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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

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We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. We obviously heard what Greycroft’s portfolio companies did and what their vision for the future was.

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

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But I thought I’d use the situation to talk more broadly about some PR lessons you might learn for your own business and also incorporate some situations I’ve faced recently with some portfolio companies. My golden rule of public relations is that “if you don’t shape your story somebody else will.&#

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Want to Know What Marc Andreessen’s Magic on Twitter is? Hint: It’s Not Tweetstorming

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As my friend Brian Solis once told me “PR stands for ‘public relations’ not ‘press release’ ” On Tweetstorming. I have at least 2 portfolio companies that wanted to build discussion forums into Twitter years ago (one actually built then scrapped it) even before a Tweetstorm was a thang.