We now have a Facebook fan page for Venture Hacks. It’s a feed of our blog posts and tweets. I was surprised to see how many people get their news on Facebook. The fan page already has 677 fans. Check it out. Here’s how we put it together. How to get fans I mentioned the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Twitter'
Startup News, the first 2 weeks
December 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Newsletter, Twitter
“nicely done as always. i can count on one hand the number of daily emails worth signing up for.” – Matt Oesterle, Sweepery Startup News is two weeks old today. I want to share some stats and thoughts about the product. If you haven’t seen it yet, Startup News is a daily digest of our [...]
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Morale, distribution, profit, and games
December 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Twitter
Startup thoughts: Every action in a startup increases or decreases money, time-to-live, and morale. If you thought product development was hard, wait until you try to distribute it. “To succeed in business, you have to have a genuine interest in profitability. And most people don’t.” – Derek Sivers “We didn’t get here by playing the [...]
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The long tail of VC twitterers
November 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Resources, Twitter
We previously posted about the long tail of VC blogs. A few VC blogs capture most of our attention. The rest slog it out in the long tail. And now, for the first time in the history of mankind, we present the long tail of VC twitterers (click to zoom in): The underlying data is [...]
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"Real wealth creation will take founding, seniority, or staggeringly large exits."
October 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Twitter
We wrote a lot of comments on other people’s blogs this week. Then we shared them on Twitter. I think you’ll like them. Here’s the top 4: How do you raise money if you’re a very early stage companies with no product, traction, or track record? Some thoughts: http://j.mp/Uy0iR. (345 clicks — on the weekend!) [...]
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"Your next feature won't save you"
October 19th, 2009 · Comments Off · Twitter
Here’s our top 5 tweets from last week. You’ll never miss another tweet if you subscribe via RSS or email (no more than one email a day; unsubscribe anytime). Of course, you can also follow us on Twitter. Top 5 tweets of the week We calculated the top 5 tweets of the week by looking [...]
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Put your tweets on your blog
October 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Survey, Twitter
We recently undertook a landmark survey to determine whether our readers want to see our tweets here on this blog. The short answer is: yes. First, 62% of respondents want to see tweets on the blog at least once a week. And a whopping 75% want to see tweets at least once a month: Lesson: [...]
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Take our Twitter Survey
October 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Customer Development, Survey, Twitter
We’re spending more and more timing posting original content and links on Twitter at twitter.com/venturehacks. For example: Once in a while, we post a summary of our tweets here on this blog — like this. Do you like our tweet summaries? Hate them? Want more? Want us to stop? We want your feedback. Click here [...]
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Twitter updates
September 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · Twitter
Here’s a snapshot of our latest updates from Twitter. We use Twitter to post links to awesome resources for entrepreneurs. If you don’t use Twitter, subscribe via RSS.
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