OkDork

MARCH 7, 2024

Lesson 1: If everyone’s doing it, you’re late In marketing, there’s a concept called The Law of Diminishing Returns. Then we turned that software into a product called KingSumo for other companies. TidyCal.com in action So we doubled down and repeated this for other areas of our business. Most failed. Some did okay. Let’s gooo!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 11, 2020

Called “Finding North (Again),” it explores emerging trends and how to create opportunity from this period of chaos. . Called “Finding North (Again),” it explores emerging trends and how to create opportunity from this period of chaos. . He joined the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) in 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift. You should read it. In his post he asserts, “You get the VCs you deserve” and the corollary “You get the performance out of your board that you deserve.” ” His argument is as follows.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

I've spent a lot of time reading and developing style guides, and this article will tell you everything you need to know about building a content style guide, from what it is, to whether your company truly needs it, to how to put one together. You create better, consistent, and high-quality content for your audience. It depends.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Success breeds IPO : Shared vehicle company Lime reported its first profitable year, with Rebecca writing that “Lime has figured out how to make shared micromobility a sustainable business.” Manish writes that this investment marks the largest check Amazon’s Smbhav Venture Fund has written thus far. PST, subscribe here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The added stress tests our systems, making us more prone to making poor judgment calls. While every situation is unique, some basic principles apply across the board when writing statements and issuing apologies after a crisis, incident, issue, slip-up, or whatever you want to call it. Eden Gillott explains. . A “sorry!”

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

You could even say we push the boundaries of how much work can get done in Slack during our quarterly no meeting week. If I need to ask a question, brainstorm a title for a blog post, or get help formulating a response to a message, I can do it without context switching. Learn more about multi-step Zaps. New to Zapier?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Joyce Chou writes growth marketing insights for startups. Copywriting isn’t just about combining the right words to sell your product — it’s how your messaging connects with users. For better results, here are 10 common copywriting mistakes to avoid, plus, how to fix them. Writing in passive voice. Contributor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 13, 2020

In his book The Innovation Stack , he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective. Let’s begin with an obvious question: How does a glassblower become the founder of a major payments company? What is an Innovation Stack? What is it?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

While we’re pretty sure you’ve already heard the term SEO (search engine optimization) from your fellow marketers or some random blogger, you might still be trying to figure out what an effective SEO strategy looks like, how your business can benefit from it, and how you can come up with one. Well, the good news is, you’ve found us!

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Writing authentic sales emails is tough, even for the sharpest salespeople. Automate your GPT prompts to write business emails Learn how As you can imagine, this involved a lot of trial and error. Some of the emails would never even be opened by a prospect, let alone convince them to have a call with you.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

You need to constantly ask yourself whether your actions in rapidly scaling an online community are worth the potential downsides of destroying trust amongst your users. Another fine line companies are skating is with how much user information they make publicly available. But implicit actions are much more of a gray area.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

How Faith In People and a Culture Of Hospitality Built a Modern American Restaurant Company, Mitchell shares the keys to his company’s 25 years of success: including a steadfast commitment to a nurturing culture, a “people first” philosophy, and the humility to recognize reckless and ego-driven decisions. WHAT IS THE QUESTION?:

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. It was interesting for me to read Fred Wilson’s email bankruptcy blog post this morning. I’m always so completely behind on email. I have a love / hate relationship with email.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

” 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. Every time my posts ended up there the conversation descended into hate and vitriol and a lot of people that don’t really know me calling me all sorts of names.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2023

I’ll frequently get asked about what growth is, how you apply it to startups, and when you should focus on it. Below you can see what are called “pirate metrics”. Image: Created by author To keep close to the startup community, I chat with founders often. To start, let’s talk about the traditional marketing funnel. So what is growth?

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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. A few months ago, Dan Luu wrote about how companies would benefit from doubling down on their own blogs. 4.62% of those people end up going to the Jobs page?—?11,550

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StartupNation

MARCH 18, 2021

The following Pinterest marketing tips will show you how to leverage this fun and profitable marketing platform: Set up a Pinterest business account. You might wonder how adding yet another social platform to your social media presence can possibly help you without taking more valuable time out of your day.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Action Points to Successfully Start a Women-owned Business. How can you nail your niche with an e-commerce business ? Read blogs, listen to podcasts, and purchase books and magazines to help you learn. Want to know what it takes to start a women-owned business? Do you have an amazing business idea ? 2- Research and Plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. His words, “we find things on Sunday morning that will be on the Today show on Tuesday morning.&# There’s no cost!&#.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

When done right, B2B email marketing provides valuable information that encourages the recipient to make a purchase or take another desired action to move through the marketing funnel. I'd been working in email marketing for quite a while before I took on my first B2B campaign.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Stewart Hillhouse writes actionable growth marketing insights as senior content lead at Demand Curve. He also writes at stewarthillhouse.com. By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind. Before getting into marketing, Stewart was a semi-professional lumberjack. More posts by this contributor.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Have you ever met a company that actually knows why their customers churn, renew, or grow, and most importantly, how to get ahead of it? Every company wants to improve customer experience, but they don’t really understand what their customers’ experience is and how to take action on it. Write them down and review them regularly.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 23, 2022

But how do you reach the growing part of your potential audience that is moving from the real world and Web 2.0 In this blog post, we’ll outline five of the most important tips and actionable advice to get your content marketing game on in the metaverse. into the immersive experiences offered by the metaverse?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

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? How might you create a prolific content strategy which resonates with your audience at a higher level? year-over-year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. Link has a summary of his argument plus a great video).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

By Marissa Levin, CEO of Successful Culture and EO Baltimore member. I had the opportunity this week to learn from one of my most inspirational mentors who happens to also be a great speaker: Warren Rustand , a lifelong entrepreneur and former NBA player. Warren is the CEO of Providence Service Corporation (NASDAQ; PSC) a $1.2

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 17, 2022

I’m currently reading Alchemy of Finance by George Soros, and it inspired me to write this stream of consciousness piece about my macro thesis regarding the ETH merge. The basic idea is that market participants’ perception of a given market situation will influence and shape how that situation plays out. Acolytes of his?—?such

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

I think intuitively many of us believe it may be a more lasting impact than just “60 days at home,” which is why we almost have a nervous laughter when we call (Zoom!) somebody we haven’t spoken to since before the crisis and acknowledge how bizarre we all feel right now. What do we eat? Where do we shop? What is safe?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2013

For important emails we hope for replies or action. Yet some simple techniques can help massively improve your ability to get people to take action on your important emails. Yet some simple techniques can help massively improve your ability to get people to take action on your important emails. Write to one person at a time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

I’m writing today because I want you to know how concerned I am about the impact that reading the false allegations against our company has had on you all,” he wrote. Agboola, in the email, responded to this by saying: “The allegations about how I started the company are untrue. It’s been a full week.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

The concept comes from a Stephen Covey book called “ First Things First ,&# which is a worthwhile book ( Wikipedia overview here ) but if you haven’t read his seminal book “ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People &# you should start with that. As individuals we have choices about how we spend our time. I’m not.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Others I have not.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

What tech stack should a microinfluencer use? Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. However, being a “microinfluencer” is now part of the job description. . In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers. Tech stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

They see how hard she does her job. In the original version of his post, Andy writes. ” But many of the assertions in his post – while populist – aren’t exactly how things are in reality. So for argument’s sake let’s triple the number of active VCs and call it 300. And yours as well.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 9, 2022

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice of all Golden handcuffs?—?when when you stay at a job that you’d rather quit only for the money. I thought I was going to stay at Netflix forever. Top of market pay. Freedom and responsibility. Unlimited PTO. What more could you ask for? So when I quit Netflix in May 2021, everyone thought I was crazy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. That notes only told part of the story.

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