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

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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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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

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Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business. I’ve deal with people who think GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) and terminology are nits that only nit pickers care about. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Subscribe by email. Invested Interests.

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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

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I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors & advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake. provide you with best eyes & ears on the ground at clients to drive upsell, cross sell & rollout across more business units.

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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

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But sometimes the CEO takes the initiative to recruit an absolute gem and that was the case with ResQ , a software startup servicing the hospitality owners and service/repair vendors. We developed a friendship as part of our Board service and a recent blog post of his made me think I wanted to learn a bit more about his Instacart experience.

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Please go see “Waiting for Superman.” Here’s Why:

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The movie basically has the following thesis: 50 years ago the American educations system (k-12) was the best in the world. Having teachers unions in 2010 is so archaic and leads us to have public school systems where the best teachers are paid the same as the worst ones. We already have a jobs gap. This hugely resonated with me.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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Best to ask after the dust from the decision has settled. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. But we worked the account tirelessly for months. Specifically: 1. Be gracious.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

Best to ask after the dust from the decision has settled. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. But we worked the account tirelessly for months. Specifically: 1. Be gracious.