my own slides and often at 1am. But my slides are linked above and you can also download from SlideShare.

Startup 388

Startup Slides Outsource Development Sales 388

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We’ve recently launched a video series called T3:Today’s Tech Trends to further support our shows by adding a video component that can be shared directly from YouTube, our blog or embedded in the radio show website, blog or any other website/blog willing to carry the free content. This show can be found at [link].

Social Media 220

Social Media Media Blogging Social Network 220

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. When I go to conference I never sit in the meeting section – I always cruise the halls meeting people.

Venture Capital 312

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

and FAIL Blog web sites, apparently was spawned out of an introduction at last year's Twiistup technology conference, according to investor the Foundry Group. The $30M funding deal for Seattle's Cheezburger , the web publisher best known for its LOLcats-themed I Can Has Cheezburger?

Twiistup 145

Twiistup Avalon San Diego Conference 145

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Startup Grind was a truly awesome conference and Derek the consumate host. ” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. I hope to be asked back for next year’s event. Clayton Christensen certainly didn’t disappoint.

Venture Capital 403

Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

This blog started from a series of conversations I found myself having over and over again with founders and eventually decided I should just start writing them.It I see founders who think they can be at every conference, advise multiple companies, do side investments in angel deals, leave the office at 6pm and have a balance life.

Competition 394

Competition Startup Writing Marketing 394

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. You get a lot of traffic — not always results.

Activity 164

Activity Conference Press Case Study 164

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, is planning some direct competition to Michael Arrington's technology blog empire, TechCrunch , according to a report today from the Guardian. The new publication would not be a stretch for Calacanis--who, like Arrington, made his own fortune by selling his last company, blog network Weblogs, Inc.

Mahalo 124

Mahalo Web 2.0 Blogging Technical Review 124

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both. Obvious, I know.

Product 348

Product Startup Design Blogging 348

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. They got us invited to the Fortune CEO conference in Paris held at Versailles. Not so much.). Goldman Sachs was an investor.

Startup 310

Startup Press Venture Capital Journal 310

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Jason Calacanis , CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com and co-producer of the TechCrunch50 conference--not known for pulling his punches--publicly targeted angel group The Keiretsu Forum today for their presentation fees. In Calacanis' personal blog, he called for bloggers to launch a public campaign against Keiretsu.

Keiretsu 157

Keiretsu Santa Monica Venture Capital Blogging 157

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

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. I have a process I use for blog posts, too. I look carefully at who is speaking before me.

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. It was very widely read. If you don’t have much experience in working with law firms at a startup it’s a good primer. Startup-focused.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2011

Conference, Tech Coast Angels, and RockHealth. See https://www.healthinreach.com/blog/?p=248. networking event for Internet, mobile, and healthcare professionals. Meet peers, share insights, mingle with investors and recruit talent. Proudly sponsored by Health In Reach, Health 2.0

Tech Coast Angels 113

Tech Coast Angels Blogging Conference Mobile 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

You need somebody who is thinking laterally about how to creatively get extra attention at conferences or trade-shows. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. It’s OK to push out extra ones on your website or blog. Just don’t spam people.

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

El Segundo-based Aggregage , which develops software driven B2B websites and newsletters which aggregate blog and news postings for specific industries, has raised $1M in a convertible note, the company said today. Aggregage''s B2B websites are published in conjunction with trade and professional associations. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels 113

Tech Coast Angels El Segundo Newsletter Blogging 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

I wrote a blog post about being hands on where I argued that startup founders need to be hands-on or in my words, “you can’t run a burger chain if you’ve never flipped burgers.&#. He told me that the CEO set the strategy but that he, the President, traveled to all of the conferences evangelizing on behalf of the company.

Entrepreneur 286

Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire Sales 286

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He has it on stage, too, at conferences. I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. Now if he could just get out of his way by hiring a Tourette’s editor who won’t let him hit publish on his blog or Twitter feed until it has been reviewed.

Startup 309

Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309