This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

Amazon is *nailing* this with books. Click, I have a book everywhere I read. 3) Remix, Comment, Blog, Tweet. Now, I’m much more likely to share something on Twitter than I am to tag it in del.icio.us. Sharing links on my blog is to cumbersome, but I’d do it if I had a better clipping tool that posted.

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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. Tags: Startup Advice. Here’s what I learned.

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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. Then came blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Orchard for e-Books”. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Tags: Start-up Advice. They sponsor TWiVC. He’s a one-man show who hasn’t raised VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. To anyone who believes his data proves anything please do me a favor and go read The Black Swan – my favorite book of the past 5 years.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

Electronic “books” are rapidly changing the way we read information. Just as the internet changed the way we could market, will e-books do the same? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link] 6:30PM: DigitalFlashNYC Networking Event on E-Readers Kindle, Nook, Sony E-Reader, the Apple tablet (maybe?). RSVP: [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. So BuildOnline kept the employees on their books and they did subcontracting work for our company, Koral. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. We had the consent of the acquiring company to take them yet US regulation prohibited it.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Automation keeps everyone in the loop by routing leads, tagging ownership, and tracking progress across stages. Common marketing workflows include: Lead capture and tagging : Automatically adding new leads from forms, events, or ad campaigns, and tagging them based on behavior or source. No problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. Hire a part-time accounting clerk to do the data entry and prepare the monthly books. Tags: Startup Advice. Thank you, Justyn, for bringing up this important topic.

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StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

Event planning Dropshipping Handmade crafts selling Pet sitting Social media management Repair service Blogging/vlogging Alternatively, consider more revolutionary business ideas like AI automation consulting or podcast-editing services. By this time, she has also released a podcast and a book. Lessons Learned : Lesson #1.

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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 ). I think you’ll end up with a newer lawyer who’s trying to build her book of businesses. Much of this is unfounded – some is not.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 27, 2025

Their team of receptionists and AI agents serves businesses like law firms and home service providers by answering questions, booking appointments, and qualifying leads, all in real time. Here’s how the Zap works: A Webhooks by Zapier trigger catches incoming feedback tagged red or yellow from Customer Thermometer.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand. If you haven’t read Ken Auletta’s brilliant book Googled , you should. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

If Instagram’s photo tagging feature was spun out into its own app, you’d have the viral sensation Poparazzi , now the No. ” People’s real lives are made up of many unperfect moments that are worthy of being captured and shared, too, a company blog post explains. 1 app on the App Store.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. These plugins check for on-page SEO factors like meta tags, schema markup, keyword density, and readability to ensure your content is in good shape. You'll also want a plugin that helps optimize your content. Extra features.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

Transportation scheduling and booking, distribution of presentations, speaker and event ratings, etc. The architecture easily allows you to drop in a blog on any page or have multiple ones across the same site. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. It’s the easiest, slickest site creation tool I’ve seen.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Build a content website or add a blog. Start by offering something of value for free to your potential audience in exchange for an email address, such as a discount coupon for your products, a free e-book, workbook, or even a free trial period for your service. Publish a book. Image source: Instagram ). It’s that simple.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The next step is to create a social media post with these examples, tagging all relevant VCs/PEs, with a message like ‘Check out intel on your raises and other similar deals we could have helped you predict’. This was cross-posted on Integrity Research’s blog. You can buy it here and read the entire PDF here.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. iPhone address book. We looked for systems which used tagging as their core data model, instead of categorization. We tag each email appropriately: NNTR=No Need to Respond.

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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

Your passion will shine through in whatever you do, whether that be writing a book or creating a YouTube channel. Look at products on Amazon, conduct a Google search, review websites and blogs related to the topic and see what they’re promoting and how they’re doing it. Writing a book. You’ll be less likely to quit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Evidently, the downturn hasn’t soured investors on the travel industry.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

This heated competition among alternative social apps could explain why Poparazzi is taking to its blog today to share its metrics and confirm its financing after a year of silence. (Or The app’s idea was, effectively, to turn one of Instagram’s core features — photo tagging — into a stand-alone experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 13, 2010

In the industry they’re known as “conference ho’s.&# OK, they’re known as conference “whores&# but that sounded too harsh for a blog post. If you’re in the services business, looking to sell books or work in sales I get why you might spend more time at conferences. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

What social networking activity he does has seemed to be mostly automated, reposting directly from his blog, and there wasn’t much custom content for social media platforms. There was a bit of a Facebook presence, which the blog reposted to automatically, and a few Facebook Live’s most of which represented the altMBA. Taylor’s Toolkit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2010

My wife reads a blog every day that she loves (and highly recommends to everybody) called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She loves it and always has such great stories to tell me about the blog in the evenings when we talk about life. Read this book (“The Alchemist&# ) if you want a reminder about enjoying the journey.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2020

I remember growing up reading that a Coca-Cola cost five cents, and seeing the old New Yorker magazine covers with a price tag of 15 cents, and awing over the price of a Ford Model T of $850. It’s an economic history lesson in 15,000 words, which admittedly is a third the length of a typical business book. The key idea is this.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work. Linkedin.

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 8, 2022

But how does the publisher know which books the subscriber likes? In this case, Penguin Random House sent the subscriber a link to a preference center to select the most appealing book genres. After all, you wouldn’t market sci-fi to a romance novel enthusiast, or vice versa. . The small description is important. Substance and style.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

He had followed me on Twitter and sent me a nice message about my blog. So when I saw the merely mortal Tristan with a normal sized Twitter following I clicked through to his link, saw his blog, saw that he was a second year at Stanford and just thought, “hey, he seems like an interesting guy. before having 300k followers!).

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

For example, you might set up an automation that tags email contacts with any new information you receive about them, like demographic details and job characteristics. Save time by automating Email marketing automation allows you to complete detailed tasks that would be impossibly time-consuming to do manually.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

A couple of years ago I read the popular book, “The Four Hour Workweek &# by Tim Ferriss. Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. I think too many books are written by charlatans and have too much management jargon / double speak that I can’t stand. My 2 biggest negatives about the book: 1.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs. Proprietary resource.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

In another post I’ll talk about how PR has changed dramatically in the past 10 years or you can just read Brian Solis’s blog or buy his book on the subject. Most notably you need to understand Earned Media and how blogging, public speaking and social media play an important role in the new PR landscape.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work.

media 40

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs. Proprietary resource.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Then I get people sending me Twitter comments, blog comments and tons & tons of email intros. Any readers of this blog will know that I have ADHD and therefore sitting through presentations is like water torture to me. Book a table for 10 at a local restaurant. An even better way to meet.

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