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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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13 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Best Business Advice

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The best business advice I was given was in my year 10 woodwork class by my teacher—who was teaching woodwork to boys who were both frivolous and quick to make decisions on cutting into beautiful pieces of timber. The best advice I have ever received came from one of my mentors from the US. and more articles from the EO blog. .

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Blogging for the Hell of It, Not Blogging to Stay Relevant

Both Sides of the Table

I used to love blogging. Blogging proved to be a great way to hone my ideas, have public conversations with people and as it turns out – build meaningful relationships through public dialog that spilled over into the real world. Somewhere along the way blogging changed. Fred Wilson said as much in his blog post today, too.

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The Bad Advice Diverse Founders are Given Around Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

This blog post is not about debating if "enough" diverse founders get funding--whatever that might mean. What is factual is that they do not raise as often as white men--and that undoubtedly sends a signal to diverse founders that it is going to be harder for them, regardless of whether that is true.

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Some Advice Before You Hit the Fund Raising Trail

Both Sides of the Table

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. Let me give you an example.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about.