Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. Today’s platform is built of people, including yourself, followers, and contacts, who can amplify your message through social media and spread it to your target customers.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

My 16 year old was living with his mom this past year as my business of 12 years went under in June of 2012. It was an awesome company with a cult-like following and over 40,000 customers in Socal. I emailed each of his teachers for confirmation. I helped him study and I made it fun. You get what I mean. Yep, really.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2013

Whether it’s a business or personal interaction, multiple studies show that as much as 50-65% of the communication is nonverbal. That means that people addicted to text messages, twitter, and email may be sending only half the message, and receivers often misinterpret even that half. Email volume just continues to increase.

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Eric Greenspan

MARCH 25, 2013

I had suppressed much of what happened prior to and after that day, June 25, 2012. In 2010, after my 5th talk, USC Marshall School produced a case study about the customer centricity offered by the company. When I woke up that Sunday morning and received an email that our investor had pulled out, I knew it was over.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

That''s why people tend to gravitate towards SMS messages, rather than something like email. How difficult has it been to get your customers to understand the exposure with SMS? Some of the first customers we had were in obstetrics. Having that support is a huge, important thing to unlock lots of growth in our customer base.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. was founded in February 2012 by a team of passionate music fans.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

The Digital Detox Retreat September 13-16, 2012. We handle all the logistics and details, provide you with an entire schedule of customized activities, and make sure that your experience off-the-grid is everything you are looking for. As technologists living online in real time all the time, it is easy to lose perspective on life.

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