ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

One thing Vin said that I liked a lot is that the Malaysian government is spending heavily on tourism development campaigns, and Qyzzy may be able to become a part of that campaign. Should those entrepreneurs who have built their business elsewhere move to Silicon Valley to raise money? That sounds great.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Your Brand is What You Do – [link].

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. If you can’t see the video of the Helmsman team presenting click here. If you can’t see the Helmsman slides click here. He runs H4X Labs.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. Most of the technology industry is notoriously apolitical.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. In a sales campaign you always need to call as high as you can. I hear Silicon Valley firms bragging all the time about how often they release software. It taught me a lot of lessons.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. Moreover, only 13% of these successful campaigns raised over $20k. Taking a campaign online and encouraging non-accredited investors to use a crowdfunding platform is a great way to show their support, manage the volume, and market your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. In a sales campaign you always need to call as high as you can. I hear Silicon Valley firms bragging all the time about how often they release software. It taught me a lot of lessons.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Not just in the military, but also in Silicon Valley, where it dooms otherwise successful companies. Misinformation Warfare : Disinformation campaigns designed to influence large numbers of people in subtle ways will likely be a mainstay of future conflict. The third is a focus on technology as opposed to transfer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

The corollary is that it is very hard to recover from a crappy marketing campaign that over-hyped. I haven’t heard them pounding their chest and running big marketing campaigns. So we’ve launched some campaigns to be sure we’re picking up these crowds with different messages.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. Not building marketing & sales integration processing and thus wasting millions in poor lead quality and misguided sales campaigns. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

And I think of it as a failure of Silicon Valley startups (and occasionally SV VCs who lack an understanding of enterprise purchasing) to assume you don’t need a sales process and sales reps. These all involve becoming part of a sales process. So the simplest rule in sales is … ask!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

In the past few years, several of his video campaigns have amassed more than five billion views, and 35 of them have landed on the first page of YouTube. Tim Staples is the CEO of Shareability and co-author of Break Through the Noise: The 9 Rules to Capture Global Attention. Biggest takeaway: Today everybody has a megaphone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

For example, one of the first home grocery delivery companies, Webvan, was so enamored with early traction in Silicon Valley, it raised and spent nearly a billion dollars and went public, before filing for bankruptcy three years later. Suddenly you face new overhead, with hiring, office space, benefits, and new advertising campaigns.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Clients include Pepsi, Sony, CNN, Universal, AT&T, Victoria’s Secret and Facebook, which has used the service for multiple campaigns.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. Are we just at the beginning of massive, widespread hacking and disinformation campaigns, even against corporations and individuals?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The original model was launched through a crowdfunding campaign and became a quick success, with the couple selling over a quarter of a million units to 69,896 backers. The system provides efficient charging solutions that also look beautiful among any décor because there are no messy cords to deal with.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

A marketplace is not often a natural hangout, and relies on a barrage of emails, offers and marketing campaigns to get you to remember to go back to check out the site or app. “In It’s easy, especially in Silicon Valley, to get hung up on all the whizbang new technologies available to developers.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She wants to sell these products on her site. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. We both loved this company (and lamented the fact that we weren’t investors since they were founded in LA before relocating to Silicon Valley). Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Thus began my marketing campaign. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. After years of trying to persuade Kara Nortman to become a partner at Upfront Ventures I can officially announce now that she’s joined us effective immediately. She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. Just put in your credit card. I used to use $.05,

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

High-quality new startups with no connections to Silicon Valley have a shot at getting discovered on Product Hunt. GigaOm’s Derrick Harris used BigML to analyze what makes a successful Kickstarter campaign , and discovered that smaller crowdfunding campaigns with a wide base of supporters are the most likely to succeed.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Campaign to Set Sail for Fastest Ocean Liner. Stock Quotes. more in Tech.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

If your small business or startup sends email newsletters or other email marketing campaigns, what is the best time of day to send those emails? Why Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship - [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! The Series A crunch is hitting now.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again | Businessweek – [link]. 20 Effective and Amazing Ad Campaigns | PelFusion – [link]. CEO Brian Chesky Says Airbnb Will Be Filling More Room Nights Than All Hilton Hotels By The End Of 2012 – [link]. Fortune Exclusive: Larry Page on Google | Fortune Tech – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Why the Midwest is better for startups than saturated Silicon Valley | VentureBeat - crowdspring.co/1akquBC. A Collection of Intelligent Print Ad Campaigns - crowdspring.co/1bPatCX. Nice piece on @starterschool and how it is changing the way people think about education – crowdspring.co/1crIrSq. 1hnlHmo.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. All you need to do is to tag the location retrospectively ( Foodspotting requires you to be on location to make the entry). Burping An Idea.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

ROBLOX ( www.roblox.com ) is a web/game startup in Silicon Valley that you have probably never heard of--unless you were an eight year old boy, in which case you're probably not qualified for this position. Unfortunately, you cannot be told what ROBLOX is, you have to see if for yourself.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Sam was also a member of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and inaugural new media team and previously worked for Google, Credit Suisse, The Colbert Report, and Senators John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. He previously co-founded Charlie , a Los Angeles based media company and interactive agency. where he worked on projects for Samuel L.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. All you need to do is to tag the location retrospectively ( Foodspotting requires you to be on location to make the entry). Burping An Idea.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. Run an Adwords campaign targeting keywords that are relevant to your idea – make sure to set up conversion tracking or the whole exercise is pointless.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Super-angel investors are a new category of investors (like Mike Maples Jr. ), closer to venture capitalists, who are perceived to be more sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup community, particularly with respect to technology companies in Silicon Valley and other technology centers (also called micro-VCs).

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 14, 2013

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Randi Zuckerberg navigated the early years of social media at Facebook and remembers a pivotal moment while working on the 2008 election. “We We obviously were drinking the Kool-Aid of social media in Silicon Valley,” Zuckerberg said.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Why Silicon Valley needs critics like Morozov | San Francisco Chronicle – [link]. Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Tribute to Ridiculous Voices!!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

In a sales campaign you always need to call as high as you can. I hear Silicon Valley firms bragging all the time about how often they release software. But that loss was really important in my career. It taught me a lot of lessons. We spent enough time dissecting it to really learn. Here are my take aways from the loss: 1.

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