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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

View from Seed

The more verticalized your startup’s offering, especially if the venture is B2B, the more opportunity there is to identify industry insiders who will care about your company. As a VC myself, at a New York- and Boston-focused firm, I frequently point entrepreneurs to the same resources. Affinity by industry.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how to evolve our management team.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. The New York Times ) can be undone simply by disabling JavaScript.

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How Technology and Training Fueled One Ad-Based Company’s Growth

ReadWriteStart

Young applied for internships and interviews, hoping to land something before graduation, hopefully at one of the big New York ad agencies. The goal is to discuss how students can benefit from using social media to boost their personal brands, even if they’re not ultimately going to do ads.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in.

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How to Craft a Digital Advertising Strategy that Combats Rising Costs and Captures New Customers

ConversionXL

Agencies like GR0 , for example, can acquire links in publications like the New York Times, Yahoo.com, and Forbes. LinkedIn’s social media customer story video uses social proof to sell its Sales Navigator feature: Image source. The other option is to partner with a PR agency. It can also scale credibility quickly.

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Startup Grind Interview

David Teten

For fun, I did an on-stage vertical pushup at the end of the interview (skip to 44:00). Active Living ff Venture Capital HBS Alumni Angels Media Coverage New York Presentations and Conferences Startup Venture Capital' Last month I did an on-stage interview with Peter Crysdale of Startup Grind.