Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

Communication and writing skills are required. In additional to strong journalistic writing and storytelling, you need business acumen, strategic thinking and planning, and the ability to do the right research. Heavy texting experience is not a qualification for communicating via social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Most business advisors I know will say that writing a business plan is the first step to starting your own business, but I believe that a better first step is to do a self-analysis of your real drivers, strengths, and assumptions before committing to this lifestyle. You can’t really succeed in life if you are not happy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. Is Funding a Worthy Announcement?

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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 4, 2021

Keyword research and budget forecasting. PPC experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. In a startup this is a mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

The researchers taped 29 hours of people working in a typical office, and found that they were interrupted on average four times each hour. He also write a nice post on limiting email and managing on the important / urgent matrix from the perspective on a recovering ex investment banker. Sounds like a day at most offices.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. They never call, they never write, and wait for you to make the first move. If you don’t follow-up on a regular basis with someone, there is no relationship, only a former acquaintance.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I’m sure he’s way more versed on the research in corporate psychology than I. I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek. By the way, I don’t spell check my blog posts either. The person writing things he or she is doing me a favor. I think his advice is this op-ed is bananas.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2011

A Little Research Goes a Long Way. If he had spent any time reading my blog, he would have understood that I am not a fan of consultants , especially at startups. Research? – I do not expect everyone I speak with to be a fan of my humble blog. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

If you research the backgrounds on some of the most successful entrepreneurs, you will find some, like Mark Cuban , espouse the “go for it” risk everything approach to give you the motivation to keep going, while others recommend a more measured approach. Write a business plan for your desired new business.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2014

If he had spent any time reading my blog, he would have learned that I am not a fan of consultants, especially at startups. Research? – I do not expect everyone I speak with to be a fan of my humble blog. – I do not expect everyone I speak with to be a fan of my humble blog. Lesson: Succinctly state what you want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

Communication and writing skills are required. In additional to strong journalistic writing and storytelling, you need business acumen, strategic thinking and planning, and the ability to do the right research. Heavy texting experience is not a qualification for communicating via social media.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Biologists have been using artificially created DNA, produced through what’s known as chemical DNA synthesis, as a research tool for decades. Now, as demand for engineered DNA rises, a handful of startups are vying to become the go-to provider for researchers looking for improved versions of the DNA sequences.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. After a considerable amount of market research, we created the SureToMeet system that’s now used by organizations around the country. I've been following both of your blogs for a while. Cliff, remind me about your background?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Once you accept that lemons ripen early I hope you’ll realize the following about fund raising Fund raising can be a numbers game so you really need to do research and have a long list of potential VCs in case the earliest ones don’t bite. just don’t lead with them! What to do about that chip on your shoulder ? Remind me why I love you?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog. I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice. I know many people think I blog all day long. Research & Development. “But WAIT !!! ” I never said that. Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I read this story on Ivan Kirigin’s blog that shows that Quora was posting which articles you’re reading to other people without your consent. I even had some reservations about writing this blog post this because I have no desire to p**s off other investors or great entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Use strong communication and writing skills. In additional to strong journalistic writing and storytelling, you need business acumen, strategic thinking and planning, and the ability to do the right research. For example, if your world is printers, your blogging messages better match your print advertising message.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

By Mahesh Raj Mohan Writing a business plan can be a difficult process. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience. Your business plan’s writing style should take their preferences into account. So what writing styles should you use for these very different audiences? Hi, I’m writing this plan because.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

Communication and writing skills are required. In additional to strong journalistic writing and storytelling, you need business acumen, strategic thinking and planning, and the ability to do the right research. Heavy texting experience is not a qualification for communicating via social media.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In a recent NPR interview , Clifford Nass, a Stanford University psychology professor, makes the following observation: "The research is almost unanimous, which is very rare in social science, and it says that people who chronically multitask show an enormous range of deficits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Communication and writing skills are required. In additional to strong journalistic writing and storytelling, you need business acumen, strategic thinking and planning, and the ability to do the right research. Heavy texting experience is not a qualification for communicating via social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. BUT … try doing proper restaurant research on a mobile device.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I still plan to publish on this blog occasionally, as well as more frequently on my blogs at Forbes , Huffington Post , and others. Blogging is a learning process as well as a sharing one. Doing the research to clarify allows you to share effectively. I learn something new every day in blogging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Writing down key parameters will force you solidify the specifics, and mentally commit to them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

Communication and writing skills are required. In additional to strong journalistic writing and storytelling, you need business acumen, strategic thinking and planning, and the ability to do the right research. Heavy texting experience is not a qualification for communicating via social media.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

People also user our data for general market trending or academic research. Our core business is the consulting and research services, and The Numbers really acts as a portal into what we do, a source of traffic, and getting the word out about what we do. a month per user, primarily someone using it for research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. They never call, they never write, and wait for you to make the first move. If you don’t follow-up on a regular basis with someone, there is no relationship, only a former acquaintance.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

For example, a startup may hire you as an accountant, but you may also be asked to do social media marketing content gearing towards finance for the company blog. Now, you’re handling payroll and doing writing as well. You may even discover that you enjoy writing more than crunching numbers. Startups are hiring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. They never call, they never write, and wait for you to make the first move. If you don’t follow-up on a regular basis with someone, there is no relationship, only a former acquaintance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

What most people don’t realize is that, according to new research , 90% of search engine users rarely look at the paid results. Keyword research and budget forecasting. PPC experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. Gartner, Forrester, Jupiter and AMR Research all had good things to say about us. Goldman release a report on us. We were hot.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

Plus, I actually work with Dale Daughtery, Mark Fraunfelder and AnnMarie Thomas--who you might know through MAKE magazine--through my day job, at UC Irvine's Digital Learning Research Hub, where we work with research groups across different countries. We ended up with a room full of people interested in the same thing.

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