Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. Startups are in an ideal position to capitalize on the fundamental shift in power to the customer, who now has real control over your brand message. Identify your target customer and create customer profiles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

Greycroft is Alan’s venture capital firm that recently raised its second fund ($130 million) with offices in both New York and LA. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. I’ve been to similar events with First Round Capital and True Ventures. We learned this weekend that it was named after his East Hampton home.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And he was still in the process of raising additional capital, so it was equity only. Bottom line, if there’s significant development, you need capital or a founder needs to go source the equity-only developers. I thought it was a pretty reasonable dialog with this founder and we quickly arrived at some answers.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2018

Awarepoint executives and board members could not be reached to comment on a recent tip from a former Awarepoint employee, who asked to remain anonymous and who said the company had unexpectedly shut down. A separate tip, sent to me Tuesday by direct message on Twitter from a pseudonym, said the company shut down on May 24.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

That quality can help you capitalize on competitors vulnerabilities and shortcomings. Start with social media, blogging, and word-of-mouth. Exploit your competitor’s weakness and make it your strength. The sharpest entrepreneurs have a knack for viewing the world from the perspective of their customers. Hit ‘em where they ain’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Venture capital investments are returning to startups. Venture capital firms raised $4.1 Startups are springing up all over to capitalize on these opportunities. Here are some key tips to optimize your cash flow in anticipation of these busy holiday periods: Start with re-sizing per-unit profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

He’s been great at fostering online relationships through blogs and social media for years. Tips on how Product Hunt built a strong community and maintains positivity [3 minutes, 30 seconds]. I’ve feel like I’ve “known” Ryan for years but I only actually met him in person last week! 1 minute].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. Asking young companies with limited capital to pay to present to a group of potential investors is insane. If you want some tips on getting access I wrote a post on how to access VCs but the same logic applies to angels. The event last night in Los Angeles was great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Venture capital and private/angel investments play a relatively small role in the startups of first-time entrepreneurs. Marty Zwilling Disclosure: This blog entry sponsored by Visa Business and I received compensation for my time from Visa for sharing my views in this post, but the views expressed here are solely mine, not Visa's.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

" If entrepreneurs really want to keep up with the needs of this evolving population, they need to capitalize on the diversity that comes with it. For additional tips and advice, and information about Visa's small business solutions, follow @VisaSmallBiz and visit [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have published many of these PR Tips before. It will affect your ability to get the right jobs and promotions as well as your ability to attract talent and capital. This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

For example, you and your partner may be perfectly happy with an LLC, but venture capital or Angel investors may insist on having “preferred” stock, forcing an upgrade to a C-Corp. For additional tips and advice, and information about Visa's small business solutions, follow @VisaSmallBiz and visit [link].

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2012

The talks are sprinkled with tips on what to do, and what to avoid and often include free business resources. Charlie Capen had a baby and found no information on parenting that appealed to him ­­— so he made his own website/blog with his partner called “HowToBeADad.com” and filling a new niche successfully.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In 2006, a platform called FanLib raised $3 million in venture capital to launch a platform where copyright owners (like ViacomCBS, which owns “Star Trek”) could host fan fiction contests to engage fans. This mistrust goes back years to the founding of Archive of Our Own.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

Even though Dauntless was founded almost exactly a year ago, CEO Joel Martin has been trying to maintain a low profile, saying, “We don’t want to tip our hand. Dauntless says its simplified business structure is more capital-efficient, and there are important tax advantages for investors and other stakeholders.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! Extra Credit Tip - I’m going to get pounded for saying this so I’m making it optional (but it is a very smart strategy). Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital. Let’s be honest. What, what?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. Entrepreneurism / Monetization.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. For another perspective which I certainly agree with, check out Kevin Drum’s blog post on The Power of Single-Mindedness at [link] but keep in mind that anything taken to the extreme probably isn’t a good idea…”. We always focused on making the story bigger.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s). I see many companies these days just race to raise capital. My take on his argument is this: 1.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Such ideas require little-to-no capital, usually last for a relatively short duration and are of nominal size. The students were given valuable dress for success tips, the tailor sold a significant number of suits and the entrepreneurial students got free duds. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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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. Kanye West. Let's recap.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. " 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Productivity.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? ► October (1) New Video! . Zondigo, Inc.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. For instance, a travel site might contain travel tips, along with ads for great deals on vacations. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? ► October (1) New Video! . Zondigo, Inc.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Note that the word "SpammerRobot"can be in any mixture of capital (uppercase) or small (lowercase) letters. Get more free tips and articles like this ,on web design, promotion, revenue and scripting, from [link]. If you only want to match the exact case, use BrowserMatch instead of BrowserMatchNoCase. All rights reserved.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. The following are some tips for the debate style VC meeting. Tips in a debate led VC Meeting. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital. Far better that you noodle with them. I believe that the best meetings are debates.

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