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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

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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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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No matter how bad things got, it didn’t seem to occur to anyone, not even to that one pair of outspoken investors, that perhaps the CEO should get tossed—or at least they weren’t willing to say it. 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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Questions from Hunter #MondayMailbag

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He found me through my blog and I didn''t think he was real. Hunter Walk can''t be any blog commenters real name, can it? I wasn''t sure whether his answers would wind up here or vice versa, but when I thought about it, it turned out I was pretty adamant that my blog is for my voice. I''ve known Hunter Walk for almost a decade.

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Meet Waldo, Head of Corp Dev

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2005, when I was with Union Square Ventures, we changed our brochureware homepage into a blog. A few other VCs had been blogging before, but no one had gone as far as to make the whole front facing effort of their firm into something so interactive. It changed the way we worked with entrepreneurs.

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13 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Best Business Advice

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Agonise over whether or not you need business partners. If you can afford it, don’t have business partners. Nine out of 10 entrepreneurs I know have long-term pain with their partners. The tenth entrepreneur without the headache is usually the one without a business partner. Listen to your gut.

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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

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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. The Walt Disney Corporation.

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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.

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I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang.

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