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MARCH 27, 2011
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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MARCH 14, 2013
Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? So how exactly do you break out then? Mostly it’s because your marketing campaigns suck. I recommend that companies move beyond narcissistic marketing to what I call “point-of-view (POV) marketing.”
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OCTOBER 19, 2014
We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere.
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APRIL 26, 2015
We recently released the video sharing app Ferris and announced that Upfront Ventures led the funding in the company in our seed round of $2 million and I personally joined the board. We hit the top spot recommended on Apple’s iOS App Store on the day of the launch, which is a testament to the team and all of their hard work.
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JANUARY 12, 2014
It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. This will fail.
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MARCH 15, 2014
By now you likely know that Marc Andreessen weighed in on anonymous apps in a 12-part Twitter diatribe. ” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. As the old joke goes, “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.”
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
The New York Times revealed that Uber had been using a feature that showed people it suspected to be government officials a fake version of the app that would deny them a ride when in areas where Uber was illegal. The company’s bad behavior was nothing new. They got worse. Some people don’t like to take responsibility for their own s.
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