Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2015

The common term for this is networking, but I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs like to do all the talking about their latest new idea and fail to listen. Reserve some time each day for your favorite blogs and influencers, follow up with social networking and expand your personal contacts offline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

I have intentionally broadened the hype-cycle definitions from their traditional hard-technology application to include soft technologies, such as social networks and entertainment. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/14/2015. Where is your solution in the hype cycle?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2015

Based in Calabasas, CA and fresh from its SXSW debut and launch party, the new open messaging app onLoop hopes to reshape how we use social media to communicate. The post Social Messaging App with Super Powers “onLoop” Debuts at SXSW appeared first on TechZulu. Apps Social Media Startups Messaging App Mobile onLoop SXSW 2015'

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins (pictured) and FDA commissioner Rob Califf spoke on a call this afternoon to update the Precision Medicine Initiative, or PMI, which President Obama unveiled in early 2015. “In medicine, ‘one size fits all’ is often far from an optimal strategy,” Collins said.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2012

The social networking giant has not disclosed the amount it has set aside for the 420,000-square-foot building at its Menlo Park, California campus or how much Frank Gehry is cashing in on this deal. He added,”From the outside it will appear as if you’re looking at a hill in nature”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Groupon’s purchase of Whrrl suggests that Groupon will soon be leveraging location based social networking or "check-ins" on their popular group coupon site. Leave tips where your contacts go (maybe similar to what History Channel does on Foursquare). Track the competition.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

They bought Periscope in 2015—a live streaming platform with an appealing and easy user interface. When you’re the fourth place network, things aren’t going great. But if you can make the right moves, the right choices, at the right time, you can become the number one network. And, most recently, they introduced “ Moments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

This is only an educated hypothesis but I’ll bet it’s pretty close to grounded in reality: Everybody saw “The Social Network” and everybody has a belief that suing will net them millions whether they’re in the right or the wrong. Lawsuits are particularly common amongst co-founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Median valuations went up 3x in just 2 years, followed by a precipitous drop in Q4 of 2015. Even Sequoia.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. But when you fast-forward 1 year to 2015 5 out of 7 were down rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005).

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