A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Last month, I wrote about the value of having a list of the most read posts on a blog. Well, I am pleased to let you all know that we built it and it is now live on the AVC archives page. I said I wanted to create that for AVC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Once published, Casted provides access to a “fully searchable content archive” with transcription services and tagging. You need to know who’s engaged, how are people interacting with the content and then how is that going to impact revenue and pipeline, and customer loyalty and lifetime value.”.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 29, 2019

As I’ve been working on a new design and approach to this blog/newsletter , I have been diving into the analytics to understand what all of you are doing with it. The top 50 blog posts of all time are an interesting bunch. MAUs peaked in the 2012/2014 period in the 300k range.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 26, 2019

It is low maintenance, easy on the eyes, and minimalist, all things I have come to appreciate in a blog. Here are the things I would like to achieve with the redesign: Even lower maintenance Much better archives (and better search too?) But I am in the mood to change things up. Or maybe it is just time.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 9, 2020

This is the third “iteration” of this blog. 3/ I wanted to improve search so that we can all find those old blog posts that we know exist but are no longer on the front page. 4/ I wanted to move to a more minimalist design where the blog posts are the main thing you notice when you come here. Welcome to the new AVC.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. If you want to keep a journal the same way you might a personal blog but keep it private, Penzu is an excellent option. A paper notebook and pen are fine for journaling, but apps offer more. for Pro), iOS ($4.99

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 30, 2016

Archiving email spam, filtering out irrelevant boarding announcements at airports, and driving by habit. However you say it, I hope this blog post is a reminder of the value of focus. That’s the thesis of a book called Essentialism. Defaulting to the idea that everything as noise simplifies decision-making about time allocation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

This experience made me want to dig into my archives, re-write & publish this piece. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones. I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married. I’m the same. I play open book.

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Derek Sivers

JANUARY 28, 2023

Or click “ all episodes ” at the top of the page to browse the archive. I also like his blog, “ Marginal Revolution ”, and his books, “ Stubborn Attachments ”, and “ Discover Your Inner Economist ”. If you like to broaden your horizons, you’re going to love this. Go to ConversationsWithTyler.com and subscribe to the podcast.

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David Teten VC

MAY 16, 2017

I particularly like OpenLP.com , Origins , and the Raise blog , all of which include content from multiple LPs. . CALPERS and some others even archive videos of sessions.” Chris Douvos is almost certainly the LP who has been blogging the longest, at SuperLP.com. Relationship Science. LIMITED PARTNERS’ PERSPECTIVE.

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EntreWorks Consulting

APRIL 6, 2020

You can see archived newsletters and subscribe for future issues here. EntreWorks Blog. This issue offers some thoughts on what might happen on the long and winding road back to economic recovery for communities dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. Thanks for reading. EntreWorks Insights, April 2020 Issue: Now Available.

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Derek Sivers

MARCH 1, 2022

I’ve written four books and four hundred blog posts in plain text. Then it’s easy to use any little scripting language like Ruby, Python, or JavaScript to grab the date and tags, and use them for categorizing, sorting, renaming, archiving, or exporting. EASIEST TO CONVERT. Plain text can be converted into anything else.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I regularly find myself looking in my email archives for all past correspondence with a given individual. From our blog, we include Mailchimp generated landing pages that act as email gateways for some of our content (i.e. That said, it is helpful to have a record that we corresponded with a given person at least once.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 17, 2017

This blog post is dictated and edited entirely by voice. When I’m done, I say “close window” which closes Chrome and “switch to Typora”, which is the name of my favorite text editor for writing blogs. First, a program verifies the syntax of a new blog post. “Open” opens the first email.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Rewatch , which has built a set of tools for organizations to create a “system of record” for their internal video archives — not just a place to “rewatch” all of their older live video calls, but to search and organise information arising from those calls — has closed a $20 million round of funding.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

I make all the ones I don't have to respond to as read and archive them, and then go through the important stuff. Tabs include Simplenote (which is also on my phone), my calendar, a google map to figure out how long it will take me to bike from place to place, and a Google voice Sidebar for texting, as well as some blogs I read all the time.

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Derek Sivers

MARCH 26, 2016

You might find them interesting because I put a lot of heart into them, getting personal in a way I don’t in my succinct blog posts or stage talks. will be alive longer than me, I figured I should start archiving all these interviews in one place. Now you can hear or read them all in one place: sive.rs/i. So, sive.rs/i.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. Not only did users start signing up for backup of the hosted photo services they were using, but they started requesting additional services as well—Google Docs, Basecamp, blogs, even their web e-mail.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2022

As always, you can support me by sharing this newsletter, following me on Twitter or subscribing to my personal blog. Archive back with fresh funding as it builds community marketing space. In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about an Epic deal, fintech going full stack and why one firm is going self-funded. Deal of the week.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. You can even use customizable two-finger swipes to do things like archive or delete messages. To put together this list, I reviewed dozens of Mac email clients (and skinned web apps purporting to be Mac email clients).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

If I blog on a stand-alone platform I have to work to get distribution. Anyway, for the older entrepreneurs who don’t (yet) like Snapchat — of course I also blog and still do YouTube videos. True, my videos may still be 3 minutes, 30 seconds in a world used to seeing pictures of you eating sushi or your take off in an airplane, but 3.30

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OurCrowd

MAY 12, 2022

The post [Shield in Globe Newswire] Shield Partners with Intelligent Voice to Enhance Voice Surveillance Capabilities appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Information Sharing — Does your doctor send you a detailed “receipt” of the procedures they performed, their discoveries, their analysis, and their conclusions so that you have an archive? Do you even get a list of the charges they are submitting to your insurance company? Are the charges ever discussed or explained?

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Derek Sivers

MAY 4, 2014

Not in a company’s walled garden, but in a format you can archive and look through in 50 years, or your grandkids can look through in 100 years. Keep a private blog for your future self, and tell the tales of where you’ve been, what you did, and the quirky people you’ve met along the way. These are your chronological landmarks.

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