Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

One of the original classics, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network. Don’t skip all business social settings. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

Based on a survey just last year by Robert Half Technology , over half of today’s companies block social networks completely, while another 19 percent only permit it "for business purposes." Social networks have become a great vector for Trojans like Zeus and URLZone. To me, the answers are clear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

One of the classics, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

Now customers judge you by your visibility to them at public forums, your writing, videos, and what other public figures say. Take an active role in a higher cause or social reform. In the past, credibility came from a position title and the size of your business. No business leader can be all things to all people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

One I read a while back, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

In a classic one I read a while back, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Most of them suffer from lack of activity, but it's worth a shot. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

One I read a while back, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

One I just read, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2012

Twitter , the 140 character social site is popular with a whopping worldwide estimated user base of around 140 million active monthly users with 400 million tweets daily according to CEO Dick Costolo, but two new startups launched late last month to seek and battle out Twitter at its own game.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Where I use the Discussion Group: * Ive not been very active in the discussion group on particular topics. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. million monthly active users who are creating more than 32 million text messages per day!

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. Omidyar Networks – head of investment. What is Zunguz? Why the name?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

You can also establish authority by writing and public speaking. Actively participating in social media is the place to start, including blogging and positively responding to customer feedback, to build a growing crowd of followers. Show your ability to build customer consensus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it. You're quite an active investor, as well - are you still making investments?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Malte: Disruptive, open and transparent, social, active, insomniac, positively aggressive. I mean, Miselu is as new and bold as it gets; in the new world of content creation freedom, in a industry that is rapidly changing to a world of new young talents, and first to the scene. Yes, that is bold.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Our focus is providing anyone who is active online already with the ability to leverage their existing social networks for monetized one-on-one conversations. From there the user promotes their access to their social networks through our easy social sharing, and others can come to their public profile and request a huddle.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The event is open to tech enthusiasts who want to join an event filled with some of the top leaders, investors and mentors from tech industry to network, find mentors and build their companies. For active job seekers, the platform will introduce school districts that will be a strong fit. AdWallet (Albuquerque, NM).

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

But the key is that if you want to sell your company you need to have active relationships with potential future buyers. There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing. Are the write ups worth doing or not? People also buy for defensive reasons or ego but that’s a different story.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

The reason passwords don't work, is because if you want a stronger password, when a system forces you to use a certain number of characters, or put numbers or special characters into a password, people can use keystroke logging to force themselves into your network or your PC. C can you talk about how you ended up at Confident Technologies?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. Social networking meets online personal health management. Measuring my daily activity. Next up for me is measuring my daily activities. We’ll see. Enter Withings. But wait, there’s more !

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. Currently 35% of time spent online is using social communication the other 65% is spent doing non-social activities. We then spoke about startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. I remained active. 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. I stayed on the platform.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks. MySpace’s active users on average have less discretionary income than Facebook’s active users.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. We have 2,000+ users signed up for our Beta.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). the world’s largest celeb endorsement network).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This includes writing product specs, going on sales calls, handling customer complaints, building the financial model and a host of other activities that will ultimately owned by functional experts. I always encourage young entrepreneurs now to flip burgers for as long as they can.

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