Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. It was a simple plan – you measure what you eat and how much you exercise.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

These agents can work independently or collaboratively with human users, performing customer service, marketing, finance, and operations management functions. Cost Savings Hiring a full-time employee to manage customer support, marketing, or data analysis can be expensive.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

You Manage What you Measure. One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. It’s a very important concept for me because in a startup you are constantly under pressure and have way too many distractions. You already know it from your personal lives. That’s not acceptable.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You need a solid business plan, traction to demonstrate market fit, and the skills to pitch effectively. Raising funding is no easy feat, especially for first-time founders. Yet founders often trip up when it comes to investor relations — the ongoing communication and relationship building after that first check clears.

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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. I’m proud to contribute to the effort and always enjoy reading what the other authors have to say. Barriers to entry ?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Zapier Interfaces gives you the ability to create custom web pages and apps that can also pull in the power of GPT-4 via a chatbot component. In this blog post, I'll walk you through exactly how to create your own chatbot using Interfaces—and offer a few ideas on specific use cases. One of my favorite things they created recently?

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

As soon as you have a business or product idea and you’ve spent some time planning what this may look like in reality, start looking into intellectual property protection. This article is the third of a three-part series by Baldwins Intellectual Property that focuses on the importance of intellectual property for startup companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Today the company announced it was acquiring Chartio to add a new data analysis and visualization component to the Atlassian family of products. The company plans to incorporate Chartio technology across the platform, starting with Jira. The Atlassian platform is chock full of data about how a company operates and communicates.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Fact: The most effective way to accomplish global philanthropy is through a “plan globally, act locally” framework. We also ask that employees share who they want to help—only if they want to—as a way to embrace social vulnerability (that key component in building a high-performing team). Definitely. interview with EO.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 7, 2018

Sometimes it’s best if you pace yourself—especially if you don’t have the components for long-term success. There’s a reason the term “growing pains” is one that entrepreneurs know well. Business growth isn’t easy, change is uncomfortable, and the future is hard to predict. . And it’s only natural that they do. Experience.

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StartupNation

MAY 19, 2021

Developing a course and marketing it are two completely different skills sets, and while I’ve seen many successful launches, I’ve seen many dismal ones, as well. . Planning your online course launch. There are a number of components that go into a successful online course launch. Time management. Freedom and flexibility.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. Some years ago, a crowded market was encountered for a client who was a fitness wholesaler.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Eat the leftovers, read the blog posts. Petersen has become famous for making beautiful bikes, using materials and components that his industry has mostly abandoned, and for promoting a vision of cycling that is low-key, functional, anti-car, and anti-corporate. Oh and follow me on Bluesky. Time for a Code-Yellow?:

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 29, 2017

The trend stems partly from savvy business owners who do their homework before putting their product or service on the market. If you offer a service that includes an online component, you need solid support. By Doug Bonderud, writer and regular contributor for OnDeck. So how do you start making money when you don’t have any to spare?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This blog post will explore what a soft launch is and why it can be beneficial for game studios. Beta is later and is used to test the meta gameplay loop, marketing acquisition, server scalability, and monetization. And if you do soft launch, how can you tell if your game will be successful? What’s a Soft Launch?

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. A deck is often the first impression an investor will get at the company, so it needs to look stunning. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. The deck should achieve three things: It needs to tell your company story.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. Share on Twitter. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. More posts by this contributor. What are the ‘jobs to be done’ of an investment manager? Akshat Dixit. Contributor. But how do you do that?

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

BlueNalu brings cell-based seafood to Asian market. This breakthrough allows automation to be deployed at a more nimble scale, and will completely disrupt high-speed time-to-market manufacturing forever. Top investment opportunities. Startup of the Week: Treedom cuts carbon emissions. A chance to talk to legendary investor Bill Gross.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The only thing that matters is getting to product-market fit Credits: Read on Since 2021, I have made it my goal to guide startups to a product market fit in a structured process. Experience with more than 12 startups is encouraging: the approach saves precious time, increases focus, and identifies problems with the market early.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is ORIX’s first collaboration with Israel’s startup sector, with OurCrowd planning to provide the diversified financial services giant access to a wide variety of innovative technologies and companies. Our Japanese and global business will be immeasurably strengthened by close cooperation with this amazing company. Read more here.

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OurCrowd

JULY 25, 2021

The total addressable market of small startup businesses is estimated at nearly $125B. Startup of the Week: GoDaddy bets on Tailor Brands. Wall Street Journal: Gallium nitride is “the future”. The Startup Nation’s startup government. Entangled Networks: Quantum computing for all? BlueGreen named Breakthrough Technology Company of the Year.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. But how do you do that? . How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). How to find a job as a VC scout. How to get a job in venture capital.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

They have been doing a bit of everything, trying to juggle doing the invoices, sales, bookkeeping, and marketing, among other roles. They have been doing a bit of everything, trying to juggle doing the invoices, sales, bookkeeping, and marketing, among other roles. Letting go of different aspects of your business is not easy.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I have neither worked at Netflix, nor written for the blog myself. As of December 31, 2020, 526 of Netflix’s engineers have written 407 blog posts at the TechBlog. As of December 31, 2020, 526 of Netflix’s engineers have written 407 blog posts at the TechBlog. Netflix had just started their first streaming-only plans.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Apex’s two co-founders, Ian Cinnamon and Maximilian Benassi, said in a blog post that they independently observed core changes to the industry that convinced them that a new satellite bus manufacturing solution was needed. Apex Space , a startup that aims to transform satellite bus manufacturing, emerged from stealth Monday with a $7.5

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

In addition to expanding its product range to additional types of dairy, such as ice cream and cheese, the company is planning to provide its high-quality neutral-tasting protein as an ingredient for other foods, such as plant-based meat products. Startup of the Week: VisIC, fueling the electric car revolution. How to grow a hectocorn.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

From content marketing being the ‘buy-in’ to many startups failing due to lacking in this area, here are 19 answers to the question, “Why is content marketing crucial for startups?” Matthew Ramirez , CEO, Rephrasely You Stand Out Amongst Competitors A brand blog is essential in content marketing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2024

This leap in revenue is indicative of your company’s ability to adapt, evolve, and expand in a competitive market. It’s a pivotal component of your growth trajectory. Pricing adjustments help to reposition your product in the market. It’s crucial to take a hard look at your marketing strategies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. Tim started to change our processes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 31, 2020

We don’t often pay enough attention to the business potential of secondary, foreign markets. But the fact is that foreign markets may end up being a substantial or even majority source of growth and revenue. An essential part of foreign growth is foreign languages. This initiative is part of a megatrend called globalization.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Yet in private, most marketers are worried about the returns they’re seeing from their testing programs. Here’s a secret: Marketers aren’t getting the big returns they expect from testing, because they don’t make big enough bets. He previously built the marketing science team at men’s grooming brand Harry’s before co-founding Recast.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 28, 2023

Berlin-based Lano enables over 2,000 companies like these to effortlessly manage their hiring, payroll and payments operations — with a product-first approach. The company has created a consolidated payroll platform that combines compliance, data standardization, payroll automation and payments for 170+ countries into a single dashboard.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 4, 2019

You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. A much better phrase is “failing to plan for problems is planning to fail.”

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 22, 2021

Following a successful POC, the company signed a contract with ENEL, Europe’s largest utility by market cap, to implement IXDen’s system in Italy. Startup of the Week: IXDen, securing Europe’s largest utility. D-ID co-stars with Hugh Jackman in Reminiscence. Israel, Azerbaijan and global entrepreneurship. Memic on track to SPAC. Warner Bros.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Studied and published in more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, Surgical Theater’s XR technology has been proven to improve patient engagement, increase patient conversion rates, improve surgical plans, and provide great clinical value in the operating room. Time is running out to enjoy a 10% pre-Summit discount, and tickets are going fast.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Marketing & Operations. The biggest marketing tactic that Matt's business has used this year is retargeting. This year many components of the trees are now exclusively made in the USA this year. Using SEO keywords in their blog has helped bring more traffic to their site. Plan inventory. Every decision matters.

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