Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

While it's great to "give people a chance", you also want to ensure you get the most return on your investment. If so, share it with others on LinkedIn and tag me. A good publicist will be able to not just peg you into "one box but will be able to see several potential ways you can fit into a story or a story can fit around you.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

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Feedough

JANUARY 3, 2021

It comprises images, text, and animation, and shows up as banners on websites and blogs. Sponsored listings within or after blog posts form an example of native ads. video ads are also used on websites and blogs as out-stream ads to gain website users’ attention. However, these ads do carry a tag of ‘ad’ or ‘sponsored’ on them.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I have too many portfolio companies without exits and I want to see some returns before I put too much more money into this category.&#. more senior to you) might be piling up liquidation preferences and tilting returns in their favor. Of course I’d like to make good returns. And these are people with deep pockets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It also wrote a bit more about the fundraise on its own blog.). The cover slide is at the top of this post and just reads “The OS for Grocery” with a few keywords, designed as tags (“order management,” “inventory management” and “analytics”).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 3, 2016

Whatever works, works … and you don’t necessarily need to tweet it, like it or tag it to get there. Who are you, what do you stand for, what do you offer, why do I want to work for/with you and what can I offer you in return? The post Separating Yourself from the Pack appeared first on THE BLOG.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

For the sake of protecting their shoppers, online marketplaces usually have universal rules and policies, such as prohibiting certain items or mandatory return policies. Unlike online marketplaces, you're free to create your own policies for returns, shipping, subscriptions, etc. Rules and policies. Competition. No extra fees.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Decision-making : The target is interested in buying or trying your product, and is now considering things like budget and return on investment in order to determine whether they're ready to buy. Free trials, discount offers, and cost estimates can influence your target in the direction of a purchase.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Whatever works, works … and you don’t necessarily need to tweet it, like it or tag it to get there. Who are you, what do you stand for, what do you offer, why do I want to work for/with you and what can I offer you in return? The post Separating Yourself from the Pack appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Privately some early-stage VC’s talk about participation helping them to “juice their returns&# on smaller exits. I think VCs make money by investing in 20-25 deals and finding 2-3 outliers that drive extra-ordinary returns. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. This is silly talk.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

To understand this in great detail see this very important blog post by Henry Blodget on the unemployment rate in the US and its impact on the recovery. So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. million – take it.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

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. One of the restaurants could, in return, feature you in a post about the best spots along the river for fishing and a picnic.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2018

Step 2: Use your tags. Location tags are not as commonly used as hashtags, but a 2014 SimplyMeasured report found that Instagram submissions with location tags are likely to have 79% higher engagement than those without these tags. Let your posts serve as way to reinforce your aesthetic and your branding. more engagement.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I always say, “if you’re judging actual returns on a 3-year timeframe you’re looking at mostly failure. Any of these scenarios aren’t great outcomes for investors.&# The reality is that the “big winners&# in business that drive extra-ordinary returns often take 7-10 years to materialize.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Seth Levine of Foundry Group addresses this important topic this morning on his blog with a post, “ Has Convertible Debt Won ?&# So from basic econ 101, the higher the risks, the greater the failure rates, the higher the returns need to be to accomodate for those increased failures and the higher risks taken. 20-25% dilution).

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. We also know that people with a bit of extra money are getting almost zero interest rate return on their money in banks. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. Enter P2P lending. It sucked. It still does.

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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

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. When I launched it as a general career advice blog, I didn’t gain any traction. Many business managers have budgets set and money that’s tagged for spending.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

When you see all these seed stage investors debating on Twitter and blogs what structures they support, take it for what it is—a marketing exercise. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. The investor water cooler occasionally falls victim to reputation racketeering. Was that entrepreneur unfriendly? Not at all.

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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. If you have a $100 million fund you don’t get paid your carry until you return the initial money to your investors and then you typically get 20% of the profits above this threshold. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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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. Angels have a much lower threshold for returns than do VCs. they take time!!

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too. With the right media attention, open doors at biz dev partners, and a spark to motivate consumers—the risk/return profile of the deal starts to look a little bit different—a lot different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Unfortunately my wife reads my blog and she’d log in and add comments to dispel this rumor (she keeps me honest. Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too. With the right media attention, open doors at biz dev partners, and a spark to motivate consumers—the risk/return profile of the deal starts to look a little bit different—a lot different.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

The company’s machine-learning platform understands how consumers see webpages and improves its automatic-tagging abilities over time while automatically adapting to website changes. The announcement sent shares soaring 7% before returning to earth, TechCrunch reports.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Retention rates were equally impressive, with 75% of customers returning even after three years. Technology from our portfolio company HIL Applied Medical reduces the size of the facility to one room and cuts the price tag in half, Lisa Gann writes in the Times of Israel. Sign the NDA now for more details.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2023

Let me share some examples : This weekend, I wanted to clean up some HTML image links in older blog posts & modernize them to markdown format. See the transcript here : create a ruby script to go through every markdown file in a folder & find html image tags & rewrite them as markdown image tags.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Tags: Startup Advice. I knew what this meant.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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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.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Build a content website or add a blog. People hate to be sold to, but they love to buy, so be sure to add some insanely valuable content that encourages your audience to return time and again. Create and add products to a Facebook shop first, connect your Instagram Business account and start tagging! Build your email list.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

This forward-leaning investment aims to facilitate the scaling-up of second-life battery energy storage systems and further secure circular business opportunities for the forthcoming ramp-up in Volvo Group’s second-life battery returns,” says Joachim Rosenberg, President of Volvo Energy. Learn More.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 9, 2010

to create paid e-mail newsletters—effectively nailing the coffin on what were sometimes sparsely updated blogs. I get why people like Jason Calacanis wanted to stop blogging (even though he really can’t). My suspicion, though, is that it’s not the blogging that’s hard, it’s the writing. It’s not the medium that’s the issue.

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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. You reach diminishing marginal returns of the next person you met in relation to all that you’re sacrificing by not being in the office working.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you leave the title tag of a web page blank (the clickable page headline in search engine results and that pops up when you hover your mouse over a page tab in your internet browser), you are literally letting Google try and figure out what your website is all about. This is one of the most important factors of SEO.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

If someone needs an update on a shipped package or information about a return policy, for example, those are simple exchanges. You may need to tag in other team members or escalate the issue to a different team for more complex concerns—while keeping your clients calm. Sometimes, however, customers have complex concerns or issues.

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