David Teten

JULY 23, 2019

I regularly meet with other VCs, and based on their criteria, I share with them whichever portfolio companies fit their areas of interest. . Every one-paragraph summary of a company should ideally have: – Company name and website. Here’s a sanitized version of a template email to share with other VCs. .

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. Also trending are housewares that are bespoke, unexpected, and conversational.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2020

. #1- Begin conversations. He started by reaching out to 15 people in his network or individuals he wanted to get to know on a weekly basis — just to simply begin a conversation. I will call an individual if I am already connected to them or begin a LinkedIn conversation with them. 1 + 1 = 3! We are all in this together.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

In addition to basic equipment such as a computer, phone, and desk, you’ll need to consider the cost of registering a domain name and building your own website. Many freelance web designers choose to use their name as their brand, which on the positive side lends a personal attachment to your business. The basics. Build your brand.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John (00:08): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. And it's more of a conversation, and I actually think it's scarier doing workshops because it's unpredictable. Sign up for a 15% discount on annual plans until Dec 31, 2023. This is John Jantsch.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Email management tools. If you’re like me and you do your best work from about 10pm onwards, you’ve probably also been in one of my pickles: How do you send an email at 2am without looking seriously unprofessional? This handy little tool allows you to write and schedule your emails for a more “appropriate” sending time.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

A prospective client contacts you via email or your website, seeking your services on a big, new job. He’s seen your design portfolio online and wants to contract for your services to design his new business website if only you can pay his photographer so it’s all on one consolidated invoice. Sounds a bit dubious. So push for them.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 30, 2016

Every few weeks one of the founders of K9 Ventures’ portfolio companies forward over an email they’ve received from a “Partner” at a VC firm. And every time I go through the same ritual, explaining to the founder when to respond, when not to respond, and how to respond to such emails. Partner. <Firm

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Magazine’s fastest-growing companies, and names like DigitalMarketer, Traffic and Conversion, Scribe Publishing, and Real Estate World. Magazine companies, Roland Frazier, talks about how to scale your business through acquisition, the key to recognizing opportunities, and how to strategically build a portfolio.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

To beef up our finances during the pandemic, we pivoted from being exclusively focused on the rankings and performance of our own portfolio sites to doing it for others as a service. Learning to pivot is the name of the game right now. #15- Rankings of sites. Photo Credit: Mark Coster. 18- Investing in technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

Since the game of competing is always “where the puck is going” you can have a detailed conversation without completely letting on what your future strategy will be. One VC (I won’t name but with whom I still won’t work today) called Marc Benioff directly. He forwarded an annoyed email to my main contact at Salesforce.

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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. Superhuman **, my email client. I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. . Identify new publishers (via domain name) for consideration.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I came up with my company name by asking myself, what will I be doing often? When I was naming it, I had a few criteria.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

Some of them have different tools, such as e-mail and website portfolios. No matter how common or socially accepted they are now, phones still have a way of seriously disrupting conversation when they come out. I’ve talked to a lot of business people asking what medium they use to introduce and market themselves. Add a personal touch.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

You’d think conversion optimization and SEO should play together nicely, right? In theory, conversion optimization aims to improve the user experience, which, conveniently, is what Google wants to do as well with their top search results. How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

How can you get people to look at your portfolio without being pushy? It’s disappointing when a client doesn’t want to see the amazing work you’ve done, or when they don’t bat an eye when you casually drop the names of famous people you’ve worked for. Either they don’t recognize the names, or it doesn’t matter to them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple Podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever else you like to download podcasts. You can find my conversation with Mark in that format below. Mark and I have been on many related email threads in this covid crisis trying to work on relief efforts. Here's my conversation with Mark Cuban.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials. Overall, the portfolio value (including realizations) was being held at around 5% below cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I recently got an email from a friend who had been approached by a well known VC. He sent me an email asking whether the approach was real and whether he should take it seriously. Here is the email he received (reprinted without names with his permission). Looking forward to speaking, Name [redacted].

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Email habits change. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” Ross Simmonds of Foundation Inc. echoes Labay’s sentiment: Search habits change.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We ended up at a dinner together at either SXSW or CES a number of years together and I remember an interesting and engaged conversation. For a while, I subscribed to his monthly Reading List email but in a fit of unsubscribing from everything, I unsubscribed. I just re-subscribed. I sent this one out this fall.

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VC Adventure

JULY 30, 2020

Before COVID-19, we’d end the day with a dinner and a chance to socialize and decompress after a long day of portfolio updates and strategic planning. It’s also an opportunity to use the meeting for more conversational topics rather than reporting (see below), which can drag on in a Zoom. Second screen for shared docs.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Blasting the same quick email to a dozen investors will never work in your favor. However, never comment on a blog post just for the sake of getting your name out there. Only comment when you’ll be adding value and relevance to the conversation. Research a potential investor’s current portfolio.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

When I type in the name of my son and Sushi, I get just one photo back! If I type in his name and the word beach , I get pictures of him on a beach… throughout his entire life! Consider the implications of ML on your email marketing program. So, if you are in the email business as a vendor, as an agency, or as a company….

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. they told you it was a great meeting but then they don’t respond to emails) DO NOT ASSUME it means they’re not engaged. Sometimes?—?best

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

No keyword-level conversion analysis. Bounce Rates, % New Visits, Visit Duration, Goal Conversions, Average Order Value. The Multi-Channel Funnels folder in Google Analytics contains the Top Conversion Paths report. From there, jump to my personal favorite report in MCF, Assisted Conversions. Here's an example.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

I was on vacation last week with my family and did not post anything but I have been wanting to write about a meeting I had with Accept Software a few weeks ago so I went through my notes and refreshed myself on the conversation, which was interesting in many dimensions. First let me give you some background on how this came about.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Another provider which identifies email addresses of strangers is Contactout.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To do the same, Alex recommends building two things: a business portfolio map that recognizes invention as necessary and an updated organization chart. So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Also, because I have equity in multiple tech start-ups I gain portfolio diversification benefits (meaning Im more likely to get lucky). You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. Name and email address are required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Make sure to keep everything in place with a branded folder – professional print shop services are an excellent address to get your business name and address on top of your pitch folder. A little branding can go a long way in making your name known and noticed during the decision process. #2. always keep your portfolio accessible.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

conversion rate (average as reported by shop.org) and you are dutifully reporting our revenue of $1 million as a result. While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

And that’s the idea of the portfolio career. Success story features Q & A sessions with successful business leaders, keynote presentations, conversations on sales marketing. And I'm sure that there is a software company out there somewhere named, uh, to the uses the name as well. Like this show?

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Transformify

JANUARY 29, 2020

Although not everyone will openly share information with you, after a few conversations, you will have a plan on how to market yourself and find new clients. If the client is looking for a really good sales copywriter, a portfolio showcasing successful sales copy examples, case studies and testimonials from clients will always stand out.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2016

You can sell the book on sites like Amazon, or even release it for free as a download on your site to those who agree to submit their name and email to become a subscriber. It’s important to have a strong subject line because most industries have an email open rate under 30%, some even under 20%. Host an Event. Offline Methods.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

And while it can often be the case that “lemons ripen early” (meaning that the unsuccessful companies fail early in a fund’s lifecycle), the harvest cycle for the winners in the portfolio can take what sometimes feels like an eternity. No need to name names. Why did you decide to write a manual like this, especially right now?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

I literally have a Google Sheet for nearly every portfolio company who is in the process of raising a round. Conversely if you’re raising $20 million in a C round then you probably shouldn’t be targeting an $80 million fund because they aren’t likely a good fit. You could easily guess their email addresses or ping them on Twitter?—?don’t.

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