Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? In a classic book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. 04% full, you should start looking for a new container.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. By bringing startup companies together with modern facilities and tools, Amplify LA is the engine that powers the cutting edge.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 Snap Away with Snapchat. And why is that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? In a recent book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. 04% full, you should start looking for a new container.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. My blog has always been a mixture of what was on my mind and a blend of venture, startup life, tech views and current society events that related to my interests: Venture, startup & tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. As You Start to Mature. In the Early Days. You’ll get empathy. Experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Isn’t it frustrating to think you understand something new in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Jim should know, since he is the president Ignite Social Media , of one of the best known social media marketing agencies.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

This was a dog whistle to his base that the Jews had taken over the media and the world of money. Yes, I want to scream at the media who gave Trump so much free press and created false equivalencies between his misdeed and misstatements and Clintons. This isn’t my work blog or my company blog or a venture capital blog.

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MAY 6, 2015

Everybody now knows that LA produced SnapChat, Tinder and Maker Studios. If you’re a tech or media startup considering whether LA is now a mature market I think the data will assuage any concerns. I would be super grateful if you would visit the site and sign up for a newsletter if you felt so inclined.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Today, we have Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars (www.techstars.org), which has been very active this year in the startup accelerator and mentoring area. Cody Simms: Locally in LA the Snapchat IPO will have a huge impact on our local startup ecosystem. What was the biggest news from you or your firm this year?

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JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. The start of marketing is figuring out a market need and a way to solve that need better than anybody else.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Therefore the LA based startup has announced a line of new products and rebranded under a new name. According to JJ Aguhob in a blog post , “As a startup, we knew we needed to evolve. The startup’s core Viddy app, will not be abandoned but the team will continue to iterate on.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Facebook opens up Instant Articles to all publishers. And if you’re paying attention, you’ll understand that this is their third push for native media consumption: first photos, then videos, and now written content. Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. This is the cycle of synergies that lead to strong vertical franchises in media. And this brings our total funding to $43 million to solidify our market position as the leading Latino digital media company.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. It’s certainly food for thought.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A series of events this year—from the Equifax data breach to the foreign use of social media to influence the U.S. Guengerich moved to North Texas in 2017 after years in the Austin tech community, where he co-founded Appconomy, a China-focused e-commerce startup, among other initiatives. Here’s an edited transcript.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And I’ll tell you why, starting with where you started and why you succeeded. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. Users could set up their phone to tweet from it; send an SMS txt and the tweet would appear on your profile. All these things set Twitter up for enormous user growth.

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