Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Communication and writing skills are required. Pick the right platform for your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. An informal writing style is generally recommended. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Conversational style. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. An informal writing style is generally recommended. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Conversational style.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The world is filled with doubters who say that things can’t be done and then pronounce after the fact that they “knew it all along.&# Look at Google. You no longer work for Google, Oracle, Salesforce.com or McKinsey where everybody calls you back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Communication and writing skills are required. Pick the right platform for your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Use strong communication and writing skills. Pick the right platform for your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. An informal writing style is generally recommended. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Conversational style.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. I notice, for example, that some CEO’s on Twitter never do anything but parrot their companies news. I write on my blog how I think in my head.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Communication and writing skills are required. Pick the right platform for your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

We can all point to examples of successful entrepreneurs who dropped out of college, but still went on to make a big impact. It also shows that survival prospects are higher if the owner has at least four years of college, like Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, and Andrew Mason of Groupon. Business networking is key.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Communication and writing skills are required. Pick the right platform for your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. If you want to see that discussion it is here and its especially fun because we also debated Google Groups, which went on (after the interview) to buy Dmitry’s company so he now works there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

We can all point to examples of successful entrepreneurs who dropped out of college, but still went on to make a big impact. It also shows that survival prospects are higher if the owner has at least four years of college, like Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, and Andrew Mason of Groupon. Business networking is key.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. Enter Google. So it is unsurprising to see companies like Sony, Logitech & Intel partner with Google. It will involve 3d (see Nintendo’s moves , for example).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Communication and writing skills are required. Pick the right platform for your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. An informal writing style is generally recommended. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Conversational style. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. If one vocal person blurts out, “just give us the details, we all know social networking&# don’t assume that person speaks for the entire room.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Let me give you some (real) examples: - You were an EIR at a VC firm who isn’t funding your current company. - million for a social networking site 18 months ago. Google has announced that they are planning to compete with you. - Google has announced that they are planning to compete with you. -

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer. Here’s some examples you can infer from the social data: @SnoopDogg has more Twitter fans in Texas than he has in New York. Not so on Twitter.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

There are many signs to look for when receiving candid feedback from your customers, here’s a few examples of things Make It Work customers say and what we are doing about it: Customer (from a Delight Survey email): Why don’t you offer billing as an option, rather than require payment on demand at the end of the appointment?

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you want it to be private, for example if you're a consultant or teacher, you can share it with a pre-identified audience for that knowledge by publishing it privately and inviting others to log into Knowledge Genie to share that knowledge. The second example, is you can publish it in public. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2010

Giving examples and showing you some advantages you get from joining specialized social networking sites is what QuitFacebookDay.com is all about. Currently there are about 11K+ committed Facebook Quitters and counting from the time I started writing this post. The site gives you a few alternatives to Facebook as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. Let me give you a non tech & thus non politically charged example. Back to my non-VC example. Mostly, no.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing. Anima Sarah Lavoy – Connect , Geo locational convenience for your social networks. Mike Norman – WeFunder , bringing crowd investing to the world.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? but: Something is Still Missing. Where is it?

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