TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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 $740 million. Evidently, the downturn hasn’t soured investors on the travel industry.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

The app’s idea was, effectively, to turn one of Instagram’s core features — photo tagging — into a stand-alone experience. But in its case, photo tagging wasn’t an afterthought; it was the full focus. The app blew up, primarily among high schoolers, who were testing the app via TestFlight. Image Credits: Poparazzi.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Don’t read books that can feed your brain and give you ideas. Share your thoughts in Smart Hustle Nation put your own post together, tag me and let me know which ways you can DO BETTER, to LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE. Even better, stay in the recliner and eat chip dip off the arm rests. Don’t read. Profit Last. Pay yourself last.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. I haven’t read it.

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 10, 2020

This approach overvalues goods and services with a price tag — which in turn make up a country’s gross domestic product, the driver of public policy. In my upcoming book, The Startup Community Way , which will be on shelves July 28, my co-author Brad Feld and I dedicate an entire chapter to this phenomenon—we call it The Measurement Trap.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 13, 2023

When I took up writing and started interviewing other entrepreneurs for my books, I found that meant I had a lot of knowledge but not always the right tags to put on what I had been doing. Jan Cavelle is an entrepreneur and author of two books, Scale for Success and most recently Start for Success.

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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. iPhone address book. We looked for systems which used tagging as their core data model, instead of categorization. We tag each email appropriately: NNTR=No Need to Respond.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The startup rightly identified that one of the tasks most important to building effective AI at scale — the laborious exercise of tagging data sets to make them usable in properly training new AI agents — was one that companies focused on that area of tech would also be most willing to outsource.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Seth’s brand already had a strong tribe that was willing to meet him where he was—listening to podcasts, reading his books, and visiting the blog. No one reads a book on Instagram. So, Seth started creating “mini-books” specifically for Instagram. Seth had an Instagram account but it had been inactive for around 3 years. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It’s sort of like having an Encyclopedic history book before just launching your product and seeing whether anybody uses it. Here’s the thing – as Michael Lewis talks about in his book, the adage of investing is that “if you’re reading about something in the papers it’s already too late.”. Part three will be published shortly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I bought the most popular book on the topic, “ The Mind of the Strategist &# by Kenichi Ohmae, who is ex McKinsey. I found this book very useful but still a little bit hard to implement. The book is expensive but for me personally this helped me enormously. Tags: Startup Advice. I’m glad I read it though.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Cquence uses machine learning to review and organize footage at the onset of video editing, indexing and tagging across millions of metadata points to give editors a clean library of content from the start, letting them find a particular person, object or quote. Cquence is a SaaS platform looking to take a slice of the video creation pie.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

Electronic “books” are rapidly changing the way we read information. Just as the internet changed the way we could market, will e-books do the same? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link] 6:30PM: DigitalFlashNYC Networking Event on E-Readers Kindle, Nook, Sony E-Reader, the Apple tablet (maybe?). RSVP: [link].

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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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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Start by offering something of value for free to your potential audience in exchange for an email address, such as a discount coupon for your products, a free e-book, workbook, or even a free trial period for your service. Create and add products to a Facebook shop first, connect your Instagram Business account and start tagging!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

With all the external presenters, the ones I enjoyed the most were Dan Senor who wrote the book Startup Nation (an examination of the Israeli technology scene). Let me start by telling you that if you haven’t bought the book “ 4 Steps to Epiphany ” (and if you’re involved in a technology startup) do yourself a favor and buy a copy now.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This theme is reinforced in Tony Hsieh’s (the CEO of Zappos) amazing book, “ Delivering Happiness ” in which he describes business in a poker metaphor (paraphrasing, don’t have the book in front of me), “the goal in poker is to find the table where you have a lot of bad players so that the odds are stacked in your favor.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He is currently writing a book on Marketing Memetics. How the Right Creative Attracts The Right Customers As Steve Jobs famously said : “People DO judge a book by its cover.” Tag each example with relevant “memes.” Start reviewing the assets in your swipe file and tagging them with any patterns that you see.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Orchard for e-Books”. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Tags: Start-up Advice. LibreDigital.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Some other entrepreneurs who went down the MBA, consulting or banking routes without working at a startup are certainly book smart but haven’t always refined the street-smart skills needed to be an effective entrepreneur. So cheeky Chamillionaire went to Universal wearing the tags from every other label he had visited.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

To that end, ModernLoop offers tools designed to help HR teams book interviews “efficiently” across multiple time zones. ModernLoop can also detect and tag calendar events that are moveable, Han says, such as internal one-on-ones and meetings with external attendees.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read). Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2022

Have you ever double-booked yourself or perhaps forgotten about a meeting entirely? You can also share your boards and tag others on your notes when you need to, making collaboration much easier. Using this app, you’ll get all the satisfaction of a paper list, but without having to carry your notepad around with you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Many of you have read or at least know the primary thesis of “ Crossing the Chasm &# the seminal book on marketing your products to mainstream consumers by Geoffrey Moore. The book popularized the technology adoption lifecycle curve that originally came out of Iowa State University shown below.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

The concept comes from a Stephen Covey book called “ First Things First ,&# which is a worthwhile book ( Wikipedia overview here ) but if you haven’t read his seminal book “ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People &# you should start with that. Tags: Startup Advice. Here’s what I learned.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

David Skinner , Commercial Kitchen Designer, TAG Commercial Kitchen Design Open Industry-Specific Doors Starting a business is a complex and challenging process, and even the most talented and dedicated of entrepreneurs can benefit from having a few doors opened for them by a mentor with some experience and clout in the same industry.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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. Fintech free fall : Mary Ann and Kyle tag-team a summary of what’s happening in the land of fintech in our newsletter the Interchange. “

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Pick up a ruby book and learn some code. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Put down the job listings and show up at the companies doing things you care about and find out what you can do for them that they can’t live without. No kung fu skills? Learn them! You’re in school right? Take a sales training course.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, Isis Asare, CEO and founder of Sistah Scifi , an online bookstore, discussed how she tries to make social content a two-way conversation, encouraging customers to share photos, book recommendations, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

John Batelle profiles this well in his book The Search. When Brad Feld lists a book on his blog with an affiliate link that he monetizes is that wrong? Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Our portfolio company did so well that Google copied this approach and out executed Overture. I don’t think so.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2020

I remember growing up reading that a Coca-Cola cost five cents, and seeing the old New Yorker magazine covers with a price tag of 15 cents, and awing over the price of a Ford Model T of $850. It’s an economic history lesson in 15,000 words, which admittedly is a third the length of a typical business book. The key idea is this.

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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

Your passion will shine through in whatever you do, whether that be writing a book or creating a YouTube channel. It wasn’t until I narrowed down from general career advice to only job search advice that I began gaining a following and eventually began selling my e-books. Writing a book. You’ll be less likely to quit.

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Gust

APRIL 6, 2014

Forty years ago, in a satiric book named “ The Peter Principle ”, Dr. Laurence J. You will be tagged as the one with the Peter Principle. I see startup founders and managers who are stalled transplants from large organizations, as well as highly-capable technologists trying to start and run a business for the first time.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). You’d get a lot more experience from reading about marketing online or in books and then testing out the concepts for yourself. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

In this space you don’t have a pre-assigned space but rather book space like a hotel. Do tell … Tags: Start-up Advice Tech Market Analysis. You can start with as little as one person and sit in a shared space that sort of feels like a coffee house. Anyone have positive or negative experience in such an incubator?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

The Curse of Knowledge Cognitive psychologist and author Steven Pinker writes about the curse of knowledge in his book The Sense of Style and I believe it captures exactly an issue with a lot of crypto content today: The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose. “If Submit your story here.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Make Use of the “Tags” Feature. A great scheduling app “hack” that can help improve your productivity is to make use of the “tags” feature. By tagging tasks with specific keywords, you can easily find and organize them later on. This will help you stay organized and productive.

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