VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

AI characters are already hosting interactive streams and shows in which they respond to audience questions, comments, or votes in real-time. AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. The creation of content, but especially the sharing of content became a zero cost game. What do you think?

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2012

I particularly urge you to review SpeakerNetNews ; it contains a tremendous amount of curated wisdom from professional speakers: how to be a more powerful speaker, deal with distracting audiences, etc. E.g., See ffVC’s blog post about the JOBS act, which discusses portfolio company Indiegogo. Photo credit: Zitona.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com. If you’re not familiar with the industry, check out this Beginner’s Guide To PR .

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. Collectively this allows me to generate enough awareness to keep myself top of mind for my target audience. Tech stack. I’ve listed below my current social media toolkit.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com. If you’re not familiar with the industry, check out this Beginner’s Guide To PR .

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