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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Brand-Owned Terms: The Power—and Process—of Naming a Movement

ConversionXL

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” The most underrated piece of marketing advice is that you’ve got to name something,” Drift’s Dave Gerhardt told Leadfeeder. “If It’s conversational marketing.”

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! .&# It is the new calling card. It is slowly becoming Florida Condos.

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. I told them that True Ventures had stuck to their brand name and submitted a totally clean term sheet. This states how the proceeds from a sale or dissolution of the company will be distributed.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Kanye West. Let's recap. Building a Better Product.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Hahaha, I laugh because later in his talk he mentions another website with a long name. Even Perez Hilton blogged about Flippa because of its relationship to FaceSmash and Social Network. One idea that never took off was NameMyThingey.com where you can crowdsource business names. Alright back to the talk.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software.