socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

So, aiming a brand-new smartphone full of great features but increased complexity using AARP Magazine as your marketing resource just won’t get the job done. Here’s a quick nod to the folks at Colour Graphics for urging me to write this insight. Of course not. And most of all, never give up! – Dave.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. I admit that my writing style back then was a bit more carefree, provocative and opinionated.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

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. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

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. It’s the new magazine. People forgot that Fred also wrote “Web Second.” BUT … try doing proper restaurant research on a mobile device.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. He writes about the fabric of American life, often from the perspective of his Jewish, New Jersey roots. It was also voted by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 novels of all time. Don’t get me wrong – I loved economics.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2012

I remember when I first saw one advertised in a magazine when I was on a flight from England to the US. Most people I know who gave up their Blackberry’s just write shorter emails and respond to less. It is stunning to think about the blind spots that market leaders can develop. I still don’t. See this stock chart?!?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I was interviewed recently by Inc Magazine and they have been publishing snippets of this interview online. But even more important than personal lessons of failure, I believe acceptance of failure at a societal level is one of the key ingredients that allows the technology startup industry in the US to flourish.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2014

I hesitate to write about design, as I have never considered myself to be a "color or font" person. Greg Alwang, a contributing editor at PC Magazine, was a beta user of GoToMyPC. Noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously cautioned his design disciples that form should not compromise function.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

We have published 74 different magazine titles over the last 30 years. That's absolutely crucial in magazines, and in the way we ran events. In magazines, if you pick up Robb Report, you can see the passion behind its writing, and the way it approaches the subject matter, and how appropriate it is for the audience it is built for.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had finally appeared on the front cover of a magazine (TornadoInsider – then the top European VC magazine) but I felt so fat in the picture I never sent it to anybody. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this. I prefer to write the December 2010 post about what a great year I had.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

2) Congratulations on Entrepreneur magazine recently naming BetterWorks a “ Brilliant Company.” What must a startup do to motivate you to write them a check? In that way, the people who made it feel they really achieved something. 100% of the folks (who survived the boot camps) are still here.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Are you targeting Hollywood and existing script writing software? Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 What's Scripped?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

Mark granted me read/write access to his calendaring system. ” So while I admit that when you aren’t traveling as much the thought of getting on a flight to go somewhere fun and have real downtime with a magazine sounds or a movie sounds so tempting. But I’m sure many would apply if the situation were reversed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

They cite sources like Profitable Venture Magazine, “ Why Business Plans are a Waste of Time ” and this Forbes article. In fact, they are probably in such a hurry to give you money that they don’t want you to waste time writing anything down and passing it along to new investors. Clemson University professor William B.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I have run newspapers, magazines, and websites and I have written for them all. I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. I was a journalist for about 20 years. It’s growing.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

Plus, I actually work with Dale Daughtery, Mark Fraunfelder and AnnMarie Thomas--who you might know through MAKE magazine--through my day job, at UC Irvine's Digital Learning Research Hub, where we work with research groups across different countries. I've done things like figured out how to write my own iOS app, played around with Arduino.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

You see lots of them selling small business advertising, neighborhood magazines, and the like. We make that available to our clients, including sales training, how to compete against Groupon and LivingSocial, affiliate training, copyright training, how to write up good deals, marketing, and promotions. It's similar to a franchise.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’ve often talked about the NY advantage of having the NY Times, WSJ, Silicon Alley Insider, New York Magazine and even the editor of TechCrunch based there. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. Consider just how much exposure the Austin community gets every year due to SXSW. It’s awesome.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. The Economist magazine did a study in the late 90’s on the ROI of an MBA (maybe somebody can help me surface it?). This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

Keep your write-ups to a single page. Exercise II: Your Fortune Magazine Interview. For each one, answer the following questions as if you were being interviewed by a writer from Fortune magazine. Looking for small ventures will help you open your eyes to the myriad of opportunities that surround you.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Time Magazine published its “person of the year” edition today and honored “the silence breakers” for speaking up and forcing our society to confront its position towards men in power exploiting their power for sexual gain. Real change is clearly needed.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

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. The first one we launched was with Corporate Responsibility Magazine, where the top 100 corporate citizens will be on their web site. We're also taking this to publishers.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Jeff Bezos didn't get to be the world's richest man by writing a lot of checks, and one recent way to keep Amazon's profits healthy has been to cut its affiliate commissions scheme. Top Publications: BuzzFeed News, Vox, New York Magazine. That’s formidable growth, given that the bookselling site only launched this past January.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 Stuff you may not know about LA?

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Frank Addante

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

(my first article of a weekly column that I'm writing for Inc Magazine) A five-time entrepreneur makes the case for launching a company in Silicon Beach. He's not the only fan.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 28, 2011

Here was a recent video interview I did for Entrepreneur Magazine. Write that down, and then look at those item(s) and check yourself to see what percent of your time you’re actually dedicating towards those efforts. DocStoc – Entrepreneur (3/23/11) from OC Creative Media on Vimeo. Its a common mantra I preach to our team.

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Writing Entrepreneur Media 63

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Mitch Joel – Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

I’ve tried over the years to write many times about the realism of the downsides of being an entrepreneur because there is a complete cognitive dissidence between what you read about yourself in the press and what you feel internally about where you’re at in the journey. . — Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

In the past century, curators for business information were specialized news magazines like Forbes and Inc., They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. We know that in early April Apple will deliver the iPad, which with a larger format may have an impact on the consumption of newspapers, magazines and videos. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2014

. “The future refrigerator will be semi-transparent, and the opaque smart display will display exactly what’s inside, so we only have to open the door once we know what we want,” Itzkovitch writes in UX Magazine. “Neatly organized food items will be recognized and categorized via sensors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. and Flipboard Rock - How to Change the World , August 24, 2010 In the last few weeks two companies have released services that enable you to take tweets and turn them into a newspaper or magazine format: Paper.li What’s going to happen in the future?' How to Make Paper.li and Flipboard.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce).

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Maybe you sit and read Inc magazine for a while in the outside patio enjoying the sunny weather before you have to lock yourself in your white walled box chained to the computer working into the late night hours. On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table.

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