Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. Allocate time for active participation in relevant outside industry conferences, and public panels or TED talks that look ahead. Be self-starting and tenacious on key challenges.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

This week the SBW2012 Conference in DC offers sessions geared for small businesses including a Social Media forum, Business Matchmaking, and Federal Contracting 101. The conference ends with the Champion Awards Dinner. Olympic athletes are very familiar with the high standards set by coaches and judges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

These days, even with the pervasive Internet and social media, it still takes time and money for your marketing and customer communication efforts to have an impact. The reality is that building a business always takes longer than anticipated, so don’t quit your “day job” until revenue is flowing.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Lisa is a skilled public speaking coach. A couple of weeks ago, I met the infamous @jeffpulver, co-founder of Vonage, author of the Pulver Order , and creator of the #140 Conference (the premier conference on Twitter and the real-time Internet.) About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Lisa is an a skilled public speaking coach. A couple of weeks ago, I met the infamous @jeffpulver, co-founder of Vonage, author of the Pulver Order , and creator of the #140 Conference (the premier conference on Twitter and the real-time Internet.) About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

You need them not only to close business, but also to keep internal productivity and motivation high, and to use their own social media and friends to spread the word. Facilitate participation in industry conferences and networking. Provide cross-functional mentoring and coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers. These might include anyone bringing in a new customer, representing the company in a good social cause, or participating in a video or social media campaign on their own time. Encourage networking.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs. Attend an investment conference. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. Use visibility and social media to pull clients in. They expect reviews and testimonials from other clients.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. and Schlumberger. Make it Simple to Manage Business Or Close Deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

And Coach Campbell. I’ve heard directly from top executives that Jeff Bezos (in my opinion the most talented person in the tech industry) has received his fair share of VC coaching in the early years. The best VCs I know take 11pm conference calls. I use social media. Not according to my sources. I create videos.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. I don’t think they serve investors well.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. But longtime ICPC student coach Antonette Logar, Ph.D., In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. I don’t think they serve investors well.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. John Wooden, US basketball coach. Bargains Galore.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. He wanted to know how to get started and “Could I intro him to a couple of local angels?&# One night after a DealMaker Media event we got 20 minutes together after the event ended. Entrepreneurs have a way of doing that. “Why?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

5) As an investor, I frankly find it tiresome the degree to which entrepreneurs attempt to hype their companies by integrating “social networks and social media” into their pitches. I think it takes emotional maturity that I did not have while building FUEL to be able to synthesize information from advisors take the coaching.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

Four days off the grid – with no clocks, technology or media – a chance to getaway from the fast paced world and truly recharge. These are not networking events, summits or conferences where people exchange business cards, or meet-ups where we create opportunities to make contacts that further our careers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

The book itself raises your visibility through media coverage. Once you have a book, media coverage can come from book reviews and academic discussions, as well as from you and your customers. The book can also give you access to speaking engagements, television interviews, special events, lecture halls, and people’s minds.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In addition to coaching and mentoring, I want to put them in the game of investing into startups. NON: At one of our inaugural Pipeline Fellowship conferences, at the end of the day, a woman approached me and told me how she was skeptical about being an angel investor. Pitching isn’t a zero-sum game.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

When you would fund a company in a space--say, digital out of home advertising--people would point to Focus Media being worth $6 billlion, and you would suddenly see five companies each raise more than $10M, and some raising $20M, at extremely high valuations. If you're one of the ten finalists, you get intense coaching.

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