Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Image via Max Pixel A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

04% full, you should start looking for a new container. They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. Time to start connecting them with each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I work with a lot of startups. I start to notice when bad behavior creeps into the system as a whole. I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. I have said so for years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” So let’s take a look.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Although the carriers made a lot of money initially by selling dial-up Internet services, customers never took their software because, well, it sucked. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup? No, not Snapchat--it''s Tinder --a mobile app and service which lets users rate people nearby them, and if the feeling is mutual, connect them. Your service seems to have become very popular, very quickly--why is that?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

The event kicked off with the Opening Ceremony, which featured a talk from Quixey , the main sponsor of the event, and a special keynote speech from SnapChat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel. All of my friends who have risen up to amazing coders who started off knowing nothing, they learned what they know by building things and creating things.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The challenges for making money and survival in these professional services worlds are different, maybe even tougher. Don’t forget seminars and events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

04% full, you should start looking for a new container. They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens. Time to start connecting them with each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

04% full, you should start looking for a new container. They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and other applications. This happens today when you talk to people through social media and responsive customer service. Time to start connecting them with each other. That won’t build any competitive advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. Why Buy Anything ?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Think about Snapchat. Why Invest?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2021

I will publish a lot more about the gear I used and what works and what doesn’t but today is about how I started to supercharge my workouts. I track my weight every morning first thing when I wake up on a Withings Body+ scale. I even found myself standing up in meetings so that I could “close all three circles.” Not this time.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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