Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Really!). Other deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

I still see too many aspiring business leaders highlighting their technology, product features, and price, more than customer value and usability. Now customers judge you by your visibility to them at public forums, your writing, videos, and what other public figures say. Take an active role in a higher cause or social reform.

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Customer Custom IBM IBM 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. People like free.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

These have the benefit to VCs of not cross-collateralizing returns and to LPs of being able to know the underlying asset before they write the check. We are connected at speeds 400x faster and this is about to explode into significantly greater speeds with 5G that are the equivalent of a platform shift c. We are now all social.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list.

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Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

Based on a survey just last year by Robert Half Technology , over half of today’s companies block social networks completely, while another 19 percent only permit it "for business purposes." Social networks have become a great vector for Trojans like Zeus and URLZone. To me, the answers are clear.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. And so it goes with social networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media.

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Press Entrepreneur Social Media Training 96

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

And I find that platforms like Twitter, IM and even Facebook carry much less “obligation&# to them. Your email is your recipients social obligation. It’s not just the spammers or marketers trying to sell you products or services. And when I have time I try to write back. I understand that. But not always.

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Email Startup Writing Blogging 265

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform. We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly. Great products solve painful real problems, and are not just “nice to have” or “easier to use.” A new easier to use social network may not get anyone excited. Building a product is not the same as building a business.

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.Net Examples Customer Custom 73

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. We grew out of an interesting use case.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

MIIGLE is a LA-based social network for entrepreneurs and innovators that recently launched its Beta version. The platform enhances the process of turning ideas into entrepreneurial ventures and growing startups through social collaboration. So Luc , you call yourself a ‘Netrepreneur’ and social entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The traditional way to handle that is to write code. Dustin got his orientation from the founders of Goldmine, and saw that there was lots of value in the fact that Goldmine needed to be integrated with products like Excel, Outlook, and other software. We can deliver a very functional, automation platform for less than $2000.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Members can also enhance their expert status by writing informative articles and position themselves as a contact person for other professionals to get information from. The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Networking on exploreB2B is based on publishing and communicating via articles.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform. Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. It’s an awesome implementation.

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Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. As we know, developers always give their product a code name. The platform is global and has the ability to allow for frictionless payments all over the world between 1 billion people.

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. An informal writing style is generally recommended. Many now skip the separate static website.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. That changed very quickly.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media.

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Media Social Media Startup Training 55

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media.

Press 105

Press Social Media Startup Training 105

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

million for a social networking site 18 months ago. Instead of BS’ing me he said, “we spent 18 months building out our product and a set of graphic editing tools when we realized we had developed in the wrong platform. We rebuilt everything in Flash and now have a better product. You raised $1.5

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Venture Capital Startup Training Sales 264

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. Why am I excited about in-stream advertising then?

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media.

Training 93

Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

We literally had 5,000 to 10,000 SKUs to get our products out worldwide. So, we really built some innovation into our platform, to make it ubiquitous in the mobile space. We're really competing with the product that came with your phone. Those are almost like little social networks built around a topic.

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Gogii Mobile Activision Electronic Arts 200

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing.

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Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application. You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. 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. call to arms. What truth?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice. We then captured this conversation again on camera. We then spoke about startups. I totally agree.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

MySpace HAS followers, what it doesn’t have are people excited to promote themselves on their platform. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks. Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review.

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Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. They are not the generalists required for new product startups. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation.

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Entrepreneur Services Product Search Engine Optimization 89

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing. Anima Sarah Lavoy – Connect , Geo locational convenience for your social networks.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

Their view was that HTML5 would allow them to replace the notion of having to download a Facebook App into your phone or tablet, and release them from the idea that they have to have nine different apps on different platforms, and have to maintain all of them. When there is a new platform, there will be new entrants as well.

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Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

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. Every 1:1 meeting you’ve had to date has been collegiate and productive. tip: write it down when asked / parked). Congratulations. A lot, actually.

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. The unique part of this company is their Internet-of-Savings® platform that helps users multiply savings for big ticket items and create a shared experience. LexiconAI (San Francisco, CA). The Mentor Method (Washington, D.C.).

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