Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I was happy to see some good guidance on this business transformation in a new book, “ Lead With We ,” by Simon Mainwaring. Make sure your hiring practices include diversity, inclusion, and equity. Some of these companies no longer exist. Practice your agility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2017

Jim Sterne, who has written many books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in a classic book titled simply " Social Media Metrics." Measure to see if you have an increase in revenue, a lowering of costs, and improvement in customer satisfaction.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2019

Ian Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Discotech , a startup that offers up bottle service booking, discounted tickets and more to clubs and nightspots. Ian Chen: In my previous life, I was working in private equity in LA. It's quite a difference between running a startup and private equity, we imagine?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2013

Jim Sterne, who has written many books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his book titled " Social Media Metrics." He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2012

Jim Sterne, who has written six books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his book titled " Social Media Metrics." He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2016

On the other hand, I just finished a new book, “ The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job ,” by Patrick J. McGinnis, a well-known venture capitalist and private equity investor. Obviously his approach of absolute focus, getting up early, staying up late has worked for him.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

Many women rose to the top of their careers only to discover how unsatisfying, soul-draining and unhealthy a lifestyle it was and completely changed careers to find satisfaction doing something completely different where they once again became successful, but in a more balanced manner. Novel concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Jim Sterne, who has written six books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his recent book titled " Social Media Metrics." Measure to see if you have an increase in revenue, a lowering of costs, and improvement in customer satisfaction.

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Social Media Metrics Media Satisfaction 84

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In a thought-provoking book by David Cushman with Jamie Burke, “ The 10 Principles of Open Business ,” the authors contend that many recent success stories in business, including Apple and Whole Foods, were built on at least one open business principle. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

One of the really cool part of this company, is we are a company of accountants, and we've built close management software for accountants, by accountants, which helps them close their books faster and more accurately. We would have been able to been more effective, and retained a greater percentage of equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

In a recent book by David Cushman with Jamie Burke, “ The 10 Principles of Open Business ,” the authors contend that many recent success stories in business, including Google, Apple, and Amazon, were built on at least one open business principle. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2018

Most people get a tremendous satisfaction from helping others, but are equally afraid to offer without being asked. I’ve never really understood this conundrum, so I was happy to see a new book, “ Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You ,” by the well renowned social psychologist, Heidi Grant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

In a thought-provoking book by David Cushman with Jamie Burke, “ The 10 Principles of Open Business ,” the authors contend that many recent success stories in business, including Apple and Whole Foods, were built on at least one open business principle. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

In a new book by David Cushman with Jamie Burke, “ The 10 Principles of Open Business ,” the authors contend that many recent success stories in business, including Google, Apple, and Amazon, were built on at least one open business principle. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

Thus, my goal is to highlight a few books, games and other activities parents can share with their children. In addition to eliminating your children’s allowance, there are a number of books which reinforce entrepreneurial messages. To ensure the satisfaction of all your stakeholders, use the same approach with your venture.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

We focus very much on finding employees who are a cultural fit and we share equity when appropriate. In my career I’ve been a consultant, a tech book author, started a training company, and I’ve been an employee. There can be quite a bit of satisfaction in that in itself. Why take the risk to start a company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I just finished the latest version of a great book on how to do this, “ Work Less, Do More: The 7-Day Productivity Makeover ,” by time management expert Dr. Jan Yager. Incorporate your business today, register intellectual property, document partner equity agreements, and meet real customers. Rest makes you more productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Rose, who literally wrote the book on Angel Investing, and is the long-time CEO of the Gust platform for bringing together investors and startups, just announced Gust Launch as a “Company as a Service” solution. And then on an ongoing basis, our partners provide basic bookkeeping, legal, accounting and equity management services.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. I've also read his book The Four Steps to the Epiphany, where he outlines this in great detail. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. Keep going.

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