This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2010

I’ve always believed in small, private groups—dating back to when I first started blogging. I acknowledged that most blogs were private and only read by a handful people—like on Live Journal and MySpace. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Frank Abagnale has lent his name to this unethical company (he’s the guy featured in “Catch Me if You Can.&# ) I note that the company is happy to put Frank’s mug on their website but not any of the management team on either site. … should I avoid blog posts like this that might be outside my normal remit?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

We’ll re-compare notes then. I am avoiding “frenzied&# deals for all of the reasons Roger Ehrenberg talks about in his excellent blog post. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. If I judge the success of the “angel boom&# by the last 18 months it is a resounding success – at least on paper.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. I wanted to get the conversation going in the comments section around each topic because I think as much value comes from the comments section as comes from the original post (as I noted in this post: Comments are the New Black ).

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

According to Paul Graham , “ Convertible notes have won. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note. When you see all these seed stage investors debating on Twitter and blogs what structures they support, take it for what it is—a marketing exercise. Not at all.

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MAY 25, 2010

Let’s face it, if people want to blog as a career they have to be able to make money. Tags: Start-up Advice. Furthermore, when Twitter publishers make money from their work in supporting the Twitter platform this is good news for all involved. This is good for Twitter as well. As a user I remain bullish on Twitter as a platform.

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MARCH 5, 2010

IQ Engines is an image labeling and photo recognition platform that relies partly on technology to identify photos and party on a crowdsourced team of people who review the photos and tag them with the idea of the system learning and automatically becoming better through the process. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. Notes Wadhwa, “Jason [Calacanis], Fred [Wilson], and Silicon Valley VC’s, I’ve got news for you: you’ve got it all wrong.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

Appendix (personal note only for those interested). I know that I make grammar and spelling errors in this blog but I promise it’s through speed of writing, typing and publishing and not through a lack of knowledge. From a young age I loved writing, which fueled my interests in reading, in politics and one day in blogging.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

Funny side-note: The company was recently nominated for a Crunchie Award. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Luckily I had CFO extraordinaire, David Lapter , who’s now the CFO at KickApps. One of his investors called him, “the best CFO in our entire portfolio.&# ). But that’s a digression.

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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. I wrote out 3 pages of bullet point notes on paper and delivered a 20-minute speech to a crowd of entrepreneurs (which included the Minister of Technology for China). I’m not.

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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. You may not need to use convertible notes to do it. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets. Photo credit: D.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. Note, Azhar's next company, iLike, chose Bangalore and then had to close down the office because staff salaries escalated too much.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Final point worth noting … While reading one of David Lerner’s comments on my last blog post it made me realize that sometimes it’s OK to play poker just for the sake of playing & enjoying and knowing that you might lose some money. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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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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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Note that this has minimal financial risk, because if we don’t attract a crowd that we both think is worthwhile, we just cancel and the restaurant refunds any deposit. 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. I would like to finish this post on a happy note but I can’t. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. This is a slightly longer version and also has an update at the end.

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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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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. Note we’re looking to optimize deliverability for manually-created one-to-one emails, not just our newsletter. We tag each email appropriately: NNTR=No Need to Respond.

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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.

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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. “The app is quickly internationalizing.”

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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. Your first price is going to be wrong no matter what.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

If you don't have any records, add a sample record and tag it appropriately, then test your Zap. This will pull in the sample note with the right tag. Related reading: Automate art inspiration with DALL-E and Zapier Generate blog images with DALL-E How to use OpenAI's GPT to spark content ideas

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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 looked at the SEO tools each website builder offers, such as the ability to adjust page titles and meta descriptions, add alt tags, and upload a site map. You can edit meta and alt tags and optimize for mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2010

My wife reads a blog every day that she loves (and highly recommends to everybody) called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She loves it and always has such great stories to tell me about the blog in the evenings when we talk about life. Tags: Startup Advice. How many would lead a life of “poor me?&#.

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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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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Twitter-like @mentions let you tag people, with Outlook automatically adding their email addresses in the To: field, which can come in handy if you're often adding coworkers to emails halfway through writing them.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs. Numerous VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Usually it’s because your conversations steam looks interesting, your link goes to an interesting blog or website or you work at a company that interests me. If you take the time to write me a small, private note on LinkedIn then I’ll add you 95% of the time. I read posts for a while and if I see stupid stuff I unfollow.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

Although the form saved the team a home visit, it required highly skilled engineers to spend a ton of time meticulously tagging homeowner photos and log info across at least six different Google Suite tools. I need them focused on the unique electrical portion of this work,” he noted. But that was just the first step.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Not to be a stickler for English – especially on this blog where I often race through my posts with very little editing and therefore make many mistakes – but the list should actually say “whom to follow&# as you’ll see in this guide to proper grammar. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. The algorithm is alive and well.

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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. Yesterday I wrote a blog posting on founder vesting (see here ). Tags: Start-up Advice startup. Teams create companies – not individuals. Founder vesting.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Note to street teams—do not put your hands on a black belt from behind. I raised $3k last year through my blog via Donor’s Choose. Tags: Politics Random Stuff. I avoid eye contact with them in hopes they won’t target me. I pretend they don’t even exist sometimes. I give to my schools.

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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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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs. Numerous VCs.

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