Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). Studying for the SAT, LSAT, GMAT, TOEFL, MCAT and other standardized tests in the US is a massive market that has been dominated for years by Kaplan and Princeton Review. Enter Xobni.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. Remember, I was an entrepreneur for 10 years before a VC). This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise. Publish the terms of your support, return, and replacement policies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

And if there is a term for that which helps entrepreneurs stay focused on these good and true objectives then I’m all for it. We go through case studies like how Mint.com & Magento drove large audiences through great content marketing strategies. But I still believe Sean Ellis was right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

According to a recent study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 in the US alone, which is a 15-year high. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days? Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer. Marty Zwilling.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I was the guy in high school who didn’t have to study early to do well on tests and that continued into college. Get some seasoned entrepreneurs to come. I’m not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 17-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 11.5 As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions?

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JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open. And from email we added IM, Facebook and LinkedIn where people contact us. I wish I were good in the email category.

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MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. billion each, $7.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

According to a study of 1700 CEOs last year, only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. A most valuable tool is WordPress or TypePad for blogging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer.

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JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. You should, too. (no, no, I don’t take affiliate commissions!).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. entrepreneur startup website business' They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise. Marty Zwilling.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. Stating the obvious – why should I get daily deals to my email box for stuff I never want or buy? Many of my daily deal email offers get auto-sorted in Gmail and I never see them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3 As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? zettabytes by the year 2016. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 18-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 7.2 As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I also know many people who never studied business as an undergrad who appreciated the knowledge that they gained as an MBA.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Now study the event organizer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. What’s the problem?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise. Publish the terms of your support, return, and replacement policies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

In a recent study by TowersWatson , an international HR consulting firm, fewer than 21% of employees surveyed described themselves as “highly engaged,” down from 31% in 2009. Other studies show that employee engagement derives from three important factors: Alignment of the employee with the goals and vision of the company.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . In many cases, editorial content in an email newsletter is an effective manner of acquiring customers.

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OCTOBER 31, 2015

I believe many entrepreneurs have ADD. Save it to Pocket, bookmark it, email it to yourself or whatever other coping mechanism you have. And actually if you have ADD you may just want to watch the videos I’ve embedded below because it’s easier to concentrate on that than reading a blog post. Email twice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In fact, your marketing costs using this approach may be far less than the traditional television, newspaper, and email campaigns. If, for example, you’re writing a blog post aimed at professional investors, you don’t need to stop and explain what an entrepreneur is to them. Be sensitive to geographic and cultural implications.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

It’s the story of persistence in entrepreneurs. As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. I try not to go out to entrepreneur events in LA every night – I have work to get done and a family.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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