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5 Secrets for Getting a VC to Respond to Your Email
I get a lot of email. I mean a lot. Close to 100,000 emails last year. And I try and read each and every email. But it’s nearly impossible. And responding to them all? Well, that is impossible. (side note: to learn why, read The 7 Habits of
The #1 Marketing Tip Your Startup Needs to Know
Updated to include the new Samsung Galaxy S4 ads and how they compare to Apple’s on August 12, 2013. So what’s the #1 marketing tip your startup needs to know? Well, it is a tip that focuses on how to sell your startup product or service to customers
The Ultimate Failures that Killed My Last Startup
This is a story that has never been shared in its entirety. Despite a successful sale of our startup, ParentsClick, to Lifetime Television in 2008 [https://www.google.com/search?q=lifetime+parentsclick&oq=lifetime+parentsclick] , eventually it became a massive failure that very few people know about. I
The Diamond in the Midwest
If you’ve been reading my previous posts, you’ll notice a common theme: why Detroit? I think I summed it well in my entrepreneurial gold rush [https://tedserbinski.com/the-entrepreneurial-gold-rush-why-i-moved-from-san-francisco-to-detroit/] post but I left out a key point: there’s a hidden diamond in the Midwest. Yes, a diamond
Disrupting Venture Capital in the Midwest
In my last post, I wrote about the best startup advice I’ve ever gotten [https://tedserbinski.com/the-best-startup-advice-ive-ever-gotten/] — think bigger. Truly the best advice I’ve ever gotten and I encourage you to read that post if you haven’t already. And in my first post, I talked about
The Best Startup Advice I've Ever Gotten
> “Think bigger” George Zachary [http://georgezachary.com/], General Partner, Charles River Ventures [http://crv.com/] (early investor in Twitter & Yammer) I could leave it at that. It’s succinct. Concise. Even, world changing. But it doesn’t sound inspiring. That is, unless you understand the story behind this
The Entrepreneurial Gold Rush: Why I moved from San Francisco to Detroit
Every week, in a bewildered state, someone asks me “Hey Ted, why did you move from San Francisco to, uh, Detroit? Are you crazy?”
How to Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3: Step-by-Step Guide
1. Login to your Amazon AWS account 2. Create a new hosted zone for your domain using Route 53 3. Copy the NS records for this zone to your domain provider (e.g., GoDaddy) 4. Edit your domain on your domain registrar (e.g., GoDaddy) by clicking Set Nameservers 5.
Book Review: Drupal 7 Module Development
Well, it’s been a while my Drupal friends, almost 18 months… dusting off this old Drupal 6 blog and time to start posting again. And what better way to get started again than by talking about Drupal 7, by far the best release of Drupal. And with almost 7
Automatically Extracting Tags from Nodes
Automatically tagging content is becoming easier with services like OpenCalais [http://opencalais.com/] and Yahoo Terms Extractor [http://developer.yahoo.com/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html], offering their APIs for free semantic analysis of content. There’s even a great Drupal module, Auto Tagging [http://drupal.org/project/autotagging] (with