Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In my role as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that most have the technical challenges well understood, but many are a bit short on some basic street smarts , or basic business realities. With information overload due to the Internet, you need to find your customers, rather than assume they will find you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

The many crowd funding platforms on the Internet, led still by Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , were expected by many to put regular people in charge of funding new opportunities, and kill the need for angel groups. Of course, both are impressive, but still small compared to over $300 billion from VC investments annually.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2020

While there have been a number of statements on Twitter from various investors about how they’re doing deals and open for business, Grill is making sure the community can be coordinated so companies no where to turn and investors can find businesses to back in an age of Zoom diligence. PLEASE RT to spread the word.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Amazon used its popular affiliate program to spur additional growth, getting reviewers and publishing sites – including us here at Tech.co – to link to Amazon in exchange for a small payout whenever a reader bought something by following that link. Best for: Authors, book reviewers, booktubers. Best for: Bloggers, news publishers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Turns Out There Are Competitive Moats There were some tech meme’s out there last year that scooter companies had no moats. While the Bird Zero has shown massive improvements, as you can imagine the company has built an entire vehicles team and designed an entire roadmap of scooters that will hit the roads in 2019 / 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Yet the number of businesses looking to build on the Facebook platform seems to have increased. They looked unstoppable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. Facebook’s market value tumbled many billions in 2018 due to users’ decreased confidence in the platform. Marty Zwilling First published on LinkedIn on 04/14/2020. Develop new venture models for tougher ecosystems.

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