Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Scott, just published a new book that I like,” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media. Social-media advertising. Postal Service ; the amount has been increasing each year. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/1/2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are entering the mainstream for mobile users, but I’m not sure why. If you think location-based services are a long way from mainstream, take a look at the new 2012 Digital Study.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). Build platform services that provide more value to our startups than just money (putting our fees into our ecosystem and not just our pockets). ” I promise to disclose that deal when/if it closes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services. business entrepreneur investment IPO social media startup'

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. At the time, it was doing Facebook media buying for e-commerce companies. And then bit by bit, we grew the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

These days, I’m hearing more and more about Location-Based Services (LBS) as the next big opportunity for startups. As outlined by Adam Holden-Bache recently on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, along the following lines: Strategic partnerships.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 7, 2015

For two plus decades, Steve has been a pillar of the LA startup community leading innovations in Internet, mobile, social media, app development, eCommerce, and now, digital currency technologies. In the early 90’s, Steve helped DIRECTV launch the first commercial satellite TV service in the US and Latin American.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. billion by 2014. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Calls are changing but not dying. There are 2.9

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/26/2014. Cashflow can be drastically reduced by working out of your garage. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

This is a whole new world for startups seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are transforming the smartphone Industry, but only for consumers. Juniper Research forecasts that by 2014 the global opportunity for LBS will reach $13 billion, and Global Industry Analysts projects that by 2015 the global LBS market could be $21 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with free services to increase their valuation. The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most are still confused about the right priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group or opinion survey. You need to find just enough information to quantify the real need out there for your product or service. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/15/2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Manage customer service. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/24/2014. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2014

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that''s a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. Try bartering services you have for something you need. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/29/2014. So hang in there and get busy. “I

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Attendees include startup CEOs, accelerators, VCs, investors, Hollywood movie and music studio execs, agencies, fashion, content creators, social media gurus, developers, designers, and more from LA, Silicon Valley, OC, San Diego, New York, and international. Plus VIP-only parties and other networking events. Register for a 5-6?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This year’s TZ #startupforecast (Jan 28, 2014) was no exception. In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. 2014 looks to be the year of emerging technologies (wearables, bitcoin, etc.)

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. To comment on the rocky state of Bitcoin affairs in the last 30 days, does Dan believe we’re past the worst of a media firestorm? Setting Up 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/31/2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Parlor is the first app to allow freelance stylists, barbers and makeup artists to set their own prices, manage their schedules and build their clientele by bringing their services directly to your home or any location you choose. DigiSynd manages Disney’s brand presence in the social media space. Sold it in 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 7, 2015

Becoming increasingly popular in 2014, many employees are bringing their own laptops and other devices to the workplace. Other issues include: data loss, service traffic hijacking, malicious insiders, and shared technology vulnerabilities. Bring Your Own Device Trend (BYOD). How can you combat security issues surrounding it?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

Top media giants Facebook and Alphabet are determined to grow this number with the introduction of various airborne devices designed to bring internet to the far corners of the globe to boost their revenues. In 2014 digital time spent on mobile exceeded that of desktop. The global online audience currently stands at some 3.2

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It was, and still is, an incredible customer service tool. I sold half of my Twitter shares in June 26th 2014, for $41 a share. They introduced native video opportunities in 2014, and views and usage grew very quickly. I stayed on the platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

As a result, they can customize tech solutions to different automakers and service providers (including car major rental companies) and deliver car connective solutions that include media & entertainment to information feedback and diagnostics.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. These days, there are more Internet guys at the Vanity Fair Oscar party than traditional media players.". Back to Top « Customer Service. than in other parts of the city.

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