Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

EI rates a person's ability to recognize emotions, to understand their effect, and to use that information to guide your next move. I recommend that you get more visible at industry conferences and on social media. In my experience, emotional intelligence (EI) is a better predictor of business success than IQ.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Though the Alliance is still committed to hosting select regional convenings like First Look SoCal and our SoCal Ecosystem Leadership Conference, we recognize that the region already is filled with numerous events targeted at start-ups and entrepreneurs. This came through loud and clear at our recent regional leadership conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I believe these insights can and must be extended to you and your career, in line with the following guiding principles: Make your interest in learning your competitive advantage. Smart employers look for these as they contemplate your competitiveness for new roles. Define personalized learning goals with a timetable.

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Examples Social Media Competition Guide 85

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. More meetings in your conference room won’t get to the truth as well as simply talking to people who interact with customers directly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? Because they produce the “ LUMAscapes ” which are essentially visually guides to all of the major players in a technology market. Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs? ” Of course not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. More meetings in your conference room won’t get to the truth as well as simply talking to people who interact with customers directly.

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Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 99

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all. It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. When to start PR?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Holy Grail of. The leading provider of. Innovative.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. We also host video-conferences with students who want to learn specific topics around web video. Any competition in LA?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

Keynote speakers for the dual-day conference included talks by technology visionaries Bruce Sterling, Jaron Lanier, and Bernor Vinge. And what would an industry be without some competition? CEO’s, startup founders, leading programmers and technology officers, there were plenty of prominent personnel at the event.

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Conference Startup Google Competition 69

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

This post is a short guide to what I’ve learned: 1. I was talking a month ago with a founding team who was lamenting the fact that their competitors got way better coverage than they did when they felt that their traffic numbers were > 2x the competition. It’s a continual process.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

You need to let the energy of the room guide you. My partner, Brian McLoughlin , attends almost all Financial Services conference, makes a number of investments in the space and has relationships across the sector. Does that sound ok?&#. This last question is important. But … watch out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2015

A few innovative companies, including the financial advice company The Motley Fool , are so convinced that collaboration is the key to their competitive advantage that they have added the role of “ chief collaboration officer ,” in the person of Todd Etter.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! Read the following as a guide. Do a 5-page PowerPoint competitive assessment. They have probably seen 4-5 new companies this week minimum. And they have responsibilities for helping to manage their fund. Let’s be honest. So how to proceed?

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Venture Capital Startup Email News 277

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

But then I went to the Parnassus Group’s Twitter 140 conference run by Steve Broback and Brett Schulte. People were developing adds for meeting coordination, sending long-form Tweets, organizing a TV Guide, building follower lists, developing Twitter authority rankings, Twitter analytics platforms, etc. Why do you believe Ad.ly

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

But considering the huge number of collaborative efforts, contacts, and great run-ins we experienced at this year’s little black sheep of a tech conference, in Austin, TX; we couldn’t possibly leave all the laundry out to dry. Big ups to the Twitch.TV guys for making it happen! To the Trade show Floor!

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

And because the federal government is itself not innovative, it may therefore not be very good at understanding the topic of innovation, or guiding it. The theme of the summit will be, "Science, Technology, and American Competitiveness: Progress and Direction Forward" (which seems so vague as to hardly be a theme).

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Paul Graham on trends for the future - Business of Software Blog , August 25, 2010 Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. There is no competition.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The 99% conference is aimed at creative professionals and is focused on Edison's "99% perspiration." didn’t think so. 8211; Garry Tan.

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