Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Chris Brogan, in his classic book, “ The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth ,” offers some great steps of encouragement for them on how to come out of the closet, some of which I will paraphrase here: Declare your freakiness (even if only to yourself). Establish a daily framework for action. Know your strengths, and learn some new skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

So I was happy to see Julia Tang Peters, in her classic book “ Pivot Points ,” tackle this issue. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur. Great leaders seem to make the right pivotal decisions at every critical point along the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The case for zero paid media as the new marketing model was highlighted in the classic book, “ Z.E.R.O. ” They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

I saw a new approach in the classic book “ Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders ,” by Dr. Peter Fuda, which identifies seven leadership themes, presented as metaphors. These are the forces that initiate and sustain transformation efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. Investors are looking for breakthrough solutions to fund. Be forever curious and optimistic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The case for zero paid media as the new marketing model was highlighted in the classic book, “ Z.E.R.O. ” They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The case for zero paid media as the new marketing model was highlighted in a recent book, “ Z.E.R.O. ” They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So I was happy to see Julia Tang Peters, in her classic book “ Pivot Points ,” tackle this issue a while back. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur. Great leaders seem to make the right pivotal decisions at every critical point along the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2015

Chris Brogan, in his recent book, “ The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth ,” offers some great steps of encouragement for them on how come out of the closet, some of which I will paraphrase here: Declare your freakiness (even if only to yourself). Establish a daily framework for action. Know your strengths, and learn some new skills.

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Entrepreneur Framework Startup Ideas 108

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The case for zero paid media as the new marketing model was highlighted in a new book, “ Z.E.R.O. ” They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2014

Chris Brogan, in his new book, “ The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth ,” offers some great steps of encouragement for them on how come out of the closet, some of which I will paraphrase here: Declare your freakiness (even if only to yourself). Establish a daily framework for action. Know your strengths, and learn some new skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

I saw a new approach in the book “ Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders ,” by Dr. Peter Fuda a while back, which identifies seven leadership themes, presented as metaphors. These are the forces that initiate and sustain transformation efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Chris Brogan, in his classic book, “ The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth ,” offers some great steps of encouragement for them on how come out of the closet, some of which I will paraphrase here: Declare your freakiness (even if only to yourself). Establish a daily framework for action. Know your strengths, and learn some new skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

I saw a new approach in the classic book “ Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders ,” by Dr. Peter Fuda, which identifies seven leadership themes, presented as metaphors. These are the forces that initiate and sustain transformation efforts.

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Coach Framework Entrepreneur Tool 64

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

The top two on the personal side are “urgency” and “desire,” but these have to be matched on the business side with the willingness to burn the platform (change any aspect of the business) without a crisis. These are the forces that initiate and sustain transformation efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book.

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Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Under the heading, “The Book On Bezos,” the callout lists ten actionable and impactful nuggets of startup advice. Get Good Advice — And Ignore It (aka: Know When To Throw Away The Rule Book). From the start, Amazon had an audacious goal – to sell virtually every book online.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. We added Yelp, so the car can find you a restaurant and book a reservation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2015

So I was happy to see Julia Tang Peters, in her recent book “ Pivot Points ,” tackle this issue. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur. Great leaders seem to make the right pivotal decisions at every critical point along the way. The turning point decision.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Tips 103

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Thus I was impressed with the dynamic new organizational approach outlined in a new book, “ Reinventing the Organization ,” by Arthur Yeung and Dave Ulrich. Evidence today points to the effectiveness of short-term teams, strategic partners, and a flat organization supported by a common resource platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2018

So I was happy to see Julia Tang Peters, in her classic book “ Pivot Points ,” tackle this issue. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur. Great leaders seem to make the right pivotal decisions at every critical point along the way.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Framework Tips 66

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2014

So I was happy to see Julia Tang Peters, in her new book “ Pivot Points ,” tackle this issue. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur. Great leaders seem to make the right pivotal decisions at every critical point along the way. The turning point decision.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Tips 111

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. One change in Google’s algorithm and whole businesses could be wiped out as chronicled in this excellent book by John Battelle called The Search. The costs of multi-platform development are too expensive. You need to log in to use it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2016

For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Framework Customer Custom 54

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content. DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

As I was scouting around for some guidance on this subject, I came across a new book, “ Get Scrappy ,” by Nick Westergaard, who is a recognized expert on brand strategy and digital marketing. The first challenge is to resist falling prey to the latest “shiny new thing” online – new platforms, channels, and tools.

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Marketing Startup Social Media Newsletter 58

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Centralized.

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Framework Social Media Software Review Social Network 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Centralized.

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Social Media Media Software Review Social Network 112

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Centralized.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Centralized.

Software Review 90

Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

Charlene Li, in her book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. I support her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in.

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