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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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2010

When First Round started talking with the Steve and Jared , we introduced the company to Betaworks and to Ron Conway’s SV Angel fund. Both groups signed up for the deal, as did Lerer Media Ventures, and several other prominent angels—including Josh Stylman and Pete Hershberg, who backed my previous company.

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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

After growing my own side hustle to multiple six figures per year, I’m going to share how to brainstorm and launch your own successful side business that can eventually replace your full-time income. I experienced this firsthand when launching my own side hustle, a career advice website called Career Sidekick. Launch your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. The CTO / Lead Architect - If you want to build a great technology company, you’ll need a “rockstar&# engineering lead. As the company and therefore the team size grew I’d want a VP of Engineering.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Pincus said FrontierVille is most successful launch (1mm+ daily users in < 1 week). first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Maintains a “Trusted Directory” of TRUSTe certified companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, nextNY had a great round table discussion about the explosion of new models and companies in eCommerce—from group buying to flash sales to local discounts. There’s also been some great blog chatter from Sarah Tavel ( here ) and Josh Kopelman ( here and here ) on the topic. Enter Closely.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2016

Yet local software companies have had such a struggle finding qualified software developers that they are resorting to “off-shoring.”. It’s a good trend in that boot camp graduates fill the pipeline for employers; but the price tag almost guarantees that historically lower-income populations will be left out.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. I wanted to be sure that they knew how much all of our partners loved what they were doing with their company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. I wanted to be sure that they knew how much all of our partners loved what they were doing with their company.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Yes, there is the mythical company you all heard about that walked into Sequoia and had a term sheet 24 hours later. But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. I’m sure that happens.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. Tech stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

If you want to understand what the company believes about Twitter’s positioning please read the linked article. Let’s face it, if people want to blog as a career they have to be able to make money. and others were formed on the basis of taking the high ground we know that over time other companies will not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. For those companies that I don’t find that interesting I don’t have to spending any more time on. But let’s face it, as a VC you spend time with whichever companies you want. That’s true. Here’s why: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

But this gets all the space on prominent blogs because it’s what bloggers like to cover.&# It’s self selecting. People like Fred Wilson who say let all the small companies fund and bloom, create more jobs, etc. But there are also going to be those companies that require capex and growth equity (Zynga, Facebook, etc).

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Make sure that your company name, address, and phone number (NAP) are consistent on every platform. Airbnb, with locations all over the world, utilizes local content well in their blog. Consider tagging your keywords with location-based phrases to help target your content. Ensure your NAP is consistent across the board.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both. You should, too.

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Feedough

MARCH 15, 2021

And even those who don’t tag themselves as influencers tend to use LinkedIn posts for their own benefits. Soon, you will be able to collaborate with teammates and measure content performance across your company for clients. Most tools out there focus on LinkedIn company insights. All put together in one dashboard.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Then came blogs. We have it to filter blog comments. was the “static&# web.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. And I feel that this skill is invaluable in both building a start-up company and in being a VC. What about strategy?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. I was there, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But all of this increased company creation has to go somewhere. It costs less money to start companies so the world should have way more startups.&# I’ve heard the “world is different&# argument in every bubble I’ve ever seen. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. I’m skating where I think the puck is going.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. Tech stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. Yet in LA we have hugely successful entrepreneurs who have built big companies like Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, TicketMaster.com, LowerMyBills, Commission Junction, eHarmony and on and on.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Build a content website or add a blog. I recall listening to a podcast years ago with the founders of a company called Eye Love. A good example of this in action is Tonic Site Shop, a company that creates unique and customizable website templates. Image source: Live a Great Story ). Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter!

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Welcome to Social Media Week --the one week out of the year where we get to tweet and blog about social media! There's lots of talk about who "owns" social media for companies that decide to enter the space to reach their consumers. Launch of a social site. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Try the waitlists.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

My story of ceding control of the business that I had no intention of ever leaving In 2017, I sold my startup to the largest company in the college sports recruiting industry. the brand I started in college and launched less than a year prior?—?was They were the largest company in our industry and truly invested in servicing it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Clearly, the biggest challenge mobile app development companies and their customers face is fierce competition. Updates (and more updates): For mobile app developers, your work doesn’t end at launch. If you launch and leave, you can expect your competition to quickly run you out of business. appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The two companies did not disclose the purchase price. “Historically, data governance technologies, regardless of sophistication, rely on enforcing control at some narrow waist layer and require workloads to fit into the ‘walled garden’ at this layer,” the company explains in a blog post. .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. In a world of The Funded, VentureHacks and entrepreneur blogs this kind of informations spreads like wildfire. This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rosenberg says he was inspired to build Welcome after traveling, pre-pandemic, with his then-girlfriend, now-wife following the acquisition of his first company, a mobile video creation app called Cameo , by Vimeo. You can also leave your own tips for fellow Welcome users, mark the list as a favorite, and add tags. million to date.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 20, 2012

Here are some general tips to keep in mind: Phin tells companies to solve all the problems you can solve without money first. Plus, I liked the economics and clear prospects for building a big company in that space. You've launched or you're about to launch. I think this is great advice. This was also the GroupMe bet.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. My second company, Koral, was designed to be as simple as possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. So many companies suck at managing their booths. It happens to many companies that ride the wave. We were hot.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. Too many startup execs place too much emphasis on the big stage launch. When you are selected you share the stage with 49 other companies (in the case of TechCrunch50. Most people pay attention to the first 5 companies. Maybe 10.

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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. The company positions Poparazzi as a sort of anti-Instagram, rebelling against today’s social feeds filled with edited photos, too many selfies, and “seemingly effortless perfection.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

What a sweet feeling it was last week to see the launch of the photo sharing site Pose , whose application targets shoppers of apparel. I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. He wanted to be an entrepreneur. I still do.

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Feedough

JANUARY 3, 2021

In 1998, Google launched and brought a concept of minimal search engines. The company started monetising in 2000 and paved the way for pay per click advertising and search engine marketing. In the early 2000s, Facebook launched and brought in its hyper-targeted ads model that used user interests and demographics for advertising.

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