Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

zettabytes by the year 2016. Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. In addition, more people in the world now own traditional cell phones than tooth-brushes.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

The following year, she stepped down as CEO, and by 2016, her company filed for bankruptcy and was purchased by Boohoo. It’s more of a mockery,” said Isa Watson , founder and CEO of social media app Squad. Then, Amoruso started a company called Girlboss that was likened to “Linkedin for Women.” It’s not a compliment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2016

It’s easy to get so pre-occupied with handling the business rollout that you forget to maintain and increase your social media interactions, search engine optimization efforts, and highlighting positive customer reviews on your website. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 07/22/2016. Don’t give up your dream too early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

On your birthday, something special happens on social media: you receive hundreds of likes and well wishes from friends, family, high school classmates and people you haven’t talked to for years on Facebook. And while this has been the standard for years, one startup is hoping to personalize the birthday wishes even more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

Today’s generation is accustomed to relationships via social media and texting, as long as social protocols are honored. Waiting for an email response, for a chat session to start, or listening to elevator music on the phone won’t endear you to customers and won’t convince them that their satisfaction is urgent for you.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

Like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre use rap lyrics, Seth and I use social media instead. We would relaunch the company in 2016 as the new entity and get all our ducks in a row. Shortly thereafter, he sent me an email stating he wanted to leave the business and hand it all over to me. I was really excited. It never happened.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Freelancers now make up 35% of U.S. workers and earned $1 trillion last year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2016

Warm introductions from friends and family to existing investors is far more productive in fund-raising than email blasts, social media connections, or cold-calls to famous investors. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 08/22/2016. Use friends and family as advocates to network to professional investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. SEO doesn’t just happen – it requires a content strategy, inbound links, relevancy, keyword strategies, etc. It it just more time that they save?

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