Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). An entrepreneur looking for a sure thing will never innovate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Marketing is top priority.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. Any competition in LA? Events pay a listing fee.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Many believe that entrepreneurs are born, not made. While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. We can all point to examples of successful entrepreneurs who dropped out of college, but still went on to make a big impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. get the attention of the market they choose. Are you sure you can’t move?

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Technical Review Oracle Software Review Ideas 123

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

If you are one of the many people still searching for that job lost during or after the recent depression, or about to dump the loser of a job you have now, you should be working on starting your own business, in parallel with looking for that ideal job. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Start up now.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 13, 2014

We are building our lives around this social network and we are dependent upon it for communicating with our friends and colleagues. They know it and so do their competition. Ferocious entrepreneur. About my company(s): [link]. We cannot possible respond to all…” How long do we have to put up with this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2012

You have probably heard plenty of times that being an entrepreneur is a risky business, and investors talk all the time about reducing the risk. Here is my own priority list of key risk drivers that every entrepreneur and every investor should evaluate and minimize in starting a business: Team experience and depth risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Seek innovation that begets invention. Failure is an option.

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Guide Startup Ideas Entrepreneur 95

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Many believe that entrepreneurs are born, not made. While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. We can all point to examples of successful entrepreneurs who dropped out of college, but still went on to make a big impact.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Course Education 105

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Marketing is top priority.

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Entrepreneur Patents Startup Ideas 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Seek innovation that begets invention. Failure is an option.

Startup 103

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Competition 103

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Just because you are an entrepreneur, or work in a startup, you can’t ignore the rules of building and maintaining relationships. Benefit from harsh feedback about your work. Use social networking to improve your work relationships. Jan Yager, Ph.D., Receiving criticism is never easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Just because you are an entrepreneur, or work in a startup, you can’t ignore the rules of building and maintaining relationships. Benefit from harsh feedback about your work. Use social networking to improve your work relationships. Jan Yager, Ph.D., Receiving criticism is never easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. I think these tough economic times and social networks have re-awakened consumers to the fact that there is more to a business transaction than price.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

We’re all socially connected (so great businesses spread faster). The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). ” The pioneering fund of funds realize that their source of differentiation is much more about the latter than the former. The iPhone was released.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

billion monthly active users who may be talking about you, and there are 22 others, per Wikipedia , that have over 100 million users. Courting them with ongoing updates and special offers through their social networks is a natural way to keep their loyalty. Keep up with the competition. Proactive customer service.

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Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 59

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

entrepreneur” and by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel”, David is a former Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries. By David S. Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

Clichés abound about, “You know what would be cool? …” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. Think about it.

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Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

It’s intended in a discussion with an entrepreneur to get them to question whether there is really amazing underlying value in the product or service they’re offering. It’s about 10 minutes long. We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. Sure, it’s intended to shock.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2016

Roni Eschel , the founder of goFlow, is a former Israeli pro surfer, who is now in Los Angeles; she told us a bit more about the startup and her journey from pro surfing to the startup world. What is goFlow all about? Roni Eschel: I grew up surfing competitively, and traveling the world. So where is the startup now?

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

Start up conferences and competitions. Now, with start ups hot again I'm hearing about bidding warsfor engineers and tenuous or incomplete business plans. LinkedIn valued at over $8 billion; Facebook at over $70 billion and star of a movie. Rich valuations and venture capitalists throwing money at early stage companies. So not 2009.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2013

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Seek innovation that begets invention. Failure is an option.

Startup 105

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Competition 105

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. get the attention of the market they choose. Are you sure you can’t move?

Startup 97

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). An entrepreneur looking for a sure thing will never innovate.

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C. Stay Tuned.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other.

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Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In the entrepreneur world, it’s still a popular misconception that the “idea” is everything. Even though investors, like myself, have long made it clear that we invest in people, not ideas, new venture owners insist on talking about their latest “ million dollar idea ,” rather than their “ million dollar team.”

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IBM IBM Ideas Technical Review 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2012

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Seek innovation that begets invention. Failure is an option.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Competition 94

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We caught up with co-founder Michael Kleist , to learn more about the startup, its roots in China and international trade, as well as learn more about the startup experience in China--and why having a presence in Southern California is important to the company. Tell us about your backers? What is Tradesparq?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2013

You have probably heard plenty of times that being an entrepreneur is a risky business, and investors talk all the time about reducing the risk. Here is my own priority list of key risk drivers that every entrepreneur and every investor should evaluate and minimize in starting a business: Team experience and depth risk.

Startup 104

Startup Examples Entrepreneur Social Network 104

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the business-to-business (B2B) space for more lucrative opportunities. 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.

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Competition Entertainment Advertising Social Media 84

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Marketing is top priority.

Startup 100

Startup Patents Competition Social Network 100

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. I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post. There is one carve out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Pick a specific solution that you have built or prototyped, rather than rambling about all the possible things that could be done with your idea. Competition and sustainable advantage. Exit strategy.

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