Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

I just had to tell this story. My 3 siblings & I make the trek to spend 4-5 days with the 9 grand children, my mom, my cousin and few other very close family members. My 3 siblings & I make the trek to spend 4-5 days with the 9 grand children, my mom, my cousin and few other very close family members. The Background.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Management teams whisk through slides trying to get through a presentation to share how great things are going and they are eager to get through the meeting so they can get back to their real jobs. Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. Some boards are highly functional, many are not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2021

I have to point out that the rest of the world looks for you online before visiting your business, finds talk about you on Yelp and social media sites, and what they see can make or break your business. She is an expert in this area, with some great stories to tell. Look for trends, and people jumping in against you.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

What's the whole story behind StockTwits and how it came about? I remember saying that I just don't get it, even though they had a great story. Howard Lindzon is CEO and Co-founder of StockTwits (www.stocktwits.com), the financial micro-messaging service. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. As you know, the comments at the foot of every blog out there that is really kind of a big waste of time. and what is it all about?

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Kurt and his crew can make these, and about 35 of other once-in-a-lifetime treks, a reality. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Kurt Kutay, Founder and CEO of Wildland Adventures , believes that "luxury adventure travel" does not have to be an oxymoron. Ever fantasized about climbing Mt.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it. The only thing that makes our 7-second commute to work interesting is avoiding the inventory of computer mice stacked in our living room. Here''s how they pulled it off. From 35 To 500 Readers. And of those 35 people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. Let me give you some scenarios that do happen in real life: You start a company 50/50 with a good friend. Real world story – a friend of mine used to work at Google. Should he/she keep 50%? Who prevails?

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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

JANUARY 14, 2014

THE FULL STORY. If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. Tech news keeps proclaiming “phone calls are dead,” which is useful except that the data suggests the exact opposite. There are 2.9

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

I tried to make a simple point: People have motives when they send you a deal. I simply wanted to make the point that if a deal referral seems “too good to be true” it probably is. End of story. In my recent post “ Why Am I So Lucky? In fact, I have a long history of saying the opposite.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. 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. was the 2-way web.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

To make it easier to find new people and connect with new friends, he thought he's start his own company to help solve that issue. When I got started with Hyphos, I convinced a number of friends to work on it, who were also UCLA students. What is Hyphos? Alex Capecelatro: Hyphos is a social discovery platform.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it. The only thing that makes our 7-second commute to work interesting is avoiding the inventory of computer mice stacked in our living room. Here''s how they pulled it off. From 35 To 500 Readers. And of those 35 people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Now the price is closer to $100 if you are willing to do the work yourself. Now the price is closer to $100 if you are willing to do the work yourself. The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad – all free. The cost of entry has never been lower. Start simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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JULY 13, 2013

Not just because meeting Clayton was influential in shaping my thinking about markets but also because Derek Andersen (who founded Startup Grind) is such an awesome host and runs a very informative events. it would make more sense than “me.” Last month they turned the tables on me. Here is the link to the video interview.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. It’s sort of like going to Vegas and marrying a good looking person without knowing more about what makes them tick. Every entrepreneur starts with an idea that they believe makes sense. If you haven’t spent time over there you should.

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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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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

To hear Seth verbally describe this enlightening story, watch the video. Below is a guest post in which Seth tells the story in written form. Note: the story takes place in Austin, not Dallas, which I incorrectly reference in the video. I suggest you check out both the video and Seth’s entertaining depiction below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology , but new attractive business models from smart entrepreneurs. After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 Real time on-demand collaboration. are appearing. are appearing.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 17, 2014

These "followers" make the status seekers appear influential, even though there are no humans behind their fictitious Twitter minions. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. It should be no surprise that this social media guru has earned over 113,000 authentic Twitter followers. A Humble Guru.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

As he was fighting inequality, hoping to give everyone from every social status equal access to information, he was also fighting an ongoing battle internally with feelings of isolation and depression. According to his uncle, Michael Wolf, Swartz was a young man who viewed the world differently. Young Swartz.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Make sure to checkout the updated SMCH3 site as they have tons of great info. We want to also give thanks to our sponsors for making TechZulu possible. BuzzVoice makes your favorite news & blogs TALK - So you can listen to the stories you wish you had time to read - while you get things done! In Minutes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? What do you offer the studios, and why would they want to work with you to make those clips available?

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APRIL 21, 2010

It was a fun show today, especially Jason’s story at the very end of the episode! It was a fun show today, especially Jason’s story at the very end of the episode! Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. OK, it’s official!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

Social media is here, and is the preferred mode of communication by a large segment of your customers, so make it a positive differentiator for your business. Social media is here, and is the preferred mode of communication by a large segment of your customers, so make it a positive differentiator for your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. Most investors wait to see who else is investing. &# Social Proof&# weighs heavily on investors in making their decisions. Photo credit: D. Perhaps it shouldn’t.

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APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. In a world of The Funded, VentureHacks and entrepreneur blogs this kind of informations spreads like wildfire. The last post was a high-level primer. Let me explain: 1.

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