Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

If you’re a financial services firm blog about personal finance. 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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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It's unclear why Fidelity wrote down the value of its investment in the disappearing messaging service. Snapchat--arguably, the most visible "unicorn" startup in Southern California--had been valued at $15 billion in its last fundraising round.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Do you have a hard time concentrating and keeping on task, particularly for concentration intensive tasks like writing, coding, and reading? A new Los Angeles Startup, focus@will , said this morning that it has launched a private beta of a service to do just that, by using music.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

She entered you reservation by writing in a time slot in a paper calendar and you were in. We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. The hostess worked from 4-10pm so you had to call during these hours. Top Photo Credit.

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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 The desire to be better than anybody else in one’s field. Last week’s obsession was about obsession itself. But I would ask you this. It’s not a 9-to-5 job.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

Even as Quibi , the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo , reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion , rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeline of short form serials. Michael Scott is simultaneously writing a pilot for linear television.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

Los Angeles-based Luxury Presence , a new startup which provides websites and digital marketing services to real estate agents, has raised $5.4M Luxury Presence says it also offers up services for lead generation, managed SEO, managed Instagram, copy writing, and video production. in a funding round, according to the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

It’s not just the spammers or marketers trying to sell you products or services. And when I have time I try to write back. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

I’m sitting at my computer now at 9.00pm writing this – which is an hour earlier than I normally write (there are about 8 women at my kitchen table having a book club (aka excuse to drink wine & gossip so I’m locked in another room writing. We know that many angels love the service. I enjoy that.

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Email Blogging Venture Capital Writing 287

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Los Angeles-based freelance writing marketplace Ebyline said this week that it has launched a brand new product, which helps WordPress publishers pay contributors to their WordPress blog. Ebyline said the service costs 8% to cover the processing costs of sending those payments to authors. READ MORE>>.

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Blogging Writing Los Angeles Software 186

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. Right now, news organizations write off the news cycle. In the process of doing that, we discovered some things.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

I stumbled upon the Question, “ What-is-the-motivation-behind-writing-public-reviews-and-tips-as-on-Amazon-Yelp-Foursquare-StickyBits-etc &# and took the bait. Or let’s face it – writing lots of answers on Quora. It’s existed in every online community and multi-user service that has ever been studied.

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Technical Review Writing Content Sites 294

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! But it’s mostly customer service. I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice. But what kind of business person would I be if I allocated 100% of my time to customer service and zero to marketing? “But WAIT !!! Should you?

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Email Product Startup Writing 314

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

In a perfect world, the coolest widget, the coolest service would automatically sell and people would love it…but this ain’t a perfect world. An entrepreneur has to enchant people to use new products and services not simply bludgeon them, promote them or discount them. That doesn’t work.”.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Training Services Writing 174

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I attempted to do a fair balance job of an increasingly important service – AngelList – started by a friend of mine – Nivi with the feelings of a colleague who I respect – Bryce – who has opted out of the service. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. So why I am writing it then?

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Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. 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

MAY 27, 2016

I answered in the same way I always do so I thought I’d just write it publicly. “I I love businesses that aim to massively reduce the costs of products or services in a way that makes a product or service vastly more accessibility and in which incumbents would have a hard time competing. I fall in love.” Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Invest Writing Pricing Metrics 254

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.

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Startup Course Writing Help 526

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I wrote my version here and Scott wrote an excellent write-up of his views here. ” I believe Scott’s argument is that the market is following many other services markets where you have small, expert, boutique small firms and a handful of mega players as we see in banking, law, accounting, entertainment agencies, et.

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Venture Capital SaaS Writing Funding 309

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. My partner, Brian McLoughlin , attends almost all Financial Services conference, makes a number of investments in the space and has relationships across the sector.

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve always thought about writing a few posts on features in products that drive me nuts. Let me explain: Bcc’s function, as I’m sure you know, is to be able to write to people without other people emailed knowing that the blind copied people are on the distribution list. We all use email in our daily lives.

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Email Writing Venture Capital Course 276

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

It is in her blood to see this journey through and try to launch her product or service to the world. I write this because I know how difficult it can be to find a potential investor and to decide with whom you’d like to try to work. You may not have a choice – many don’t. Startup Advice'

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Venture Capital Startup Course Entrepreneur 373

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. Their writing style, even for a mainstream publication, is they write with lots of testosterone. They write about the transmission, the brakes, and the suspension, and that creeps into all of their evaluations of cars.

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Truecar Writing Edmunds Sites 204

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

So, I ended up writing that first book, and Bruce helped me with the research, and that was one way we got to know each other before we were even dating. It was just us doing everything--cleaning the floors, setting up the computers, writing the curriculum, and teaching the classes. At the time, I got Lynda.com. It was going crazy.

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Startup Web Design Writing Web 242

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

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)? They sell accounting services. Final example.

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Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We were ready to point out the far reaches of this issue across the Internet and our extreme relative efforts to not let it be part of our service. We had a few people cancel their service but not many. They were about to write a blog post defending the privacy issue and calling out why that journalist misunderstood the story.

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Press Blogging Journal News 336

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Simply, it’s offering a specific product or service to a specific group of people. Think about your product or service. Here’s a quick nod to the folks at Colour Graphics for urging me to write this insight. So, let’s up our marketing knowledge first with a few short answers to marketing questions…. What Is niche marketing?

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Marketing Advertising Resource Social Media 266

Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2017

But none of this helped in a recent power outage, when reinstated power blew the microcell, requiring a repurchase and days of no cell service inside my home (which is too far from public cells to get a single bar.). Do you want to wait until that day to reform, and later write your own love letter to a battery backup?

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Software Review Screening Writing Activity 266

Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

I am chairman of a company that, as I write this, is twelve years old and has not yet taken a dollar of outside investment. Grant writing takes skill and immense amounts of time. The company has been funded entirely by grants from the National Institute of Health, amounting to millions of non-dilutive dollars in all.

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Company Companies Writing Education 166

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.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

I was always in a “service&# industry. You call in from your vacation because you’ve had a service outage. I’ll write about that in a couple of weeks. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me. I get to choose what I write about.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

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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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). this service will continue. Who says that “all you can eat&# pricing is the right one for a streaming service? No time soon.

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Netflix Evite Pricing Hulu 329

Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to compete in the marketplace? One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer.

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Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 200

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The company said the software now supports automated check writing and electronic vendor or owner payments in the software, including full service check procesisng where it prints and mails checks for businesses. Pricing on the new features were not announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Writing Platform Pricing 138