Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

One of the most difficult things to do as a first time entrepreneur is to get to know the investors you might be working with if you accept money. This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. Then came blogs. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. It was also great to spend time with the founder of TechStars , David Cohen , who will head up Open Angel, Boulder. At the earliest stages of a company you want to raise money from people local to you because distance = their time, attention and focus. They deserve more credit.

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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. We talked about online video and the need to build & track audiences online.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

They may figure out something interesting and get focused over time. Jason let them run over their time slot by a long time – the demo was worth seeing and he obviously knew this. Given how much progress they’ve made since last year I look forward to tracking them and seeing where they end up by the end of 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. It also wakes you up in the morning at the optimal time. That’s always stuck with me.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Sure, if you’re Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter, you can dictate your terms, but last I checked, most of the entrepreneurs First Round and most of the seed stage firms back don’t have that same kind of track record. Many, if not the majority, are first time CEOs. We negotiated fair deals—all equity—in a timely manner.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Seth Levine of Foundry Group addresses this important topic this morning on his blog with a post, “ Has Convertible Debt Won ?&# That said, I have seen times where convert with no cap was done and the entrepreneur slightly regretted it EVEN when the got a big up round in the next financing. “Convertible notes have won.

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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. Within a year I hired 92 permanent staff and another 30 full time contractors. I still traveled for work all the time but I planned runs everywhere I went. It was awesome.

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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. But importantly you need the “time bound&# of 90 days so that “X&# investors don’t feel cheated. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media.

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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. We also wanted tight integration with our email client (Superhuman (best) or Gmail , including pixel tracking of when emails were opened. RRM=Draft a response for me.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I track specifically the communities for emerging managers at Emerging VC and private equity investors: Accelerators, Platforms, Communities, and Incubators. Micah Mador, Partnerships Manager, Bolster , said in a presentation at the VC Platform Summit , “ Investors get hit up ALL THE TIME and everyone wants ‘access to their portfolio’.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Taking the time to gather your thoughts and experiences, then write them down, is a simple way to manage stress, enhance creativity, increase happiness, improve health, and increase work performance. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Hate every journaling app?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In recent times, marketing tools are becoming increasingly popular amongst businesses and the reason is simple. 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. per month or a one-time payment of $39.50. So, don’t stop reading.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Is it time to hire a publicist to help spread the insights you have? Over the past over 20 years, I've been blessed and honored to be featured in a variety of media, including Inc, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, Small Business Trends, and many other podcasts and publications. You can do it all by yourself. Empowered PR.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

.” Founded by Frederic Lalonde and Joost Ouwerkerk in 2007, Hopper spent six years in stealth building what it claimed at the time was the “world’s largest structured database of travel information.” On the consumer side, this spring, Hopper shifted its focus to in-app promotions, discounts and sales events.

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Feedough

JANUARY 3, 2021

The same year saw the development of HTTP cookie that helped the advertiser and publisher track user behaviour. The late 2000s and early 2010s saw the launch of YouTube, Smartphones, iPad, Instagram, Snapchat, Internet of Things, and Real-Time Bidding that later changed the advertising scenario to: Bidding In-app and mobile Microtargeting.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

For this list, I dug deep through the pool of email clients for macOS, spent time testing each contender, and landed on these five apps as the best email clients for Mac. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Apple Mail is quick to set up.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 27, 2023

From slow loading times to trailing slashes, here are 21 answers to the question, “What are the most common SEO errors in an e-commerce website and how do you fix them?” Therefore, it’s necessary to check the status of your website and reduce elements that lead to slow loading time.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

What this means in practice: since email marketing campaigns last the length of the customer journey, expect your marketing cycles for B2B companies to take a lot more time. 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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Feedough

MARCH 15, 2021

And even those who don’t tag themselves as influencers tend to use LinkedIn posts for their own benefits. Inlytics is the LinkedIn analytics optimiser that promises to: Raise engagement of your posts, Save your time by analysing your content, and Provide additional insights that LinkedIn doesn’t provide directly. Welcome, Inlytics.

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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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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. That said, I think videoconferencing will supplant more in-person meetings over time.). Tech stack.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

How much time do you need to save the world? However, this kind of time-intensive process would put Smart Charge America behind in the race for electric vehicle adoption. “All When we’re creating a quote, we’re dealing with an experienced electrician, and their time is valuable.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. 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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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Nobody has time for that. I spent a lot of time testing both options to determine which is best for who, and based on that experience, here's my breakdown of Zendesk vs. Zoho. AI functionality Zoho may not be the easiest platform to navigate, but it certainly is ahead of its time when it comes to AI.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 20, 2012

Ok, well, short of that, this is one of the questions I get most and here's what I've noticed about venture raise timing. I already believed in small, private groups going back to my observation of LiveJournal--where people's blogs were read by 5 people and mostly kept private. I like the area that you're playing in.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was too early stage for me but that I would happily keep track of their progress. A good friend of mine was features on the front cover of the LA Times business section with a glowing article. I think my response surprised him, “Really?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

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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. That said, I think videoconferencing will supplant more in-person meetings over time.). Tech stack.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 8, 2022

Ukraine: Innovation for troubled times. Lebara deal fast-tracks Rewire’s European growth. Consumer interest in buying sustainable, lab-grown meat and seafood is growing, but the price tag can be a deal-breaker. The post Newsletter: Alternative energy storage + Ukraine crisis and innovation appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

Starting as a 14-year-old, I would pore over sports blogs to find out who the future stars of my favorite college football programs would be. With college winding down, I decided to defer the start date on a consulting job and commit to giving Zcruit a full-time go. Full-time developers left and were replaced by contractors.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

Software product development needs considerable time and resources for testing, which requires complex workflows built and maintained by expensive DevOps engineers. You don’t have to be an engineer to use its proprietary drag-and-drop interface which can slash the time to release software by over 50% and significantly cut costs.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

The company’s machine-learning platform understands how consumers see webpages and improves its automatic-tagging abilities over time while automatically adapting to website changes. ElliQ proactively engages its users, helping to contact loved ones and keeping track of their well being. Many features attracted us to ElliQ.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

My mom used to keep track of her contacts in an address book. Lots of businesses use CRM (customer relationship management) software to keep track of clients, prospects, customers, vendors, partners, and anyone else they work with. Others might be a one-time import. I have a lot of groups.

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