Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Now you can get direct contact and real insights by testing innovative messages through social media even before you rollout the product, and can tune both your message and the product. Actively lead conversations, as well as real listening. That means they want to see you as a leader, with innovative ideas and a real point of view.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan: PaperLinks' mission is to hyperlink the real world. My hypothesis, is that hyperlinks are migrating into the real world, and that the world is moving past the web browser on the desktop to retrieve information. Information retrieval on-the-go is coming to a world near you, and PaperLinks wants to make that possible.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Jody--an experienced entrepreneur who was most recently co-founder of a firm he sold to the Virgin Group, and has been involved with such firms as Lycos, Buydirect.com, and Xoom--told us the story of EcoMom, plus how he connected with McClure on the investment. What EcoMom is all about? How long has the site been around?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2013

Many budding entrepreneurs struggle mightily with that first step – out of their comfort zone and into the unknown. So the real challenge is looking inward to check your alignment with these clues: Running a business is a passion you crave. You know what needs to be done, and not afraid to make the decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

He is the CEO of Hunch , company that I believe is solving a very big problem that I have been telling entrepreneurs needs to be solved for the past 2 years. 1. We discussed Chris’ background as a philosophy major and how that has contributed to the way he works now. I’ve also found him to not be dogmatic either.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Many budding entrepreneurs struggle mightily with that first step – out of their comfort zone and into the unknown. So the real challenge is looking inward to check your alignment with these clues: Running a business is a passion you crave. You know what needs to be done, and not afraid to make the decisions.

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Startup Ideas Software Review Entrepreneur 109

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We sat down with Brian McCarthy , SVP of Dentistry.com (www.dentistry.com), a startup within a much larger company Futuredontics, which itself is a part of a big company called Sirona. What is Dentistry.com? Our company is Futuredonics, which is the parent company of 1-800-DENTIST. So what specifically do you do? That's just wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In her new book, “ We-Commerce: How to Create, Collaborate, and Succeed in the Sharing Economy ,” veteran marketing strategist Billee Howard calls this movement an economy centered on the power of “we” instead of “me.” Make innovation, creativity, and artistry your core competency. Grow bigger by thinking smaller in the beginning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

That’s a fair challenge, and probably more productive than the negative approach for all the people out there who are budding entrepreneurs. You know what needs to be done, and not afraid to make the decisions. You have never had a problem putting together a plan and making it happen.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

It’s almost been a work week since Techzulu and Gadget Review’s REACH | The Connected Future and we’re still reeling with excitement. Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Cleantech, a Misnomer.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. We'll use all the panel members' experiences to tell a "how to story" about bootstrapping to million. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The time is once again upon us. Erik Deutsch, ExcelPR Group.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

It was a fun show today, especially Jason’s story at the very end of the episode! It was a fun show today, especially Jason’s story at the very end of the episode! I promise in real life I don’t suck at spelling OR grammar. OK, it’s official! I just cover the companies that were funded that week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A while back, Gartner formalized their Big Data definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Each of these has different interests and incentives, with real money to spend.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. What does that mean?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. Let’s make sure each has enough cash. Anyone not going to make it? Why is that? But probably because as a group we travel a lot. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one.

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