Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Develop an efficient and effective writing style.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

has been acquired by the New York Times, the company said late Friday. HelloSociety develops tools to help marketers reach influencers on social media, including on Instagram, Pinterest, Vine, YouTube and blogs. HelloSociety becomes part of the New York Times' "T Brand Studio". HelloSociety was headed by Kyla Brennan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. It’s allowed me to spend more time on other issues like executive compensation, senior recruiting, capital expansion and long-term product planning. Mentorship.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’ve been using Chartbeat for over a month now to track performance of my blog and I find myself looking at Google Analytics much less these days. That’s easy, it’s real time. The next users after that is reading a blog post that I wrote nearly 9 months ago. Basically, it rocks! It’s addictive.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

But now you know why I’ve had many nights away, many airports and much time on the road. I like to speak about this topic with first-time wantrapreneurs because if you read the tech press every day you’d get the impression that it all glamor. Many times it’s less. It has been a fascinating experience.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Lalawag , the technology-meets-gossip blog run by Sean and Laurie Percival, is shutting down, according to a post from the two Thursday afternoon. According to the Percivals, they no longer have time to properly run the blog, due to a tough job and a new baby. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Updates for users on Los Angeles-based MySpace 's social networking service are now being indexed by Google in real-time, according to Mike Jones , Co-President of MySpace. Tags: myspace google social networking real time index search. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Populate your team.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

He’s back in the game as an entrepreneur and this time he wants to take on Facebook. We had a long chat about “pseudonymity” – so much so that I came home that night and wrote this blog post. He won the battle (the lawsuit) but lost the war (went bankrupt, with pending litigation he couldn’t get funded.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In this article you’ll discover how to start a blog that makes money. There are four types of blogs; written blogs, video blogs, photo blogs and a combination of these. We’ll primarily be discussing written blogs. There are two different components to make money blogging. Let’s discuss. Not really.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

R : Retention - Do they come back & re-visit over time? Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! A : Activation - What % have a "happy" initial experience?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 27, 2007

One thing that was interesting is that I'm finally starting to run into folks in Los Angeles who run in technology circles and who have blogs. This is something that I've been having a hard time finding.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Mail.com Media Corporation , which operates the email service Mail.com, said today that it has acquired an entertainment focused blog, DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com. DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com was founded by Nikki Finke, a former Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine writer and reporter. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Dave’s note: For the second time, we invite Basil Peters, author of “Early Exits,” back as our guest – to provide more of his insight into the “when” to exit by selling your business. Unfortunately, they couldn’t appreciate that it was also the absolute best time to sell their company.

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Berkonomics

MAY 9, 2024

If your vision is for a product or service that fills a need in a mature industry, you may be flying against the prevailing winds as a market shrinks over time, taking your business with it. If the market is ten times that size, there is probably room for competitors to fight for dominance and still succeed if you are not number one.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2010

In the newest bid for revenue at the Los Angeles Times, the paper said this week that it will begin adding green, affiliate revenue links within its news stories. The links also will show up in a number of the paper's blogs, although so far the paper is steering clear of links within its mainline news reporting.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Were they finished on time and on budget? Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Employee and Contractor Details: How many full-time W2 employees and contractors do they employ, and where are they located? Make certain you explore these projects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2011

With as many as 100 million active blogs (web logs) in English alone on the Internet, how can you find and read the ones you need to be a leader in your business domain? Yet we know keeping up with the latest trends and techniques can make all the difference in ensuring that your business stands the test of time. Blog aggregators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2010

With as many as 400 million blogs (web logs) now active on the Internet, how can you find and read the ones you need to be a leader in your business domain? Yet we know keeping up with the latest trends and techniques can make all the difference in ensuring that your business stands the test of time. Business site expert blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. So finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Find potential partners. Populate your team. Cultivate early customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2013

Not to be outdone by innovations from Google and Facebook, Twitter is finally getting into the time currency engagement race for eyeballs with fresh spinoffs. Twitter and Blogs. Posterous is offering digital downloads of blog content for bloggers to transfer over to another service until then. Time will tell.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I love blog conversations. Depending on how much face time the consulting CTO has with the team, it could be extremely difficult for a consulting CTO to effect change. The answer is yes and it happens all the time. The other aspect of what Chris raises is whether a part time CTO is going to have any real impact.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Let’s look at each of these roles in greater detail: Strategy – The View From 1,000 Feet Up A good Strategic Advisor can help with every aspect of making broad choices about what will get developed, how it will be built, and ensuring that your business can deliver the right stuff at the right time. Is this person a CTO or a developer?

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

For the second time in less than a month, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick found himself fending off critical questions from his own employees at a Tuesday company-wide meeting. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

synopse I have written a blog post about TFB and object pascal - yes, we added our object pascal framework in round 22! Context and use case determines how you optimize your code. btw: xitca-web (bench code not including dependencies) does not do 2,3,5 and still remains competitive in micro bench can be used as a reference.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 9, 2023

If you own a significant piece of the business, is this a time to consider planning an eventual exit or liquidity event? Perhaps for the first time, this is a question to share with family. But this question begs for a positive answer. How would you like to see your finish line? So here is my wish for you.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2022

Especially for those of us producing forms of media for consumption, from books to movies to music to games to blogs to podcasts and more, our customers expect delivery in the form of bits over the Internet upon demand, usable on a multitude of devices, and sometimes stored and available in the cloud at no additional cost.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

Three Rules of Fundraising “Sales” One of the common mistakes I see startups as well as VCs make is spending too much time on top of funnel prospecting. In fact, I wrote a previous blog post on “ Why Successful People Focus on the Bottom End of the Funnel.” So I encourage first-time fundraisers to qualify, qualify, qualify.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

We are over-intro’d and at the same time under-resourced in terms of staff to handle the barrage of in-bound requests. People expect blog posts, Tweets, panels, speeches. It’s why sometimes I respond to emails in 5 minutes at other times I go dark for a week at a time. Get non-core things out of your way.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

Siggi’s Dairy Sets Digital Detox Challenge “We're introducing a new kind of “Dry January” this year,” Siggi’s explains in a recent blog post. So, if you think you can last for the whole month without your phone if $10,000 is put on the line, here’s an outline of the competition and how to enter. Should I Digitally Detox Anyway?

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based Loot Crate and BuzzFeed says they have created a new "crate" to help people take a break from the noise, slow down, and enjoy some time offline. The two said the one-time only BuzzFeed crate will feature a Joy of Missing Out T-shirt, a Tasty themed non-stick baking mat, puzzle, tote bag and more, and cost $49.99

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. .” The three must reads for me daily are: The NY Times, TechMeme & Media Redefined.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A friend and fellow CEO states that he publishes each of his mistakes in his company internal blog along with the lesson he learned. “If So, here’s your question of the week: [Email readers, continue here…] Doesn’t the whole enterprise fail a bit each time a learning opportunity is lost or someone hides actions from management?

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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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