Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

Find Crypto Handbook at chandbook.com I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Crypto Handbook , the home on Medium for high-quality stories on everything cryptocurrency, including DeFi, NFTs, and Web3. Share this post on Twitter and tag Entrepreneur’s Handbook (@ entrehandbook). Who’s the best crypto writer you trust?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post. He would try initiatives like announcing that a new cd was going to drop at new year’s. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. This was in the 90′s.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 29, 2020

Recently, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest have announced new features that will help new and existing online sellers make more sales. Facebook allows you to create free listings, post products for sale, and get contacted by interested buyers. Then you can start pinning or creating visual posts, about your products.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2015

From birthdays to work anniversaries, introductions to new co-workers and birth announcements, there isn’t a day that goes by without a fun email highlighting a special occasion around the office. Let us know in the Comments section below; or tag us on Facebook or Twitter. In order to work hard, we play hard, too.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Melbourne and Los Angeles-based startup announced today it has raised $3.5 At that time, contact center systems didn’t have that information, so James came up with a manual system to analyze thousands of Post-It notes transcribed by contact center representatives from customer calls. It can be deployed by a business in two weeks.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Jim McVeigh, CEO, Cyndx, said, “When a private equity fund announces a platform acquisition, we immediately run a finder search and identify 3-5 bolt-ons. The final stage is to distribute the post via paid Linkedin ads targeting only the relevant VCs/PEs and share the article/messaging via email.”. Look for platform deals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Adobe, which recently announced generative AI tools, is pursuing its own opt-out mechanisms and tooling. So is DeviantArt, which in November launched a protection that relies on HTML tags to prohibit the software robots that crawl pages for images from downloading those images for training sets. And it got it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Also, a bunch of new funds announced again today. The airline has a new electronic bag tag that is making everything about checking a bag easier, Frederic writes. Crunchbase lists almost 1,400 unicorns, but on TechCrunch+, Alex wonders how many unicorns are just ponies now? You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

First Round Capital makes 11 new investments in NYC, hires me to be here fulltime, and announces a new NYC office in Union Square. Roger Ehrenberg is announces a new $25 million fund. NYC Seed announces a summer incubator for 2010 that includes 20k investments. I’m excited to announce that the Open Angel Forum is coming to NYC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The same report says that “roughly $212 billion worth of deals were announced in the past three months, the lightest period since the second quarter of 2020.” Do let me know what you’re thinking about by tweeting at me or responding to this post. Bloomberg tells me that I’m not entirely wrong for thinking things have slowed down.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2019

I’m going to focus this post around the concept of a “board dinner” or “board lunch” since this is part of a series around how to more effectively run board relationships but most of these tips can be broadly applied. Or if you need a break you can announce during the main course “Please go ahead and eat. At the point?—?often

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This morning Airbase , a startup in the corporate spend space, announced that it is working with Amex on a pilot that will see its service offered to certain customers of the credit giant. Given the short period of time from that deal to today, it doesn’t seem too likely that Airbase was dramatically repriced by the deal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

In a TC+ guest post, he walks readers through the process of raising debt equity, keeping employees informed, and finding a lender to work with. A glance at the outlook section of its earnings announcement suggests that more growth is in store. Now that the Momentive deal is dead, Ron Miller and Alex Wilhelm performed a post mortem.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Today, Zen Business has announced their offering. See their announcement below. Tax Filing Management – automatically track and tag income and expenses, which helps users maximize deductions and reimbursements when filing taxes. The post NEWS – Is Invoicing The Key To Small Business Success? Invoice Fraud.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

He wrote a blog post that always stuck with me about how there are regulars on his blog who hang out there a bit like “Cheers&# just having a chat with a metaphorical beer in hand. I go there frequently and often spend as much time reading the comments as I do the post. I rarely only read the post. They ARE blog posts.

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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. One of the things I learned from my “post-game analysis&# is that you’re most vulnerable right after you’ve won the deal. Tags: Startup Advice. I won, that is, until I lost.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Now, if only Mastodon would call its posts something other than “toots,” we might be able to get behind those. Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One , bringing the company’s total raised to close to $730 million, Kyle reports. LOL Who are we kidding?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! First off, 3-year-old one-click checkout startup Fast announced it was shutting down after struggling to raise more capital to keep operations running.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m going to save that for a future blog post. My action item – I will soon announce the GRP Partners CEO Summit. It was so impressive that during Steve’s actual presentation a well respected VC, Chris Fralic at First Round Capital sent out a Tweet announcing that he had bought the book in real time.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

RSVP: [link] Saturday, February 27th 9AM: Policy Making in the Digital Age The Morningside Post is thrilled to announce Policy Making in the Digital Age, a conference that will consider how the Internet and digital technology are changing policy making and international affairs. Many more are joining in. We hope you’ll join us!

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In early 2020, Bank of America analyst Justin Post released an update on the latest e-commerce market share trends , and it indicates Amazon alone dominates the e-commerce market with 44% market share and growing. Levi’s used the social network’s “Shop Now” button to let consumers buy products via links posted to the social media service.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. I’m writing this post from Shanghai.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

It would be unfair to say that this week in tech and startups felt like 2021’s boom cycle; especially when you look at layoffs coming from Truepill, its fourth this year, and Meta announcing that it will freeze hiring. Do let me know what yours are by tweeting at me or responding to this post. A reminder that pivots work.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series of posts. I definitely don’t rule out first timers – I just invested in one to be announced soon who I am really excited about – but I greatly prefer experience. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice. But it’s not my strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I know of at least 2 deals from that cohort that are either funded ( Backupify ) or nearly funded (can’t really disclose, I’m not sure if it’s yet closed and/or announced. I wrote about how to give demos in a previous post. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. But I loved it).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Josh Kopelman wrote about this previously and if you don’t understand the issue it’s worth reading his post. When you see a big round that is announced, does it mean that they really raised all this money? They therefore might announce a $10 million round when in reality sometimes $8 million has already been spent. -

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Aimed at managers, this post offers several testable strategies that will help you boost productivity and say goodbye to poorly run, lazily planned meetings. The big news on Thursday was the announcement of Andreessen Horowitz’s new cryptocurrency-focused fund. “Help them feel empowered to decline a bad meeting.”

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2010

That didn't prove as efficient as we had hoped, for a couple of reasons--ones that made us realize a lot about why traditional resume/job posting transactions tend to work less at this stage. It’s hard to tell what a company or the founding team is like from a job post, no matter how great a post you write.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

More than ever, people are watching videos, consuming stories, reading posts and scrolling newsfeeds. Dove, for example, sells soap but consistently posts content about positive body image. Most social media platforms are incredibly transient, with content disappearing as fast as it gets posted. Start a YouTube account.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. The full list is now posted there if you want a sneak preview. I’ll try to add a few extra comments in my posts to keep in interesting. He announced that they also had a CEO. Unfortunately.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

So I agree with Fred Wilson’s post that startup applications shouldn’t simply be plugging in minor feature gaps in Twitter’s offering. I articulated in a previous post that startups should not treat the iPhone as a business but rather as a channel. And finally, the most important meetings will be post Chirp.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

It’s Time to Address the Crypto Content Quality Problem Founder’s Note: Announcing Crypto Handbook I’m excited to announce the launch of Crypto Handbook , the home on Medium for high-quality stories on everything cryptocurrency, NFT, and Web3. Share this post on Twitter and tag Entrepreneur’s Handbook (@ entrehandbook).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. But today’s post is meant to be more broadly on the topic of what I’m looking for in advertising: measurement, measurement, measurement. I hope to announce one investment in this space in the next few months. I’ll save it for a future post.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 29, 2022

The post [Clinch in PR Newswire] Clinch partners with IAS to launch industry-leading automated tag wrapping solution appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. The post [Clinch in PR Newswire] Clinch partners with IAS to launch industry-leading automated tag wrapping solution appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 8, 2022

Between sharing news, making announcements, and nurturing relationships with your customers, newsletters can be molded into just about anything. It’s content-driven yet concise, and each article — whether they’re demystifying Google’s latest algorithm updates or diving into voice search — gets a 1-2 sentence tag to grab readers. .

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. price tag squeezed out by BlackBerry represented *over half* of the actual cash reserves it had sitting on its balance sheet. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

“The opportunity cost of dead equity is talent and capital,” Jake Jolis of Matrix Partners explains in a guest post for us this week. The news of a media startup raising money was paired with rumors of an exit for email media darling Morning Brew for a price tag of up to $75 million.

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