Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 7, 2019

” That feeling reminds me of what starting a business can be like: It’s expensive. Starting a business comes with a hefty price tag. Your vision for the company started long-term, but in the trenches, all you can consider is how to make it through the day, the week, the month.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

Getting to know your audience on social media — and who typically uses your products and services — will help you identify potential influencers. Then, they’ll take high-quality photos of themselves, tag your company, and advertise to all of their followers. Start with a hashtag campaign. Not quite at that level yet?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. In this blog post, we’re not going to talk about different business models, seat-based VS usage volume pricing, or subscription VS pay-as-you-go. In my humble opinion, this is much better than a guesstimate.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

If you find the right community it’s a great way to learn, contribute and get to know other people with similar interest. Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). articles and leaves.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

This heated competition among alternative social apps could explain why Poparazzi is taking to its blog today to share its metrics and confirm its financing after a year of silence. (Or Though Poparazzi appears to be an overnight viral sensation, it’s actually taken 3 years to get to this point, explains co-founder and CEO Alex Ma.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

You want to get yourself to a position where you can do what you want to do&# (Chamillionaire). We also talked about getting more young African Americans interested in entrepreneurship & technology. He started selling the mixtapes out of his trunk and even gave away some of his music. He was riveting. He created demand.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I'm going to show them a world … without you getting in the way of their amazing careers. If you’re willing to wake up, unplug, and explore the idea that you don’t have to work for PWC or go to law school if you’re not ridiculously psyched about it, start now. Start blogging about what you *are* excited about.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. We get data from: plain text, e.g., a ‘contact us’ page on the web, or an email signature file. We looked for systems which used tagging as their core data model, instead of categorization.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You want a publicist that has years of experience across a variety of media options and uses more than just HARO (which is a great start!) to help you get media coverage. They should make sure you don't get questions about marketing! Be sure your publicist has a track record of getting media placements for their clients.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Build a content website or add a blog. Start by offering something of value for free to your potential audience in exchange for an email address, such as a discount coupon for your products, a free e-book, workbook, or even a free trial period for your service. Related: How to Start a Side Hustle You Can Run from Anywhere in the World.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

[if you're not old enough to get the reference between this image and the title you can click on the image for a prompter]. This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. It’s what Silicon Valley / San Fran entrepreneurs get for free.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m going to save that for a future blog post. Get your product/market fit working before you ramp up your costs (or raise too much money). And awesome to get to spend time with Ian Sigalow “comparing notes” (VC speak ). You can get the best of what we saw at Greycroft without having to be part of the portfolio!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

One of the most difficult things to do as a first time entrepreneur is to get to know the investors you might be working with if you accept money. And in my interviews with many VCs I feel that people can watch these and get to know the VC’s as human beings a bit better. So how did Mike get into VC?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2010

So I started experimenting with multiple Tweets. I wanted to see two things: Would the second (or sometimes even third Tweet) convert enough people to my blog to make it worth potentially annoying some people on Twitter? would I get a reaction from the Twitter community telling me it was too much? My conclusions.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

There’s also been some great blog chatter from Sarah Tavel ( here ) and Josh Kopelman ( here and here ) on the topic. To get that spa or sandwich shop onto your system, you still need a person getting on the phone, calling them up, running through the economics and particulars of the deal, scheduling, etc. Enter Closely.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Why B2B emails require B2B strategies General email marketing tactics don't work for B2B campaigns for the same reason two nearly identical doors still require different keys: you're trying to get different people in the door. Here are a few specific ways in which general email marketing tactics fail when employed on B2B campaigns.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Sometimes I get disappointed that we aren't already living in the future that was promised to us by movies and TV shows like The Jetsons or Back to the Future Part II. QR codes versus NFC tags First, though: what are QR codes or NFC tags, and which should you use? New to Zapier? Sign up for free.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I only read HN comments when I want to get upset.&#. In my opinion HN can get downright mean. I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. But the comments on my own blog were so much more balanced with people taking both sides of the debate.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. I travelled for a couple of days for work and decided to get some sleep on those days rather than staying up into the wee hours as I often do when I travel. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. I live in email hell.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2010

When First Round started talking with the Steve and Jared , we introduced the company to Betaworks and to Ron Conway’s SV Angel fund. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web. I knew Jared from his time at Tumblr.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post about the " Urgency Addiction ” and how many people start important tasks late and then motivate with a huge wave of productivity and inspiration driven by deadlines and commitments to others. This comment and blog post prompted me to write a post that has been in my queue for a long time.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2010

A week from now, they get to seven digits. If you’re Max, Dan, Raphael, and Ilya, (only two of whom are old enough to drink) here’s my suggested game plan: 1) Start talking—but on your own terms. The last thing you want is for people to start making up their own stories—especially that you’ve taken people’s money. You watch.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

And if we’re going to accelerate that, we could get left on the sidelines so quick that we didn’t even see it coming.” Automated quote forms keep the company ahead of the growth curve Every Smart Charge America project starts with a custom quote for each unique job. But that was just the first step. In my mind, I’m in a race.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. Many people who want to get to know me send me a LinkedIn invite, connect on Facebook or more recently follow me on Twitter. It’s also how Jason Nazar and I started communicating.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

Last night I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum event started by Jason Calacanis , a fellow LA resident. Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

What social networking activity he does has seemed to be mostly automated, reposting directly from his blog, and there wasn’t much custom content for social media platforms. There was a bit of a Facebook presence, which the blog reposted to automatically, and a few Facebook Live’s most of which represented the altMBA. Taylor’s Toolkit.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. He … said that his fund would actively help in getting us the next round. Some readers of this blog also pointed out that “pivoting&# can be disruptive on the employees of an organization.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

By doing this, you can build local brand awareness, attract new customers, and get more foot traffic. You can then start to acquire Google Reviews, show up in more local Google searches, attract more traffic to your website, and build trust with your ideal audience. . Make the most of your Google My Business listings.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. MBA fine, but not required.

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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

Get started for free. Keep the following tips in mind to start your own six-figure side hustle: Take stock of your skills. So, if you’re going to start a side hustle, it’s a good idea to draw on your strengths. Their hands were getting hot during cooking. He ended up with a top-selling product on Amazon.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

We started this week’s show with a Q&A session where I answered viewer questions about fund raising and the VC industry. If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). What advice do you have for people who want to get into venture capital?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

I can be frustrating for entrepreneurs who can’t seem to get a VCs interest until someone else is interested as well, but there’s actually a logic behind it, believe it or not. Get out of jail free and collect nearly $200k dilution-free on Kickstarter because you’ve got the ire of the crowds behind you at the right moment.

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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 ). This is stuff I tell people verbally at least twice / month so I’m glad to finally get it into written format. the link is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

I’ve started from day one trying to build total transparency into my process with entrepreneurs. This starts with understanding how VCs and entrepreneurs often see valuation differently. I say “post&# funding because you’ll need more than this amount pre-funding to get to this number after funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it as a way to learn, improve and increase my win rates. It’s been more than 5 years and I still think about that sales campaign and get pissed off at how much I took for granted. They are hell bent on getting their way. I won, that is, until I lost.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the market run started in March people were relieved that “the world wasn’t ending” so they started spending again. I’m not a doomsday guy, but just believe that we won’t see a V shaped recovery, which could make VC funding more difficult for tech start-ups (don’t shoot the messenger!). See point 2 below.

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