Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

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. Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement. You may assert that monitoring the entire Internet space is an impossible problem.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

In most offices there would be a shelf of business books. Since, I am constantly reading to learn I would always ask questions about advice from the books. Cunningham’s current business, a marketing agency, Polar Unlimited in Toronto, had expanded in growth through the last decade by embracing social media and web 2.0.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

RingCentral Startup tool: Web conferencing app Price from: $11.99 If you manage remote or hybrid teams, RingCentral provides the best web conferencing software we've reviewed. The platform makes it simple to automate a number of processes too, from status updates and email notifications to progress updates and time tracking.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. They introduced Mingly for Gmail , a powerful browser plug in that unifies all your social networks into one address book with the ability to set reminders and send messages across different platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. Only a few really understand the process and value of inbound marketing, for pulling customers to your brand. Inbound marketing data is more easily measured for ROI.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) The Viral Loop / User Email. The web is interconnected, and traffic flows between sites that interlink.The more sites that link to you, the more sustainable traffic you build overtime.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The company of eight was engaged in web design, which, early in the growth of middle-sized business on the web, was hot at the time. And yes, his partner had a valid suit, having been locked out of the web-design business and denied access to decisions and accounting information. How the industry was growing around the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In my experience as a business advisor, one of the best ways to get all of these, is to publish a book on the technology, the journey, or some relevant lessons learned. Your book need not be a best-seller, and it probably won’t make you any money directly, but it’s the best business card you could ever imagine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Guy Kawasaki, in his classic book “ Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions ” provides some in-depth recommendations on the “how to” of pull technology. Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the almost 300 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. A good start is a classic book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. Make sure to book a private room in a restaurant so you can actually conduct a round table. So I connected her with two CEOs and a CFO.

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Networking Startup CTO Coach Email 366

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. I know you emailed me and I emailed you back. But it’s only Tuesday.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Scott, published a classic book that I still recommend, ” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media. Email marketing. One of these experts, David T. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 51 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. A good start is a book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Widgets and badges.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2012

If only newspaper publishers, book publishers, record companies, and movie producers would have had the vision to see their future as we now see it, we might have become a digital society with much less disruption and loss of jobs than we have experienced these past years and continue to experience. Dave’s book: Positioning.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 6, 2019

If only newspaper publishers, book publishers, record companies, and movie producers would have had the vision to see their future as we now see it, we might have become a digital society with much less disruption and loss of jobs than we have experienced these past years – and continue to experience. Businesses that forgot to reinvent.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. We like that it is 1000x better than having to call restaurants on the phone, be put on hold or call during normal business hours to book appointments.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Bruce and I met at the Art Center, and that was when I first discovered the web. That's how we really started.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

more than books face me. book face-to-faces. means my whole web wide world would forget that I exist. Like many of you I dragged my mobile phone into my bedroom at night and would occasionally check email or Twitter or Facebook before bed. now it’s even more difficult to connect. now that cliques form friends. 420 spaces.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. He’s committed to getting through every email. It’s not because I don’t want to respond to all emails – I do. I get way too many emails – many of them unsolicited.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources. Geni operates a Web 2.0

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) The Viral Loop / User Email. Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Search Engines.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. Just make note of it in the document and/or in an email when you send it. Quite often these things get old quickly.

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Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 300 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. Recently I was reviewing a book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list.

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Examples Content Marketing Entrepreneur 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Scott, published a classic book that I recommend, ” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media. Email marketing. One of these experts, David T. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups.

Custom 146

Custom Customer Marketing Startup 146

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Former employees describe Friday catered lunches where costs could run over $100 per person, and Royan was known internally for a “book ordering problem” — a former employee said that “unbelievable amounts of books” would be delivered each week to the office by Amazon to maintain the firm’s extensive library. What a boring mess.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We've created a booking engine, with an intuitive user interface that is easy to navigate, but also fun. We've really set out to solve the problem we saw, which is a vast category of travel information which is not aggregated well on the web. It's migrated onto the web in Hawaii, a simple migration, but no one had done it here yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 50 million other new websites created every year, and attract the customers you need. Recently I was reviewing a new book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I wrote this on my flight home from f.ounders & web summit in Dublin, Ireland late last year. My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. The Origins of Web Summit / f.ounders.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Berkonomics books available at www.berkus.com. Email readers, continue here.] Often, I can get clients to fund efforts to learn new tech because nobody else knows it, either, and we all need to learn it. Now we’re doing it again with various Web toolkits, since everything we do now has a heavy back-end component.

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Berkonomics

MAY 26, 2010

I’ve read and reread the book a number of times and find myself using the techniques often in many areas of my life. Email readers continue here.] In 1981, Herb Cohen published “ You Can Negotiate Anything ”, an excellent guide to great negotiating. One of the items on Cohen’s list of twenty five was stock options.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2013

Here’s what our client said about this project: “The Zodiac805 team was able to quickly and effectively compile a list of web influencers for my business and kept me abreast of progress during the process. Complete this quick form or email sales@zodiac805.com. Great service!”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Communicate frequently and proactively The most effective CEOs that I’ve observed send regular, short, board update emails every few weeks or monthly just to give the board a sense of what is going on. If they need to dial in make sure they’re on a web conference and you can see them and vice versa. It happens. It’s human nature.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The company of eight was engaged in web design, hot at the time. Over a million of these came to the company’s game web site each month for new information and to form an early Internet game community. What can I do?” I promised to come see him at his office the very next week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2015

I found some new insight and direction on this subject in a classic book by Jan Yager, Ph.D., “ Put More Time On Your Side.” Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject.

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