TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. Karat, a startup building a bank for creators. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. The best communities then become your advocate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Reserve some time each day for your favorite blogs and influencers, follow up with social networking and expand your personal contacts offline. Learn from the challenges of a startup with a low-risk idea before you bet it all on the big dream. Find a business mentor, as well as a friend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2019

Everyone knows that that startups are risky, but they also expect that the job will be exciting and potentially very lucrative (think early employees at Facebook and Google). The truly indispensable person in a startup is a problem solver, because every startup has plenty of problems. Pay attention to your image.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Smart people only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

By the way, I don’t spell check my blog posts either. I try to speak at universities, high schools, startup accelerators?—?as He has a startup you’re going to love. I’m on all of them and they’re all used in some form for business communications. I’m not an elitist a **e. Some people get REALLY annoyed with me for that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.” Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Based on my experience and data from the field, over seventy-five percent of new startups fail, even with venture backing. I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Most consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance. Startups earn relationships and resulting stature the same way. Scarcity – less is more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

You will be the best entrepreneur when you make your new startup personal, and keep your heart in mind along the way. Start wherever you can to grow beyond the phone, texts, and email, to a blog, photos on Instagram /Pinterest, or YouTube. Get comfortable with your difference in thinking, and commit to run your business your way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every entrepreneur and every startup needs to have a clear “elevator pitch,” which identifies a unique strength and value they bring to the table. Use blogging, outside publication, and speaking or mentoring opportunities to establish credibility and stand out above peers. Market yourself both inside and outside your current job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2019

Image via Flickr by jardenberg Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. Yet it is the one element that too many entrepreneurs focus on only as an afterthought.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

These days, by starting a blog or publishing on the Internet, you don’t have to be a social butterfly to get supporters and be recognized as an influencer. Increase your visibility and expertise in your domain. Develop and practice your business vision and story. It should end by asking for the next step in the relationship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. The key social media platforms today include communications (Wordpress blogs, Twitter), collaboration (Evernote, StumbleUpon), and multimedia (YouTube, Flickr). hits all the right points from my perspective: There are risks as well as benefits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

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. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. People judge you and your company in the first few seconds. Handling different media formats.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

These days, if your startup does not have an Internet home base up and running, you are not ready for business or potential investors. In fact, you can set up a web presence these days on social media alone, by creating a company page on Facebook, company profile on LinkedIn, or a free blog with static pages on WordPress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2019

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Engaging in social media and blogging on a regular basis is a low-cost way to achieve visibility, and become the “go-to” person for that topic and the voice that people trust in your industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

Every employee or entrepreneur needs to build a competitive reputation on the Internet, through a website, blog, LinkedIn profile, and social media. With one of these, the step into the gig economy will be much less painful. Build your reputation and visibility beyond your company. Market your business expertise.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

For our interview today, we talked with CEO and co-founder Jon Grishpul about the startup, which offers up its services for free to homeowners in the Los Angeles area. Encino-based GreatBuildz (www.greatbuildz.com) says it's a high touch, concierge service. What is GreatBuildz? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2019

Whether you are seeking to build a startup or advance in your career, you can’t succeed without starting, and you need to embrace failure as the key way to learn and adapt. Test interest in a new product, before you spend money building it, by presenting it to the market in a blog or through crowd funding.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Last week, I profiled an e-commerce startup Part & Parcel. If you don’t subscribe to Startups Weekly yet, you can do that here. Startup Spotlight: Landline.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In startup world these days, the word “biotech” is increasingly accompanied by “computational” and two, two-letter initialisms: AI and ML. Another startup looking to take advantage of those improvements, South San Francisco-based Genesis Therapeutics, has scored $4.1 Andreessen Horowitz, also.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

From the moment Talia Frenkel resolved to found a company after a kitchen-table talk with her parents, the odds were against her. There were a host of reasons—she wasn’t a software engineer, she had no product development experience, and she wanted to launch a consumer item that was already sold widely by established enterprises.

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Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2019

Katelyn O’Shaughnessy already had a solid track record, selling TripScope , a travel startup she co-founded in 2013, to Travefy two years ago. Women, finding themselves outside of the club, are now creating their own networks to do the same.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2019

Ackerman (pictured) is founder and managing director of San Francisco-based VC firm AllegisCyber , and co-founder of Fulton, MD-based DataTribe , which helps launch startups grounded in the expertise of former federal cybersecurity experts at the National Security Agency and other government units. His portfolio companies.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ]

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Biotech startup Meissa Vaccines , which aims to fill that treatment gap, announced today it raised $30 million to fund early-stage clinical trials for its experimental RSV vaccine. The startup is a resident company at Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s facility JLABS in South San.

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Xconomy

APRIL 8, 2019

billion into startups nationally during the first three months of 2019, the second largest amount for any quarter since at least 2006, according to data released overnight by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. Venture firms sent $32.6

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2019

Pensa, an Austin startup. “Something like one out of eight or 10 items is typically not in stock.” Inaccurate inventory costs retailers $1.1 trillion annually, according to IHL, a Tennessee firm that specializes in retail and hospitality research. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2019

The partial government shutdown could soon become the longest shutdown in history, and biotech firms that have submitted regulatory filings are facing greater uncertainty about their future plans.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2019

Fearlessness. Ruthless focus. These can be positive attributes in an entrepreneur, but in a more rational world, technology investors wouldn’t overvalue them. Risk capital would be allocated based mostly on evidence, data, progress towards milestones—in short, on proof. In the real world, of course, proof is hard to come by.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The list of activities our smartphones can control grows daily. Transfer money? It’s simple. Order groceries? Turn off the bedroom lights? How about contraception?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

His firm, Phase Genomics was one of the first startups to come out of UW’s genome sciences department. As a first-time entrepreneur working from UW’s incubator more than five years ago, Liachko says he didn’t think much about the rarity of genomics startups spun out of university research.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 25, 2019

View the Slideshow The cost of doing business is always on the mind of startup executives. Much of the math comes down to how much money you can raise for your business, and startups often look to San Francisco and Silicon Valley to find the capital they need. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the capacity of the most sophisticated conventional processors, and do it much faster.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

Yet, new startups—aided with tech tools like artificial intelligence, chatbots, and the like—are trying to reinvent how to connect shoppers with the goods they want to buy.

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