Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

As of today, I will have published an article here for entrepreneurs and startups every day for the last 1001 days, since I started Startup Professionals Musings near the close of 2008. It’s been a great ride, but it’s now time to dial it back a bit, and focus on some other priorities. Blogging is a learning process as well as a sharing one.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

My articles never appeared on Digg so I didn’t focus on it at all. So in those years where you were simply submitting articles to Digg there were a cabal working together that would undermine you. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I had previously believed that the world of user-generated news sites were run on a open, crowd-sourced model. What I learned 18 months ago is that sites like Digg traditionally have not been “crowd sourced&# so much as “mafia sourced.&#. but I wanted to be sure I wasn’t writing just for my mom.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

According to Demand Media, it now has more than 6,000 freelancers creating content for the company's network of sites via its Demand Studios arm. Demand uses freelancers to write how-to articles, produce videos, and other content to attract Internet traffic to its web sites. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! Although it is difficult to directly track the impact of these sites, the expanded exposure from these sites has certainly augmented my overall traffic. Article Title. Generated > 500 Tweets, from Technorati, BusinessInsider and my site. I was not disappointed. All Time Rank.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Santa Monica-based eHow, an online "how to" site owned by Demand Media, said Wednesday that the firm is seeing an increase in economy and personal finance related articles, due to the economy. Demand Media is the well funded Internet media venture of former Intermix CEO and MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting. We appeared in a prominent article in the Financial Times. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. Don’t drink it.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Our goal in this article is to paint a realistic picture of how to think about performance early in the life of an application. This article is focused on the server side, but we encourage you to also look at your application holistically. And retail sites are not alone; all sites will silently lose visitors who are made to wait.

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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. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. And retargeting is a hot industry.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Provisional filings are especially beneficial for startups because: You gain a year to write a thoughtful, defensible patent without delaying your filing date. The money you pay your intellectual property (IP) lawyer should be judiciously spent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. We have a number of curation and publishing tolls that let our users write metacontent and annotations on the content, and to create fresh content feeds they can place on their website, in a newsletter, on mobile, or on social.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? TechCrunch article. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! I used to get up at 5:00 in the morning with my father and go to construction sites. In Sarah''s words, "I started reading a lot of articles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

They cite sources like Profitable Venture Magazine, “ Why Business Plans are a Waste of Time ” and this Forbes article. In fact, they are probably in such a hurry to give you money that they don’t want you to waste time writing anything down and passing it along to new investors. On the other hand, your mother probably won’t read one.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. That’s what AOL was.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

Equally important, if someone does find your site, your content must stand out above all similar sites, to keep visitors engaged, close a sale, and get customers to return. One of these is blogging, to let people know about your brand, provide links to supportive articles, and generate back-links to your content from other sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was sick of hyperbole articles pronouncing that VCs were “scared or AngelList&# or “it was disrupting VC&# or some other BS exaggeration like that. He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

This article discusses java.util.EnumSet. If you write a lot of Java code, then you should read that book and follow its advice. The iterable.spliterator() method is critical when it comes to stream performance, but writing a custom Spliterator from scratch is a non-trivial task. and java.util.EnumMap. What are they? Conclusion.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! It was not possible to replicate this strategy at Expertcity, as a tour of an office in which people were writing software code did not have the same allure. Rookie Draft. Team Building Fun – It is summer after all, so keep it fun.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

They cite sources like the BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this Forbes article. In fact, they are probably in such a hurry to give you money that they don’t want you to waste time writing anything down and passing it along to new investors. You need money, and plan to do crowdfunding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

They cite sources like a recent BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this NY Times article. In fact, they are probably in such a hurry to give you money that they don’t want you to waste time writing anything down and passing it along to new investors. Clemson University professor William B.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! I was writing them multi-seven figure checks each month, because they were generating tens of thousands of customers. The More Things Change, The More Things Change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Jeff Bezos didn't get to be the world's richest man by writing a lot of checks, and one recent way to keep Amazon's profits healthy has been to cut its affiliate commissions scheme. A host of bloggers and publishers are seeing their revenues massively dented, from tiny BBQ grill review sites to the hugest media organizations around.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Members can also enhance their expert status by writing informative articles and position themselves as a contact person for other professionals to get information from. Networking on exploreB2B is based on publishing and communicating via articles. These articles are sorted into industries and categories. Competition?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. An informal writing style is generally recommended. An informal writing style is generally recommended.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I am constantly reading articles, stories and books about and written by fascinating people. Many times I think that it would be awesome to have a conversation with them, but typically write off the idea because the process for access is too difficult. Our revenue stream will come from huddles that are paid for on the site.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Evidence of this was seen in late November 2011, when Foursquare announced they will be incorporating a new “ social sharing ” button on their site. accessing the Internet, it is important to have a “mobile ready” site for easy mobile reading and utilization. Getting Mobile-Ready. Resolving Mobile Couponing’s Redemption Pitfalls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

This article wasn’t actually from a single interview, but the result of a couple of conversations with a co-founder of Rap Genius , the wildly profiled lyrics annotation site. Current stats: Their site has over 30 million users with mobile app that has pushed well past a million downloads since its January release.

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