Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. Those are all categories we know well. Being so open, when entrepreneurs think about capital, we want to be top of mind.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. According to a recent article in Entrepreneur , 94% of small and medium businesses (SMBs) now use social media as a marketing tool, and 81% use it to drive growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Example: I was recently in China and had three public appearances. Zone of Effectiveness – The examples that Covey talks about here are things like exercise and planning.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Many firms do it in a way that can be more detrimental to entrepreneurs. If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. I’ve done 4 seed investments in the past year and they are 100% referenceable. million is “follow on&# seed investment.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results. It''s not just coupons and deals, we''ve also launched a blog with helpful shopping information, which helps introduce consumers to new brands they might not have heard of before. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Founders and investors circling the space suspect a wave of Silicon Valley interest is coming, however, and that it will alter the category entirely. In fact, new funds have launched there with expertise in the category.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. was starting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. This integration, or fusion with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” the most recent book by Lon Safko, author of bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic.To Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free.

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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. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” You could just outspend. You Can’t Sign This Deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. This integration, or fusion with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” a recent book by Lon Safko, author of bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I would mostly lump me in that category. Obvious examples include Chris Dixon, Keith Rabois, Aydin Senkut, Dave McClure, Chris Sacca, XG Ventures, Reid Hoffman and so on. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? That notes only told part of the story.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. The Startup Act outlines a five-prong approach to job creation based on the proven track record of entrepreneurs: Reducing regulatory burdens. According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog. Take the U.S.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's in the automated translation category of the industry. We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. It also supports blogs.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? For example, here in NYC it’s almost impossible to find shorts in August. Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items?

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic. Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. You can search Technorati to find the most popular blogs on the web across various categories.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. Three examples of mini-ventures carried out by me and my fellow Wharton classmates are described below. the smartass entrepreneur replied, “It’s called business. When the Professor asked, “What do you think you are doing?”

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2019

As a business advisor, I still find owners and entrepreneurs who have never sent a business text message, written a blog, or produced a small video to update their constituents, or highlight a key message. For example, I find that millennials rarely read emails or policies. Minimize the use of meetings to communicate.

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Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

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! Zondigo was the perfect example of why all good companies must be “right idea&# AND “right time.&#

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