Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

billion monthly active users, Facebook offers a massive audience of potential customers for brands and businesses of all sizes. And with Facebook Ads, you can create and run digital ad campaigns to directly market your business to those potential customers. That's where Facebook Custom Audiences comes in. Here's how.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around. I already mentioned DLA Piper.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. COVID – lots of attention focused online, via social platforms, waiting to engage/be entertained/informed/etc by online creators ii. Do these folks want to be the 100th investor chasing SaaS or do they want to define/invent new categories where they can be the thought leaders?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Idea Generation If you’ll entertain a huge generalization, a business’s primary objective is to solve customer problems. It surfaces these customer development conversations for you and analyzes them for common patterns. This happens in 2 flavors. You offer your solution and engage with a potential customer.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Today, in order to get traffic, you need a steady stream of high-quality content that helps attract and engage prospects in your industry. Let’s say you have an electric vehicle startup and want to write a blog post about the benefits electric vehicles have on the environment. Better communication with customers.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

In all the podcasts I listened to and blogs I read, there was a consistent refrain: "You need to set aside time to think big." Get the Zapier blog in your inbox Subscribe So, I crowdsourced the answers. I need to challenge conventions to become the finest customer-focused jewelry company." But what did it mean ?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Finding the best CRM (customer relationship management) software for your business can be overwhelming. We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. Customization. So many choices. So many features.

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OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2022

The company’s net revenue grew in 2021 despite supply-chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic, with sales growing several times faster than the industry average across all categories. SoftBank asked Vision 2 Fund companies to share their top marketing investment. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 invested $25M in OurCrowd in October 2021.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What is Product-Market Fit The product-market fit describes the stage of a startup company where they have successfully identified a target customer and serve them with the right product. You might find another audience or market, but usually, you need to work on your product and improve the value you deliver to your customer.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

Ondas, which acquired American Robotics in August 2021, says the proposed acquisition, if completed, would give the combined companies a better global foothold in a rapidly expanding category. The post Newsletter: Israel-Saudi breakthrough hopes + AI development data engine appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Toyota Tsusho Corp.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Later that day, it also came to light that Stripe had reportedly approached investors about raising more capital — at least $2 billion — at a valuation of $55 billion to $60 billion. When asked, a company spokesperson told me only that Bolt is “focused on the long-term success” of its business and its customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

That’s precisely why Netflix acquired House of Cards, why HBO produces Game of Thrones or Orange is the New Black and why Amazon has Mozart in the Jungle, which actually bested Netflix by winning 2 Golden Globes. But there’s a reason why Bravo dominates the unscripted category in the cable / satellite world.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

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