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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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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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

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

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. and more articles from the EO blog.

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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

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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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

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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. It’s OK to say things like, “I could see why you might think that Google would go into our market. Here’s why I think Google won’t initially be a threat to us and how we would respond if they entered our market …&#.

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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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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. Email client : Superhuman , expensive but worth it.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Organize a roundtable or dinner strictly focused on your target market. It’s easier to sell to 100 people in your target market in one room, instead of setting up 100 one-on-one meetings. However, note this has to be highly targeted or you’re just creating irrelevant emails for the investor to delete. See Where are the deals?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. a few days before the wheels came off of the market). We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. You manage what you measure.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

I'd been working in email marketing for quite a while before I took on my first B2B campaign. What I didn't realize is that minor tweaks to generalized email marketing tactics aren't enough to create a successful B2B campaign. Cycle length Buying something on your own doesn't take very long.

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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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In recent times, marketing tools are becoming increasingly popular amongst businesses and the reason is simple. Therefore, if you run a business (or plan to start one), it is an excellent idea to look into effective marketing tools to boost your efforts. But first, why is it advisable to use marketing tools in your business?

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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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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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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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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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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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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 8, 2022

Your email newsletter is one of your most powerful marketing channels. While other marketing tactics go out of vogue, it begs the question: why have newsletters stood the test of time? When you’re creating new email content on the daily, it’s easy to lose sight of your creativity. . General Assembly. Why it works.

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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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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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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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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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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

How to Leverage SEO to Drive Traffic to Your Startup’s Website In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, leveraging SEO is crucial for driving traffic to a startup’s website. 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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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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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

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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Research your market. I know it’s obvious but I’m always surprised how many people just start building products without thinking enough about the market.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

To understand what most VC’s want between board meetings I think it’s useful to start with a quote from Mark Solon ’s blog for which I’m in complete agreement (along with agreeing with his entire post, which was brave, honest and accurate ). They will likely forward your email to their partners. That’s it.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

With BigCommerce, you will have an option to choose from search-friendly themes and have full control over customizing URLs, header tags, and metadata. A built-in blog to leverage the power of content marketing. Activation of the abandoned cart saver tool to target customers who left shopping cart through emails .

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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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