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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. This 1-minute video shows exactly what Invoca does. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Much more data in the full post. THE FULL STORY.

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How to create a style guide—with 14 style guide examples to inspire you

The Zapier Blog

It also doesn't make sense to invest in a style guide when you're at an early stage in your company. Every worker understands what your company is doing best and where it can improve. The images that work on your blog might not work for social media because of formatting restrictions, for instance. Things will change.

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Some Thoughts about Selling at Startups

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Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. Specifically, 1.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten VC

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work. Linkedin.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten VC

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. companies versus the Web 1.0