OurCrowd

JUNE 11, 2021

Edgybees will use AWS Cloud solutions to transform aerial images and video into a mission-critical decision support tool with real-time high-precision geo-tagging. The post [Edgybees in PR Newswire] Edgybees Selected to Participate in Inaugural AWS Space Accelerator for Startups appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Today, inbound marketing is inescapable for any startup that wants to be successful online. An AI copywriting software can help in this regard by automating and speeding up parts of the content creation process, such as writing blog posts, emails, landing pages, Pin titles and descriptions, and Instagram captions.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you can, I recommend join HubSpot for Startups , which offers generous discounts. 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. We looked for systems which used tagging as their core data model, instead of categorization.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. He wrote a blog post that always stuck with me about how there are regulars on his blog who hang out there a bit like “Cheers&# just having a chat with a metaphorical beer in hand. I picked questions that I had already covered in depth on my blog and answered them in shorter form.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

area startup now reports its iOS-only has seen over 5 million installs in its first year, with users primarily in the Gen Z demographic. The startup says that 75% of its users are between the ages of 14 and 18 and 95% of users are between 14 and 21. But in its case, photo tagging wasn’t an afterthought; it was the full focus.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The features in Flickr seeded the consumer web gene pool for the following 7 or 8 years--tagging, favoriting, commenting, permalinks direct to content, newsfeeds, social consumption of media, sharing and embedding. People will be able to find what you do, not just how you write about what you do on a blog.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Identify and connect funds to investable startups. Join the platforms of firms which help tech startups and VCs identify vendors. This was cross-posted on Integrity Research’s blog. For a list of ideas on recruiting family offices specifically, see 11 Ideas to Organize an Event Family Offices Want to Attend.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2010

Each week there are so many great events, blog posts, videos, etc. produced by community members that there’s hardly any reason to pay other than a token amount for in person innovation and startup related content. Startup success has also diversified across sectors. Expensive venues? Pricey box lunches? Not necessary!

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

You're afraid of startups. As my friend once said, “I never hugged a co-worker until I worked at a startup.” This city is the thriving New York startup community, and if you’re willing to unplug from the Matrix—the cattle driving process of big corporate recruiting—you can join in. Show up for a startup event.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

I’d embed the video but it doesn’t seem to allow you to do this so here’s the link the This Week in Startups, Inaugural show. Why VC’s who have “dial out&# programs to early-stage startups damage their reputation. - My blog and what it’s done for my deal flow. - Tags: VC Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. So cheeky Chamillionaire went to Universal wearing the tags from every other label he had visited.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m going to save that for a future blog post. Let me start by saying two things: Events like this are invaluable to startups because the significant value comes from building the network across portfolio companies and the discussion one can have with your peer group. Greycroft – Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

This comment and blog post prompted me to write a post that has been in my queue for a long time. Tags: Startup Advice. That means most of us are getting derailed from our work four times each hour, maybe more if you work in a high email traffic office.&#. Of even if you don't have a team I'll bet you have a boss.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2010

I had a phonecall/meeting with a student who wants to come to New York and work in startups. In another situation, I chat on IM with a junior editor for a tech blog on a regular basis. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Two were the same exact situation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

The startup quadrupled its revenue, tripled its customer base and doubled the size of its team during the course of the 12-month period. Once published, Casted provides access to a “fully searchable content archive” with transcription services and tagging. million since its inception. 2020 was a good year for Casted.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. Do tell … Tags: Start-up Advice Tech Market Analysis.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

See the captured moments on Facebook and make sure to tag yourselves! Watch the highlights as I share some of the key moments, speakers and startups. Startups Saving Lives: 3 Stories from the 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, as featured in The Jerusalem Post , and in our video recap. See our blog post about the trends here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. 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. I’ve heard many startup CEO’s (and VCs!)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. But I do have more insight into understanding your startup team. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Arnold Waldstein , who stops by periodically on my blog and always leaves relevant comments, made the observation that, “if I want to connect with you, I’ll engage with you on this blog …from there, a follow on Twitter, a link on LinkedIn are closing the loop of connection rather that opening a cold door.&# This is so true.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

At the highest level we’re looking for somebody really intelligent, digitally native, financially numerate and interested in startups. If this isn’t you, we’d probably still have a look if you did something truly exception – probably at startup or tech firm. Tags: VC Industry. Are we elitist?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. But the comments on my own blog were so much more balanced with people taking both sides of the debate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I learned that he was originally with William Morris as a junior talent rep but wanted to be more in the business of helping digital startups. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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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. Blog comments. Why don’t you just blog less or not respond to everyone’s comments?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Example of publishers include: moviefone, Fandango, Jingle, SayNow, and voice blogs. Total raised: $19mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. In addition to the P2P deals covered below, on the show we also talked about some of my favorite financing startups ( Wonga in the UK run by Errol Damelin , who is a superstar) and Affordit.com run by serial (and I mean serial!) Blogging has gone through many iterations.

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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. Advertisement Inlytics– Startup Review By Feedough. We discussed the concept, vision, and future prospects of the startup with Tim Schmidbauer, the founder and CEO of Inlytics. Here are his thoughts on the startup –.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2010

So, great… One day, you’re a bunch of tech dudes hacking away at a hardcore grad math program and the next day, you hit the proverbial startup lottery and you’re sitting with some major coin in the bank. You guys are now the startup version of the OJ Simpson white Bronco chase. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Start-up Advice Startup Advice VC Industry. Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. They deserve more credit.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it as a way to learn, improve and increase my win rates. Tags: Startup Advice. One of the things I learned from my “post-game analysis&# is that you’re most vulnerable right after you’ve won the deal. I won, that is, until I lost.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers. Often the startups are actually serving a slightly different kind of customer or a slightly different market need. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Sony, the iPod.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We all know media companies are suffering as CPMs (the amount they can charge per thousand visitors) are falling, available inventory is climbing, free content and blogs are proliferating, user attention is being divided with social networks and the core media business cash cows like classified ads have been disrupted by companies like CraigsList.

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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. When I was running startups I felt like a horse with blinders on because I was super focused on the content management market and ignored many other markets. Then I spent many years as a startup CEO. That’s true.

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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 write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Most lawyers that work with startups are willing to work on a deferred payment schedule.

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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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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. If you’re a startup, in bad times there is less over-funding of your competitors and therefore less pressure to give everything away for free.

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