Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. The challenge is to find the time and initiative to keep up with the information wave, and be able to curate the data into knowledge that must be learned, unlearned, or relearned. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 7, 2012

Plus anyone who knows the book industry is well aware that it’s close to impossible to hit an epic pay day from writing a book unless you’re Harry Potter or Twilight. Most auth ors write from a place of passion and a desire to share. To entertain us and/or inform. Cheers to discovering a real return on using social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Customer expectations of a relationship and personalization are stretching every business today, and pervasive use and confidence in social media by customers can override all your image building and marketing messages. Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. The challenge is to find the time and initiative to keep up with the information wave, and be able to curate the data into knowledge that must be learned, unlearned, or relearned. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. Poor thing had to write this parable and broadcast it through social media, just to get her point across.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2021

People sense quickly when you are withholding partial information, perhaps in an effort to protect them or mislead them. For example, you would never use the same words and tone in an email, text message, or on social media. Don’t bury them in so much information that attention spans are exceeded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2015

If your business is to be a thought leader in the social media world, the dominant system of grading how much influence you have online today is your Klout score, as explained in a recent book, “ Klout Matters ,” by Gina Carr and Terry Brock. If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Build a team.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2013

If your business is to be a thought leader in the social media world, the dominant system of grading how much influence you have online today is your Klout score, as explained in a new book, “ Klout Matters ,” by Gina Carr and Terry Brock. If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Continue to learn and grow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

If your business is to be a thought leader in the social media world, the dominant system of grading how much influence you have online today is your Klout score, as explained in a book on this subject, “ Klout Matters ,” by Gina Carr and Terry Brock. If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Build a team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. But first you need to know about Reg D filings. ” Funding IS the story.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2011

It’s similar to American Idol , but they judge more on your song writing ability rather than your ability to cover other songs. We ran contests where selected winners won their own custom jingle write by Jes. Great brand and great artist – they could write a jingle together. We know that social media is an investment.

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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. You need somebody who is helping push out information on what is up-and-coming in the company. I write on my blog how I think in my head.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Develop an efficient and effective writing style. Blogs are a great way for potential business partners to find each other, and build a social media relationship before getting into the hard negotiations of who gets how much. It's the first step to full use of social media marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

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. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. The challenge is to find the time and initiative to keep up with the information wave, and be able to curate the data into knowledge that must be learned, unlearned, or relearned. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. Here''s how they pulled it off.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Even when using Wi-Fi at a familiar business, you could be putting your information at risk. Open Wi-Fi provides hackers with numerous ways to access your device, and you could be exposing everything from usernames, passwords, personal data, medical information, or bank account numbers or anything else stored on your laptop or phone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Writing a blog is all about communication, and that’s your number one job as founder of a new startup. Trying to write something down for someone else to understand quickly, will tell you if you really understand it yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2016

The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. The challenge is to find the time and initiative to keep up with the information wave, and be able to curate the data into knowledge that must be learned, unlearned, or relearned. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Writing a blog is all about communication, and that’s your number one job as founder of a new startup. Trying to write something down for someone else to understand quickly, will tell you if you really understand it yourself.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. Here''s how they pulled it off.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Whether it be taking in information, learning, executing, or increasing our output, or investing it into relationships and health, this is the goal for the time we gained. founder, Steve Cunningham, this is exactly the thought process he went through when developing a product to help you take in and use information faster.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

This is a highlight video from the event, to view the full discussion click here : “Where’s Waldo”, a social media discussion featuring great panelists, experts in the social media craze: - Jonathan Rosen, Lucky NY. to capture information that will help you connect with them. Cameron Olthius, 5ones.com.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

It gives us the ability to do what we love, which it to create engagement and content that people find entertaining, informative, and authoritative, and moves an audience, and introduces the right kind of selective sponsors and clients to that engaged audience, in a respectful way. It ends up being good for both. That is amazing.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

As I write this article, Crash Course stands at 83% of its pledge goal, with nearly 10,800 fans funding the show''s production costs for its upcoming season. Next up was Nick Tran, Taco Bell''s "Social Media Lead." Border Run. This sponsor-driven presentation had the makings of a boring, self-serving talk.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Be interested in what they write.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Between social media, blog posts, TV and the Internet - your phone is always on you and buzzing, push notifications, everything. So there''s no limit to the amount of information that''s bombarding you on a daily basis. We have businesses that we would like to build, or books that we would like to write.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

On myfab5, people rank their favorite places instead of giving them star ratings and write bite-sized reviews instead of writing long reviews. To answer these questions you begin reading multiple reviews for multiple businesses until you feel you have enough information to make a decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

Give people information that’s “too small” or otherwise not important enough for mainstream news sites, such as restaurant inspections, building permits, and fire department dispatches. Give people ways to control which types of information they get and how often they get it. to their blocks, with a sophisticated level of targeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. PHONE CALLS.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

I provided information for my customers to make their lives easier.&# A really good sales person can get people excited and get people to tell you information they won’t tell other people. Certainly if you look at eCommerce & social media – women are the ones using these products. Say very little.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

Have you found a way to best link your potential marketing leads in social media into activity that leads to more business?”. Write down the customer pains so you’ll have them for later. Open questions equals a treasure trove of information to mine for pain points. Do you see that at all inside your department?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

ExplorerB2B is a free to join exclusive network of experts who share information that matters to you and make sure you expand your professional network, interact with a relevant audience and present your expertise. The result was a social platform especially built to serve the needs of Business-to-Business interaction and networking.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Social Media. You can search Technorati to find the most popular blogs on the web across various categories.Make sure to reach out to bloggers personally and build a relationship.Leave comments on their posts, link to them from your site… do that and when you approach them to write about you, you’ll find a welcomed reception.

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