Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

The episode isn’t yet live but it should be in the morning (probably when you’re reading this) – you can find it here. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. It sucked. It still does.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

I was the seed investor in his first company Cyota, as I told CNBC the morning after he took office. Visit our Introductions page to see which of our companies are looking for connections that you may be able to help with. The post Newsletter: Zoom’s seed investor + New fuel for electric cars appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 13, 2021

It learns whether its user is more inclined to exercise in the morning or the afternoon; whether she is more motivated by encouragement, or by a joke, or by a list of the benefits of vigorous movement,” The New Yorker reports in a profile of the robotic assistant for the elderly developed by OurCrowd portfolio company Intuition Robotics.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Your next morning coffee or take-out meal might soon be coming from the sky. Visit our Introductions page to see which of our companies are looking for connections that you may be able to help with. . The post Newsletter: OurCrowd Arabia opens for business appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Invest Now. . Introductions.

health

OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Anything within the weight limit – from Chinese takeout to morning coffee – can be delivered instantly to the customer’s backyard. Visit our Introductions page to see which of our companies are looking for connections that you may be able to help with. . lbs (3kg) including the drone, cloud-based software, and supporting systems.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 14, 2015

By Arman Sadeghi, an Octane blog contributor and CEO of Titanium Success. Action item: Focus on creating one piece of educational content per month and do three things with it: put it on your company blog, send it out to your email list, and make printed copies available to distribute when meeting with prospects and clients.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Each new subscriber receives a free 39-page slide deck that explains exactly how to launch a successful DTC brand. You can expect copywriting lessons, swipe files, and notifications about popular blog posts each week. It's owned and operated by Morning Brew, which was acquired by Business Insider a few years back.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We I saw this on Twitter this morning, which is a telling graphic of how big the change that must come really is. Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Besides diving deep on the report this morning, we’ll also share what we learned from interviews with Singhal, pi’s managing director Roopan Aulakh, and principal Shubham Sandeep. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Along the way, we’ve noticed several common conversion mistakes on landing pages, ads, emails and elsewhere that make your copy less persuasive. Example: “We’re always talking to couples like you,” the wedding planning company Zola’s about page says. Writing in passive voice. Use the second-person point of view. Misaligned motivation.

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 8, 2022

Take a page out of the Penguin Random House playbook and send more personalized newsletters. If you stay on the email page, great! In CNN’s 5 Things newsletter, they take the top five morning news stories that they believe “you must know” and send them directly to your inbox. Penguin Random House. CNN’s 5 Things.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

But as I started, there was no playbook, no blog posts, and only a few books on entrepreneurship. Today, I set aside 30 minutes each morning to read and learn, and I do this before starting work or after my morning routine. In the past 25 years, I founded different companies and led teams of up to 80 people.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 10, 2021

So I can be in one warehouse in Marseille in the morning and work for another warehouse in Calais in the north of France during the afternoon,” Stéphanie Hervé, chief operating officer of Western Europe, Middle East and Africa for GEODIS, tells Reuters. Introductions. Your portfolio gets stronger when the OurCrowd network gets involved.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Before we jump into all things churn, let’s make sure we are on the same page about what it is. Think about the blog posts, YouTube videos, online campaigns, and social media activity that go into making sure your business appears attractive to potential newbies. Understanding the Basics: What is Churn? Imagine running a gym.

mix-use

Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 13, 2021

In this blog post, I’ll share what we learned setting up our remote-first startup. We found that the tricks we learned and that are listed in this blog post are applicable in both of these contexts. The only exception to this rule is our morning daily standup (Rule #1 listed above). Why should you trust the way we did it?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. More than warranted. Usually in a particular sector.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. While you can enable traditional scrolling in the settings, the default "flipping" interface feels like turning pages in a real magazine. After the fifth story, you've exhausted your Morning digest.

mix-use

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’ve been using Chartbeat for over a month now to track performance of my blog and I find myself looking at Google Analytics much less these days. Here are some great features with screen shots: As you’re logged in the right-hand side of the screen scrolls with each new page view on your website. It’s addictive.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Since it’s already written (and since I promised not to republish on my blog other than a summary) if you’re interested please have a read over there. Summary notes and then I’ll extend: Should you blog? What should you blog about?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

His words, “we find things on Sunday morning that will be on the Today show on Tuesday morning.&# Offer the ability to react / comment - In the blogging world it’s clear that having a good comment system like Disqus is critical. Good comment community = viral blog. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2024

The past few years, I have developed a one-page plan of three or four high level goals for the year that are most important. Under each goal on the page, I list many different tactics that, if executed properly, should help me reach the goal, leveraging the domino effect. I review those goals and that one page each morning.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I wrote the presentation the morning of my talk, I mentally memorized what to say to each image about an hour before I spoke. I’m not. And we’ve slowly built it since then.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 24, 2019

However, consider swapping out those morning jogs with a long walk instead to get your creative juices flowing. You may want to try listening to some music or reading a few pages of a book instead. The post 7 Productivity Tips for Entrepreneurs appeared first on THE BLOG. The Bottom Line.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 7, 2013

I often wonder about how to measure the success of this blog. While there are many tools to measure page views and visitors, the absolute number of readers is probably the worst measure because it’s a false idol. In order for content marketing and blogs to be effective, the writing must have a target audience in mind.

startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

On Monday morning, numerous writers woke up to learn that their books had been uploaded and scanned into a massive dataset without their consent. ” Smith did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but he elaborated on his intentions in his blog post. “Style is style!”

creativity

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 22, 2016

We post customer referrals on our website, and I regularly point potential customers to the Duval Roofing Better Business Bureau page, which shows our good standing with BBB. Ken is also an active kayaker – he spends at least an hour each morning on the water before starting the day with his team. .

disruption

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? But as I wrote here on my personal blog about all of this, what does matter out of the generally irksome pol is that there is bipartisan interest in limiting the ability of big tech companies to buy smaller companies. Numbers are on pages 32 and 40. Sign up here. . I don’t get it.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

It takes dedication to this new habit and a willingness to open up when writing on a blank page. 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.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 9, 2020

Unless critical to my role, I personally couldn’t think of any bigger time and productivity killer than having to go into an office each day and just this morning KiwiSaver provider AMP announced it is joining the ranks of a growing number of Kiwi businesses ditching their offices. ” from those who don’t.

energy

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

From Carly Page: “ Fintech startup Revolut has confirmed it was hit by a highly targeted cyberattack that allowed hackers to access the personal details of tens of thousands of customers. Revolut discovered the malicious access late on September 11 and isolated the attack by the following morning.” for non-Gold members.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

And I helped him set up his blog, and I remember he wrote his first blog article. ” That was the early days of HubSpot, not only helping people set their blog up, but actually posting it and editing it. Use our template, put your blog out and put your site, you’re going to be happy. We lost that battle.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Checking your inbox shouldn't sink your whole morning. I'm going to have Email Parser tell me about new posts on the Zapier Blog (meta, I know), so I'm forwarding a recent email from Deb at Zapier. Once that's done, click the blue Save Address and Template button at the bottom of the page.

enablement

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Skip ahead Using AI in automated workflows Automatically enrich inbound leads Research key accounts at scale Generate blog outlines Monitor trends in real time Optimize your content research To get started with a Zap template—what we call our pre-made workflows—just click on the button next to the name of a Zap you'd like to try.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

For example, if you have a recurring team standup every morning, the channel topic can change to show "Team Standup at 9:30 a.m.—Zoom Use a Zap that monitors your shared Google Calendar for upcoming events and updates the channel topic automatically. Zoom link in calendar" right before the meeting.

mix-use

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

As I’ve said before, all startups need to realize that every other company still has to see itself naked in the mirror in the morning. I had a friend who was on the front page of the business section of one of the top newspapers in the country while his company was 30 days from running out of cash. Even success feels hollow.

startup

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2020

I went back to my hotel room, checked out the next morning, and caught my flight home. I spent the next day working on a 15-page document filled with my answers. The post “How I Got Warren Rustand to Be My Mentor” appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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