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Startup Recruiting Hacks

This is going to be BIG.

When you're doing RSVPs, use a tool like Eventbrite that allows you to collect more information from each attendee--like what languages they develop in, how many years experience they have, current company, LinkedIn, blog, Twitter, etc. The whole company should get involved in reblogging and retweeting the company blog's links.

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Five Tips for Getting PR for Your Startup

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These folks are real humans as well and they have interests outside of tech. It''s how the future of TV is in your phone and why they''ll stop making remotes one day in favor of apps, like your app. Sometimes, often times, that means you''ll be the one saying it--through blog posts, videos, etc.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. 4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day. This is especially true in the mobile space where apps are either free or cheap. On measurement. That’s not acceptable. In 6 months?

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Half Lives. Social Media. And Snapchat Stories.

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I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. As somebody who invested his time heavily in writing and wanting to share his thoughts through a blog I learned that I had to Tweet a post 3 times to get it read: 5am, 8am and 10pm.

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An Investors View on Twitter’s Announcements – I’m not Abandoning the Ecosystem

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Our success as businesses that hope to build a strong ecosystem and prosper as 3rd-party apps depends on Twitter’s success. Let’s face it, if people want to blog as a career they have to be able to make money. If I were them I’d hire some ex Salesforce or Intuit folks who could help with this.

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Build Your Own World

This is going to be BIG.

There are more developers *not* working on social apps here than anywhere. A lot of entrepreneurs and startup folks aren't living and working as if there's an abundance of resources out there to help them. There is more capital here in NYC that *doesn't* read Techcrunch than in any other place in the world.

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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

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As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.