Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Arnold Waldstein , who stops by periodically on my blog and always leaves relevant comments, made the observation that, “if I want to connect with you, I’ll engage with you on this blog …from there, a follow on Twitter, a link on LinkedIn are closing the loop of connection rather that opening a cold door.&# This is so true.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. So cheeky Chamillionaire went to Universal wearing the tags from every other label he had visited.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. I’m 100% certain this would benefit our community and not just the entrepreneurs that work there. And you can tell that the founders have thought greatly about creating the right kind of space for startup companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

At the highest level we’re looking for somebody really intelligent, digitally native, financially numerate and interested in startups. If this isn’t you, we’d probably still have a look if you did something truly exception – probably at startup or tech firm. Tags: VC Industry. Are we elitist?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. There was some Twitter chat before the event about whether this “replaces&# local angel funding communities like the Tech Coast Angels. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Start-up Advice Startup Advice VC Industry. It does not and that’s a good thing.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. Response: Ask 100 entrepreneurs seeking funding whether there’s enough money here for startups, and 98 of them are going to tell you that there isn’t enough. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. When I was running startups I felt like a horse with blinders on because I was super focused on the content management market and ignored many other markets. Then I spent many years as a startup CEO. That’s true.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.”

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Kinda seems like that sometimes, right—that the venture capital community seems to chase after the bright shiny object of the moment in droves and then just as quickly moves on to the next new new thing. No startup on the face of the earth has ever gotten so much free PR in the history of entrepreneurship. Geolocation is so 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

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 ). I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Most lawyers that work with startups are willing to work on a deferred payment schedule.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Kinda seems like that sometimes, right—that the venture capital community seems to chase after the bright shiny object of the moment in droves and then just as quickly moves on to the next new new thing. No startup on the face of the earth has ever gotten so much free PR in the history of entrepreneurship. Geolocation is so 2009.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. Startups often make this mistake. Like everything, I screwed this up in my first startup. I was too much Accenture, not enough Startup. I Love Scrappy.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

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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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.”

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 29, 2010

and since your lifelong dream of being a banker doesn’t seem like a viable route anymore, you’re thinking that a startup might be the place for you. Well, let me break the news to you bluntly—most of you are going about this startup thing completely ass backwards and no early stage startup that I know of is really dying to hire an MBA.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. Reporter’s note: Before we get into this, thank you to the Startups Weekly readers who pointed out that last week’s link to my column was broken. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Many startups today don’t do these kinds of sessions.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

If you’re a brand and you’ve determined the 10 most influential people who write positive things about your company or products then wouldn’t it be nice to provide these people with toolsets for their blogs or webpages to help better promote your brands since you know they influential in your community?

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Must-Read: How SEO Can Help You Future-Proof Your Startup. This involves adding relevant keywords, adding the proper tags, optimizing your headings with the keywords and more. This strategy applies to every page on the website and not just blog posts. Importance of SEO in digital marketing. On-page SEO strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release).

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OurCrowd

APRIL 8, 2022

Startup of the Week: Connected Energy: Renewable power storage with depleted car batteries. Read my latest LinkedIn column on how, on the heels of the global crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, tech startups must once again play a key role in providing solutions for the emerging crisis triggered by the war. Invest Now.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

And there is relationship between debating and blogging. I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. You can start in a lightweight, community friendly way like on Tumblr or Posterous without much effort. The most important experience I have in blogging is the debate it encourages.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2010

When you’re talking hiring for startups, the two are actually pretty similar—because joining a super early stage startup is essentially like getting married. There are lots of development shops out there who would be more than happy to build the tech for your startup. Hiring is hard. So is dating. It’s a simple transaction.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Sam: Prior to that, you had another startup that you sold for a significant amount of money, we can talk about that. Sam: You're an angel investor in a lot of different startups, including Coinbase and things like that. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? That's pretty funny. Let's jump in.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

How to Leverage SEO to Drive Traffic to Your Startup’s Website In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, leveraging SEO is crucial for driving traffic to a startup’s website. Dive into the collective wisdom of these professionals to boost your startup’s online presence.

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