Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Start early by registering your company, and reserving the name as your website domain name. Every new startup needs to fight the urge to get the product out, and then start selling it. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. Create intellectual property.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. My blog was wiped out. Thus begins the venture capital dance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

Customers buy from people, not from a company, at least at early startup stages. It’s especially important to highlight your uniqueness in some easy to remember way, so people will think of you and what you do, in case they need your product or service. Next, do the same to brand your company.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. How long has company been around? What is Tradesparq?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

They bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Tell us about the breakthrough they’ll have when they’re using your product. I’m gonna do this page over from the start.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The company started here in 2002, and we were basically an agency. As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. Who we are today, is an ad technology company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Operating productivity. Obviously, measuring staff productivity is important, and the reasons why are obvious. Productivity ratios can be applied to almost any aspect of your business.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

It’s a bedrock assumption in American economic policy that innovation and entrepreneurship drive job growth and lead to greater productivity, efficiency, consumer choice, and wealth. Or maybe it’s healthier in the long run when the government imposes more progressive taxation and puts the funds into education, social programs, and R&D.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. He went out and found a developer and built a product. This is part of my Startup Advice series.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

We chatted with Alan about the company, the process of taking a new, genetic test to market, and his experience taking research from the University of Southern California and University of Utah and commercializing that research. Alan Horsager: We are an epigenetics data company. How did you decide to turn this into a company?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Ask yourself where are the influencers in your market, the majority of your target customers, and what type of interaction will be most productive to your business? SEM is the most common form of online marketing, which increases your website visibility on search engine results pages through optimization and advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. if you get some value out of the notes consider checking out his company or Twitter feed). In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

It generally takes an oppressively long time to work your way to the front of The Herd, just as it takes many years to rise to the top of most Big Dumb Companies (BDCs). Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd. Product Name.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Reiss is the CEO of the Copenhagen-based FatDux Group ApS , an international user-experience deisng company headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

One of the first questions that I get from many entrepreneurs is “How should I set up my company to minimize my setup costs, tax liabilities, and risk of lawsuits?” Incorporate your startup after the business plan, but before you spend a dollar on product development. I’ll offer you a few simple rules of thumb.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In the online world, you need a solid connection between your domain name and your product, brand, or business. Pivoting” is another name for a strategic change decision, or for changing your strategy, your business model, target customers, or direction, and this is an integral part of evolving a company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

Some companies turned to cutbacks over boosting financial reserves. Another approach is to diversify and broaden the product lines and services. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. Grab market share from competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). And I feel that this skill is invaluable in both building a start-up company and in being a VC. I paid up for the diploma but can’t say that I saw better results.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

They must have the creativity to figure out unique ways of driving growth in addition to testing/evolving the techniques proven by other companies.” This is the most important role because this person graduates a company from startup to viable long-term business. It’s the whole conversion flow.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 14, 2012

His logo, not the blank page, is what represented “a hundred thousand bucks down the drain.”. It was not until it was apparent that the company had devised a sustainable value prop that money was spent to create the iconic, multi-colored logo which Apple used for the next 22-years. The reason I did this was to floor Steve.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. But having different funds available for different stages of one’s company is actually a really good thing. DEAL OF THE WEEK: Gilt Groupe – We both admired this company.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I have some educated guesses. He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. George’s Arguments. the rest of the time.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). Which is one of the reasons I invested in Ad.ly – a company that is a market leader in “in-stream advertising.&# The theory is simple: our attention is moving from search to stream.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

This was a chance to blow open the story on their companies, to address a room full of potential investors, mentors, partners, customers, and press. Weekly inspiration talks with founders and CEO’s of successful tech companies (Box and Mailchimp to name a few). of the run rate came from foreign companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. I’m used to that refrain.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We caught up with Zach James and Rich Raddon , co-founders of MOVIECLIPS, to learn more about the company and also hear about the firm's funding round. A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials. Zach James: I'm the Internet side of the company, I guess.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

And for many companies a good deal of their business is still closed over the phone–through their call centers. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

We caught up with the firm's CEO, Jason Spievak, to learn more about the firm's technology, as well as to hear about the company's experienced team, which came out of Callwave. What we did, instead, was enable affiliates, particularly on higher margin or more complex products like insurance, travel, or education--to call someone.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The scientific goals, writ large, included nationwide data sharing among researchers and drug developers; better prevention through medicine (such as the HPV vaccine) and public education (anti-smoking campaigns); and a registry that could match cancer patients to trials based on genetics and other factors.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

It’s a promotional video for a technology company. We’re no strangers to GumGum ( we’ve covered their company before ) and they’re a huge part of Silicon Beach’s roster of startup highlights. Ophir gives us a quick refresher into the company’s core competencies. ” Wait, what?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. How did the company start? But, it didn't seem scalable.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? I always thought it was a great symbol of Big Dumb Company ignorance: carpet bombing the world with unwanted and unneeded disks. 10) Thorsten, why does the world need RightScale? . “Oh,

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