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 maintain these accounts for R&D, and so my kids think I am less uncool. We looked for systems which used tagging as their core data model, instead of categorization.

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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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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 an established 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Since it’s already written (and since I promised not to republish on my blog other than a summary) if you’re interested please have a read over there. Summary notes and then I’ll extend: Should you blog? What should you blog about?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. Another area where founders sometimes spend too much time is accounting. Hire a part-time accounting clerk to do the data entry and prepare the monthly books.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 7, 2019

Starting a business comes with a hefty price tag. You can take the time to prioritize your finances and see how healthy the business is. Now is the time to switch your focus from the checkbook to key performance indicators—accounts receivable days, accounts payable days and inventory days—that will help you manage cash flow.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. So if you’re casually reading and don’t really care about angel financing – abort now!

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

What started as basic troubleshooting soon led to building out new automations across marketing, finance, sales, and onboarding. Data is cleaned, formatted, and synced with Zonos’s backend to create a dashboard account and kick off onboarding. He spent time comparing failed runs to successful ones to understand logic and structure.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Accounting: so necessary, and so tedious. If there were awards for "business processes with the most data entry," accounting would definitely be near the top. On top of that, accounting requires precision since mistakes can be costly. Accounting automation solves both of these problems. Sign up for free.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 23, 2010

Anyone can set up a Twitter account and post their press releases to it, but how many people are actually going to have public conversations there? I took a meeting with a city official once and the first think he said to me was that the contents of the meeting were not to be blogged. How do you change culture?

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