Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn). Traditional marketing is sales-focused, one-way push.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

According to a recent social media industry report , 92 percent said that social media is important to their businesses, and more than half report it helped them improve sales. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. Traditional marketing is sales-focused, one-way push.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. Traditional marketing is sales-focused, one-way push.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

He taught me, amongst other things, the benefit of “ top down thinking &# that changed the way I analyzed markets, companies and people. Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses.

Technical Review 302

Technical Review Marketing IP Outsource Development 302

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

So I ask you – if you’re being reactive to somebody else’s emails are you really being as productive in your company as you could be? You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. I submitted a term sheet to a company yesterday.

Email 314

Email Product Startup Writing 314

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. You could just outspend.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

If you are in this category, first know that you are not alone, but then you need to take a look at the advice given by Patricia Sigmon in her book “ Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Service-Based Businesses.” Reward employees who make an extra effort to represent the company inside and outside of work.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Sales 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. Bijan Sabet – investor & board member in some small companies you might have heard of like Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee & OMGPOP – took issue with the whole notion that you even need a Powerpoint deck anymore. I would mostly lump me in that category.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

If you are in this category, first know that you are not alone, but then you need to take a look at the advice given by Patricia Sigmon in her book “ Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Service-Based Businesses.” Reward employees who make an extra effort to represent the company inside and outside of work.

Startup 94

Startup Outsource Development Sales Social Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. Traditional marketing is sales-focused, one-way push.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

The New York Times recently ran an article titled, “ Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind.” The premise of the article is that in an increasingly online world ruled by techies who don’t want to talk on the phone, the era of being able to call the company in which you do business is winding down. Let me explain: 1.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

If you are in this category, first know that you are not alone, but then you need to take a look at the advice given by Patricia Sigmon in her new book “ Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Service-Based Businesses.” Reward employees who make an extra effort to represent the company inside and outside of work.

Tips 92

Tips Startup Services Outsource Development 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

Individuals don’t build great companies, teams do. The company with the best team on the field will win. I wrote an entire blog post about this in the past highlighting my belief that you should hire people who “punch above their weight class.” It means a welter weight who wants to fight in the heavy-weight category.

Startup 399

Startup Class Blogging Company 399

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This is a term indicating the use of “crowd appeal” to get money from interested people on the Internet for a share of your company. Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

If you have a proven business model with some sales, it’s credible to apply a multiplier of five to 10 times this number for the first element of valuation. According to the Angel Capital Association (ACA) blog, the average startup valuation for new ventures receiving angel investments has been around $2.7

Startup 71

Startup Patents Invest Blogging 71

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

In business, one important measure is the value of the company. That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

.Net 89

.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

Pretty much anything that goes into a business plan falls into one of these four categories: Opportunity : Every successful business exploits an opportunity. How will you generate awareness and close sales? What kind of management team will your company require? How much cash and profit will your company generate?

Startup 91

Startup Oracle Entrepreneur Ideas 91

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon. As Alex points out in this blog post there’s a ton of options out there in a severely fragmented industry. ” Huh? Plainly, it sucks.

Product 99

Product Ideas Email Organization 99

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Many people start companies arse backwards. This is one of the biggest source of future problems for the company.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

So, going by the traditional schedule, the 2016 iPhone would have been a major refresh, perhaps helping to reverse this year’s slowdown in sales of iOS devices. The company might be planning something splashy for 2017, the 10th anniversary of the original iPhone. Redesigned iPhones typically come out in even-numbered years.

Software Review 40

Software Review Screening Design Mobile 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? But if you do and if you sit on the sidelines waiting for the day when the circumstances are right for you to start a company you never will. years in LA (early 90’s) many of my friends left to start companies in Silicon Valley. Yeah, right!

Startup 295

Startup Email Technical Review Course 295

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category. However, you are only paid for ads that generate sales. Such actions include sales, trials, leads, downloads, etc. Such sales are highly trackable, because the clicks can be measured like any other online ad.

Custom 164

Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Thank you @eminutes. .

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78