Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

Entrepreneurs often lament big companies, but most of us hope we’ll create just that. There’s a lot more the big folks can learn from the millions of entrepreneurs hustling each day, building something amazing from scratch. Strategic conversations become dominated by budget forecasting, brand consistency, & market positioning.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

He has written numerous books and articles for entrepreneurs and investors, and was the publisher and editor-in-chief of Venture Magazine. Mr. Lipped addresses the issue of exits, and whether entrepreneurs should take the long view or cash out quickly when the opportunity arises. By Arthur Lipper.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Don''t go to Wharton or Harvard.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Since in most cases, there was no revenue in many of these companies, all trying to gain market share at any cost, we had to invent the metric to use. Revenue models became more important a measure than traffic, although market share was and still is an over-weighted part of the value of any Internet-based entity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

magazine , acquiring a new customer costs about five to nine times more than it does to sell to an existing one, and on average, current customers spend 67 percent more than new ones. Marketing-driven customer acquisition. Traditional marketing efforts (advertising and promotions) are still important. According to Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

It’s a great survival strategy for small companies or entrepreneurs, and a good expansion strategy for even the largest companies. We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2013

In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Effective entrepreneurs are always open to learning, no matter what their prior experience. The points all still ring true today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

magazine , acquiring a new customer costs about five to nine times more than it does to sell to an existing one, and on average, current customers spend 67% more than new ones. Marketing-driven customer acquisition. Traditional marketing efforts (advertising and promotions) are still important. According to Inc. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

It’s a great survival strategy for small companies or entrepreneurs, and a good expansion strategy for even the largest companies. We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

5) When I interviewed people at my past startups, I rejected them if they asked me about our dental plan, as true entrepreneurs don’t care about such pedestrian benefits. We see two markets. And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. ." [Tweet this quote].

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. But make no mistake about it, this is a tough and oversaturated market to enter at this stage. No longer a growth market. The trend is to more niche markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. But make no mistake about it, this is a tough and oversaturated market to enter at this stage. The trend is to more mobile and niche markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2012

In that context, I recently came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Effective entrepreneurs are always open to learning, no matter what their prior experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2010

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. An informal writing style is generally recommended. Add outgoing links.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

I was working with sponsors and partners, and finding that they were interested in identifying smaller markets where they could hone in on an audience, versus buying ads on something like iVillage with millions of eyeballs. Is this competitive with Modern Mom? Lolita Carrico: I don't think it's competitive. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

In that context, I recently came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Effective entrepreneurs are always open to learning, no matter what their prior experience. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In the summer of 1985, he was in Jobs’ office when a photographer for Fortune magazine arrived to shoot Steve for an upcoming cover. I gathered ten such examples which are particularly relevant to entrepreneurs. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. Entrepreneurs never fail , when they follow their hearts.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Entrepreneur and Marketer, VP of Marketing at When I Work – Click here for original article.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Entrepreneur and Marketer, VP of Marketing at When I Work – Click here for original article.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm. PR isn’t something that can be delegated – The other thing that tech execs often want to do is to delegate the PR to their marketing person.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. An informal writing style is generally recommended. Add outgoing links.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

It’s the new magazine. I would love to see FourSquare double down on web development and market it harder to its user base. Use that as a source of competition. Using the fashion-sharing example, imagine turning your shared fashion photos into beautiful magazine-like collages that can be scrolled through, Pinterest style.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

So please don’t send me any more business plans along these lines, looking for investor funding, with no marketing budget, and promising huge returns. But make no mistake about it, this is a tough market to enter at this stage. Here are a few of the reasons, from a business perspective: Direct competition is huge.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

It took a while to do market research, but we ended up starting an app for law. As part of that, we started asking professors for recommendations on who we could talk to, and we found out they only knew one person, or told us to check out a magazine, or Google this and that. It sounds like you have some angel funding?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. An informal writing style is generally recommended. Add outgoing links.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. We bought our first company in 2017 to create this, and we rolled up a few companies to bring this vision to life.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

I am always on the lookout for inspiring entrepreneurs who have leveraged their passions into healthy livelihoods as they serve as instructive role models for my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. After speaking with Mr. In order to try your ideas in the real market place.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

A profile of the state of the Bitcoin industry and its presence of female entrepreneurs. Pinguino Kolb – Owner of Spelunk.in , an online crypto currency magazine. A clear distinction our female entrepreneurs have made here has been their active decisions to hit the ground running. Bitcoin’s PR War.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Add outgoing links.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. . Erik Deutsch, ExcelPR Group.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

When entering a new market, Richard has consistently changed the rules of the game in order to put his incumbent competitors at a disadvantage. Richard dropped out of school at the age of 16 to begin publishing a magazine targeted to young people, called Student. According to Richard, “You don’t learn to walk by following rules.

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