Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. People buy from people.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Tony is currently Founder/CEO for Eventify, an LA-based startup creating a venue marketplace, and Visible Factors, an SEO consulting company. and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. 40:30 –41:30).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Advertising presence. Put yourself on the site.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

I was an early user of Quora and like all new technologies they take a bit of playing with them for a while, discussing them with others and reflecting on them to let them sink in. When Quora went into Beta and became the “hip product to have access to&# in Silicon Valley I felt compelled to play around with it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Highlight personal and product testimonials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Technology costs. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In a recent book by business technologies guru Joe Wozny, “ The Digital Dollar: Sustainable Strategies for Online Success ,” I found a good summary of the top strategies, with some practical advice on how to implement them: Understand what’s in a name on the Internet. There is still a place for paid advertising. Search engines.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

We're using technology to scale, and use it to be super-efficient, but we're also never going to be entirely hands-off. The second part, is our matching technology. If a tutor were to go out and try to advertise like we do, they would go under, and they'd lose money right away. That's a great question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Technology costs. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2015

We spoke with co-founder David Kierzkowski and Agnes Kozera about the company, and how its technology and marketplace is enabling growth for both YouTubers and brands. David Kierzkowski: We''re the first, and the leading marketplace that connects YouTubers to brands for product and service endorsements. Tell us about FameBit?

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

I started looking to sell ModernMom and do something strategic a few years ago when I saw that there was a shift in the mom space, where advertisers and brand partners were moving from targeting mass numbers of people, towards niche sites. Are sponsors interested in such highly targeted sites, rather than the broad reach?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The intersection of entertainment and technology has been a long time coming. Top CEO’s, entrepreneurs, technology gurus, venture capitalists and executives will be looking at the tech ecosystem from different perspectives, including e-commerce, enterprise software, digital media and consumer technologies.”

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio is the founder, and was 30 years old with no background in technology when she started the company. Recycled Bride earns revenue from sales commissions, premium memberships, and advertising. So she created the product that she would have wanted when planning her wedding. Business Model? What inspired you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Now some never see the people they support, but are experts on the technology involved. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Technology costs. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I was in advertising and marketing, working in Newport Beach on the Mazda account. We bat about 800 in terms of people buying off on the idea, who understand the bigger reach we have on the Internet, and the more SEO/SEM we do, which delivers business to them that they wouldn't have gotten otherwise. It's down in Laguna Beach.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. Advertise on VentureBeat. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker.

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