Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. Personalize a simple web site. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via PayPal or credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2013 , or fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe. Personalize a simple web site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Xobni “Social plug-in for Microsoft Outlook&# – As Enrique Gutierrez said on Twitter today, Xobni is “ the best damn thing ever for Outlook.&# Here’s the thing. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Many of the investors and entrepreneurs I know still don’t realize that they need to use and understand the Internet, even if their business is not e-commerce. Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. Blogs composed of video clips are called “vlogs.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. 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 ). And so it goes with social networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” According to this study from last year, over 65% of existing small businesses still ignore social media for marketing, so he is still the rule rather than the exception. Start social networking with peers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

A translator will be able to alert you about any potential cultural issues with your web content. Good website localization also involves hosting and web infrastructure. Use local affiliate networks Online affiliate marketing is a well-established sales channel for many businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Don’t forget the local Chamber of Commerce and Better Business Bureau. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise. Join relevant business associations. Provide a privacy and security statement.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. We then spoke about startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Doubling basic research in the physical sciences is largely an NSF, Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, and Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) matter. One very encouraging note these organizations are trying to use "Web 2.0" An interesting anecdote about use of Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Real-time information drives commerce. Asymmetric – Before Twitter most social networks had “symmetric” relationships meaning that when somebody wanted to follow you, you had to follow them back in order for us to be connected. They know this because Twitter is social, open & asymmetric. Not so on Twitter.

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