Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. It’s how we inform ourselves these days. ” We inform ourselves through headlines.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Marketing is top priority.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

Please let me know if you can share this information with your members. Homework I don't think that this founder has looked at my blog or my background. If they had read either of the above articles or the 10 other on my blog, then they would have sent me something else. So, why should I spend time if they've not spent time?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? Will I have information that other journalists don’t have (otherwise known as a “scoop”)? The idea is that you put out information with data and a point-of-view and that becomes the story rather than you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now. This year an associate from Upfront Ventures – Glenn Poppe – helped me pull together more information about how our industry is changing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Identify the smallest segments possible of your constituents. The best communities then become your advocate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. Here are some tips I’ve gleaned from experience: Make your blog your website. Anchor blog in your domain name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

What's new now is that the site allows you to sign up and provide your Twitter and LinkedIn information. It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals. Those aspects existed before and it does a good job of finding great content. You can always visit and manually select interests as well.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

By definition, every successful startup has to be different from the competition, with many unknowns, new challenges to overcome, and new customers to be attracted. These days, with the pervasive presence of social media, blogs, and online access to information, it’s easy to get your message out there, and engage a following.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

I was talking a month ago with a founding team who was lamenting the fact that their competitors got way better coverage than they did when they felt that their traffic numbers were > 2x the competition. You need somebody who is helping push out information on what is up-and-coming in the company. I find this so inauthentic.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Once installed, the malicious program can steal sensitive information, credentials, slow down your internet, and can even hijack your device to harm other technology. Phishing attacks are attempts by a malicious attacker to get the end-user of a message or email to provide sensitive information. Malware Attacks.

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Telecom carriers looking to stay competitive should continue strengthening their network infrastructure and adding greater flexibility to their service offerings to provide reliable and high-performance connectivity for their customers. Stay Data-Driven. Offer Greater Service Flexibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain. How you communicate informally and spend your time is as important as the decisions you make as a leader. In many cases, the challenge may just be your ability to market yourself, and what you know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Identify the smallest segments possible of your constituents. The best communities then become your advocate.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Now, more and more, we''re extending our use cases into not just websites and blogs, but also to lots of web application use cases. So, for us, competition is good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2019

Image via Flickr by jardenberg Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. They are a shortcut that can put you far ahead of your competition. Yet it is the one element that too many entrepreneurs focus on only as an afterthought.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. The problem is that this is publicly available information that can and will be scanned by journalists and reported. ” Why? Funding is news.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. You need somebody who is helping push out information on what is up-and-coming in the company. But be willing to have an informed view about your industry.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

The site, which launched in June, is focused on health, fitness, and related information. Along with releasing traffic stats, the company said it has launched a new effort to attract users to the site by following Lance Armstrong's effort to re-enter the world of competitive cycling. READ MORE>>

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

By definition, public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the spread of information between an individual or an organization and the public; but the strategic communication process that occurs in today’s PR world requires so much more than just information management. Public relations sets you apart from the competition.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

By definition, public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the spread of information between an individual or an organization and the public; but the strategic communication process that occurs in today’s PR world requires so much more than just information management. Public relations sets you apart from the competition.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2018

The move could impact the interoperability of health records software and spark more competition in the health IT industry. The app sorts information into categories like medications, immunizations, and results of laboratory tests, Apple said.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Of course it’s a competitive market so MCNs competing for top talent not only compete on rev share to talent but also to services that they provide talent. I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. Industry averages for talent revenue shares are about 70% with top talent making even more. ” Don’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . If you have investors or board members that have wide relationships you can get significantly more value out of them by keeping them informed. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

By leveraging managed network services , startups can offload time-consuming maintenance tasks and strengthen their IT infrastructure to increase their competitiveness. . Tech startups looking to stay competitive should stay informed on the latest consumer experience and industry trends. Managing Network Costs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. Mea culpa and get right back into line.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

As a result founders often meet the wrong investors, waste time on those who ask for more information. Keeping it to 8–10 helps you manage the public information flow that will be broader if you see 20 firms and also help you prioritize resources. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should. West Coast”).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. I call this process “ triangulation ” and highlighted it that blog post I wrote on the topic. I often find myself having the opposite reaction.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. He has strong opinions that are well informed. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. I’ve been told so. Sounds obvious.

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