Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

As an entrepreneur advisor, I am surprised at how often I hear the same or very similar proposals of an incremental innovation to an existing process, versus a really new or breakthrough solution. But we all know that these are not solutions by themselves, but require integration into an innovative framework to solve real customer problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

I support her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data. Centralized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2016

Finding your sweet spot as an entrepreneur needs to start with a meaningful personal purpose that is also a business opportunity. Many entrepreneurs are finding their “secret sauce” these days by combining a strong purpose with a good business opportunity. Delight and deliver value to your customers.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

As I discuss in Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop , there are situations in which a startup can generate profitable, near-term revenue that does not support, and may even undermine, its long-term strategy. We know this is a feature that’s good for customers. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.’

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Anyone who works with entrepreneurs will tell you that all are different. Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. The Opportunist is the speculative part of the entrepreneur in all of us. Of course, discovering your entrepreneur type is only the beginning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data. Centralized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

The company is all about data solutions which combine meaningful application frameworks together. I was a principal engineer facilitating the integration and connectivity of the ServiceNow platform into these other systems. So how far along is your software now, and have you rolled this out to customer yet?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media. Long-term sales.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

I ended up going to Lockheed Martin as Chief Innovation Officer, doing AR and VR work, creating a virtual framework used for training by the defense department. I realized, as we were building this, this multi-user collaborative platform was so powerful and neat, we should make ti available now, before the full operating system was done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media. Long-term sales.

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Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

As discussed in Hiring Entrepreneurs, the impact of each new hire during your startup’s early days is tremendous. As noted in Optimistically Pessimistic , successful entrepreneurs are indifferent as to the specific tactics they must employ to accomplish their fervently held strategic objectives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

Too many entrepreneurs still believe that “if we build it, they will come.” Every entrepreneur needs a strategy, and some metrics to measure what’s working and how much it costs. The first challenge is to resist falling prey to the latest “shiny new thing” online – new platforms, channels, and tools.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

The very mention of the word fundraising can illicit some powerful emotions among entrepreneurs. On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. Where SeedInvest Sprouted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2010

She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data. Centralized.

Social Media 89

Social Media Startup Software Review Social Network 89

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. By not forcing the publisher to go through a Gaikai portal where they tried to control customers, they engendered trust from the publishers. I agree with him. Is that a real trend?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Soon into college he realized that a career as a professional athlete is not what he wanted and instead quickly caught the entrepreneur/startup bug. Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best. Online Awareness.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Mobile app?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

12,000 apps currently on the platform. ” Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator – a platform for building network-connected mobile apps across native platforms. Desai enthusiastically states, “It’s a great time to be an investor and an entrepreneur.” What’s the most valuable kind of customer?

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