Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders. Yet beyond a list of noble attributes, like vision, courage, and integrity, it’s hard for them to define what separates an ordinary entrepreneur or manager from an extraordinary leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders. Yet beyond a list of noble attributes, like vision, courage, and integrity, it’s hard for them to define what separates an ordinary entrepreneur or manager from an extraordinary leader.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

I ended up going to Lockheed Martin as Chief Innovation Officer, doing AR and VR work, creating a virtual framework used for training by the defense department. I realized, as we were building this, this multi-user collaborative platform was so powerful and neat, we should make ti available now, before the full operating system was done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Mobile app?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

*. What is the role of a VC for entrepreneurs? I was recently contacted by an entrepreneur who was consider a few different business models for his company. My job isn’t to predict markets but rather to find entrepreneurs who want to create markets through insight and conviction.” Platforms have changed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

I support her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data. Centralized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Anyone who works with entrepreneurs will tell you that all are different. His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, including StartupAmerica , and CoFoundersLab. The Opportunist is the speculative part of the entrepreneur in all of us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data. Centralized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2010

She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data. Centralized.

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Social Media Startup Software Review Social Network 89

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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