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. The days when you could launch your business with a new web site, and the phone would begin to ring, are long gone. Make your customers your platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Together they envisioned a Match.com type of site for entrepreneurs to find each other and make things happen. By November 2012, CoFoundersLab Meetups had expanded to 20 cities. The online site looks at personality assessments, compatibility, industry, distance, and roles. Soon after CoFoundersLab was accepted into D.C.’s

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. The curated design and photography-driven entertainment site is where GIFs and memes intermingle with stunning photography, video and the ability to purchase in app. Santa-Monica based Tapiture has grown in traffic by 300%, monetized from year one and raised $2.25

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She floundered a bit working with contractors before finally settling on an agency to build her first site for $20,000. How’s that for an ex painter?

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

In 2012, Gartner formalized their Big Data definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Big data can mean big profits. Let me hear from you. Marty Zwilling.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

A Google survey from July 2012 calculated that more than half the small businesses in the US are still without a basic website. It will cost them too much and will create more work for them once the site has been deployed. And with 20% of traffic coming from smart phones your site has to be mobile friendly.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

A Google survey from July 2012 calculated that more than half the small businesses in the US are still without a basic website. It will cost them too much and will create more work for them once the site has been deployed. And with 20% of traffic coming from smart phones your site has to be mobile friendly.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

Here is a YouTube marketing case study they did. 12,000 people signed up in the first 48 hours after the Dollar Shave Club video went live in 2012. To keep tabs on YouTube’s rising stars check out the site VidStatsX. They were the first company who truly demonstrated creating great video content can make your brand.

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