Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

With all these companies vying for attention & others just here to soak up the vibe I thought I’d write a much broader piece on how startups can make the most of their attendance at conferences & events. Be very targeted in which events you attend. Plan out your most important events to attend.

Conference 289

Conference Startup Technical Review Writing 289

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It makes networking much more difficult / awkward. Those are the two things every single person who is networking at your event wants to know – name & company. Don’t waste space with meaningless information - I know you want to put your event name really big on the tag. We know it’s your event.

Conference 291

Conference Organization Startup Writing 291

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.

Writing 19

Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

PR is a process, not an event - For starters let me say that you shouldn’t do PR around milestones. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. I write on my blog how I think in my head.

Startup 349

Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 -- FundingPost San Diego VC and Angel Investor Event/ Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Southern California? Register for the FundingPost event on Wednesday, November 6th, 2019. Interested in pitching?

San Diego 100

San Diego Venture Capital Angel Southern California 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Monday, November 4, 2019 -- FundingPost Orange County VC and Angel Investor Event. Register for the FundingPost event on Tuesday, November 5th, 2019. FundingPost has hosted 400 sold-out venture events in 22 cities over the past 17 years. Interested in pitching?

Orange County 100

Orange County Venture Capital Tech Coast Angels Angel 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Monday, November 4, 2019 -- FundingPost Los Angeles VC and Angel Investor Event. Register for the FundingPost event on Monday, November 4th, 2019. FundingPost has hosted 400 sold-out venture events in 22 cities over the past 17 years. Interested in pitching?

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Venture Capital Angel Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

amSTATZ is an online community that brings fitness professionals, athletes and fitness events together into one place. The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Events pay a listing fee.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

And in any event, whatever overhead Docker incurs is uniformly applicable as all test implementations are required to be Dockered. In some cases, the throughput is so high that we have a new challenge from our old friend, “network saturation.” Mostly so that we can use the opportunity to write a blog entry and generate hype!)

Framework 377

Framework TechEmpower Platform Metrics 377

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 28, 2018

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 -- Orange County VCs, Angels, Crypto and ICOs Event. At our next event the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing and a fireside chat about ICO basics: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! See [link] (more)

Orange County 100

Orange County Angel Writing Course 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

Marketing 232

Marketing Funding Content Writing 232

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 29, 2018

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 -- FundingPost Los Angeles VCs, Angels, Crypto and ICOs Event. At our next event the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing and a fireside chat about ICO basics: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! See [link] (more)

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Angel Writing Course 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

I once went to a startup event where a VC told the audience that if a VC doesn’t respond to your email to move on to the next VC – that VC is clearly not interested. Well, for starters you need to be a great networker. You need to know how to write good & action oriented emails. It’s your job to persist.

Venture Capital 389

Venture Capital Email Startup Conference 389

Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

In a movie, the inciting incident is the event at the beginning of the story which causes the hero’s life to be completely transformed and irrevocably changed, and which makes the whole story unfold. This event totally changes the life of Michael Corleone and makes the rest of the story happen. By David Steakley.

Invest 237

Invest Examples Networking Writing 237

TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

So the two women started bringing their networks to soccer games and gathering momentum and support for the women’s soccer league and the sport broadly. . “She said, ‘Why don’t I bring a bunch of my friends to a game and we can do for them what Jack Nicholson did for the Lakers and ‘Showtime’?”

Writing 171

Writing Los Angeles Equity Startup 171

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

And when I have time I try to write back. Many days I have a breakfast meeting, back-to-back meetings all day and then an evening event. In the old days if you wrote people a physical letter, first it was a big effort to actually write and send the letter. I really do want to get back to everybody who writes to me.

Email 265

Email Startup Writing Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Getting involved with political events and fund raisers. And still able to make it out to LA networking events. She helps write press releases. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. Always meeting her product ship dates. She was everything I was looking for in an entrepreneur to back.

Startup 398

Startup Design Downey Activity 398

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. The picture above is from the actual event courtesy of Dan Farber who was writing for ZDNet.

Entrepreneur 338

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. I’ve met Sam several times and each time I’ve been at an event with him I’ve heard his opening line, “My name is Sam Jones. I was at a crowded event, Launchpad LA, at the SLS Hotel and had drunk several beers and as the host had a ton of people waiting to chat.

Startup 315

Startup Content Conference Media 315

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing. And make sure you spend time visible networking. Put yourself in the middle of a blog network. Topic Hubs.

Social Media 222

Social Media Services Media Blogging 222

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Most designers, at least the ones I know, hate to network and rarely do it. The key to networking in the tech world is you do not need to be the best in the world, you just need to be passionate, willing to learn and in a lot of cases be the best designer or developer that people know. Networking through social media.

Design 91

Design Networking Social Media Google 91

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. You should definitely hit up the Startup Weekend events as well. Ask them about your concept.

CTO Hire 211

CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

We’re expected to be at conferences, events, sales meetings and be publicly visible. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same. We are over-intro’d and at the same time under-resourced in terms of staff to handle the barrage of in-bound requests.

Activity 297

Activity Blogging Email Startup 297

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage.

Tips 307

Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 2, 2015

I even wrote about my experiences attending Web Summit , something I rarely ever write about. There is simply no way that an event grows from 400 people to 22,000 in 4 years without doing some things right. The founder of the event, Paddy Cosgrave, smartly responded to the critics in a post I just read this morning.

Web 150

Web Conference Technical Review Class 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. As of this writing nearly 50,000 versions have been created and uploaded and watched by some 200,000,000 people. Harlem Shake. million views).

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

June 2019 (left) and November 2020 (right) I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post because historically I don’t like talking about weight. I’ve been reluctant to write about weight in part because I don’t want to sound self righteous. Then should write down your “target goal.” I figured out something that worked for me.

Startup 526

Startup Course Writing Help 526

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

I get paid to network – I love meeting people. I get to network with angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, etc. We end up out a lot at events: dinners, cocktail parties, conferences. I’ll write about that in a couple of weeks. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me.

Venture Capital 312

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

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. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

If somebody like Cookie Marenco or Phil Sugar ever pulled me aside at an event I wouldn’t know what they looked like but by name I’d immediately chat with them. I write lots of people on Twitter. But over time I’ve seen the same names through the years and I know all of these people by name if not by face.

Networking 150

Networking Blogging Startup Conference 150

InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2014

He also co-founded Genetic Finance and is a Founding Member of Change.org, a social network focused on initiating and sustaining positive social change. Benedikt''s description of his encounters with Adam is an effective primer for young entrepreneurs who want to expand their network beyond their peers. Benedikt Scholz.

Entrepreneur 211

Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Startup 211

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. It’s understandably on everybody’s mind these days. Just checked their balance sheet.

Venture Capital 316

Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

While traditional methods (PR, advertising, events, seminars) and online methods (SEO, SEM, social, referral marketing) are well understood by most companies there are many methods that are less well publicized. If you have NO network of promotion for your story? Simply write a great book? How do people drive SEO growth?

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. You are writing about the essentials of business. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. What do you think of the concepts of visible networking ?

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. After raising the next round two more seats can be filled.

Capital 284

Capital Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 284

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. I was in Network Solutions. This was pre Internet. I was “technical guy.”

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

As you may know I outlined my rules for maximum impact at events / conferences before SXSW began. I can’t imagine having been at a better event. A band was saying, “I can’t believe that at one event you could get access to the band managers of Lady Gaga, FooFighters, etc. Should I go next year? SXSW was magic.

Ideas 294

Ideas Startup Marketing Pricing 294