Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

As I was scrolling through Twitter today and saw the rumors around Gimlet, the podcast media company, being acquired by Spotify for $200M in cash, I knew I had to stop, write this post, and share some thoughts on what’s going on. Well, actually, before I begin, this post needs a few disclaimers. So, here goes….

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

What this means in practice: you'll need to source entirely new content types and formats to use for your B2B campaigns—repurposing B2C content is out of the question. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

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. April will mark the release of an API and open source Python package that’ll greatly expand the breadth of content that Spawning touches.

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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. Databricks, meanwhile, has evolved from an open-source data analytics platform that struggled to make revenues to a run rate of $350 million. Across the week.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

art, avatars, logos) using pre-trained, open-source models like Openjourney and Stable Diffusion. Right now, you can use Leap AI mostly for image generation and editing, but soon it'll open its doors to text and video generation—something I'll be very interested to see. It turns out quite a bit. What is Leap AI?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2021

No matter what question people have, nowadays, their first instinct is to open their laptops or grab their phones, type it in Google, and check the first, second, or perhaps third result that shows up. The post SEO for Beginners: Metrics and Must-Have Tools for Startups appeared first on StartupNation. trillion searches in 2019?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . I talk to trusted sources about it. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. Discuss with your team - do your post game analysis. support as a way to re-open the decision.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As a result this post is bound to sound a bit self promotional to some and to competitors may sound like I’m taking shots. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I wrote about it here (mostly starting at point 7) and Chris Dixon wrote a great post about it here. You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. We need venture debt, factoring companies and public markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . I talk to trusted sources about it. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. Discuss with your team - do your post game analysis. support as a way to re-open the decision.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The WP fork is nonadjustable, which is worrisome for a motorcycle with a price tag upwards of $10, and struggles to cope with small chatter Cheap Basketball Jerseys bumps. Completing the top 5 is Paramount’s Terminator: Dark Fate, which opened to a disappointing $29 million and has dropped 64% to a $10 million second weekend total.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

As I’ve posted about before: my startup motto is JFDI (think Nike). I’m certain he will have talked with other funding sources. If he reads this he’ll know that I’m still open to being an angel investor ). Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. This is how it should be. (If

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

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. David Shadpour, CEO, Social Native *, recommends Mixmax **, a gmail enhancement to track email activities (opens, clicks), schedule emails, and create reminders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

. “Historically, data governance technologies, regardless of sophistication, rely on enforcing control at some narrow waist layer and require workloads to fit into the ‘walled garden’ at this layer,” the company explains in a blog post.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

I talk to trusted sources about it. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. In this post I want to tell you how I embrace my losses and what I think you can learn from them. support as a way to re-open the decision. They decided to re-open the competition for 3-4 more weeks.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. But the most public and open stream right now by a long shot is Twitter. See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Short summary of my posts: 1. 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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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

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. David Shadpour, CEO, Social Native *, recommends Mixmax **, a gmail enhancement to track email activities (opens, clicks), schedule emails, and create reminders.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I have a very detailed article that covers stuff I won’t cover in detail in this post. Be open and transparent. So I wrote a post, now what? OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. Don’t blow your load on your first post. Most blogs are.

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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. It actually wasn’t the point of my post – my point was just to get people thinking about the issues of size and age in the first place. We offered them more : $750k-1 million.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 12, 2018

Think of it this way, you can open the most amazing or interesting shop in the entire world, but if you have told no one about it, no one will know about it and no one will go to it. Imagine opening a shop down an ally way in a remote part of town. Make sure your Meta Tags look good. Well, that’s the Meta Tag.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

That applies just as much to eCommerce as it does to brick-and-mortar stores, and for the same reason: you want to open in a place with regular traffic that's convenient to get to. Do you build your own store, or open up shop in an already established marketplace? Chief among them: opening where your target customers are.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Duscha started with a post on LinkedIn that put out a call to action among the tech community in Berlin. Swobbee will provide mobile energy and Vodafone Gigacubes to ensure that people stay in contact with their loved ones,” read the March 3 post. “I

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

billion thanks to its latest funding round, Deliverect is a bet that building “a platform to integrate the many moving parts that go into ordering and delivery for the average restaurant” is going to be a post-pandemic hit. billion price tag. Deliverect raises $150M : Now worth some $1.4 You can sign up here.).

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Or open its app. Once Pogo is connected with different sources of information, it begins to show rewards for purchases or recommendations to “act on” to save money. You wouldn’t place a price tag on your freedom to speak. If Pogo had its way, you’d get paid every time you stroll down Market Street in San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Spoke AI opened up access to its first beta tools earlier this week — and says it has around 20 testers, with a wait-list of over 500 companies wanting to give the tech a try. Luminous, GPT-3.5), self-hosted open-source technology (e.g. Initially, it plans to pilot this with a handful of larger companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

While at Mozno, Evans had built open source tooling to help incidents run through resolution pipelines more efficiently, which sparked the idea for Incident.io. New people who join the channel get a summary post and Zoom link, plus a button to subscribe to developments as they happen. ” Incident.io “I ncident.io

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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. Chatbots can answer common questions with canned responses, or they can crawl existing sources like manuals, webpages, or even previous interactions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. You had the door cracked open and should have taken it.”. Tags: Start-up Advice. It was May.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

But I thought I should do a quick post on the topic. I tend to keep valuations secret because I’m usually told by a trusted source and feel it isn’t my place to reveal confidential information. 10 million post money) and therefore if we sold for $100 million dollars one day your gain would be approximately $1 million).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Vaught posted in anger that X had commandeered the account for itself. You should see a suggested action of “Open App” to build your new shortcut. Now, you’ll be prompted to set up a new “Open App” shortcut. Next to where it says “Open,” click on “App” to search for the X app. Select that. to “Blaze Your Glory!!”

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 8, 2022

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. . It shows readers that you provide ongoing value, stay on top of the latest trends, and collate important updates that’ll keep open rates high. .

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

When you open the website, you're presented with three timer options: Pomodoro, Custom, and Kitchen. MarinaraTimer price: Free The best mobile Pomodoro app Forest (iOS, Android) If your smartphone is your biggest source of distraction, Forest is a clever—and very cute—way to fix it. month or Pro Yearly at $39.99/year.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. Products like these basically help you crowd-source your customer service input and product development pipeline. Tags: Startup Advice. Back then it seemed foreign.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

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. So with Mailspring, check out the free version first, especially if you want something open source.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. Chris talks in his blog post about your A round pricing being lower if you have a VC seed investor.

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