Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2010

With as many as 400 million blogs (web logs) now active on the Internet, how can you find and read the ones you need to be a leader in your business domain? Business site expert blogs. Blog aggregators. Most bloggers, and many other news sources, are also active on Twitter. Community bloggers platforms.

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Blogging News Startup Sites 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. .” Now we know the the company: MediaLab.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. While Pinterest and Tumbler have seen activity increases approaching 100%, The Verge reports that Facebook usage has declined in the U.S.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. It's been a big week for Jeff Bezos. What is Amazon Getting from the Deal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

In a blog post in May, Google announced it would begin reopening its offices from early July this year. This was only to allow those staff who wanted or needed to come back, and was done on a “limited, rotating basis”, the blog said. Remote Working: What Is Twitter Doing? Remote Working: What is Facebook doing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The two platforms are both huge in their respective markets: By connecting TikTok's audience with small businesses online everywhere, this team-up could offer a lifeline to business owners amid a rocky economy. The platforms will add additional ecommerce features down the line, though they're a little vague on what those will be.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

Aggregage , the platform that powers StartupRoar has added a powerful personalization engine. The site will look at your activity on these sites and the content of what you share. You can partially control your interests via the Subscription page as shown below: This will change over time based on your LinkedIn and twitter activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? million monthly active users who are creating more than 32 million text messages per day! Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

For example, you might block your working day into half-hour segments, and never allow any activity or meeting to take too much of your time. Start wherever you can to grow beyond the phone, texts, and email, to a blog, photos on Instagram /Pinterest, or YouTube. Expand your communication media world. We need more of you!

Framework 139

Framework Startup Entrepreneur Ideas 139

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. YouTube as a platform in which to build your entire business is naive. I think most arguments miss the mark. post-script.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? For the new platforms and all the rest, that’s where tracking and testing comes in.

Social Media 59

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 59

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. While Pinterest and Tumbler have seen activity increases approaching 100%, The Verge reports that Facebook usage has declined in the U.S.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Snapchat Platform 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

Social Media 66

Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Marketing Snapchat 101

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Concentrate your efforts on two to three platforms to start. Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. You need executive buy-in, committed budgets, and education for the whole team on objectives and activities. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users).

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

Social Media 91

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

For example, you might block your working day into half-hour segments, and never allow any activity or meeting to take too much of your time. Start wherever you can to grow beyond the phone, texts, and email, to a blog, photos on Instagram /Pinterest, or YouTube. Expand your communication media world. We need more of you!

Framework 126

Framework Startup Entrepreneur Ideas 126

socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Today, we have Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars (www.techstars.org), which has been very active this year in the startup accelerator and mentoring area. This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. What was the biggest news from you or your firm this year?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? For the new platforms and all the rest, that’s where tracking and testing comes in.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Platform 108

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2011

Then we rolled out a communities product which lets people create their own community using the Lunch platform. That way, when someone comes into your community and starts looking at what's going on in there, there is already content, and already activity going on within the community. So that's what the Lunch Network is.

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Content Software Review Technical Review Sites 242

Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

Sunnyvale, CA-based CrowdStrike, as an endpoint protection and response platform, uses next-generation antivirus software, scans for behavioral indicators of malicious activity, and deploys other threat detection measures to prevent cyberattacks and mitigate harms when they occur.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

It's a full range of activities. Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation. Twitter started as a mini blogging platform, but now it also wants to become more of a media company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I don’t know Ezra yet but since he’s taking the time to blog (which I hugesly respect) and share thoughts I thought I’d take him up on his challenge and also spill the beans on my secrets. On blogging I blog because I love it. Mostly I’m Blogging for the Hell of It, Not Blogging to Stay Relevant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. Tumblr – “Microblogging platform&#. Blogging has gone through many iterations. Other deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

I built it on a platform given to me for free by a company that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars of which I receive value. They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. Sometimes the platform can be right about their business but the market loses.

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