Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Don’t waste your time networking with strangers.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2018

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. We began the exercise by asking each venture to select two executives, one technical and the other non-technical, to cover Techstar’s pitch rubric (shown below), in 90-seconds. I was invited to lead a Techstars LA workshop, focused on honing their elevator pitches.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. 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?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Don’t waste your time networking with strangers.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Amazon used its popular affiliate program to spur additional growth, getting reviewers and publishing sites – including us here at Tech.co – to link to Amazon in exchange for a small payout whenever a reader bought something by following that link. Suddenly, every other affiliate program and network out there is looking more attractive.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. Fables of the reconstruction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2019

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force longer, and according to a USNews article, will likely dominate the labor market by 2024. Here are some indicative entrepreneurial facts from recent Kauffman studies and others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Drucker outlined the key elements of this discipline, including methodically analyzing seven areas of opportunity, in a classic article on the subject. The focus must be on five discovery skills of associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting. Individuals who are innovators are born, not bred.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on PandoDaily. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Google x Facebook x Amazon) + (Universal Reviews). Is One Line Enough? no hits, no errors, no runs). One-liners. To what extent are such positioning statements important?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2021

Drucker outlined the key elements of this discipline, including methodically analyzing seven areas of opportunity, in a classic article on the subject. The focus must be on five discovery skills of associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting. Individuals who are innovators are born, not bred.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? Consider what Ryan Waggoner tells us How to Find a Technical Cofounder : When I was doing freelance development, I had about one pitch per week for an equity-only opportunity. Go to tech (or other relevant industry) events. Go to user groups.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2016

While the epicenter of tech innovation is undeniably Silicon Valley, a tide of new hubs emerging across the globe are gaining recognition. This article explores the advantages they experience launching a business in those countries, and the difficulties they also face. Financial technology here is years behind the U.S.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Note: due to the founders’ relative lack of experience, most student enterprises do not qualify for venture capital. Are funds available to invest in student businesses?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have the third and final article on Southern California IPOs and returns from Jon Funk. Funk is a venture capitalist who founded OceanRoad Partners and has been a Managing Director with Allegis Capital, where he invested in Sandpiper Networks, Rent.com and Shopzilla. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Don’t waste your time networking with strangers.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Despite our business model reservations, we were sufficiently intrigued by Jeff and the opportunity to seek technical and market feedback from a VoIP expert.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Tech Reporters: These individuals will write and edit informative and practical articles on a range of topics including Startups/Entrepreneurs, Gadgets, Mobile Tech, Tech in Entertainment, Gaming, Apps & Software, productivity, and cover breaking tech news. Take a look below and give us a shout. Contributors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location.

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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 stumbled upon the Question, “ What-is-the-motivation-behind-writing-public-reviews-and-tips-as-on-Amazon-Yelp-Foursquare-StickyBits-etc &# and took the bait. But perhaps the lurker category is smaller. You can’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Like many of you I read the Is Web Summit a Scam article making the rounds this week. ” So how should you feel about Web Summit, DreamForce, TechCrunch Disrupt, CES, SxSW or any of the myriad of tech events that are put on every year? If you want to network you need to plan relentlessly in advance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force longer, and according to a USNews article, will likely dominate the labor market by 2024. Here are some indicative entrepreneurial facts from recent Kauffman studies and others.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The project ultimately imploded due to a combination of factors. An emerging tech dystopia. Blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin can be less efficient because both networks are validated using “proof of work,” an algorithm that verifies the legitimacy of a transaction by solving energy-intensive math puzzles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I think the issue I have always had with investment bank pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. Or as the article on Y Combinator suggests, “is your accent too heavy?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. My articles never appeared on Digg so I didn’t focus on it at all. But it wasn’t to be.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I think my mentality to banker pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Don’t waste your time networking with strangers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Viewing the article through the lens of a venture capitalist there’s much to agree with under the mantra of “growth!” ” And when you read the article carefully it allows for a period of discovery in your business. It might be for technical reasons or it might be for customer adoption reasons. For example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. free weekly Infochachkie articles! There’s going to be more and more of these early stage networks forming. You can watch my interview with Naval below or on YouTube here: [link]. Look what Groupon is going to do for Chicago.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

Marc was previously CEO of Syntricity, and was founding CEO at Prisa Networks (acquired by EMC). Marc Friedmann: SciVee serves the STM - Science, Technical, Medical - market. That helps the reader figure out what are the key elements of the research, and whether the reader wants to spend more time digging into the article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Yet to be a truly effective accelerator, the work must continue the momentum beyond Demo Day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I have never felt prouder of the team & product at awe.sm ( please visit to check out our latest & be ready for our next big product announcement due out in next month or so) and yet we just brought in a new CEO to the company, Fred McIntyre. ” We had inbound M&A requests from some of the biggest names in tech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location.

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