Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. Simply write a great book?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. Reading it felt like read a university book for an economics class and no wonder since he’s a professor at Harvard Business School.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. And so we get book ordering problems and expensive lunches and weirdly angry LPs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2013

My perspective on this role is outlined in the book “ Rapid Realignment ,” by the experts in this space, George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky. The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2012

The details of this role are outlined in a new book “ Rapid Realignment ,” by the experts in this space, George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky. The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

If the user shares the add on social media, they earn an extra $.25. That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content. Quirktastic Media (Durham, NC).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

Charlene Li, in her book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. I support her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

Charlene Li, in her recent book “ Open Leadership ,” attempts to show leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Charlene Li, in her latest book “ Open Leadership ,” attempts to show leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage. What do you think? Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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