The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.” Despite best intentions they probably won’t follow up on their actions. Why don’t VC’s follow up? So don’t expect an unprompted This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC .” 8221;  Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough.  Some

Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic.  I But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? So people diligently put in their hours every year, brag about how little vacation they’ve taken and try to save up for 45 years so that one day in their late 60’s (or in today’s era 70’s) they can do what they’ve always dreamed of.  They A couple of years ago I read the popular book, “The Four Hour Workweek ” by Tim Ferriss.  It It was recommended to me by my friend,

Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many.  When When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water.  So So I often try to stay off of email during the day.  I I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan ” and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I

Arnold Waldstein , who stops by periodically on my blog and always leaves relevant comments, made the observation that, “if I want to connect with you, I’ll engage with you on this blog …from there, a follow on Twitter, a link on LinkedIn are closing the loop of connection rather that opening a cold door.”  Many people who want to get to know me send me a LinkedIn invite, connect on Facebook or more recently follow me on Twitter.  I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately.  I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences

Startup Army | www.StartupArmy.com - Connect with the other leaders of Startup Army on LinkedIn! Tags: Marketing Optimization Online Sales and Marketing Web Analytics Web Startup Advice ad optimization campaign optimization email marketing retention marketin How often you should mail to your audience is a tricky question.  Every audience is different, but more importantly, every user is different (unless your users are Agent Smith from The Matrix, or Oompa Loompas, but I hear that’s a terrible market right now).   I’m

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). A great opportunity for more visible networking . I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates.

Last week my team was reviewing our upcoming event calendar and the subject of PerfectBusiness.com’s “ Perfect Pitch 2009 ” event came up.  Nothing much, just let socalTECH know why you like them in an email and they will draw a winner.  We immediately sent them an email: This event is perfect for us – thousands of entrepreneurs and a list of business leaders that reads like Fast Company and Forbes had a love child.  Richard Branson is the keynote speaker, which in itself is enough to warrant the near $300 ticket. 

There are a lot of users, with lots of different email and instant messaging accounts, who are finding that there are too many ways to communicate with their friends and associates. People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. you replace Microsoft Outlook, or whatever other email services people are Los Angeles-based Orgoo (www.orgoo.com) is looking to solve the problem by creating a unified communications service which ties all those ways of communicating together. We sat down

And how she launched her latest startup, SkinnySongs. We were all starting out together and building our companies and competing and cooperating much as is the case of the technology industry today so a lot of fun, we’re all sort of around the same age, so it is very similar I think of what goes on today in the Valley with you know with the web companies. Heidi told us that some students who read the Harvard case study on her will email her. The Harvard Business School Case Study on Heidi Roizen talks about the dinner parties she hosts for tech leaders like her personal friend, Bill Gates, and how people skills helped her build one of the most admired careers in Silicon Valley.

In March 2007,  when Pownce launched, Twitter didn't have much of a head start. think, if I were to do a new start up or a different company, I would pick it in an area where there wasn’t such good competition, determined competition. think there is definitely different levels of start ups and Twitter was definitely (laughs) a good start up, and it's really hard to compete or be compared to. We talked about more than Pownce and Twitter in this interview. Leah Culver is a developer who launched many projects.