TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” The company’s web-crawling tech ingested blogs, photo-sharing sites and other sources of information about locales and tagged them to a geolocation in a massive place database. of the third-party air travel market in the U.S. “The app is quickly internationalizing.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. But what has really killed me is email. I live in email hell. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. I’m always so completely behind on email. I have a love / hate relationship with email.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. This is the market that Wonga serves and they are killing it! Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Big market. In business you spend your life in email.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. But the comments on my own blog were so much more balanced with people taking both sides of the debate. For anyone who attacked me on my blog but used their actual names I left their comments.

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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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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Too often, brands focus on just showcasing products or services, but the best way to attract your target market is to focus on the benefits your product or service brings. Build a content website or add a blog. We’re in the age of dynamic content and inbound marketing. Build your email list. Using apps like Vyper.ai

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. Please do not email either me or Michael directly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

Trello – Some of the smartest people I know still send themselves tasks to complete via email. Until a few years ago I had tried every task management list and failed each time so I, too, resorted to email to-do’s. I feel more connected and less marketed to. Still want to port my blog their.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And we know that being stubbornly tenacious without the “street smarts&# to know when market conditions are changing and then “pivoting&# when they are changing is a recipe for failure. It’s why I believe PalmPilot missed the important shifts to email that RIM (Blackberry) saw. And in life.

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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. No cookies for guessing which reason they use to market to us. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read).

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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.

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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. And the market is enormous. Explain your offering to over thousands of potential investors, customers, and top blogs. The platform is a true definition of business social networking. Tell us about your team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc).

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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.). Then came blogs. We have spam filters for our email. We have it to filter blog comments.

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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. Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 21, 2013

Of the five teams in a startup, marketing teams tend to have the least influence because traditional product marketers must influence others to enact change. Marketing works with product and engineering to update branding and communication within the product. Marketing collaborates with sales to refine the product positioning.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! So don’t expect an unprompted email or phone call next week. I guess they assume that since I didn’t email or call I must not be interested. Start with a very short thank you email the day after your pitch. Let’s be honest.

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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 ). Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. You need to know how “tag along&# rights could potentially screw you. the link is here.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

The 7 best free website builders Google Sites for basic sites (without SEO) Weebly for simple, no-fuss websites GetResponse for email-focused businesses Wix for an all-around site builder Dorik for more experienced creators HubSpot CMS for growing businesses Webflow for advanced designers What makes a great free website builder?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

And with Facebook Ads, you can create and run digital ad campaigns to directly market your business to those potential customers. You can use this feature to curate groups of people who already have a relationship with your business—or non-customers who might be interested—which you can then engage with targeted marketing campaigns.

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This is going to be BIG.

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. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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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. Check out our App Directory to see what else you can do.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Route tickets to the proper channels If your customers can't find your support form, they'll find other ways—whether it's emailing an employee or using your marketing chatbot. Maintain ticket hygiene Things can get disorganized fast if you're managing a high volume of support requests.

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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.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 29, 2010

Even better would be additional links to your blog and Twitter. When you’re not blogging, even occasionally, here’s what a startup is going to think, fairly or unfairly: This person isn’t passionate enough to share their ideas about this industry. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. This person has no ideas about this industry.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 12, 2018

Make sure you’ve got a blog on your site and you are adding to it. From a pure SEO point of view, blogging keeps your website updated, meaning Google will see that the site has been updated as recently as yesterday and rank you higher than a site that was updated a year ago. Make sure your Meta Tags look good.

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Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2019

If you are proud of the fact that you were first to market with a product or service, you might define yourself as the “first and best”. Sometimes you reduce your market to increase your positioning. You can tell that story by limiting your market to the lower east side of town, where you are all those things.).

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

But big businesses often have a dedicated project manager for marketing, another for sales, and another for product development. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. This email integration is different from the Gmail or Outlook integrations in the app directory.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Capture the data – the currency of online direct marketing prior to Twitter was the email address. If a brand had your email address and permission from you to send occasional messages to you then you could effectively market new products or services. The currency of the real-time web is, for now, your Twitter address.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Then I get people sending me Twitter comments, blog comments and tons & tons of email intros. When it’s your turn in the ambush greeting line get all of your energy pumped up and with great enthusiasm say, “Hey Mark, I really enjoyed your panel on social media marketing. 80% of the people never do.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. We then set out to build these features as quickly as we could.

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