Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 10, 2024

Often touted by the ultra-ambitious, this method could lead you to neglect your family life, social relationships, health and hobbies — all at the expense of relentlessly pursuing your goals. Keep it SIMPLE I think of the flaps of a plane as six different life categories. that is the basis for this blog post. The Focus Method.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

While many businesses will struggle with the shift to a stay-home economy, both companies and content publishers in these 10 verticals are poised to thrive, especially though a relationship called affiliate marketing. Companies in these industries and business leaders looking to reposition their offerings would be wise to take note.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

VC Blogger Fanboy This geek reads all the blogs religiously and is a lean startup ninja. Having them associated with your business is cool, and might get you into a pitch meeting, but if their actual relationship to you is vaporware, it's just going to set others up for a disappointment in the due diligence process. Nice work, aplusk.

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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 came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

That does not mean, however, that anyone else outside that category is unable to raise. This blog post is not about debating if "enough" diverse founders get funding--whatever that might mean. The last issue at work is the biggest lie in the fundraising world--the relationship. That is a fact.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

That’s why we’ve gathered top experts in relationships, parenting, and building meaningful legacies to take part in EO24/7, EO’s annual virtual learning event. What would happen if you took 10 or 15 hours a week from those lower categories and put them into high-value categories?

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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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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 I tell you this because if you build a strong relationship with an early-stage VC they can be a great source to help you with your funding.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m here to build long-term, stable relationships that I hope will pay off over a decade, not a week. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? I really liked BigDoor, MediaPiston, OpsCode, BuddyTV, SEOMoz and much more. No Dave S. =

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. We have many LPs who come from industry and this is truly a value-add in a LP/VC relationship 3.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2016

I’ve met some awesome professionals who would love to do those things I’d rather not, and by forming and nurturing these relationships, I’m building my own ecosystem of experts to accomplish my goals. Management of my newsletter & blog. The post My Big Resolution for 2016 appeared first on THE BLOG. So where can you begin?

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Your customer acquisition strategy is the link between your marketing and customer relationship management. While there are hundreds of marketing channels, they each fall into seven broad categories: Your website and blog : Make the most of your website and blog by sharing educational, helpful, and/or entertaining content with your audience.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

" But by getting all these branching concepts down on paper, you can start to see the relationships between different things and generate new ideas. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. " "Burgers" could link to "Summer jobs."

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

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. The goal of the former is to get you maximum exposure; the latter, to provide all the information that investors need to take a relationship to the next step.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. 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? That is, if you are someone who wishes to earn a minimum viable living being creative, what is the likelihood you’ll be able to do so?

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The A ssets The facilitator asks your group what makes your organization better than your competitors Look at your people, relationships, equipment, financing, and other assets. Since the company wanted to reach low-hanging fruit, they weighed the feasibility category at 2.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Scouts are intended to be a lighter-touch relationship, focused only on sourcing. We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. You can’t normally “apply” for those relationships unless you have a pre-existing relationship with the VC. Scouts help promote diversity in VC.

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StartupNation

MAY 19, 2021

Are you carving out a new category? This relationship building is key. I recommend weekly nurturing in the form of emails, short-form videos or even blog posts. How are you serving them? Is there a gap in the market that your program fills? Why are you the right person to create this program? Are you creating a new specialty?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.” We detail below the major categories of VC: Funder category.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Whether it's the names of individuals, categories of products, or song titles, as long as the information is organized within a framework, it's structured data. Descriptive text: Think names (of people, products, companies), categories, or titles of works. AI and machine learning also get on well with structured data.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, 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. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

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. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Twobird makes the relationship more official.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

An AI copywriting software can help in this regard by automating and speeding up parts of the content creation process, such as writing blog posts, emails, landing pages, Pin titles and descriptions, and Instagram captions. Let’s say you have a nutrition startup and want to write a blog post about vegan protein powders. .

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. Sales and marketing plans , lists of prospects, supplier and subcontractor relationships, pricing data, media buying plans and strategies, etc.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

At BTV, we believe the most important thing is having the right people around you, and the right relationships, to build each other up and push each other forward. Relationships between VCs and founders, as well as between VCs and their LPs, last a long time. And the best relationships follow you through your entire career.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

To conduct market research, the platform looks at billions of tweets, posts, discussion forum threads, reviews and blog posts over a two-year period and then filters for roughly 400,000 distinct concepts (e.g. “Black Swan is akin to the world’s largest focus group.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Straight cis white guy from background in tech/startups, who ran an accelerator program so has many years of relationships with VCs, and raising preseed in the yolo era of 2019 (rip). Building tools for unions is certainly not a category or product that most VCs want to exist, let alone see grow. I’ve heard many fast and hard passes.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 17, 2022

Social media and blog posts are the primary mediums through which information is disseminated about various layer-1 chains. Which of these applications are category leaders? Mindshare Mindshare and the price of ETH have a reflexive relationship. Which chain is more widely known? Applications?—?Which

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Scouts are intended to be a lighter-touch relationship, focused only on sourcing. We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media , blog posts, etc. You can’t normally “apply” for those relationships unless you have a pre-existing relationship with the VC. . We list all of them below. Clearvision Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But I can share with you a blog post that Affirm’s Levchin published on June 3 regarding his view at least on why his company is positioned to not only survive but also thrive in a downturn. So much so that even the largest and best-known private fintech companies are suffering from embarrassing revaluations.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

For example, sales and marketing teams might use Zoho CRM to organize contact info and manage relationships with current and prospective customers, whereas accounting teams may rely on Zoho Books to manage their financial operations. What is Zoho used for? What you use Zoho for depends on which apps you use.

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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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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work. Linkedin.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

If you’re smart and deliberate, and take the time to find those people in those specific companies, build relationships, maybe work on a side project with them over a year, you’re likely to find a co-founder from there. He had a take that some categories were not going to shift as fast, including grocery, and I disagreed with him.

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