TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Just get your numbers into a Google sheet so you can work with them easily. R : Retention - Do they come back & re-visit over time? Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach. Please write us at blog@techempower.com !

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Develop an efficient and effective writing style.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

He’s back in the game as an entrepreneur and this time he wants to take on Facebook. What we thought about Google Plus’s concept of circles (hint, I think it’s the wrong strategy & discussed in detail why). Or does he? We talked about how his new company, AnyBeat , will be a difference kind of social network.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. It’s allowed me to spend more time on other issues like executive compensation, senior recruiting, capital expansion and long-term product planning. Mentorship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Populate your team.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In this article you’ll discover how to start a blog that makes money. There are four types of blogs; written blogs, video blogs, photo blogs and a combination of these. We’ll primarily be discussing written blogs. There are two different components to make money blogging. Let’s discuss. Not really.

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

Google has announced that its staff will work from home until at least July 2021. Remote Working: What is Google Doing? Google has announced that its staff will work from home until at least July 2021. . In a blog post in May, Google announced it would begin reopening its offices from early July this year.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2018

Big tech companies like Google are facing heat for developing disruptive technologies that can make traditional jobs obsolete. But at the same time, the tech industry is growing fast, and is eager to recruit workers outside the sector to fill entry-level jobs that often go begging, a Google executive says.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. So finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Your Google ranking will go up dramatically. Find potential partners.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2013

Not to be outdone by innovations from Google and Facebook, Twitter is finally getting into the time currency engagement race for eyeballs with fresh spinoffs. Twitter and Blogs. Posterous is offering digital downloads of blog content for bloggers to transfer over to another service until then. Time will tell.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

Google has from late last year embarked on an in-house cleaning project. In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave. Google at the moment is shutting down iGoogle, Google Video, Chatback, Google Mini, and the Symbian Search App.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Google Maps Mobile I recently downloaded Google Maps Mobile for my Treo. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Its works great. And there was a big surprise. It includes traffic! If you havent checked it out, its pretty amazing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. Websites do take time to get done right. Here are a few: Register domain name and set up hosting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

&# I started telling people privately that I thought Google should buy Disqus for the same reasons Facebook wants to own commenting in the first place. Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical social networking in the same way that Quora is. I see their faces all the time and their names. So should I switch?

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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. Often you ask somebody, “Did you see that article on Google buying so and so?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

Marketing media content from real customers in real time is now commonplace via sites like Yelp, Foursquare, and online reviews. This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. Owned media. Long-term sales. Short-term wins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2011

The measure of an entrepreneur used to be the number of real friends claimed, but times have changed. Now the measure is how many hits one has on a Google name search, factored by some formula, like the sum of all positive messages minus 100 for every negative message. She googled each person's name. Google never forgets."

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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

JUNE 30, 2014

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your brand value, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Populate your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2011

These days, the best way to provide fresh content is to attach your blog to the website, and add new entries at least a couple of times a month. Another way to get inbound links is review other site blogs, and leave your comments with your link. Reduce page load time. Create inbound and outbound links. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Over time, put together the data you need to measure your progress on a weekly/monthly/yearly basis.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics. The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the Mahalo office in Santa Monica. It takes 5 minutes: Google Analytics is about as easy to setup as setting your alarm clock. Below is a highlight video of the evening.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. Would Zynga have been the smashing success it has become if it weren’t perfectly timed to ride on the back of Facebook’s growth? Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo!

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project. In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. All Time Rank.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. Not all the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

It’s time for every business and business person to proactively create a positive presence, before someone else puts you in a defensive mode that is hard to win. Here are some of the easiest methods Fertik and I recommend for creating positive and neutral content: Blogging. Twittering. Profile sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Many of the entrepreneurs I advise or invest with spend considerable time on the Internet, keeping up with technology, customers, and competitors, but very few feel the need for an early personal presence. There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33. There’s tons of more great advice from real-world experience from Jon so please watch when you have time. Good comment community = viral blog. But of course we also focused on making content go viral.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Quora, Tumblr. It’s a powerful concept. Of course they can be duped.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

As I talked about on many occasions when I was an entrepreneur – and blogged publicly about - I learned a lot about my business and myself in these meetings. They’ve been blogging for years, written several books, helped found TechStars and have now produced an awesome video taking the piss out of VCs (and themselves).

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2010

The firm said that its data is already available--free of charge--to third party developers, as well as such services as Google and its real-time search; and that it only shares data that users have made public. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator. I still have my Google Reader and it brings me the news and content that I asked it to find. I read all sorts of blogs that I never even knew existed.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. Then came blogs.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

Everyone has an account and checks it multiple times a day, no matter how often people threaten to delete it and “de-wire”. Consumers are calling advertisers tens of billions (yes billions) of times a year to inquire about products and to buy things. Photo Credit: Tech The Best , Tech blog. Facebook is the new crack.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

I just read well written pieces on the topic by Ross Kimbarovsky , Robert Scoble , Paul Carr and the NY Times. At the time Google said it was against sponsored links because it confused the person searching for content – one of the main arguments people are again using about in-stream advertising. Some goes with Google.

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