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. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services.

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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

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Blogs are a great way for potential business partners to find each other, and build a social media relationship before getting into the hard negotiations of who gets how much. Let that ideal co-founder find you. Start today.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2016

Social networking continues to be a superior force in marketing, especially Facebook. percent of all social network ad spending worldwide. billion in 2015 alone. How can your company best benefit from social networking ads in 2016? According to emarketer.com , Facebook earns 65.5 That was $15.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Skip the costs of payroll, office equipment and employee benefits by using remote contract services and low-cost freelancers available online. Take advantage of social media and free websites for marketing. Site marketing is easily extended through blogs, Twitter, Facebook and social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

In fact, for startups, it usually makes sense to announce your solution on social media and blogs even before you have built the first one. With social media and inexpensive website tools, you can build momentum in the marketplace without the need to spend money on a big-bang rollout. Proceed with caution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2016

You may also be able to barter your services to offset theirs. For services, don’t be afraid to ask for a retainer up front to offset your costs. Popular examples include monthly subscription fees and optional service fees, versus one-time product sales. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/25/2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

Second, videos that we do share end up in fragments across Facebook, Instagram, cloud services, email or text messages. The backend services to enable scrolling, click-and-watch, scroll forward with minimal buffering, etc. Imagine if your friends could all contribute the Burning Man 2015 album and create a group story.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Incorporating a business entity early through online services. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Bryce Maddock: TaskUs is the best provider in the world of customer care and back office services for emerging growth companies. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. We do a whole host of other back-office services in that space. So, what is TaskUs?

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The objective is not to delay payments, but to avoid the expense or capital payment altogether, by working in house, bartering for services or just doing without. With today’s social media and crowdfunding platforms, you can effectively test the waters before you build. Cushion your investment requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2016

Use interactive social media and targeted marketing to go after the customers that you want and need. Playing favorites is good business and good customer service. Don’t be afraid to raise your prices as you add special services. Eliminate services that you can’t support well or are being misused.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, if a company website generates extensive visitor traffic at a particular point in time, the enterprise may continue to serve customers without obvious interruptions in service because its cloud-based server architecture permits the distribution of visiting traffic among servers in different locations. Greater Niche Functionality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Product distribution or service delivery. Investors look for specifics on sales channels, marketing collateral, social media initiatives and customer incentives. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/18/2015. Physical products often require access to existing distribution channels.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. 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. One of the stars of 2015 was undoubtedly Slack.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. Watson has many services that developers can use to create their own programs.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. Watson has many services that developers can use to create their own programs.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Serge Gojkovich: CurbStand gives customers the opportunity to go up to our valet stands, and know that those stands are there, and that they don''t have to have cash, and we''re just now launching on-demand services where those customers can request their car. What''s your strategy behind geographic expansion--has that been difficult?

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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. They bought Periscope in 2015—a live streaming platform with an appealing and easy user interface. What Twitter looked like soon after launch in 2006. A tweet was very similar to text messaging.

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