Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2013

Unlike previous stages, where you may not know how or why you have survived, you now know why you are successful, and can use that information to sustain growth in the long term. Remember that the lynchpin of the entire framework comes down to your own personal ownership and self-accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital. The best entrepreneurs work on making better time management a top objective. Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

Loo--who was the very first employee at ServiceNow--explains what that means, and why companies use the startup's software. The company is all about data solutions which combine meaningful application frameworks together. I have been in IT service management for over 30 years, at companies even before ServiceNow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. entrepreneur marketing paid media social media startup zero'

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Yesterday I had lunch with a really interesting and capable serial entrepreneur who is raising his A round. And I had 2 “strategic&# investors in my first company. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. Great question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. marketing is not zero marketing. Marty Zwilling.

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Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

For example, if I were to have a room full of bouncing balls, we couldn't share that today because of the amount of information involved. The win is we don't have to exchange all that information. If you have a bunch of bouncing balls, they all bounce identically, and you don't have to exchange information. It's all working.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2019

Unlike previous stages, where you may not know how or why you have survived, you now know why you are successful, and can use that information to sustain growth in the long term. Remember that the lynchpin of the entire framework comes down to your own personal ownership and self-accountability.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Although the article is informative, it is the accompanying sidebar that has remained with me over the succeeding years. As discussed in Hiring Entrepreneurs, the impact of each new hire during your startup’s early days is tremendous. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

It’s a jungle fight for survival for aspiring entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics. The best entrepreneurs work on making better time management a top objective. Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

Entrepreneurs and established companies make risky decisions every day in the hope that those risks will translate into better opportunities, better performance, and greater profitability. There was a time when all the data in a company was centralized and controlled by a few people, and the velocity of information was relatively slow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2014

Unlike previous stages, where you may not know how or why you have survived, you now know why you are successful, and can use that information to sustain growth in the long term. Remember that the lynchpin of the entire framework comes down to your own personal ownership and self-accountability. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. How did you start the company? I spent a lot of time with companies like Kickstarter, Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Youtube to understand what these platforms were giving to creators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

The best entrepreneurs work on making better time management a top objective. Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value. In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. But it +is+ an anti-entrepreneur stance.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

This has led VC & entrepreneur bloggers alike to similar conclusions: start raising capital early and be careful about having too high of a burn rate because that lessens the amount of runway you have until you need more cash. But the hardest question to actually answer is, “What is the right burn rate for your company?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2017

Unlike previous stages, where you may not know how or why you have survived, you now know why you are successful, and can use that information to sustain growth in the long term. Remember that the lynchpin of the entire framework comes down to your own personal ownership and self-accountability.

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Startup Slides Framework Resource 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Soon into college he realized that a career as a professional athlete is not what he wanted and instead quickly caught the entrepreneur/startup bug. Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best. Online Awareness.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2011

As Mark states below “Forums are the original social media&# , people sharing information across the web on all sorts of different topics. If you are looking for information on the internet, regardless of the subject matter, you will find your answers on forums. How did your company get its initial funding? We are funded.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Bijan Sabet – investor & board member in some small companies you might have heard of like Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee & OMGPOP – took issue with the whole notion that you even need a Powerpoint deck anymore. First, if it’s an early stage company, I don’t need to see a powerpoint deck. I funded them 8 weeks later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2011

Unlike previous stages, where you may not know how or why you have survived, you now know why you are successful, and can use that information to sustain growth in the long term. Remember that the lynchpin of the entire framework comes down to your own personal ownership and self-accountability.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Enplug is a fast-growing, ubiquitous Silicon Beach company. You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. “We’ve built an app framework.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

We caught up with serial entrepreneur Derrick Oien , who is CEO of the company, to learn more. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work. Tell us a little bit about this new startup? I was at MP3.com,

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

We caught up with serial entrepreneur Derrick Oien , who is CEO of the company, to learn more. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work. Tell us a little bit about this new startup? I was at MP3.com,

Media 100

Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

Daryl is also an angel investor, and has invested in such companies as MindBody Software and YouMail. and most other countries around the world which follow a general framework, making online agreements every bit as legally binding as paper ones. I've been an entrepreneur for many years. Explain to me how your service works?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2010

Unlike previous stages, where you may not know how or why you have survived, you now know why you are successful, and can use that information to sustain growth in the long term. Remember that the lynchpin of the entire framework comes down to your own personal ownership and self-accountability. There is no room here for excuses.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Enplug is a fast-growing, ubiquitous Silicon Beach company. You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. “We’ve built an app framework.

Social Media 81

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. And I feel that this skill is invaluable in both building a start-up company and in being a VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

According to IBM, companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. By any definition, the opportunities from Big Data have the potential to create a next wave of successful technology companies that could change the way we all live and work. Big data can mean big profits.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. The company recently closed an impressive $19 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital to build out the engineering teams. What are companies doing RIGHT to maintain users?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2022

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. Big data’ can mean big profits. Protecting the environment. trillion U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

It spoke to me because it so resonates with my nearly daily advice to entrepreneurs and VCs alike. A company presents. The rest of our partners, principles, associates and EIRs can weigh in with commentary on their views of the quality of the entrepreneur, the market, the product, competition and so forth.

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