Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2019

Examples include the Theranos failure brought about by Elizabeth Holmes’ inability to work with her team, the early Apple setback due to differences between Steve Jobs and John Sculley, and the travails of Uber under Travis Kalanick. Don’t assume others are intentionally being difficult.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. I rarely see the tech team do this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

As Clay Christensen aptly points out in The Innovator’s Dilemma, a large company’s defense of its legacy clouds its ability to appropriately assess the potential impact of disruptive technologies. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 8, 2013

Maybe it could work for someone, but I don’t personally know of any examples in which a young company was able to whip up investor interest through a cold email. This is sort of a repeat of my last tip, but such an important one that it bears calling out on its own. Avoid cold contacts. There is a way out of this cycle.

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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. Let’s say your a junior developer, marketer, product manager, biz dev person at a startup or well-established technology company.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. Of the 225 customer reviews currently posted on Amazon, over 90% are highly positive. I enjoyed the book as well, as evidenced by the review I wrote at the time of its release, which you can read HERE. It wasn’t the Guy fan base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and popular news sources. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access.

Search Engine Optimization 88

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InfoChachkie

MAY 6, 2013

This is due to a fundamental disconnect between the increased activity of high-volume seed investors (that fill out lots of Seed rounds) and the relatively small number of Series A investors, who only make 1 or 2 investments, per partner, per year.". A from a new outside lead. There are no villains in the current Series A drama.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. Quality tech news from around the web. The Japanese government failed to pay out billions of yen in government benefits for years due to faulty data. What a boring mess. Written by Arman Tabatabai.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We are also getting ready to re-launch blog.makeitwork.com which will provide a landing page for all things tech, both from our hundreds of daily appointments solving consumer electronic problems and our content from Tech News. Here’s a couple of tips for you from the CEO of a tech services company (that’s me): 1.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We are also getting ready to re-launch blog.makeitwork.com which will provide a landing page for all things tech, both from our hundreds of daily appointments solving consumer electronic problems and our content from Tech News. Here’s a couple of tips for you from the CEO of a tech services company (that’s me): 1.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2013

In addition to being a classic children''s tale of good versus evil, the film also contains some surprising 2013 job hunting tips for joining a startup. This agreement generated tens of thousands of dollars of value due to an advantageous chargeback clause. Not Of Middle Earth, But Still Relevant. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access.

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Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 15, 2015

These tips require a lot of hard work and effort on your part. But if you follow these eight tips, you will certainly make your business leaner and meaner. The customers will continue returning to your business due to the personal connections you make with them. New Technology. Simple doesn’t mean easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2009

The week before your meeting 2 people need to cancel due to travel conflicts. After all, most people are good for a few introductory emails. My view on how to best implement advisory boards : If you do decide to set up an advisory board, here are my tips for how to do it the right way. People like to help. What do you think?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 16, 2015

Listed below are the basic troubleshooting tips that you can go through to eliminate hours without Internet connectivity. This is due to small errors inside the unit and by simply restarting your device, you can stop all these problems from happening. Restart Your Machine. Change Connections.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

An interesting note: This entire conversation and subsequent article was prompted by an unexpected email – “Hey, let’s cover this. It’s a promotional video for a technology company. With this suggestive video tip, we decided it’d be a great time to sit down and catch up with them. And they do what?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). We told the horror story of the company that originally owned the URL groupon.com and lost it due to not having a trademark. &# A: Yes.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2015

According to Talent Development , 46% of remote employees say they feel isolated due to a lack of face-to-face contact with team members. The Harvard Business Review reported that picking up where you left off after an intermission forces you spend a few seconds thinking globally about what you’re ultimately trying to achieve.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

For instance, a travel site might contain travel tips, along with ads for great deals on vacations. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . In many cases, editorial content in an email newsletter is an effective manner of acquiring customers. I was dead wrong.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2011

For those that wish to return the favor or just show off their city to global travelers, become a host in your city or ambassador and show others around and they even have a tipping system. This means you must possess a valid email address from a recognized university or company. Triptrotting is pretty user friendly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

But more broadly it got me thinking to one of the biggest mistakes tech executives get into in the first place. But you’d be surprised how much tech folks either hold journalists too much on a pedestal or disdain them. If you’ve got good ideas for a story – shoot it over to them in an email. Total waste.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 4, 2015

Technology advances so quickly that within a couple years, many of these devices are pretty much useless for their original purpose. I spent a lot of time (and some money) on iCamPro , which has a lot of good reviews but was very complicated. Tips For Turning Your Camera into a Security Device.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

What's the technology behind this? We've been innovating over the last fifteen months, and have to patents pending on the technology right now. With all due respect to the business here, this is barely at the tip of the iceberg-even though we've delivered 11.3 Eric Frankel: It was "be careful what you wish for".

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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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? AOL was just coming online, it was the beginnings of email, and the beginnings of the web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Investors are wary of initial surges due to friends, family, and early adopters, so sustainable growth rates over time are key. Build an experienced technical and executive team. If you don’t have revenue, it definitely is valuable to have orders, letter of intents, value testimonials, or even calls returned and email responses.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There’s no question of the monstrous boom in popularity and success of ‘Deal of the Day’ business models, and for good reason, due to a volatile world-wide economic climate. Staffing gets all over the place, service quality goes down, tipping becomes lacking; it’s a major issue for venues. Especially in LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

For the next four days if you’re in the tech industry you’re going to hear a non-stop stream of information about SXSW. They have fun & meet tons of interesting people and they confuse this with the need to do be at every major tech event. Yes, it’s partly due to ADHD. We just hung.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. You can also email us at ha@hackerangels.com. Productivity.

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