Frank Addante

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I was skeptical and had a lot of issues with giving up control of my inbox, but I’m hooked now. I scan/fax documents to Evernote that I want to keep. DropBox (Cloud Document Storage): Service to safely store documents in the cloud so you can access from any computer or mobile device. It works amazing well.

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Tool Tips Yammer Organization 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. Only real results count. Attract a well-rounded team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Follow-up and persistence are a rare natural phenomenon. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Business Email and Texting. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment.

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Class Course Email Social Network 140

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

Everybody who signs up knows the trade they’re making and frankly if they don’t enjoy it there are hundreds of other places they would work that don’t have this lifestyle choice. And it consulting & banking you rise up to be relationship managers but in law you still need to be the s**t hottest at your legal practice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Good entrepreneurs are all about managing change, but too many forget that they have to change themselves as their dream evolves from a startup to a scalable business. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. So what are some of the most common revenue models being used by startups today? It’s great for customers, but not for startups, unless you have deep pockets. Competing on price alone is a good way to kill your startup. Feature pricing.

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Pricing Product Startup Competition 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. Only real results count. Attract a well-rounded team.

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Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

We caught up with Artin Nazarian , the firm's co-founder, and chatted about what the company is hoping to do. Instead of using things like Excel documents to track guest lists, or Word to track table numbers, we've automated and applied technology to make what has been a mundane and very manual task. Where is the site now?

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Social Media Seed Funding Startup Design 174

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In addition to the P2P deals covered below, on the show we also talked about some of my favorite financing startups ( Wonga in the UK run by Errol Damelin , who is a superstar) and Affordit.com run by serial (and I mean serial!) They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. LendingClub.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. We then spoke about startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It’s naïve to think you can sell below costs, and make it up by attracting more customers. The challenge is to get the first million customers, before advertisers will sign up. Facebook spent $150 million getting started. Expect extra costs for development, testing, documentation, and support.

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Pricing Customer Custom Advertising 66

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. Labinot Bytyqi: The whole idea came up when I was working in the corporate world.

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Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. So what are some of the most common revenue models being used by startups today? It’s great for customers, but not for startups, unless you have deep pockets. This is a very costly development, testing, documentation, and support challenge.

Pricing 116

Pricing Product Customer Custom 116

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Follow-up and persistence are a rare natural phenomenon. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Business Email and Texting. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment.

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Course Email Social Network Ideas 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. So what are some of the most common revenue models being used by startups today? It’s great for customers, but not for startups, unless you have deep pockets. Competing on price alone is a good way to kill your startup. Feature pricing.

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Pricing Competition Customer Custom 112

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. But investors know that sleeping giants do wake up, the moment your company shows some traction. Executive team.

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Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Path , the developers of the eponymous app for the iPhone, has come up with a mobile check in app with a focus on who you’re with. At a recent hackathon, the company saw that their users also wanted to selectively share their moments on public social networks, such as Twitter. The picture is optional.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. But investors know that sleeping giants do wake up, the moment your company shows some traction. Executive team.

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Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. Here are some tips which will signal traction to investors, as well as your team: Document your business plan. A great business often starts with one person, but it doesn’t end there.

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Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

In school, you''re taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Until then, the best alternative I can recommend is to sign up for job internships at every opportunity, while still in school. Business Writing for Email. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

TechZulu caught up with Kaleio founder & CEO, Jim Riley who promised that Kaleio is giving students or non-executives tools needed to succeed as until now, there hadn’t been a platform for them to directly and professionally network with others within their desired industry. Below is our interview in detail.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Start by writing a draft of your reference. For instance, is your reference for graduate school or a job at a startup? startup, capitalized growth stage, large, established company, etc.). Such reciprocal references are worthless, especially when they are published on a social networking platform.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

It's a very linear process, and allows them to capture knowledge and link to centralized resources that relate to a topic, including documents, pictures, files, video. You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

They are starting to expect their name to appear at the top of Web sites, personalized e-mails, and even advanced checkout options that suit their habits. U sers can now interact in real time on documents, collaboration, including making changes. Tags: entrepreneur startup opportunities web 3.0 Extended personalization.

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Web Web 2.0 Doc Examples 88

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In school, you''re taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Follow-up and persistence are a rare natural phenomenon. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Business Email and Texting. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment.

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Course Email Social Network Ideas 104

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. When I founded my first company along with Brian Moran (whose idea it was) I had no real experience running startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

They are starting to expect their name to appear at the top of Web sites, personalized e-mails, and even advanced checkout options that suit their habits. U sers can now interact in real time on documents, collaboration, including making changes. Examples include Second Life and Funsites. Extended personalization.

Web 95

Web Entrepreneur Doc Examples 95

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Until then, the best alternative I can recommend is to sign up for job internships at every opportunity, while still in school. Business Writing for Email.

Course 97

Course Writing Slides Email 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Follow-up and persistence are a rare natural phenomenon. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Business Email and Texting. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment.

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Training Course Email Social Network 57

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. But investors know that sleeping giants do wake up, the moment your company shows some traction. Executive team.

Invest 74

Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. While I’ve updated it a few times, it continues to get at important questions that startup founders need to be asking. Web Application such as Web Mail or a gated Social network. What do they do?

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Startup SEO CTO Coach Web 150

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

They also have a new management team, that’s headed up in part by Michael Jones (COO), the most all around talented internet executive I know. Having grown up in LA, and having started Docstoc down here, there’s a bit of a shared connection. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks.

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Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

Either way, don’t assume that the entire room is up to speed on your company. I would try a line like, “I know that some of you might be social media experts and others may be less deep on this particular area. Other times the partner wants to test whether there is support before sinking in tons of due diligence time.

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.

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Invest Entrepreneur Startup Equity 89

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.

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Startup Invest Incubator Ideas 87

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I promised to do this post as a follow-up to the session to provide additional links and information. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending.

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Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 338