Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Open an account with PayPal.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. From entry level garage bands, to international superstars, they all understand that cultivating your fan base online has a huge impact on your career.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. This week is National Small Business Week in the US, so it’s a good time to celebrate your successes, and allow the rest of us to acknowledge your dedication and innovations.

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Startup Tips Satisfaction Entrepreneur 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Open an account with PayPal.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. People often ask me why I started blogging. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar. Who are your customers, partners or suppliers? Absofuckinglutely.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

If you aren’t so sure, need something fast, or need to keep your costs low, then an LLC is the best legal and taxable entity to facilitate your startup. Here are the key steps: Form the simplest legal entity early to cover your efforts. Now would be a good time to see your lawyer or accountant if you need more details.

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Startup Tips Examples Guide 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. Here are seven rules derived from his insights to start your thinking: Customers expect a choice of channels. Respect your customer’s view of usability.

Customer 89

Customer Custom Services High Tech 89

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

Using social media to increase your company’s touch and reach with each of your customers may be the most important reason to jump in to this game changing strategy. Social media can help bridge a long standing gap between customers and the companies they trust with their hard earned cash. Eric Greenspan.

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Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2009

One of the perpetual themes of the technology news sites and blogs this year has been fairly nonstop coverage of Twitter, the microblogging site. So, it was interesting to speak with Sean Rad , founder of Twitter advertising firm Ad.ly (www.ad.ly), on how his firm is looking to help users make money from the service, even if Twitter isn't.

Advertising 189

Advertising Content Startup Social Network 189

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

There are 3 vital questions to ask when putting together a campaign; 1- Is the thing I’m raising money for a great product? 2- How am I talking about my product? He shared, ‘When creating a campaign it’s key to remember that people are fans of you – not the actual product, so you want to be sure to communicate your why.’.

Startup 109

Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Lottay's gift are virtual things--anything you want--attached to real money, in a PayPal account. How did Lottay start, and tell us about your Series A? He took it to angel investors, two of them of some note--Steve Blank, CEO of Epiphany, who also runs a great blog at SteveBlank.com , and Klaus Schauser, founder of Citrix Online.

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Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. This blog post lays out my case. In the end, Seth Godin’s comments on Fred’s blog post said it best: “His black swan is showing. The money slide is the graphic below. He’s right about this.

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Having no money can help you plan. With a bank account full of someone else's money, it's hard not to feel flush with cash and have a false sense of security. An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. You can keep overhead low.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

One useful technique for keeping your eyes focused on what really matters is Cayenne Consulting’s Venture Value Scorecard™. The Venture Value Scorecard is a one-page summary of your company’s achievements and assets: the factors that contribute to the value of your organization.

.Net 89

.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We help them with this. What are your backgrounds? We came together to help others in the same situation – ie starting a business but not knowing how to market it. We came together to help others in the same situation – ie starting a business but not knowing how to market it. Why the name? What inspired you?

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. 7) I loved the AOL disk “sculpture” you kept in your office at Citrix Online.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Just back from vacation and also some work travel and want to get back to blogging so expect a few posts over the next couple weeks. I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. Ownership and accountability on feature releases.

Technical Review 315

Technical Review Blogging RSS Organization 315

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. » More. » More. Loading… Mansion.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150