Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. They also identify clearly the five key social media mistakes that business often make, along the following lines: Diving in without a strategic plan. Not having a social media policy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. The Internet is the source of data for alternative views, and social media allows direct customer interactions to test these views. Learning means understanding, far beyond memorization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Limit the features and complexity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

When globalization or technology shrinks distances (Internet), painful missing needs become evident, and opportunities abound. Truly “disruptive” technologies. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool. Usually, people pay to relieve pain before buying luxury items.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2019

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” What entrepreneurs forget or don’t realize is that most customers are wary of all technology, educating the market on new technology is expensive, takes a long time, and people buy problem solutions rather than technology.

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Technical Review Technology Startup Social Media 87

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Limit the features and complexity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2023

The more potentially disruptive your technology, the more important it is that this message be quick, simple, and quantified. Is there an educated marketplace waiting? An educated marketplace is one where your target customers already understand the problem and the impact of your technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. The Internet is the source of data for alternative views, and social media allows direct customer interactions to test these views. Learning means understanding, far beyond memorization.

Social Media 127

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now outdated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. In the interim, I recommend you use advisors, social media, and the Internet to find your alter-ego.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Los Angeles has been in the midst of a technology boom over the last few years, with many of high profile startups growing in the area. We spoke with Bryce Maddock , founder of TaskUs, about the company and how it has been providing the manpower behind a lot of LA''s technology startups. So, what is TaskUs?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The more potentially disruptive your technology, the more important it is that this message be quick, simple, and quantified. Is there an educated marketplace waiting? An educated marketplace is one where your target customers already understand the problem and the impact of your technology.

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Startup Education Ideas Customer 166

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

When globalization or technology shrinks distances (Internet), painful missing needs become evident, and opportunities abound. Truly “disruptive” technologies. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool. Usually, people pay to relieve pain before buying luxury items.

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Customer Custom Startup Outsource Development 167

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. Book smarts represent your current depth of understanding of technology and business concepts. Education and expertise: formal and self-learning. Intelligence and insight: book and street smarts.

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Help Mentor Paramount Technical Review 130

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2017

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” What entrepreneurs forget or don’t realize is that most customers are wary of all technology, educating the market on new technology is expensive, takes a long time, and people buy problem solutions rather than technology.

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Technical Review Technology Startup Social Media 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur Report 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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Entrepreneur Tips Startup Education 137

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Human-experience design always supplements technology-driven design, and environmentally sustainable design. With the advent of interactive social media, as well as high-bandwidth video tools, there is no excuse for not involving real customers, and prospects who fit the desired demographic.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

TechZulu is excited to invite you to a fireside chat with Greg Cargill, VP of Client Services and Social Media at BLITZ. Greg will share his experience on how to Successfully Build and Sell an Effective Social Media Marketing Agency. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza & Drinks!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2013

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” The concept of disruptive technology was first introduced by Clayton M. " At this point, there can more social capital in saying that we don''t like the technology than that we do. We don''t quite get it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

You may dream of developing a new silicon chip technology, but a bit of research should tell you that most disruptive solutions take billions in investment, and more time than you can afford for acceptance. Assess your connections, both social media and financial. You can’t really succeed in life if you are not happy.

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Social Media Writing Ideas Resource 105

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

Here one can list pervasive search engines, access to extensive information repositories, consumer aids, entertainment, education, connectivity among humans, etc. On the other hand, it has led to excess and control in a number of domains. If we ask what we could have done to mitigate some of these problems, one can easily name two.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2022

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” What entrepreneurs forget or don’t realize is that most customers are wary of all technology, educating the market on new technology is expensive, takes a long time, and people buy problem solutions rather than technology.

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Startup Technical Review Technology Social Media 89

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. It''s good news for us, but it''s also good news for Los Angeles technology. Tell us about the new fund? It''s the single best.

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Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2021

We see evidence in the news every day of these irresistible forces of change, like the pervasive global penetration of the Internet, the impact of terrorist activities even to peaceful countries, the power of social media in building business relationships, and the depletion and pollution of natural resources. Societal upheaval.

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Marketing Startup Entrepreneur Social Media 135

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now outdated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. In the interim, I recommend you use social media and the Internet to find your alter-ego.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Technical Review 107

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Here are a few of their key points, with my own insights added: Workers today are more educated and aware of options. In this age of millennials and social media, individual workers are more driven by the greater good, work-life balance, and peer culture, than by organizational pressures.

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Outsource Training Organization Social Media 133

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Human-experience design always supplements technology-driven design, and environmentally sustainable design. With the advent of interactive social media, as well as high-bandwidth video tools, there is no excuse for not involving real customers, and prospects who fit the desired demographic.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. The Internet is the source of data for alternative views, and social media allows direct customer interactions to test these views. Learning means understanding, far beyond memorization.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Education 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

This could be fighting some government bureaucracy with your technology, or “supporting” unhappy customer efforts against an unpopular competitor. Include marketing initiatives to educate and help customers. On the other hand, one of the best ways to strengthen your own community is to provide leadership against a common enemy.

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Marketing Startup Examples Customer 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

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Startup Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur 124

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Working in the film and event industry for many years, Taylor Freeman decided to put his career on hold and travel around Europe reflecting on what is important and discovering his true passion, technology. “My I saw so many different applications for virtual reality in education, entertainment, mental health and communication,” he said.

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