How Cindy Hensley Invented John McCain (1)
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On Saturday, May 17, 1980, Cindy Lou Hensley married Navy Captain John McCain at the First United Methodist Church on Central Avenue in Phoenix, not far from the bride's childhood home. After the ceremony, the wedding entourage headed nearly three miles east to the Arizona Biltmore resort, a sprawling gray oasis designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protégé in the 1920s. Guests fêted the couple in the resort's Aztec Room, an elegant, twelve-sided banquet hall ...
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francine said:
Thank goodness all this stuff is coming public. What happens in Arizona so often stays in Arizona.
Buggy LinkedIn Groups Update Removes Features, Leaves Users Distressed (7)
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Jason Kincaid via TechCrunch shared by 7 people For some reason “Groups” - a pretty standard feature in most social networks - seems to be giving LinkedIn more than a little bit of trouble. The site originally launched Groups without a search function, making it difficult to find groups that users were interested in. Last month, the site finally introduced a groups directory, but apparently the response has been too positive, leading LinkedIn to place ...
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francine said:
If it ain't broke, why fix it? I just love GetSatisfaction, though. It does force attention to the customer.
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Mark said:
Part of the reason why I continue to despise LinkedIn
Jason Calacanis On How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company (Jason Calacanis/Silicon Alley Insider) (8)
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Jason Calacanis / Silicon Alley Insider: Jason Calacanis On How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company — For over ten years I've been in the unique position of being both a CEO and a journalist in the technology space. My first company produced Silicon Alley Reporter magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.
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francine said:
I hate to say this, but I had this idea already. The name of my proposed panel for SXSW is "Fire Your PR Firm" It's panel #1259. So vote for it. Should I ask Jason to be on it????
Buggy LinkedIn Groups Update Removes Features, Leaves Users Distressed (23)
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For some reason “Groups” - a pretty standard feature in most social networks - seems to be giving LinkedIn more than a little bit of trouble. The site originally launched Groups without a search function, making it difficult to find groups that users were interested in. Last month, the site finally introduced a groups directory, but apparently the response has been too positive, leading LinkedIn to place restrictions on user accounts: the site has arbitrarily ...
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francine said:
If it ain't broke, why fix it? I just love GetSatisfaction, though. It does force attention to the customer.
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Mark said:
Part of the reason why I continue to despise LinkedIn
Nine Ways to Promote Your Blog Posts (56)
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You’re writing and podcasting and videoblogging your face off and it’s starting to feel like no one’s paying attention. You want to get the right comments, and meaningful conversations started, or you want your peers to come and start a lively discourse. How do you get your best posts out there in such a way that people will come by and add to the body of work? (Note first that I’ve said “best posts” and ...
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francine said:
So funny. I know all this, but I don't do any of it, except feed my posts to Twitter. Why? I'm not really sure...
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Chris Ediger said:
Another good post from Chris Brogan.
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Vedo said:
promoting blog posts
Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs (42)
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Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by to startup vc startups legal funding opensource Business entrepreneurship ycombinator documents - More about this bookmark
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runbuck said:
Open source set of legal documents for 2nd stage funding. Very nice. Probably worth $20k.
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Paul R Brown said:
Nice to see that deal costs haven't gone up much in the past ten years. I'll give these a read.
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Matt said:
Haven't taken the time to see if these are any good, but certainly worth flagging for review as this is always a hassle early on...
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francine said:
What a wonderful way to save a startup money and make sure that entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley have some background info when going in to see their local lawyers for a deal.
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thaumata said:
I think this is a very cool thing for them to do. I've seen some outstandingly large legal bills at startups before and this would have been really helpful.
Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs (58)
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Early stage venture firm Y Combinator, which has funded over 102 young startups, has “open sourced” the legal documents that they provide to their startups to use as they seek additional funding beyond what they’ve gotten from Y Combinator. The documents were created with their law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and are available here. The goal, says Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham, is to help young startups avoid at least some of the ...
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thaumata said:
I think this is a very cool thing for them to do. I've seen some outstandingly large legal bills at startups before and this would have been really helpful.
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Paul R Brown said:
Nice to see that deal costs haven't gone up much in the past ten years. I'll give these a read.
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Matt said:
Haven't taken the time to see if these are any good, but certainly worth flagging for review as this is always a hassle early on...
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francine said:
What a wonderful way to save a startup money and make sure that entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley have some background info when going in to see their local lawyers for a deal.
Fred Wilson: Venture Fund Economics: When One Deal Returns The Fund (via Tumblr) (1)
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Fred Wilson posted an item on Tumblr Venture Fund Economics: When One Deal Returns The Fund 3:57 am - Comment
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francine said:
Another fabulous post from fred Wilson, a VC about the business
Introducing The Conversation Prism (88)
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Last year, Robert Scoble and Darren Barefoot debuted the Social Media Starfish to visualize and document the rapidly evolving landscape for social tools, services, and networks.If you work in marketing, public relations, advertising, customer service, product development, or any discipline that's motivated, shaped, and directed by customers, peers, stakeholders and influencers, monitoring and in some cases, participating in online conversations is critical in competing for the future.Over the last month, I worked with Jesse Thomas ...
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Digital Biographer said:
Great concept to map how one focuses attention in social media, and some very useful links to key resources.
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Ryan Coleman said:
Some great examples of visual thinking at work...
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Sue said:
Intriguing. Visual graphics like this do a good job of helping others to make sense of how the web 2.0 space operates.
How to capture your user value proposition (9)
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In the past I’ve written about encapsulating your business plan for potential investors in an executive summary, or even more succinctly as a high concept startup pitch. This is helpful for communicating to angel investors and VCs, but it doesn’t help you communicate to new and potential users of your product why they should try your site. Whether you plan on acquiring new users through viral growth, SEO, SEM or banner advertising, the basic principles ...
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David said:
Good advice.
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francine said:
I can never get entrepreneurs to do this properly. They launch into a long story, and assume that some ad agency (post-funding) will help them through this later.
How Gross and Net Returns Work For Venture Funds (1)
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Fred Wilson has another post on Venture Fund Returns titled Gross and Net Returns. AsktheVC would like to formally thank Fred for doing our work for us, as we periodically get questions about how VC funds work and to this point have not written posts nearly as detailed as Fred's.
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francine said:
This is very cool. Most entrepreneurs have no clue how the VC business works, or that it takes some guts to be a VC, take other people's money, and perhaps lose it form them because you and your partner couldn't agree on a direction for the business.
Zambia: Most owned ICT assets (1)
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What are the most owned ICT assets in Zambia?: “The Central Statistics Office (CSO) 2006 Living Conditions Monitoring Survey (LCMS IV) results in Zambia indicate that the most owned assets were the radio at 55.6 percent, Cell phones at 24.2 percent and Television at 24 .1 percent while the least owned asset was the internet connection with 0.1 percent.”
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francine said:
We have a way to go in Africa bridging the digital divide.
ROI of a Community Manager (7)
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There have been many references to ROI in terms of social media. A couple of my favorites are: Return on Influence Return on Interaction There has been a lot of discussion recently about the Community Manager position.And the article in the WSJ about the Deloitte study brought out many from the industry in defense of communities. My take was that it underlines the importance of the community manager role. Brian Solis recently had an article ...
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francine said:
This is what I have actually been tryiing to do with Earth911, with some success. I'm not an internal community manager, but I'm their social media face.
