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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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

That’s right folks TechZulu is hooking you up with 10 Free Tickets (a $1500 value) to this upcoming event, which is going to be jammed pack with great speakers, and information you don’t want to miss. The conference will feature rising leaders in entertainment, technology, new media platforms, entrepreneurship and investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. 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

OCTOBER 26, 2014

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. You need somebody who is helping push out information on what is up-and-coming in the company. But be willing to have an informed view about your industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews. Startup Pitch Competition. I tried to treat it as a learning experience and refined my pitch for this competition.”.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

TechCo and CES teamed up again for 2018 to showcase innovative startups from Eureka Park before the conference begins. Both companies will be automatically fast tracked into the Top 100 semifinalists at the 2018 Startup of the Year competition which takes place during the Innovate Celebrate conference this fall. 2nd Bartesian.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. 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

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

As outlined a while back by Adam Holden-Bache on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, still waiting to be found: Find strategic partnerships. See who checks into your competition. Track the competition. Inexpensive lead generation. Targeted thought leadership.

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Competition Entertainment Advertising Social Media 84

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

As outlined a while back by Adam Holden-Bache on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, along the following lines: Strategic partnerships. See who checks into your competition. Understand the competition. Lead generation. Identify potential new relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

As outlined by Adam Holden-Bache recently on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, along the following lines: Strategic partnerships. See who checks into your competition. Understand the competition. Lead generation. Identify potential new relationships.

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Services Startup Competition Entertainment 91

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. The problem is that this is publicly available information that can and will be scanned by journalists and reported. That used to be the standard.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2013

Similar, we also provide information on what publishers are doing. We had been building technology around a publisher interface, and starting seeing the same things from customers, who wanted to understand what was happening on their site, what their competition was doing, and what advertisers were doing. Gabe Gottlieb.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

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. You need somebody who is helping push out information on what is up-and-coming in the company.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

xWe spoke with a few companies in the recurring revenue area space, ahead of the Recurring Revenue Conference ([link] which we are helping to sponsor next week. If you think about it today, everyone is selling through Amazon, but Amazon keeps all of that customer information. Strangely enough, there's no competition there.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 18, 2015

Each participating business will open its office for the duration of the crawl, giving you a chance to see where the magic happens and meet the team in an informal setting. WeWork in Hollywood provides tech startups and new media entrepreneurs with the Hollywood Hills as their backdrop in their stylish LA building.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. First, I have chosen who to follow on Twitter so the information in my stream is self selected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

I had the same problem before my first book, but I find that all the information you need these days is easily found on the Internet, or in a good book on the subject, like the new one I just finished, “ How to Self-Publish Your Book ,” by Dr. Jan Yager. The book itself raises your visibility through media coverage.

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Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

NON: At one of our inaugural Pipeline Fellowship conferences, at the end of the day, a woman approached me and told me how she was skeptical about being an angel investor. NON: I judge a lot of pitch competitions and speak at a lot of conferences. Do you think women aren’t informed or pitched to when it comes to investing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

I’ve heard it many times from technical entrepreneurs who should know better than to believe the old “ Field of Dreams ” sports fantasy movie theme in today’s Internet information overload environment. Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

I heard it again recently from a technical entrepreneur who should know better than to believe the old “ Field of Dreams ” sports fantasy movie theme in today’s Internet information overload environment. Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It's also good to talk somewhat about the competition, and why this ideas is different from the others. There's only so much information you can give in two minutes, but let us know if you're selling something, is it a service or a product, and how do you take it to market. Let's switch gears a bit. You're racing between sessions.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Drapeau's permission, the AeA Los Angeles Council is furnishing this insightful speech below: I'm sure that all of you understand that what I'm going to talk about today is my own informed opinion, and not the official position nor policy of the U.S. and "new media" to connect with audiences. government.

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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. We’re Living In The Dark Ages Of Social Media - rosskimbarovsky.com , August 9, 2010 If you believe the media and social media “experts&# , we’re living in the Renaissance of social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

Information Asymmetry - The biggest problem that presenters face in large (5+ people) is information asymmetry. I would try a line like, “I know that some of you might be social media experts and others may be less deep on this particular area. Regarding information asymmetry – take me as an example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I heard it again yesterday from a technical entrepreneur who should know better than to believe the old “ Field of Dreams ” sports fantasy movie theme in today’s Internet information overload environment. Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers.

Marketing 89

Marketing Coach Mentor Social Media 89

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? 10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 16, 2010 I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Real-time information drives commerce.

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