Occam's Razor

JULY 5, 2021

From there, it is a hop, skip, and a jump to, hey, am I getting all the credit I should for the Conversions being driven by my marketing tactics? Right then and there, your VP of Finance steps in with a, hey, how many of these conversions that you are claiming are ones that we would not have gotten anyway? AKA: Attribution!

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

This includes links to CTO Salary and Equity Trends, Technology Roles in Startups , Initial Conversation with a CTO or Technical Advisor , Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup , Hiring a CTO for Your Startup and many others. Companies - a list of 25 companies that fit the bill. My general answer is “no.”

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 3, 2022

Maybe there’ll even be a screencap of their pass email, or similar ‘proof’ that they were in conversation with the founders during their fundraises. Realize you had an unanswered seed fundraise cold email from a now decacorn sitting in your email archives? But I’m not!

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

Here are some of the key features and benefits of deploying PDFelement as part of your software portfolio. Use advanced features like OCR and batch processes for various purposes, including file conversion, encryption, watermarking, and much more. Invite team members via email. Create task cards and insert comments via email.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

An example might be a business development conversation, a first customer meeting, the first candidate in a recruiting process, the first time you talk with a journalist at TechCrunch or the first meeting to consider your business strategy. I worked with a successful portfolio company recently that had to make some big moves in the market.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2018

For each job, write a brief proposal listing the exact scope of work the client expects you to deliver, based on an in-person meeting or phone or Skype conversation. Pro tip: Make a detailed questionnaire for yourself to guide your conversation with your and form the foundation of your scope document. Build a portfolio.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

End of Year Update After officially announcing Breyer Capital Austin earlier this year after two years of active planning and due diligence, I received a humbling number of gracious emails and messages from Austin-based leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and investors. Richard was previously the Chief Scientist at Salesforce.

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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 that's the idea of the portfolio career. Would you say that’s valid? [18:01] Can you talk a little bit more about that? [21:55]

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2023

Once it became clear that payroll accounts needed to be funded on Monday to make Wednesday’s payroll, we focused on the immediate short-term to ensure our portfolio companies’ thousands of employees got paid on time. By late Friday, anyone who banked with SVB was concerned about … well … everything.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

Challenges of scaling Jeff and Jay share conversations about growing and scaling subscription businesses with a customer first approach, check out all the episodes. And if you think about your life, you're balancing your portfolio of S curves where you've got your career. So you're putting together that portfolio.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. And they should not get to count items in their portfolio that were done at another company/job - yes, that''s quite common, especially in new firms.

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View from Seed

APRIL 4, 2017

Email Address *. Independently, one of the things I’ve noticed about social media tech conversations is that they tend to be overly centered on founders and operators from Silicon Valley. And so today, I’m excited to announce that we at NextView are launching a new email newsletter, called Gotham Voices. indicates required.

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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. . Here’s a sanitized version of a template email to share with other VCs. . Subject line: Relevant Portfolio Companies . name], I enjoyed our conversation.

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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. Your new book, Secrets of Sandhill Road , is literally subtitled Venture Capital and How to Get It ?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2018

Automation software can take care of necessities like email follow-ups for a fee, freeing up your time and focus for more important work—but especially for small businesses, beware of the illusion of “set it and forget it.” Even something as simple as email can be a good task to outsource. Sometimes, it’s better just to hire someone.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my role on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I wasn’t there so I don’t know whether the conversation turned hostile. He’s committed to getting through every email. I get way too many emails – many of them unsolicited.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

But what has really killed me is email. I live in email hell. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. I’m always so completely behind on email. I have a love / hate relationship with email. Email is a chore. People expect too much when they email you.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). and had several phone conversations after that. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. Our automated emails are a good example of a useful feature — we are constantly releasing variations and improvements to these emails. Perhaps this can be a topic for future conversation on code quality.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The entire role is “find deals, execute deals, manage the portfolio.” . It’s okay to ask people to close their email, browser, and Slack before the meeting starts. I am trying a new meeting format to maximize director conversation and team development. That gets the conversational juices flowing.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will On the seed side, we are seeing more firms focus on smaller and more concentrated portfolios instead of a spray and pray mentality.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update. Also note, many institutional investors don’t really allocate to VC asset classes directly due to the size of their portfolios. E.g., email, “I look forward to our call at 9am-10am EST tomorrow.

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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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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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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It was also found that “Engaged” customers received 3-4 (or more) reviews of their portfolios and were taking part of on-going conversations where their advisor was soliciting feedback and asking for actual input. Understanding the conversions that come from referrals is only one half of the equation though.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

If you don't see other sources (campaigns – email, social, display) are not tagged. Like everything in life, you want a balanced portfolio (left). Then go to Traffic Source > Sources > Campaigns to get a feel for how many display, social, email, other campaigns the company might be running. A very bad thing.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

Your portfolio website is undoubtedly one of your most important assets when it comes to promoting your services. This can be hard when you’re just starting out and your portfolio can seem light, but there are ways around this. Choose some of the same places to hang out and try to engage them in conversation. Showcase your work.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 14, 2020

There are a number of ways that customer service can be improved by technology: Face to face video conversations are possible and increasingly used. Even email management processes can help you to tackle your inbox with ease. BOTS and AI taking the first few questions then passing on the customer to the relevant team.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting. You want to send just enough to get the meeting (and of course a great deck sells better than a long email) and not so long that you don’t leave a chance to wow the person in your actual meeting. Poppycock.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

by Annie Tsai, author of ” The Small Business Online Marketing Handbook: Converting Online Conversations to Offline Sales “ Are your customers “connected consumers”? Of course, joining the social conversation can be easier said than done. Many small business owners don’t think so. Ask the right questions about your website.

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