Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2015

Reserve some time each day for your favorite blogs and influencers, follow up with social networking and expand your personal contacts offline. Find a business mentor, as well as a friend. A mentor is someone who will tell you what you need to hear, while a friend might tell you what you want to hear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2015

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. Pick a startup business that you can do for minimal cost, like a services business with the skills you have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Unfortunately, for every success story you see, there is an even longer list of failure stories with mistakes that you don’t see.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. Pick a startup business that you can do for minimal cost, like a services business with the skills you have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. Pick a startup business that you can do for minimal cost, like a services business with the skills you have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

Based on my current role as a mentor to entrepreneurs, I will paraphrase and recommend Whiddon’s top techniques in business terms: Build an image of likability and rapport. Actively participating in social media is the place to start, including blogging and positively responding to customer feedback, to build a growing crowd of followers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Unfortunately, for every success story you see, there is an even longer list of failure stories with mistakes that you don’t see.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email. Nominate someone as your mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. Pick a startup business that you can do for minimal cost, like a services business with the skills you have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2011

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. Pick a startup business that you can do for minimal cost, like a services business with the skills you have.

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Help Startup Social Network Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2010

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. Pick a startup business that you can do for minimal cost, like a services business with the skills you have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2010

Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Unfortunately, for every success story you see, there is an even longer list of failure stories with mistakes that you don’t see.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Seth’s interest in helping others grew out of his lack of having a mentor. He was drawn to Stanford by the people ecosystem- access to professors and mentors. Again, he stressed the importance of good mentors.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. He blogs here and tweets here. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc.,

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Sara has also worked in department coordinating/management, accounting, and talent recruitment on such films as Social Network, Water for Elephants, In Time, Snow White and the Huntsman, Dark Shadows, as well as in the finance department at Sony Pictures. How unique are you from them?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

For a startup or small business executive serving as mentor, the proverbial “win-win” is created as they benefit from an injection of essential bandwidth, youthful energy, and technical expertise. Perhaps your intern might be given the freedom to design and implement an entire strategy for your company (social networking, for example).

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. They also add that LAGbook ranks #2 in the city of Yaba-Lagos, where the social network was incepted, and #37 in the city of Hirtshal, Denmark. Who are your mentors, role models?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Here’s why. Silly, right?

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