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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend. We then captured this conversation again on camera.

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Blogging Nostalgia and my 30 day Challenge

VC Cafe

I started blogging in December 2005. My first blog used to be goisrael.blogger.com. Blogger in 2005 (courtesy of Internet Time Machine) . In the beginning blogging was all about self expression. In the beginning blogging was all about self expression. A stampede of traffic would descend on your blog.

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5 Hot Ecommerce Trends to Watch

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Stay tuned to the payments intelligence conversation through the Litle Blog and Twitter. Blogging Lists. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social networking. viral video. viral videos.

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Blockbuster introduced their “End of Late Fees” program on January 1, 2005. The name of the last part? billion versus $1.56