Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Bill Gates , for example, shared a common curiosity and mentoring relationship with Warren Buffet, although their business domains were quite different. With the pervasive internet, and global social networks, it’s easy to be visible and connect to your customers, and they expect it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Most universities also bring in outside advisors to mentor budding entrepreneurs. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. It's a huge opportunity to learn early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2015

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. It will definitely show off your energy and vision, and will make you a more competitive candidate for any role. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Most universities also bring in outside advisors to mentor budding entrepreneurs. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. It's a huge opportunity to learn early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. It will definitely show off your energy and vision, and will make you a more competitive candidate for any role. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. It will definitely show off your energy and vision, and will make you a more competitive candidate for any role. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

They include real mentors, facilitators, visionaries, motivators, and negotiators. Use social networking to improve your work relationships. Compounding these strategies in today’s startup environment are two divergent concepts: a heightened degree of competitiveness, and a greater emphasis on teamwork.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They include real mentors, facilitators, visionaries, motivators, and negotiators. Use social networking to improve your work relationships. Compounding these strategies in today’s startup environment are two divergent concepts: a heightened degree of competitiveness, and a greater emphasis on teamwork.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Most universities also bring in outside advisors to mentor budding entrepreneurs. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. It's a huge opportunity to learn early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. It will definitely show off your energy and vision, and will make you a more competitive candidate for any role. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I was mentoring some graduate students at a local university recently, and I sensed again that profit seems to be a dirty word these days to many aspiring entrepreneurs. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2011

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. It will definitely show off your energy and vision, and will make you a more competitive candidate for any role. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The event is open to tech enthusiasts who want to join an event filled with some of the top leaders, investors and mentors from tech industry to network, find mentors and build their companies. The Mentor Method (Washington, D.C.). Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2011

They include real mentors, facilitators, visionaries, motivators, and negotiators. Use social networking to improve your work relationships. Compounding these strategies in today’s startup environment are two divergent concepts: a heightened degree of competitiveness, and a greater emphasis on teamwork.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2010

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. It will definitely show off your energy and vision, and will make you a more competitive candidate for any role. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

“When I get funded,” the entrepreneur thinks, “I can build a prototype, hire a development team, go to market, scale more quickly, and beat my competition.” Many startups have an advisory board of sympathetic people with industry expertise, or people who enjoy mentoring, or people who donate a few services on the come.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The service can be accessed by computer, mobile phone ( iPhone , Android ) or social network ( Facebook ). Any competition back home? All over Europe, there are hundreds of carpooling platforms at a regional level but actually we believe that our biggest competition comes from bus and train companies. Any user stats?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Sara has also worked in department coordinating/management, accounting, and talent recruitment on such films as Social Network, Water for Elephants, In Time, Snow White and the Huntsman, Dark Shadows, as well as in the finance department at Sony Pictures. Any competition in LA? How unique are you from them?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Due in large part to the current economy and an ultra-competitive job market, a Gen-Y entrepreneurial tsunami is already upon us. For a startup or small business executive serving as mentor, the proverbial “win-win” is created as they benefit from an injection of essential bandwidth, youthful energy, and technical expertise.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e. There is no competition. Has convertible debt won?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders, I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues. Just because you included all the features of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn in your new social networking product, doesn’t mean everyone will love it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues: “Business plans are for dummies.” That’s probably the soft way of saying, we don’t have a patent or any “secret sauce” for a competitive advantage. We have no competitors.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2011

It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders, I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues. Just because you included all the features of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn in your new social networking product, doesn’t mean everyone will love it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2010

It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues: “Business plans are for dummies.” That’s probably the soft way of saying, we don’t have a patent or any “secret sauce” for a competitive advantage. We have no competitors.”

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. The first step is admitting you have a problem.

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