TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla has a history of criticizing some of the mainstream wisdom by VCs. The advice comes at a reflective time for the industry. Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs?

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Wired

MARCH 23, 2025

We explain everything you need to know about Bluetooth, the long-standing wireless connectivity standard.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Not only do we have our daily work tasks but we also have more meetings, longer commutes, and more interactions with more people in more locations than at any time in the history of work. Unsolicited advice: If I were in your shoes. We live in a world that seems to get busier and busier! Our internal worlds can be loud.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Ask them for their advice, make them a part of your extended team, and always feed them random acts of kindness as they appreciate these types of connections. They have a history of giving, but you need to reengage them. Get to know them better and develop a rapport that is transparent and goes both ways.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

After talking to marketing leaders for a year, here’s my advice for CEOs. “This is the lowest proportion allocated to marketing in the history of Gartner’s Annual CMO Spend Survey,” the research company reported. ” After talking to marketing leaders for a year, here’s my advice for CEOs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The firm reports that “this is the lowest proportion allocated to marketing in the history of Gartner’s Annual CMO Spend Survey. ”. According to Gartner, marketing budgets as a percentage of company revenue fell to 6.4% in 2021 from 11%. The ponds are overfished. and Fox; Comcast and Disney).

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This hunch should be based on a history of conversations between yourself and the prospect, during which he or she has indicated support for the organization. Send the prospect a handwritten note thanking them for their time, then go back to them in a couple of weeks to ask them for their advice on one or two items with your organization.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

From the hottest year in startup venture capital history to a period of pessimism, how did we get to where we are today? Steve Blank explains the rationale behind why a founder would agree to a cram down — and advice on what they could do instead. The market for startup investment has changed. 5 factors to consider (April 2022).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2019

Your experience and advice on how to counteract the negativity and trolls on social media. History of #ReclaimSocial. On June 4, follow the #ReclaimSocial hashtag and share: The great work that your organization is doing. Highlight amazing work being done by a great person or great cause that you know or support.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Facebook’s parent company Meta announced the first major job cuts in its history this week, eliminating 11,000 jobs. TechCrunch+ roundup: H-1B worker advice, managing remote teams, pitch deck teardown by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch. For comparison, the site tracked 12,463 layoffs in October.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

Traditional lenders and commercial banks are typically reluctant to loosen their purse strings until you’ve proven yourself with a strong credit history. Your business credit is dependent on your company’s payment history, assets, cash flow, and other financials. Establish business credit history. We’ve got that for you.

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DataRobot

MARCH 2, 2023

As we celebrate Women’s History Month in March and International Women’s Day on March 8 th , we look to our community of strong, resilient, and skillful leaders to set the tone. What advice would you give a female identifying person who is just starting their career? It doesn’t always come easy. GO GET IT, GIRL!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). Because of the increased workload I expect in the months to come, as well as the likely possibility that we will start a Museum of Art & History blog, I'm lowering my Museum 2.0

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2022

While there are certainly still hurdles to overcome, we wanted to take time this month to celebrate and share personal experiences, advice, and perspectives from our own MC employees around Pride. What advice you would share with your younger self? What advice you would share with your younger self? Janine Guarino.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

They probably reference past experiences you’ve had together, or they’ll talk to you as though they had a history with you. Use a donor’s preferred name or title, thank them for their specific gifts, and reference their history with your organization. But they can feel similar! Use personalization tokens in your messages.

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Media Cause

MARCH 10, 2022

As we make our way through this month highlighting women across the world and their lasting impact, contributions to society, and distinct value they bring to the table—remember that women’s history is one steeped in strength and fight yet there continues to remain space to claim towards true gender equality. Amy Small. Kim Anderson .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general? As CEO, the buck stops here, (but sometimes, in years past, not enough of them) so I am always looking for ways to promote our message and create more efficiency in the way we raise money and achieve our goals.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

We look at the first five years of a donor’s giving history as our basis for lifetime. Gary talked about a survey of fundraising advice, commenting that a high percentage of advice focuses on content and messaging, at the expense of data and infrastructure. So we ignore the expense side of the equation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2022

“We are so used to not having access to this influx of capital that we have already adjusted and built muscles and capacity to weather a lot of storms that more privileged founders who have like this never-ending flow of capital and access to advice and insider information” haven’t had to deal with, she said. “We

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 21, 2011

After all, any great idea needs a vote of confidence, great advice and an infusion of cash to have a large-scale impact! At a crucial turning point in Benetech’s history, I ran into Sheldon and outlined my dreams of doing more. But, Robert wasn’t just about giving me advice.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Amazon’s Alexa told a child to touch a penny to the exposed prongs of a phone charger plugged into the wall, according to one parent who posted screenshots of their Alexa activity history showing the interaction ( via Bleeping Computer ). OMFG My 10 year old just asked Alexa on our Echo for a challenge and this is what she said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Jason Dressel is president of History Factory , which helps companies use their history and heritage to enhance and transform strategy, positioning, marketing and communication. It’s best to record this history well before the intense swirl of a leadership transition begins. Jason Dressel. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Successful community organizing across history has always been networked. Q: Any advice you’d like to share with the other online community organizers? The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. I definitely recommend them both! Q: What does “online” add to the community organizing?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2024

One word: history. Jeff does have some advice for you if you are fundraising among donors who live in one of the big battleground states: Consider pausing some of your communications around election week—from the week or two before until immediately after—leave some open space so your messages aren’t landing in overcrowded mailboxes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 9, 2023

Former IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty led one of the most high-stakes corporate transformations in business history. The story of how she discovered this touchstone and uses it throughout her life and work, and her advice on how others can, too, is told in her new book Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World. “I

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2023

Went on to do what put them in the history books. Fortunately, history shows, and Nailing It reveals, inspiring examples of successful people who experienced delayed progress in their 20s, forced to take circuitous paths to their life callings, even overcoming tragic starts. The COVID pandemic turned young adulthood upside-down.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2025

Todays question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to get started with AI for nonprofits: Dear Charity Clairity, I know I should be using AI or ChatGPT to be more efficient in my work, but just dont know how to get started. Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D.,

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This year, hundreds of nonprofit experts have shared their advice, practical tips, and real-world solutions all to help the larger community navigate the complexities of running a nonprofit. Make sure you check out all the real-world advice that nonprofit leaders have contributed this year.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

URGENT: Facebook Pages are changing | facebook | social-advice- Advice for charities – More information about changes coming to Facebook – this time it's more changes in the way Fan Pages function. " Women, Social Media and Influence (cont’d) « A.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

It is a rather interesting and complex set of startups in the group and could be considered the most international, diverse, and exciting group in the history of the accelerator program so far. ”), the “500 Strong chest bump”, finding a way to “disrupt the disruption”, and perhaps the best advice?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As we wrote last week , Lerman is not just another public company CEO: His company, Yext, has some old-fashioned history with TechCrunch, having pitched at one of our events back in 2009. We’ll spend a little bit of time in the past talking about Yext’s history as a startup. It’s going to be a great chat.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Many of us have individual needs that demand more specific dietary advice. This is true even though, by historical standards, households were still spending a smaller portion of their income on food than at nearly any other time in history. Purity in eating is seductive but unnecessary.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

You might find a local opportunity, or you could also find a way to help across the miles by simply helping out with a tutorial or offering advice. The Mozilla community has a history of changing the world – and the Web – in all kinds of amazing ways. Learn more about finding a project, here. Create a Project.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This can include services like marketing, legal advice, IT support, accounting, or graphic design. Philanthropic Track Record: Look for companies with a history of supporting similar causes. For instance, a tech company might donate laptops and software to help your organization streamline its operations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

In many ways, the stakes are higher for a Series A — and Bucky Moore, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, joined TechCrunch Early Stage last week to give founders tactical advice on the process of raising one. Moore spoke about storytelling over semantics, pricing, and where his firm sees itself “raising the bar” for startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A short history lesson. To be clear, Slack’s acquisition — the largest in Salesforce’s history — is not a bad outcome. Having helped dozens of portfolio companies approach the enterprise at Greylock Partners and now as a startup CEO myself, here’s some advice on how to avoid common missteps: Start sooner than you think you should.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Having benefited from the generous advice and expertise of many others, we’re honored to share our experience from The Encore Fellowships Network as the “Action” case study in the Winter 2013 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Wisdom About Networks From Encore Network – A Guest Post by Leslye Louie and Lyle Hurst.

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