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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. Before the politics that we call the rap game.

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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

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You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. In return he politely requested a meeting. Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog. I know many people think I blog all day long. “But WAIT !!! ” I never said that.

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Some Advice Before You Hit the Fund Raising Trail

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A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. If you share your material with a VC and get a polite response that you are out of their range, you should double check the investor’s profile page.

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IdeaPAD case study: How do you define and build value for an existing product?

Paul G. Silva

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The Changes from external drivers: Their industry had experienced a wave of exponential growth that was now slowing down, and global economic and political issues affected the industry. The ideas … have been very exciting to me and my team.”

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

I’m no policy wonk, nor do I put much faith in our current political landscape to enact sustained change (even though you’d really expect better ROI on the $Billions that Labor has funneled to Dem politicians over past few decades). But building new tech to try to address major problems in a large category (Labor) requires $.