Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, instead of quick slide presentations, teams at Amazon write six-page memos to lay out ideas in narratives to be read in silence at the start of a meeting. Make sure they are seen as based on metrics, and belong to the performer. It’s your challenge to learn how to use social networks and video facilities effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. I have found that the process of writing down your idea, with a plan for implementation, and reviewing that plan with a business advisor, will force you to learn and acknowledge the real requirements for implementation. Build a strong team around you and learn from them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2020

It’s up to you to constantly look for options inside and outside your own network, and be willing to make the adjustments to capitalize on them. Put it behind you by setting your own realistic metrics for success and happiness. Then write them down. Be prepared to experiment. Build the courage to “think different.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

Even if it’s only a few PowerPoint slides or typed paragraphs, writing something down is the first step toward making it real. Always write in the future tense, what you will do, and name yourself as the key person responsible. Create a specific plan to network to get the help you need.

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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. Communication and writing skills are required. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. ROI entrepreneur startup metrics social media business'

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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. Communication and writing skills are required. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Attracting key stakeholders requires sensitivity.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. You are writing about the essentials of business. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” That's great.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. The post amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder appeared first on TechZulu.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. More importantly, start cultivating networks of friends who have a sense of pulse on the frontiers of the economy. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days.

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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. Communication and writing skills are required. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Attracting key stakeholders requires sensitivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

VCs will spend over a year networking just to position around one founder or one deal, and if they lose it, it’s gone.” I’ve seen you write a $10 million check before. He called me 15 months later excited to show me his metrics and wanted to talk about his A round. Competition is fierce. But I always ask.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

Yet from my own years of experience in the startup community, here are 10 common steps that have worked for other entrepreneurs: Write a "job description" for that ideal partner. Take a hard look at your own business strengths and weaknesses, and write down what partner skills and experiences would best complement yours.

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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. Use strong communication and writing skills. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Attract key stakeholders with sensitivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Writing down key parameters will force you solidify the specifics, and mentally commit to them. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following. This is the point where you must manage to metrics, work on the culture of the organization, and look for partner-based growth.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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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. Communication and writing skills are required. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Attracting key stakeholders requires sensitivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It’s up to you to constantly look for options inside and outside your own network, and be willing to make the adjustments to capitalize on them. Put it behind you by setting your own realistic metrics for success and happiness. Then write them down. Be prepared to experiment. Build the courage to “Think Different.”

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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. Communication and writing skills are required. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Attracting key stakeholders requires sensitivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2015

It’s up to you to constantly look for options inside and outside your own network, and be willing to make the adjustments to capitalize on them. Put it behind you by setting your own realistic metrics for success and happiness. Then write them down. Be prepared to experiment. Build the courage to “Think Different.”

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

users and the over 3 million job positions the professional network fields each month. Writing in March, the New York Times’ Kevin Roose had an answer that will hit Bay Area-bound tech workers where it hurts: Their wallets. The Bay Area is holding strong population-wise, but that isn’t the only metric to consider.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Develop your business plan. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?”

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

We spent a lot of time talking about what type of company we wanted to create, how many employees we’d eventually have, whether we would take funding, our lifestyle, and a dozen other things that had nothing to do with writing software. Semick: We’re a very metrics driven company, and we have been from the beginning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?”

Startup 95

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Develop your business plan. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” An ad network (the middleman) might sell $500,000 in ads. The advertiser who bought the ads might pay the ad network in 60 days.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: What is great about Anderson, is it has so many programs to help you streamline your ideas, come up with viable idea, and articulate the vision and asses the market, write out business plan, learn how to pitch, how to do a long investor pitch, how to do fast pitch, and learn effective, entrepreneurial specific networking.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

A lot of what we've been looking at are the metrics. In many cases, the developers might be working on building a new app and need some capital to put behind that, and they might be getting monthly checks from the ad network, but they just don't have the time to fully optimize those apps from the monetization perspective.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also provide the consumer a slew of tools, that will help them upload their resume and manage their online identity, plus we also have a resume builder function, detailed metrics on exactly who is viewing their resume, and the ability to create and manage multiple versions of their resume. Plus, we will provide resume writing services.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Anima Sarah Lavoy – Connect , Geo locational convenience for your social networks. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. For those who’ve been to SXSW, you’re in the know – and the social aspect is just as important as the daytime events, talks, networking, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We write and create our own content for the game. We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! We leverage our network in the Los Angeles community to provide members with access to potential employees, mentors and investors. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues].

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. That’s what AOL was.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). Not so bad.

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