Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Contrary to what you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial growth over the last few years is not Gen-Y upstarts, but Boomers over the age of 50, now called encore entrepreneurs. With longer life expectancies and greater health in later life, older generations are moving to start new firms -- and mentor young entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2010

Gemassmer We all intuitively believe in maintaining personal and business contacts, but most of us don’t do well in this area, despite the advent of social networking. Today a number of social networks have emerged, all designed to enable us to stay in touch, keep each other updated and maintain a sense of continuity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

A while back, I published an article on “ Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art ,” describing what investors do to validate your startup before they invest. Network with other entrepreneurs. Contact peers you have met through networking, both ones who have used this investor, and ones who haven’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. But this measurable difference in outcomes, however significant, is not stopping aspiring entrepreneurs from building businesses where they live today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2019

Contrary to what you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial growth over the last few years is not Gen-Y upstarts, but Boomers over the age of 50, now called encore entrepreneurs. With longer life expectancies and greater health in later life, older generations are moving to start new firms -- and mentor young entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 10, 2011

And as I’ve written about in the past, I truly believe that Twitter networks are significantly different from other social networks. The downside to this rapid stream is that at times you come across super interesting articles that you want to read but for which you don’t currently have the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 16, 2019

The New York-based company was founded last year by Gina Bartasi, a fertility industry vet who previously launched Progyny, a fertility benefit solution for employers, and FertilityAuthority.com, an information platform and social network for people struggling with fertility. Our profit margins are healthy.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2012

You have probably heard plenty of times that being an entrepreneur is a risky business, and investors talk all the time about reducing the risk. Here is my own priority list of key risk drivers that every entrepreneur and every investor should evaluate and minimize in starting a business: Team experience and depth risk.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2015

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. On the personal side, these items can kill your career, as I discussed in an old article “ Google Yourself to See How Other People See You.” business entrepreneur online reputation startup'

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

Today's Insights and Opinions article comes from Megan Lisa Jones , an investment banker and investor, who says: yes, it's a bubble, and gives her top ten reason to start a company, and ten reasons not to. Read the rest of Megan's article, Ten reasons to start a company; ten reasons not to. Start up conferences and competitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2012

By the time we reach 30 years of age, our desire to socialize and maintain friendships already is shrinking, according to an old study by psychologists at the Institute for Social Research (ISR). In these days of social networking and business networking, it seems that all cultural pressures point to more friends as being better.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2012

Of course, there has been no shortage of articles about Pinterest lately. While both of those things are relevant to my interests, this article is about neither. is a well respected author, photographer and consultant but he’s also generally a great guy to follow on any social network. I guess I was right. Chris Brogan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. On the personal side, these items can kill your career, as I discussed in an old article “ Google Yourself to See How Other People See You.” business entrepreneur google reputation startup'

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 26, 2013

Since its inception into the mainstream fabric of people’s lives, social media and the concept of social networking has gone through a rather peculiar evolutionary transition. It is now a standard with any new social network to be able to cater to both the consumer and the brand; the person and the product.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2010

For our Insights and Opinions section this Friday morning, we have How to Network in 10 Easy Steps , from angel investor Frank Peters , of the Frank Peters Show. Earlier this week, there was a meetup nearby in Aliso Viejo; Jason Calacanis was the host and he encouraged entrepreneurs to gather in 169 cities around the world, simultaneously.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! As highlighted in the movie The Social Network , the Winklevoss brothers are embroiled in a protracted lawsuit with Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook. They claim that Mr. Zuckerberg “stole” their idea of creating a social network for the Harvard student community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. But this measurable difference in outcomes, however significant, is not stopping aspiring entrepreneurs from building businesses where they live today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. On the personal side, these items can kill your career, as I discussed in an old article “ Google Yourself to See How Other People See You.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

What Quora has done is wrap social networking around Q&A with the more clever next-gen UX I’ve seen. I wrote the following update to my original answer to that question: Update: Social networking sites have an additional attribute in that they are communication vehicles as well as UGC sites. You can’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2012

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. On the personal side, these items can kill your career, as I discussed in an old article “ Google Yourself to See How Other People See You.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2014

LinkedIn is one of the largest social networks, with 300 million users, and we fell that it has a higher quality user base. As we were developing the product, we noticed that more and more articles were popping up about people going through dates due to LinkedIN''s platform. This is the first based off of LinkedIn. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : FindTheBest is: “An objective, socially curated comparison engine that allows you to find a topic, compare your options and decide what’s best for you.”. free weekly Infochachkie articles! With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. But this measurable difference in outcomes, however significant, is not stopping aspiring entrepreneurs from building businesses where they live today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

A while back, I published an article on “ Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence ,” describing what investors do to validate your startup before they invest. Network with other entrepreneurs. Contact peers you have met through networking, both ones who have used this investor, and ones who haven’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

It’s intended in a discussion with an entrepreneur to get them to question whether there is really amazing underlying value in the product or service they’re offering. This was 20 seconds of a 10-minute interview yet the article title was, “Mark Suster: Group Texting Companies are Doomed.&#

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! Do you have any advice for emerging entrepreneurs regarding how they can be frugal without compromising their company’s value prop? Bootstrapping requires that the entrepreneur go out and talk to their users or clients. Social is not a hype movement; it is part of the web’s DNA.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! 9) In Competing From The Fringe , I caution entrepreneurs to not alert their competitors when they are making mistakes. What are the primary differences between being a Founder, versus an early Executive, and which role would you recommend to an emerging entrepreneur? It’s fluid.”.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! 9) In Competing From The Fringe , I caution entrepreneurs to not alert their competitors when they are making mistakes. What are the primary differences between being a Founder, versus an early Executive, and which role would you recommend to an emerging entrepreneur? It’s fluid.”.

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