Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Others, like Guy Kawasaki , have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent enhancements or omissions that can kill your deal. It takes a huge upfront investment to attract users, before advertisers are interested. Entrepreneurs in this category are usually dreamers.

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Funding Startup Innocal Entrepreneur 98

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. We had to find other, more diverse ways to allocate our resources and grow businesses.

CTO Hire 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We want to become a resource for people with those kinds of questions, and want to be able to provide answers, points of view, and accurate information and options for them, to make the most of their purchases, or make the most of what they already own. We meet with a lot of talented entrepreneurs, with fantastic startup ideas.

Incubator 239

Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2012

The school aims to prepare recent college graduates for life working at a startup; and more specifically how to deliver and make progress in an environment filled with unknowns and various resource constraints. Something a “corporate” job would not do.)

Education 86

Education Startup Software Review Technical Review 86

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free.

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Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In that same post Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret where he argues to make things open, he defines only one group of people that you may want to avoid having a conversation with: The handful of people in the world who might copy your idea are entrepreneurs just starting up with a very similar idea. " Ummm.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

They were putting online advertisements through Google Ads to solicit people to rent equipment, who could not figure it out on their own. We went a little too fast, and took on too many categories at first. Entrepreneurs are great at coming up with ideas, but it takes a different kind of person to really scale a business quickly.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In that same post Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret where he argues to make things open, he defines only one group of people that you may want to avoid having a conversation with: The handful of people in the world who might copy your idea are entrepreneurs just starting up with a very similar idea. " Ummm.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill.

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Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x eCommerce is hot again!

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts). Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press.

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Personally, I've been an entrepreneur for 15 years, running companies with P and L responsibility for divisions, and watched with frustration as the Internet has grown up around us. I couldn't find them, and was frustrated by the lack of resources for B2B buyers. So, the core revenue model is online advertising.

SEO 100

SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. We hope that the platform will allow entrepreneurs a streamlined transition to an accelerator program, financing or to otherwise launch their businesses.”. Post navigation.

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Sherman Oaks Riot Games Tips Redpoint 44

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On the legal side, my practice in North California and we have an advertising and media group in New York City. When you had an explosion of content developers that wanted to be in LA with all the resource that the entertainment industry has available here, all the creative people want to be here. There will be some problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. I have had this discussion with many a first-time entrepreneur. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. You can search Technorati to find the most popular blogs on the web across various categories. Search Engines. Be creative and persistent.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Ran gold Resources Ltd. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Will a third-party pay (advertisers, data companies)? Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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