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. We make sure that content is available, and linked to current news stores. Right now, news organizations write off the news cycle.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I discovered the power of ownership early in my management career, establishing an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), once popular as incentive compensation as well as a tax write-off for corporations and even a way to slowly transfer ownership of a company from the founders to the employees. Yes, sometimes the news is not good.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. 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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JULY 26, 2022

We are excited to share the news that we have raised $650 million across three vehicles to allow us to continue making investments for many years ahead. In our best-performing companies we often write follow-on checks totaling up to $10–15 million out of our early-stage fund.

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AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. Just look at the silly Obama birther debate that we wasted so many news cycles on. Is it ever appropriate to just let a news cycle pass assuming the story will move on and die down? Don’t Bury Bad News.

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MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? So how exactly do you break out then? And they back it up with data.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

He had just received notice from a major media organization that they were going to run a very negative news story. The story ran in the print edition of a major news journal. ” If people had seen the article on the home page of the news outlets website it no doubt would have been Tweeted. Their PR firm was ready.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Drop-off on the first page of an application is bad news. 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. This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it!

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

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JUNE 1, 2011

I started by writing 3-4 times / week. I didn’t have any grand ambitions other than to write, share ideas and try to build awareness of who I am through my thoughts. As with tonight I got my kids to bed, did some email, caught 30 minutes of the news then sat down to type. I’ve kept it up for 2 years.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Apple’s pivot to services has been a mixed bag, and the company is looking to expand the appeal of its Apple News service to a wider swath of free and paid subscribers. This week, the company rolled out a local newsletter in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing bundled local news curated by the Apple team.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. And then the news came. A woman named Trish Hannon called me with the good news that we had won the project. I knew what this meant. Be gracious.

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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.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures wrote a great post the other day that reminded me I’ve been meaning to write about this topic. I’m a news junkie and love to watch the Sunday morning talk shows like Meet the Press, This Week with Christiane Amanpour or Shields & Brooks on The News Hour on Fridays.

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JUNE 27, 2011

The truth is that we work in a very small, tight-knit industry and news & plans spread fast. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. Nobody likes writing re-hashed stories. Not everyone has a spare 40 mill for a re-do.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. And then the news came. A woman named Trish Hannon called me with the good news that we had won the project. I knew what this meant. Be gracious.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." Not Really At first you may be thinking that this is all bad news. That's an even tougher hurdle. Yes, that's correct.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition. We grew out of an interesting use case. It ran in April of 2008.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 2, 2010

I discovered the power of employee feelings of ownership early in my management career, establishing an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), once popular as incentive compensation as well as a tax write-off for corporations and even a way to slowly transfer ownership of a company from the founders to the employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

But it’s PacMan.&# I forgot to get him on record on the show, but Gregg writes all the lyrics for the big presidential videos they’ve done – you can see where the humor of JibJab comes from. They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. Tell us about the new fund? It''s good news for us, but it''s also good news for Los Angeles technology.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The argument FOR… I discovered the power of ownership early in my management career, establishing an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), once popular as incentive compensation as well as a tax write-off for corporations and even a way to slowly transfer ownership of a company from the founders to the employees.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

And it was the first word I muttered when I heard the news tonight. I’ll write you an angel check, then. We still had so many more times to spend together. I loved this image I saw posted by Andy Rankin. Because this is the one word that was not in your vocabulary. I remember when we met years ago. I know, I know. Yes, Jody.

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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. It made national news. Maker was contacted by every major news outlet. Harlem Shake. million views). And here’s the thing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based Ebyline , the online marketplace which connects publishers with freelance journalists, has rolled out a new offering today, which it says can help publishers produce their own, custom news feeds. The service, called Ebyline News Desk, allows publishers to create their own, custom feeds of original content.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

To be considered for the contest, you will have to write a 100-500 word essay to enter on why you’d like to digitally detox and the positive impact it’ll have on your life – but that's all that's needed to apply. You’ll then be taken through to an online form.

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JUNE 17, 2010

They just consume Twitter when they’re hungry for a conversation or some news right now. I’ll finish writing around 1am and that’s a dumb time to Tweet because few people in the US are online. You’l see from this morning’s logs that my post today was featured prominently on Hacker News.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Guy even gives him a nod in his index, indicating that thought leaders often assess a new book by flipping to the index to see if their name is included. At the beginning of the index, Guy writes, “I hope Robert Cialdini checks this index.” Deliver Bad News Early. Like King, his writing style is breezy and engaging.

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The Huffington Post

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Read more: Los Angeles Startups , La Tech Incubators , La Startups , Los Angeles Tech , Venture Capitalists , Tech Accelerators , Tech Incubators , Venture Capital , Slideexpand , Silicon Valley , Los Angeles News.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Twitter is pretty unstoppable as it related to news and global reach, but StockTwits is that extra layer that deciphers the news for people who love stocks. 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.

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MARCH 2, 2021

It’s March 1st as I write this*. Seems like just a moment ago it was New Year’s Day and we were all committing to our better selves for 2021 as so many of us do. If you don’t feel comfortable sharing with somebody else write the goal down somewhere that you will see it daily. Write down everything you eat. Don’t go there.

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JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. The price of public stocks change instantly in reaction to news that is perceived to affect the future value of that company. I acknowledged this in the article. You can be pissed off, but I don’t set prices.

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MAY 1, 2010

Have a column against each competitor for “recent news&# where you have a one paragraph update on your competitors movements. We need to be sure we’re not surprising our partners with negative news and want to share the positive stuff also. Make sure when you write it you assume this. I would send this out quarterly.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. I spoke about this yesterday on Fox Business News. Don’t write sentences on the – only key words to help you remember what you’re going to say. It is not sufficient to write yourself notes and read them before hand.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

DO capitalize on the moment in time while you’re still part of the news cycle. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. People want to feel like they’re at the cutting edge. Don’t believe their hype either.

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