Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

I think this episode is worth watching ( video is here ) but as always I’ll try to summarize for anybody short on time. We covered the topic in the video and if you don’t know the issue you might learn from listening to our discussion. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. A few weeks ago I sat through two very contrasting presentations and wrote this blog post right afterward. We talked about online video and the need to build & track audiences online. He reluctantly did.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. In the video I linked to above Farb talks about how he got Rob Lord on board at Grockit. Nowhere is social proof more prevalent than in angel investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have always loved watching videos there but always believed that any company controlled by a consortia of interests would be doomed in the long run – especially by established, large incumbents with an interest in protecting the past more than innovating the future. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But this typically comes with a hefty price tag. Double down on video. For example, one best practice is to record the podcast on Zoom so you get both video and audio. Your business can then use the video on YouTube to extend its marketing value and reach an even wider audience.

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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

JULY 15, 2010

If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. If you watch the video I go into greater detail. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. In the video I also covered why you shouldn’t raise too much money too early in your company’s existence. Minutes 11-16 in the video. << And I talked a lot about persistence in the video. This is wrong. I eventually needed more money.

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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. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Then came blogs. We have it to filter blog comments.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Watch this awesome 46 second video from Rocky. Some readers of this blog also pointed out that “pivoting&# can be disruptive on the employees of an organization. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Resiliency, on the other hand, is about being able to withstand punches and still keep fighting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. You can listen to Om, Paul & I debate the topic in the video. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Real-time search engine.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

People had been steadily blogging for 2-3 years and this crowd seemed to bifurcate. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo. So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. started blogging again outlined here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

You’ll hear this story in the video. 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. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Total raised: $19mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2010

Ask me something very narrow that I can answer without typing a whole blog post length response. DON’T send me a frigging link to your document on DropBox or a request that the recipient visit your website to watch a video. Fred Wilson nailed this in his “double opt in&# blog post. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. Instead of publishing into the ether where 98% of blogs must get less than 10 page views / month, in Tumblr you have followers as you would in a social network.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The classroom activities are recorded and the video is appended with comments from a remote coach. It’s always great to meet somebody in person that you’ve interacted with on blogs and on Twitter. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. They cameras have the ability to show 360 degrees and can zoom closely.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I think you’ll enjoy watching this week’s video. 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. Tags: Start-up Advice. He’s also candid, humble and helpful. Here’s this week’s outline: INTRO to FARB NIVI.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I am avoiding “frenzied&# deals for all of the reasons Roger Ehrenberg talks about in his excellent blog post. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. I’m trying to pick themes that I think will map to macro trends over the next 5-10 years.

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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. As an aside, if you want a sense of the GOAP Asia trip check out this wonderful 3 minutes video of Christine Lu. Tags: Startup Advice. I’m not. I promise you'll enjoy it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2015

Let us know in the Comments section below; or tag us on Facebook or Twitter. We’ll post new pictures, stories, videos and memes every day on: Octane blog , Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and Instagram. The post Five Ways We Stayed Motivated in 2015 appeared first on THE BLOG.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

Convert to PDF, attach to an e-mail, upload a photo or video, or copy to my Kindle could all be automated tasks that happen the instant I copy a file to a particular directory. There’s so much more to a event—making travel plans, connecting with others in your industry, talking about an event, consuming video streams, etc.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

Upload videos to YouTube and Instagram TV. Then, they’ll take high-quality photos of themselves, tag your company, and advertise to all of their followers. YLAI encourages small business owners and entrepreneurs to create blogs to share the who and why behind what they do. Not quite at that level yet?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

More than ever, people are watching videos, consuming stories, reading posts and scrolling newsfeeds. Build a content website or add a blog. Of course, it doesn’t always have to be you in front of the camera; there are many creative ways to deliver content and promote your brand via video. Image source: Instagram ).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 25, 2018

Written for EO by Raul Harman, editor in chief at Technivorz blog. Run onsite campaigns and offer cool rewards to attendees who tag their social media posts with the official hashtag. Use attendees’ posts, comments, photos and videos to tell a story about your brand, your products, your values and your goals.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

I spoke about the topic on Fox Business News yesterday in a great session with TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon and will post it along with my other VC Videos when Fox puts it on their website. Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! This post covers the day after. Let’s be honest.

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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. Used mostly on video streaming platforms like YouTube, Facebook Watch, etc. However, these ads do carry a tag of ‘ad’ or ‘sponsored’ on them. Display Ads.

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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. It introduces friction where there shouldn’t be.

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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. We upload videos occasionally from conferences. We looked for systems which used tagging as their core data model, instead of categorization. Twitter : @Versatile_VC / @dteten.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best tools you can use to achieve productive marketing, how to apply them and how much they cost. Video support. The software is decidedly very easy to learn and requires no previous video editing knowledge. Video creation. Video editing. Audio file management.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

based, and to date, they’ve shared over 100 million photos and videos on the app. 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 Most of its users are U.S. Sensor Tower also sees 4.6

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Other features for a digital journal that might be important to you include password protection, Markdown support, the ability to add more than one photo, location and weather tags, and journaling prompts. for Pro), iOS ($4.99

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2016

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. EOlooks forward to the new calendar year, with posts, pictures and videos citing upcoming technologies and inspiration for entrepreneurs in 2016.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

So in 2019, she founded Casted , an audio and video podcast product aimed at B2B marketers. Once published, Casted provides access to a “fully searchable content archive” with transcription services and tagging. And now Casted has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Revolution Ventures. . million since its inception.

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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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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The trick is in understanding what people are searching for, the kind of answers they’re looking for, how they’re searching (the words they use), and the type of content they wish to consume (text, video , or audio). This strategy applies to every page on the website and not just blog posts. On-page SEO strategy.

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