Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. A few weeks ago I sat through two very contrasting presentations and wrote this blog post right afterward. Both presenters are anonymized. Importantly he did have a presentation ready to go.

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MARCH 29, 2010

There’s also been some great blog chatter from Sarah Tavel ( here ) and Josh Kopelman ( here and here ) on the topic. If you get a permit to do business in the city, you should automatically get signed up to take an online marketing course and be presented accounts in all of these local plays.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I asked him to present to my partners. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

NYC Chapter January 2010 Meetup January meetup is dedicated to " enabling better care by enabling clinical staff" and we have just the presenters for that. January 2010 Presenters: 1. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link] 6:30PM Health 2.0 YourNurseIsOn - Matthew Browning, CEO 2. RSVP: [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Some readers of this blog also pointed out that “pivoting&# can be disruptive on the employees of an organization. Whenever I’m watching someone present to me I’m often thinking to myself, “Can this person inspire others? Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. And in life.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. There is one classic mistake that I see across both types of meetings – “the tell & sell&# presentation. This happens often and I bet most presenters never realize it. I think this is one of the single biggest mistakes that presenters make.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

I was actually at the Hackathon, too… but had missed Steve’s presentation. 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.

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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. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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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. Tags: Start-up Advice. This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. MBA fine, but not required.

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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. We spend the entire day together on Mondays in our partners’ meetings and seeing companies present. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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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. It just so happened that there was a conference coming up run by a guy named Ismael Ghalimi, a very well respected software executive who also was keeping a blog at the time for companies in the space.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. Tags: Start-up Advice. I think this episode is worth watching ( video is here ) but as always I’ll try to summarize for anybody short on time.

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Both Sides of the Table

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

JUNE 3, 2010

Went on to present at TechCrunch 50. 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. Tags: Start-up Advice. Was senior in shaping the curriculum and teaching efforts at Kaplan & Princeton Review. Total round was $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

I wrote a blog post about being hands on where I argued that startup founders need to be hands-on or in my words, “you can’t run a burger chain if you’ve never flipped burgers.&#. Anyone who’s ever presented to me with these titles hears the same questions: “OK, so who does tech report to? Unfortunately.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. I came back and presented a very detailed analysis to the board. Tags: Start-up Advice. In these many exchanges similar questions crop up.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. 5 companies presented and all were talented. Tags: SoCal Stuff Tech Market Analysis.

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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! RSVP: [link] 3PM Whole Foods Market presents: Afternoon Snack. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Hopefully, you can find a way in to some of these events as most are sold out. Try the waitlists. RSVP: [link].

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MARCH 17, 2010

Transportation scheduling and booking, distribution of presentations, speaker and event ratings, etc. In fact, a real time, chronological presentation is often *less* desirable. The architecture easily allows you to drop in a blog on any page or have multiple ones across the same site.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The next step is to create a social media post with these examples, tagging all relevant VCs/PEs, with a message like ‘Check out intel on your raises and other similar deals we could have helped you predict’. For ideas on using technology to accelerate B2B sales , see my presentation on How to Make Sales as Easy as Online Dating.

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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. Alcohol wasn’t consumed in enormous quantities (ok, well, occasionally it was) but it was an ever present fixture in our socializing. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best tools you can use to achieve productive marketing, how to apply them and how much they cost. Offline presenting. Optimizely has some free features, however most of them are not and come with a sizable price tag. Audio file management. Collaboration tools. Customizable templates.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

This is your brand, your message, your story, so it’s up to you as to how you need to present it. Whatever works, works … and you don’t necessarily need to tweet it, like it or tag it to get there. The post Separating Yourself from the Pack appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 3, 2016

This is your brand, your message, your story, so it’s up to you as to how you need to present it. Whatever works, works … and you don’t necessarily need to tweet it, like it or tag it to get there. The post Separating Yourself from the Pack appeared first on THE BLOG.

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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

JUNE 8, 2025

Common examples are the neat fields in email headers (sender, recipient, subject), standard file properties (like creation date or author), or specific data tags set up to organize content. Exhausting setup: Analysis might be easier down the line, but the initial task of categorizing, tagging, and arranging data can be very time-intensive.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Build a content website or add a blog. Create and add products to a Facebook shop first, connect your Instagram Business account and start tagging! As so many large-scale brands present themselves in such a standard corporate way, this is your chance to stand out and tell your story. Image source: Instagram ). It’s that simple.

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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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Airtable has a lot more features, and while it can present data in spreadsheet form, it's a much more dynamic database solution. You can set up records as project management elements like tasks, contacts, projects, pipelines, and goals, and then assign priorities, statuses, deadlines, tags, and assignees.

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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 10, 2023

For example, you might set up an automation that tags email contacts with any new information you receive about them, like demographic details and job characteristics. Save time by automating Email marketing automation allows you to complete detailed tasks that would be impossibly time-consuming to do manually.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. – What is the profile of people whom you are most interested in meeting? .

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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. Messages are presented as threaded conversations that are separated by subject. To put together this list, I reviewed dozens of Mac email clients (and skinned web apps purporting to be Mac email clients).

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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. We presented to you about a year ago our company that does voice recognition software integrated with IVRs. Why isn’t it a good idea to rush the stage after a presentation? Now wait a moment and let me process this.

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MAY 23, 2010

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. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. The position will: “help develop forward-thinking policies on social media, digital communications, web 2.0

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

based business address to sell—plus, you have to present your business plan for approval. Instagram Shoppable Posts allow you to "tag" buyable items in standard posts (up to five products per picture). Many sellers wind up on Amazon simply because they don't make the cut at Walmart.

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