Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. 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. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A 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. These are all creative processes.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. The chosen candidate will probably have worked for a very reputable firm that is either in technology, consulting, investment banking, media or a startup.

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Venture Capital Technical Review GRP Partners Email 290

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail. This gives Mark more control over the process, without requiring him to write much, and gives the LLM more to work with. The LLM didn’t just write a blurb for Mark, it wrote the blurb that Mark would have written, if only he’d had the words.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence TechEmpower Tips 297

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

The media eats it up as they always need something to write about. Be unique, find free marketing opportunities and use social media to build your following. One of the most important and most misunderstood rules of our new open & social media is that you need to engage directly with your audience. He knew this.

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Entrepreneur Startup Writing Blogging 398

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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Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

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. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. Really!). Enter Xobni.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 4, 2009

msuster for me) the message you write appears in my @msuster inbox on Twitter.com and on any of the desktop or mobile clients. If you truly want it to be private stick to DM or email (or better yet … telephone!). Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. The basics: 1. When you use the @username (e.g.

Tips 291

Tips Social Media Social Network Venture Capital 291

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

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. Capture the data – the currency of online direct marketing prior to Twitter was the email address. So why is this important for businesses?

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Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

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Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

He started by using email (send your eCard to a friend) and there he sees 3-4 clicks back per share action. <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.)

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Startup Venture Capital Pricing Writing 303

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets. Set design.

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Company Companies Technical Review Content 339

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. I’ve always believed that you learn a great deal when you’re presenting, teaching or writing about what you know. It’s just my writing style.

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Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Media Tips Social Media Startup 118

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Email readers, continue here…]. Create social media posts with links to your site that drive search engine scores and increase search traffic. Here’s a quick nod to the folks at Colour Graphics for urging me to write this insight. So, what other benefits are there to niche marketing? Here are just a few to consider….

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Marketing Advertising Resource Social Media 266

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

Training 93

Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current. READ MORE>>.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. I’m now back & ready for action. 6:00 – 7:30).

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California. That's part one.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it. It's fun, I guess.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Fallacy: The sad reality is that PR Firms value their relationships with media and industry gatekeepers more than their relationship with any single client. As soon as they encounter resistance from a trusted media compatriot, they will invariably relent, in order to protect their long-term relationships. Fallacy: Yes. Share and Enjoy.

Entrepreneur 272

Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

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. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you looking for employment at a company or just wanting to expand your connections, don’t be afraid to email or tweet someone and see if they want to go for a coffee or a beer. I have applied at Google 1000 times, never heard back, but I used social media to finally get a call from them about a decade later. Ask for feedback.

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Design Networking Social Media Google 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. As internet crashed media became cheaper so they bought more and their tracking and analysis became really good so they did better.

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Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

Tech.Co

JULY 9, 2024

If the thought of writing a proposal is making you anxious, we also explore how AI can be used to assist with the grant-writing process. While AI has the power to streamline the grant-writing process, it can backfire massively for businesses that get it wrong. Chamber of Commerce. However, don’t be deceived.

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ChatGPT Writing Commerce News 149

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded email marketer NetCreations, and also has been an angel investor in local startups. We stopped doing consumer facing content a year ago, and handed over writing of the Impact Section on Huffington Post to the team at AOL. However, you'll never see that in the media.

Causecast 222

Causecast Startup Content Education 222

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Winfrey was an unlikely candidate to become one of the most dominant media personalities of modern America. It was natural for Oprah to be apprehensive about assuming an unfamiliar role in the US’s third largest media market. The tremendous challenges she overcame make Oprah’s career especially inspiring. Did this slow her down?

Tips 279

Tips Startup Networking Entrepreneur 279

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. Build a media kit, publicize endorsements from friends and beta customers, get dialogs going on Twitter, and optimize your website landing pages.

Startup 104

Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

Press 105

Press Social Media Startup Training 105

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). We'll continue to write checks into our companies, whether that is from our fund or SBDs from our LP base.

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Invest Funding Capital Startup 145

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. This is why many people are so excited by how much traffic they’re now generating from social media.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286