David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We were only paying for Zapier in order to pull business cards into Salesforce. 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. Import of data from business cards, signature files, etc. Second, high-quality customer service.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

If your business has a physical location or serves a particular area, you need to focus on local SEO. Make the most of your Google My Business listings. First things first: claim your Google My Business listing to boost your presence on Google. If your small business has multiple locations, dedicate a webpage to each of them.

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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. Twenty-four-hour reminders are really important because people have busy lives. We would have been out of business by now.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it as a way to learn, improve and increase my win rates. An external consultant helping the Thames Water procurement team overturned the decision to use my company and got them to select a small software company. Tags: Startup Advice.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

B2B email marketing is a tactic for promoting products or services to business-to-business customers. Content like promotions, discounts, and sale announcements fit in a B2C campaign but would feel strange in an email to a business. Think from a human's perspective: what kinds of business emails do you pay attention to?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2010

When a reader lands on my blog, they’re going to run into a lot of people. Not only is my e-mail address on my blog, but I even have a live Plugoo widget that you can type into and send me a message on AIM. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. First off, there’s me.

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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

After growing my own side hustle to multiple six figures per year, I’m going to share how to brainstorm and launch your own successful side business that can eventually replace your full-time income. StartupNation has partnered with Yottled to provide the fastest way to bring your business online. Choose a business type.

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This is going to be BIG.

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. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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Feedough

MARCH 15, 2021

If you’re engaged in business, LinkedIn is a goldmine for you. The platform is a true definition of business social networking. And even those who don’t tag themselves as influencers tend to use LinkedIn posts for their own benefits. He told me that it wouldn’t be a problem to build something small and viable to fix the pain.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Large supermarket chains have their own purchasing and logistics functions, but there are thousands of small, independent grocery stores and chains. It also wrote a bit more about the fundraise on its own blog.). The company agreed to share the pitch deck it used to raise a $10 million Series A so I can take a closer look.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. But it is. So know that going in.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We all know media companies are suffering as CPMs (the amount they can charge per thousand visitors) are falling, available inventory is climbing, free content and blogs are proliferating, user attention is being divided with social networks and the core media business cash cows like classified ads have been disrupted by companies like CraigsList.

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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. I was used to being allowed to fly business class and staying at nice hotels. A small refuge from a busy day of shaking hands and demo’ing products.

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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. I get to do a deep dive on their business model, product roadmap and competitive positioning. My job doesn’t involve the daily grind of customer complaints, product outages, business partner / channel problems, hiring / firing, etc.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

If you’re not growing your business online in the current climate, you will likely leave a lot of money on the table. To ensure your business continues to take advantage of the changing tide, here are 21 ways to help accelerate the growth of your new business in the year ahead: Become a prolific content creator. year-over-year.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Here’s my own personal take, not any kind of official First Round take: You should read all of these posts, instantly forget everything you read, and then do what it takes to go out and find the investors who are most passionate, most willing, and most able to help you create a huge business. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). TRUSTe serves consumer end-users, small-to-medium sized businesses and large enterprises. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. -Real-time search engine. Competes with McAfee , Thawte.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both.

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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 ). I think you’ll end up with a newer lawyer who’s trying to build her book of businesses. So it doesn’t have to be a small firm.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

tevye2009 , Q: “can you briefly explain why it’s best to get a small valuation when getting investment.&# I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here. Tags: Start-up Advice. A: It’s not best. The best thing to get is a “right sized&# valuation. Minutes 18.30 – 26.30.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

My story of ceding control of the business that I had no intention of ever leaving In 2017, I sold my startup to the largest company in the college sports recruiting industry. This is my story of starting and selling my startup, and what I learned from ceding control of the business that I had no intention of ever leaving. Unsatisfied.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. Bijan Sabet – investor & board member in some small companies you might have heard of like Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee & OMGPOP – took issue with the whole notion that you even need a Powerpoint deck anymore. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. In a world of The Funded, VentureHacks and entrepreneur blogs this kind of informations spreads like wildfire. If they blog make sure to read what they think on topics.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. From the debate on VentureHacks, our offline chats and from our blog posts, I think that Chris Dixon and I are pretty much 98% aligned on the topic.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 28, 2020

Weren’t sure if it really will help your business? The fact of the matter is that search engine optimisation can be game changing for any business if done properly. Creating title tags and meta descriptions for each page is important for your customers to understand what the page is about when they do a search, but also Google.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 20, 2012

Answer: After your business model makes boatloads of money. :). With 15 years in jewelry and paying her way through college selling CutCo knives, I couldn't think of anyone better than Chantel to start that business. When I first saw the company, Wiley had strong growth in sales on a small base--like 100-150 merchants I think.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 23, 2010

It’s about taking what you learn from the inbound and enabling and empowering communities around you—small pieces loosely joined. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

I’ve talked about how Twitter is a new form of RSS (curated RSS), it’s a a new form of IM / SMS , it’s a place where business is conducted and it’s a place where advertising will drive leads due to the link sharing nature of Twitter. He had followed me on Twitter and sent me a nice message about my blog.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Managing projects in a small business setting might seem simple—there are fewer people involved and fewer processes to navigate. But big businesses often have a dedicated project manager for marketing, another for sales, and another for product development. So how did we pick the best small business project management software?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

billion monthly active users, Facebook offers a massive audience of potential customers for brands and businesses of all sizes. And with Facebook Ads, you can create and run digital ad campaigns to directly market your business to those potential customers. That's where Facebook Custom Audiences comes in. Learn more.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The one downside of inbound marketing is how much time and resources it takes for entrepreneurs and small business owners to do research and create content. AI can help with this by automating some of the tedious tasks associated with it, saving you time and money so you can focus on other aspects of growing your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it. My starting line with every entrepreneur is that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned from F’ing it up on my first business. I plan to write a whole separate blog post about this quote because it’s always stuck with me.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

I’m now moving from the 101 basics into the business applications. It turns out that this difference has a huge impact on the business applicability of Twitter that nobody could have anticipated. So why is this important for businesses? But there are lots of actions that businesses large and small can automate on Twitter.

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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. The old standard business networking tool. If you take the time to write me a small, private note on LinkedIn then I’ll add you 95% of the time.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

With a small menu featuring locally farmed Hatch chiles, I imagine Blake's still does things pretty much the same as they did when they opened in 1952—except for one thing. " Here are some ways businesses can use AI in their customer service ecosystems. Do more with OpenAI Discover more ways to add AI to your workflows.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Inspiration came from a small tomato-shaped kitchen timer. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Learn how to boost efficiency with automation Sign up for our five-email course and learn how automation helps you streamline work across your whole business.

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