Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. It’s how we inform ourselves these days. His article is well worth reading anyways.

media 326

media advice investing investment 326

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. Having been through the experience as an entrepreneur twice myself I have developed a list of what I think it takes. This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. Yeah, right.

entrepreneurs 338

entrepreneurs peer-to-peer advice VC 338

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

As individuals we have choices about how we spend our time. Here’s how I break down the four quadrants (and I’ve put my definitions in here – not Covey’s). Here’s how I break down the four quadrants (and I’ve put my definitions in here – not Covey’s). Here’s what I learned.

mentorship 374

mentorship creativity energy entrepreneurs 374

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I wrote a post about how to build relationships with VCs over time and about investing in lines & not dots (which cuts both ways). How do you then reference check your VC to be sure that you’ve chosen a good firm and partner? What I mean is that this is the “friendly&# list. Not so in venture capital.

VC 298

VC advice venture capital entrepreneurs 298

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

What excited me was that they had an immensely talented team that understood how to produce & distribute low-cost videos, initially via YouTube. You can monetize via Google Ad Sales before you have enough revenue to build your own sales team. And nobody knows how to do this better on the Internet than Maker Studios.

disruption 291

disruption networking investing investment 291

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

I was waiting for my son’s basketball game to start this morning and with the morning’s emails all drained I turned to Twitter and saw this Tweet from Marshall Kirkpatick. But here’s the thing – I honestly can’t remember how many times I’ve actually met Marshall in person? Blog is best.

networking 332

networking media pitching communities 332

Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 26, 2022

The model is simply to rapidly build intentional, consistent relationships between more EO members at scale via email. The model is simply to rapidly build intentional, consistent relationships between more EO members at scale via email. 1-ON-1 Connections delivers right to each member’s inbox. Sister chapters.

entrepreneurs 274

entrepreneurs board accelerator media 274

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support.

startup 319

startup consulting pitching support 319

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

You need to figure out how much time to spend with each prospect and you need to rigorously manage your time and the calendar. The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you.

VC 332

VC advice entrepreneurs energy 332

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. was the 2-way web.

peer-to-peer 286

peer-to-peer real estate media networking 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Can’t list them all. I’m here to build long-term, stable relationships that I hope will pay off over a decade, not a week. I’m here to build long-term, stable relationships that I hope will pay off over a decade, not a week. People keep asking me if I’ve “seen anything interesting.&#

communities 317

communities VC innovation entrepreneurs 317

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

Every year around the holidays journalists and bloggers around the world publish “top ten” lists or “annual buyer’s guides” or similar. Plus, after reading everybody else’s list it feels pedestrian to publish mine. And every year I think about doing the same. I will continue to love it.

communities 317

communities innovation development ventures 317

American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Whether you run a brick-and-mortar shop or an eCommerce business, a strong online presence can help attract new customers, build customer loyalty, attract a broader audience, establish credibility, and drive sales. Brand voice and messaging How do you communicate with customers? But where do you start?

media 52

media strategy B2B marketing entrepreneurship 52

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 ). This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. I wonder how the shunned three are going to feel when you make your millions?

startup 318

startup advice entrepreneurs VC 318

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 6, 2024

Anyone – yes, even you – can build a web app, saving you both time and money. Well, allow me to say with the same confidence: Anyone can build an app. Anyone can build an internal tool. A big part of the reason I started Blaze.tech is to empower non-developers to build apps and automation tools.

mix-use 207

mix-use development consulting entrepreneurs 207

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets.

advice 398

advice VC entrepreneurs transportation 398

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 10, 2023

We asked Eden how AI-powered language models such as ChatGPT can help entrepreneurs manage Crisis PR. Whether it’s a product recall, lawsuit, disgruntled employee , or social media scandal, how your company handles a crisis can make or break your reputation. But how can you stay ahead of the game? Happy brainstorming!

entrepreneurs 183

entrepreneurs accelerator media creativity 183

StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

How can your brand be a source of information, education, entertainment or inspiration? How can your brand be a source of information, education, entertainment or inspiration? What problems do you solve, how do you improve your customer’s life, how do you meet your audience’s needs? Build a content website or add a blog.

peer-to-peer 143

peer-to-peer creativity mix-use collaboration 143

David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

How do you sell to them? This list is not intended to be an exhaustive guide, but just some ideas that some of the best-performing companies know are exploiting. See my list of due diligence questions for VC and private equity funds. . How VCs source winning companies. Identify and connect funds to investable startups.

venture capital 126

venture capital capital ventures VC 126

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2016

These might include activities such as: Publishing blog articles more regularly. Emailing our customer list with more content and offers. Place your resource online and collect your prospects’ email addresses in exchange for access to your resource. I know I do. Conducting learning events.

advice 130

advice consulting strategy education 130

Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Contributed by Marina Byezhanova , an EO Canada Bridge member in Montreal and the founder of Brand of a Leader , a personal branding agency that builds and scales the personal brands of entrepreneurs who inspire and make an impact. . I felt both exhilarated and nervous at the same time. Was I going to embarrass myself?

education 247

education media entrepreneurs opportunity 247

Gust

JULY 22, 2012

How about talking to some real customers to see if they are as excited about your idea as you are? Here is a list of ways that you can use public relations to benefit your startup, even before it is started: Make yourself a spokesman for your domain. Comment on other people’s blogs, as well as writing your own. Give it to them.

startup 158

startup pitching networking entrepreneurs 158

StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Building a customer acquisition strategy. You know where they are and how to access them, whether online or offline. If your customers engage with email (who doesn’t?!), include email marketing. Once you’ve implemented the basics to identify and attract new customers, you need to continue growing. Define your channels.

creativity 101

creativity media strategy coworking 101

Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Think how much faster you will be able to go, and therefore have more runway to iterate to product-market fit. Unfortunately, more often than not, these approaches have been disappointing, prompting me to write this list of tips to help founders win over a someone like me. How can you validate your idea?

founder 140

founder startup pitching networking 140

Campaign Monitor

APRIL 27, 2022

Email newsletters often don’t bring immediate conversions or sales. The Content Marketing Institute’s 2021 B2C content marketing report found nearly 3 in 4 marketers use email newsletters. Email newsletters are an essential marketing tool for sharing information that goes beyond your products and services.

strategy 98

strategy advice collaboration support 98

StartupNation

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Take a look at how to get started with the following strategies. American Express, creator of the Small Business Saturday holiday, has a feature on its website that allows small businesses to add their business listing to the official Shop Small map. Create an email marketing campaign. In 2019, an estimated $19.6 Create value.

entrepreneurs 123

entrepreneurs media support communities 123

David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Marketing/social media : Hootsuite (social media management), Mailchimp (email list and audience management), and Google Suite. . Email client : Superhuman , expensive but worth it. I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area. We were only paying for Zapier in order to pull business cards into Salesforce. Hootsuite).

venture capital 123

venture capital capital ventures VC 123

StartupNation

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Cross-channel marketing is a marketing technique that enables you to facilitate an interconnectedness among your different marketing channels (website, social media, push notifications, google ads, and email). If you’re new to this, we’d recommend that you pick email as your channel of choice; it’d be, hands down, your safest bet.

media 118

media data collection enablement energy 118

The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

While email services haven't changed a lot over the past two decades, email apps keep getting better. Once niche (and expensive) features, like scheduling an email to send later or having a message reappear in your inbox in a few days, are now almost standard. Here's what I was looking for: The full email experience.

coworking 105

coworking support collaboration media 105

The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

I'd been working in email marketing for quite a while before I took on my first B2B campaign. What I didn't realize is that minor tweaks to generalized email marketing tactics aren't enough to create a successful B2B campaign. Cycle length Buying something on your own doesn't take very long.

strategy 111

strategy education B2B marketing leadership 111

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Demand Curve: Email marketing tactics that convert subscribers into customers. There are very few marketing channels as well rounded as email newsletters. Prompting them to join your newsletter to see more relevant content in exchange for their email will feel fair. He also writes at stewarthillhouse.com.

media 100

media creativity education pitching 100

StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best tools you can use to achieve productive marketing, how to apply them and how much they cost. In recent times, marketing tools are becoming increasingly popular amongst businesses and the reason is simple. It helps such businesses gain an upper hand over the competition.

media 109

media mix-use collaboration creativity 109

StartupNation

DECEMBER 5, 2020

But, how do you do that? Self-improvement courses on relationship building, personality development, etc. Once you have a list of potential topic ideas, it’s time to determine their market demand. How popular is your chosen topic? Let’s find out. Let’s find out. Step 1: Brainstorm topic ideas for your online course.

media 92

media creativity education collaboration 92

OkDork

MARCH 7, 2024

It can be as simple as a template, checklist, or piece of email copy. Lesson 1: Use frameworks to help prioritize what you build Frameworks help you make better decisions without the mental strain. At AppSumo, we use 3 filters to decide what to build: Do we want this solution? At AppSumo, we’ve tested hundreds of strategies.

strategy 105

strategy frameworks entrepreneurs advice 105

StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

What we can control, however, is how we react to it. Here’s how to get started: StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. Therefore, it’s down to us, as entrepreneurs, to focus on what we can control. We can’t control the COVID-19 virus. You built a business!

media 124

media creativity consulting development 124

Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Email newsletters are a win-win, benefiting companies and consumers alike. Email newsletters give businesses a forum to send multiple messages to a captivated, qualified audience. One of the best parts about email newsletters? Here are 50 must-have ideas to spark your next email newsletter. Creating them is easy!

mix-use 75

mix-use education media opportunity 75

StartupNation

APRIL 11, 2021

We will reveal how you can take your writing, design and social media skills and use them to boost your monthly income. Read on to learn how you can leverage your skills to start a profitable side hustle today: Start a personal blog. Blogging is one of the easiest ways to make money online. If so, you’re in luck.

real estate 119

real estate media strategy board 119