Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

San Diego-based StockTwits , the stock and financial focused micro-messaging service headed by Howard Lindzon, has launched a new, threaded conversation feature on the site, which ties together responses between people on the service into a threaded view, allowing users to better follow the train of replies and responses on the site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 118

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Usually these are revenue-generating e-commerce sites, or have the potential to be revenue-generating. These days, accessible starts with being visibly listed online, in lieu of the now old-fashioned rental sites and swap-meets. For utilization to increase, assets need to be made accessible. Community means more than supply and demand.

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Resource Commerce Social Media Platform 126

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Get support from credible industry groups and partners.

Outsource Development 154

Outsource Development Social Media Software Review Customer 154

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Recipe Suggestions for Culinary Sites For culinary platforms or recipe websites, user searches can be incredibly varied, given the diverse range of ingredients and dietary preferences. Moreover, LLMs come equipped with an extensive knowledge base derived from the vast amounts of data they've been trained on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

People with the wrong tools or no training. It’s no secret that some people are more productive than others, due to skills, training, or commitment. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media.

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Outsource Development Outsource Metrics Technical Review 122

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Press Social Media Startup Training 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

With the advent of instant communication and social media, customer service starts at the first hint of interest by you, and never ends for repeat customers. One bad customer experience will kill not only one customer, but many future ones, who hear the message via social media and friends. The world has changed.

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Customer Custom Company Companies 84

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Gabe Rivera wrote a post on why TechMeme is now using its editors to curate titles that appear on its site. It an era of social media and newsreaders titles matter a lot. So I need to stand out in two areas in which I compete for attention – social media and news readers. So do images.

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Writing Buzzfeed Social Media Blogging 326

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Sometimes just including training and installation makes a product more attractive. With the widespread popularity of social media, I now see many businesses looking at niche market interest groups, such as sites for travelers, hunters, cancer support, and crafts. Break existing bundles into separate packages (unbundle).

Startup 112

Startup Ideas Examples Entrepreneur 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Media Social Media Startup Training 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Startups need outside experts who can do the work, as well as provide training on what needs to be done. It’s time to adopt your customer’s favorite mode of communication, whether that be texting, phone calls or social media, and not limit responses to office hours. Google and social media have transformed the business world.

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Services Startup Software Review Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Usually these are revenue-generating e-commerce sites, or have the potential to be revenue-generating. These days, accessible starts with being visibly listed online, in lieu of the now old-fashioned rental sites and swap-meets. For utilization to increase, assets need to be made accessible. Community means more than supply and demand.

Commerce 98

Commerce Social Media Platform Class 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders. Every one of you has had to deal with the conflicting requirements of optimizing your business in the short term versus the long term.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

From a marketing marketing perspective, that allows filmmakers to quickly and easily promote their films through social media and build a fan base, and incentivize fans to support their films by offering access to exclusive content, livestream video chats, and production updates, as an example. It's all about execution.

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2011

If you love to travel and you’re all about the not so touristy stuff you may have just struck social media gold. Mostly geared towards college students and young professionals, users can log on fill out a profile and be paired up with users of similar interests on the site. The key to the site is all about compatibility.

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Social Media Startup Sites Tips 89

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2018

I’m talking about using the new digital channels of blogging, social media, and influencers more creatively to “pull” people to your solution, and make them advocates. This is the new art and science of marketing. In fact, you need to understand that marketing itself has changed, as much as all the other elements of business.

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Marketing Startup Examples Technology 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2019

Sometimes just including training and installation makes a product more attractive. With the widespread popularity of social media, I now see many businesses looking at niche market interest groups, such as sites for travelers, hunters, cancer support, and crafts. Break existing bundles into separate packages (unbundle).

Startup 90

Startup Ideas Examples Entrepreneur 90

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. We streamline strategy development using a Reality-Based approach, then execute cross-media programs including websites, brochures, ads, booths. It has been fun to get to know her again.

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Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Use social media for more visibility. It’s time to adopt your customer’s favorite mode of communication, whether that be texting, phone calls, or social media, and not limit your responses to office hours. Adopt a project-based revenue model with metrics. Adapt your style to the new business work models.

Social Media 56

Social Media Software Review Customer Custom 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

Social Media brings that to the forefront again because we’re [again] interested in the one to one interaction which was so terribly important back in the 80′s when companies were trying to optimize service.” In terms of UX, Reiss says that right now everyone is focused on social media.

Social Media 101

Social Media Design Los Angeles Media 101

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it. We want to help you monetize your knowledge, your skills, and your social media. Our team has a passion for e-commerce, and we also have athletes and others on our team.

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Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In addition, like an entrepreneur with a new business, you have to factor in all the indirect costs previously covered by employers, including training, health care, and time off for vacations. In fact, thinking like an entrepreneur is a good strategy today for success, even if you are currently in a long-term employment situation.

Startup 98

Startup Outsource Development Competition Social Media 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

Usually these are revenue-generating e-commerce sites, or have the potential to be revenue-generating. These days, accessible starts with being visibly listed online, in lieu of the now old-fashioned rental sites and swap-meets. For utilization to increase, assets need to be made accessible. Community means more than supply and demand.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Commerce Social Media Platform 111

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about? How did DealPerk.com come about?

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Their executive training program was unparalleled, providing a sturdy foundation for young and highly motivated buyers. Muther: We were very careful when launching our first eCommerce site. Our second site will be launching in August 2016, followed by a third eCommerce site in Spring of 2017.

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Sites Sales Santa Barbara Design 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Most people have heard of Foursquare for local nightlife and Airbnb for rooms, but other nationally recognized sources for local services are still hard to find, including social media, local news, advertising, and event calendars. Business founders need deep pockets for this model. It has to be a win-win process.

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