Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Use social media for early marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Use social media for early marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple. Too many entrepreneurs still think plans are for investors, and investors are required to build a startup.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them. They are in a space where there is lots of search traffic, but they didn't have anything particularly interesting to say about how they were going to get ranked. I won't say that I'm truly an expert on SEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Pivots and corrections are inevitable for startups in this age of rapid change, and the earlier you make them, the quicker you get to success.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. Do you find it's been more difficult to build up traffic for a more targeted site, or easier? Lolita Carrico: Social media had a lot to do with it, for sure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Pivots and corrections are inevitable for startups in this age of rapid change, and the earlier you make them, the quicker you get to success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Use social media for early marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2011

An underrated portion of every startup effort must be about communication and marketing. Her focus is on companies facing change, which of course includes every startup. Use social media, search engine optimization, blogging, and mobile media. These will beat word-of-mouth any day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

This will allow more effective search engine optimization within foreign markets. Many small affiliate marketers use content like blogs, social networks, podcasts and video to monetize their affiliate relationships. Many businesses are using freelances to mitigate the risks of starting-up overseas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2012

An underrated portion of every startup effort must be about communication and marketing. Her focus is on companies facing change, which of course includes every startup. Use social media, search engine optimization, blogging, and mobile media. These will beat word-of-mouth any day.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

We caught up with Sam Rogoway , the firm's CEO--and the former founder of TripUp, which is now part of Kayak--to hear about how the firm is hoping to revolutionize the local business video market with its services, which just launched last month. We've also found that online video really helps with search engine optimization.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. After the loop starts… …paste this… ID, $key, true); $shorttitle = urlencode(substr(the_title(), 0, 79)); ?> Just a thought. do you need help?

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