TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

For Lindsay Tjepkema — who has been entrenched in the world of B2B marketing for more than 15 years — the opportunity was massive. So in 2019, she founded Casted , an audio and video podcast product aimed at B2B marketers. For starters, Casted’s SaaS platform gives marketing teams a way to publish content.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

To ensure your business continues to take advantage of the changing tide, here are 21 ways to help accelerate the growth of your new business in the year ahead: Become a prolific content creator. Dove, for example, sells soap but consistently posts content about positive body image. Build a content website or add a blog.

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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. If I’m totally honest it started as a marketing exercise. It’s true.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Salesforce) and a marketing platform (e.g., Our historic salestech and marketing tech stack was: CRM : Salesforce. I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

At the time Google said it was against sponsored links because it confused the person searching for content – one of the main arguments people are again using about in-stream advertising. When a content producer promotes an ad in-stream the revenue flows mostly to the person who published the content.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **.

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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. So, what if there were a LinkedIn content performance optimiser to help you grow your influence? The idea is that you can analyse your content performance for your personal LinkedIn account. Welcome, Inlytics. The Offering.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many are starting to have Rich Internet Application advertisements (RIA) – with ads that sometimes takeover the entire screen without the users consent – classic interruption marketing. So the debate in the print media world is whether or not to insert a paywall between users and content. It certainly resonates with me.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. In this blog post, we’re not going to talk about different business models, seat-based VS usage volume pricing, or subscription VS pay-as-you-go.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

How does this effect digital marketing? Just as the internet changed the way we could market, will e-books do the same? We’ll share our experience developing enterprise and consumer facing semantic search applications from three perspectives: Content and user experience, knowledge engineering and technology. Is this a good idea?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. To stay the crowed was “wowed&# was an understatement.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. We market primarily to four populations: High-potential founders. Tech stack.

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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. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Expensive venues? Pricey box lunches? Not necessary!

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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

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. The reason I have so many typos is that I value cranking out more content rather than perfect posts. This is the market that Wonga serves and they are killing it! Big market. Blogging has gone through many iterations. LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2010

I wanted to see two things: Would the second (or sometimes even third Tweet) convert enough people to my blog to make it worth potentially annoying some people on Twitter? If your goal is to send a Tweet that converts to people to a blog post sending more than one Tweet is recommended. My conclusions. So, whaddaya think?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Team Pip.io

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

So, along with looking at potential problems you can solve for the topics you identified in the steps above, look at what’s currently being sold in those markets, too. 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. Web design.

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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! Usually these discussions focus on Marketing, PR, Customer Service or an Agency. RSVP: [link] 3PM Whole Foods Market presents: Afternoon Snack. Try the waitlists. I think you'll have a good shot at getting in.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2018

The success of your Instagram marketing campaign depends on the level of engagement you provide to your followers. Here are five tips to help you focus your marketing efforts on Instagram. Step 1: Choose your content wisely. . Step 2: Use your tags. Close to 82% of U.S. All this spells opportunity for entrepreneurs.

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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. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. All content is developed and delivered by the Real Ventures partners. AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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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. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So you want to get a podcast out and get more traffic to your blog or website. Growing your podcast will require you to get email and whatever you do you will need a email marketing platform tool to get in front of people All of the below have free options and paid plans to help you grow your business. Definitely worth checking out.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. All content is developed and delivered by the Real Ventures partners. AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. How big is the market?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The startup is co-founded by fellow Vimeo employees Peter Gerard, Mark Armendariz, and Mark Essel, who together with Rosenberg launched an early version of Welcome back in 2019 as something of a market test. You can also leave your own tips for fellow Welcome users, mark the list as a favorite, and add tags. Image Credits: Welcome.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Industry sources expect the mobile app market to expand by a whopping 270% to US$189 billion by 2020. In addition to development costs, however, you’ll need money for marketing and promotion. percent of apps succeed financially every year, it’s understandable that investors tend to shy away from the app market.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Content companies, for example, should be able to amass traffic and sell advertising on a bootstrapped budget before they come close to seeking equity financing—because you can, and because that’s the market expectation and that’s what your competitors are already doing. Maybe you meet a CTO who is tired of working with ad agencies.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

If your digital marketing strategy includes Facebook Ads or a Facebook Page , you probably use Facebook Offline Conversions. Automating information transfer between your sales and marketing apps helps save you time and effort while keeping audience information up to date. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. I didn't just read customer reviews or the marketing materials for these website builders. Although some of these tools are part of a suite of other marketing tools, they can all operate independently.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Table of contents Create tickets from forms Route tickets to the proper channels Notify your team about new tickets Maintain ticket hygiene Keep an eye on the numbers New to Zapier? We’ve collected some popular Zaps (our name for Zapier’s automated workflows) that help keep your customer support team running smoothly.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Today, inbound marketing is inescapable for any startup that wants to be successful online. Not surprisingly, a survey done by Statista found that content marketing was believed to be the most effective digital marketing technique according to marketers — followed by marketing automation, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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