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An Entrepreneur Platform To Put You Above the Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days? Using the platform to expand your reach. Make your customers your platform.

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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Calendly Calendly is an online scheduling platform popular among business and personal users. Gumroad homepage.

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Entrepreneurs and Teachers Put to the Creation Challenge | Startup Weekend Bay Area

Tech Zulu Event

With the SOLD OUT Startup Weekend Los Angeles quickly approaching (February 24th-26th, 2012) it’s time to start getting in the creation mindset. Those dynamics offer new opportunities for entrepreneurs as well as ‘teacher-preneurs,’ educators who have a passion for building scalable solutions.”.

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The Old Ways Of Social Media Marketing Are Broken

Startup Professionals Musings

By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%. SocialBakers , a site that tracks data, reported in December 2012 that 1.4 Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations.

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Women 2.0 Conference 2012 | For The Men Who Missed It

Tech Zulu Event

pitch and technology competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row. Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party.

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How to Avoid Being Disrupted as a VC

Both Sides of the Table

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. Invest more heavily in platform services. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. I keynoted.

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Crowd-Funding Success Usually Brings New Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

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