Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Social Media Week (SMW) is finally here and is set to be one amazing week filled with panels, discussions, networking, and much more. What is Social Media Week? Social Media Week is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Then he met Jonathan Ellman at the Summit conference in Los Angeles. And he knew immediately that Agha’s idea had legs. The mechanics aren’t that different from a number of other online retailers, but the difference is in the company’s decision to create an entirely new social graph.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

This approach works best with business associates that know you, or peers that you meet at industry conferences, or technical gurus that have no business connections to the candidate. I find that many entrepreneurs are so passionate about their own idea that they can’t stop selling it to potential partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

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Satisfaction Customer Custom Outsource 174

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

This approach works best with business associates that know you, or peers that you meet at industry conferences, or technical gurus that have no business connections to the candidate. I find that many entrepreneurs are so passionate about their own idea that they can’t stop selling it to potential partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

You should also use these forums to test and hone your solution idea for general acceptance, before your risk your own money and investor funds to build a shippable version. Anticipate and establish supporting social media accounts. It’s easier, cheaper, and quicker to pivot at this stage rather than later.

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Product Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Technical Review 127

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2020

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. More meetings in your conference room won’t get to the truth as well as simply talking to people who interact with customers directly.

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Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 128

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. So did the media. not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Every industry organization has regular local meetings and annual conferences for education purposes and bringing the right people together. Raising money is difficult, even with the best idea, so don’t assume any entitlement to loans, grants, or seed funding. Remember that investors tend to fund entrepreneurs, not ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Allocate some time to spend on social media. Social media is critical today to almost every business. Build a team.

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Social Media Ideas Media Writing 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the value of your expertise, insights and ideas. After a few blogs about your concept, the comments better match your passion, or it’s time to rethink your idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Five-and-a-half years ago I first met Chamillionaire at a tech conference in LA. I saw him on stage at the event talking about how he used social media to engage audiences. He attends many of the high-profile tech conferences and has been hanging out with a few partners at Y Combinator and such. They make a great pair.

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

Branson offered a great example of how you can effect change by using social media and YouTube to spread his message on the benefits of being part of the European Union. Snoop Dogg said the idea behind the demonstration was “not to bash the police, but to come up here and get some dialog and some communication.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

In today’s uber-connected, social media, everything-is-public, people tell you there’s killing it with these new features, investor & mentor whiplash – it’s hard to avoid the latest thing. Yet sadly most startups have “shiny object” obsessions. Or DropBox. Made life easier. Methodically.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We will collaborate on ideas and projects. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. Isn’t social networking amazing? About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

conference , and Wherecamp are largely set around location, hence the word Where in the names. Conference. conference in Santa Clara, California, followed by Wherecamp, just up the road in Palo Alto. conference shares what’s new in the location space. The Where 2.0 Enter the Where 2.0 Both Where 2.0 The Where 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Allocate some time to spend on social media. Social media is critical today to almost every business. Build a team.

Social Media 92

Social Media Ideas Media Writing 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Allocate some time to spend on social media. Social media is critical today to almost every business. Build a team.

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Social Media Ideas Media Writing 63

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

In my role as a mentor to many business professionals, I still see some who have no idea how to adapt to the new realities. Take advantage of any and all current opportunities, such as industry conferences and special projects, to increase your intellectual capital for current roles and gigs in the future.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Social Media Training 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2019

Having a breakthrough idea or technology alone does not assure business success. “ Successful businesses require innovative people, who have built an abundance of innovation capital, to win support and resources for their ideas. Use social media channels, as well as conferences, to develop and maintain relationships.

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Product Ideas Resource Capital 93

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

conference , and Wherecamp are largely set around location, hence the word Where in the names. Conference. conference in Santa Clara, California, followed by Wherecamp, just up the road in Palo Alto. conference shares what’s new in the location space. The Where 2.0 Enter the Where 2.0 Both Where 2.0 The Where 2.0

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Conference Startup Mobile Ideas 63

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. particularly like his first point, which is that you should draw out your ideas before you start coding them. We get it!

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We will collaborate on ideas and projects and we created the Superfriends together, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA. Lewis and I became friends fast (both from Ohio).

Social Network 180

Social Network Networking Yahoo Social Media 180

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. More meetings in your conference room won’t get to the truth as well as simply talking to people who interact with customers directly.

Social Media 96

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 96

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Business Etiquette Tips for dealing with VCs and Corporates at Conferences. With the LeWeb conference about to start in Paris I thought the timing of this post would be appropriate. Right after Techcrunch50 Michael Arrington wrote this great post on how to interact at business events and conferences.

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Startup Conference Email Venture Capital 322

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Fast forward to Socialstay, my current mobile start up which allows guest centric venues (hotels, conferences, dorms, etc…) to build and deploy custom mobile apps. This year, the annual Hospitality Technology conference was held in Austin. Do not, whatever you do, step foot on the conference center grounds. I was stunned.

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Marketing Conference Startup Santa Barbara 230

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. More meetings in your conference room won’t get to the truth as well as simply talking to people who interact with customers directly.

Social Media 99

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 99

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

snack at our desks…or in the conference room! The team fed me with great ideas. I closed my presentation with an announcement about “ Eric Greenspan’s OSN101 Conferences &# (coming soon) and our new focus to help our customers take advantage of the real-time Internet. listen to whatever music we want!

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News Santa Barbara Social Media Customer 172

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

TechZulu is pleased to announce that we will be streaming live from the Biz2Beach conference presented by CallFire this Friday August 19 at 2pm PST. For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas.

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SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This approach works best with business associates that know you, or peers that you meet at industry conferences, or technical gurus that have no business connections to the candidate. I find that many entrepreneurs are so passionate about their own idea that they can’t stop selling it to potential partners.

Technology 87

Technology High Tech Startup Social Media 87

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. That's when phone calls were a dime, so you get an idea how long ago that was. I'd be curious what you are doing with social media for a logistics company. Absolutely.

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Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Yet I recommend to every entrepreneur that there are still situations where an NDA (sometimes called Confidential Disclosure Agreement) makes sense compared to normal situations, where your risk of losing an investor or advisor is greater than the risk of your idea being compromised. Don’t even respond to unsolicited requests for details.

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Technical Review Patents Ideas Social Media 61

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

It’s been a fascinating sociology study starting with the first panel of all female executives I heard during a conference on the Santa Monica Pier all the way up until now. Digital LA Producer, Kevin Winston, always pulls together a great bunch of panelists and this conference was no exception.

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Conference Entertainment Startup Digital Hollywood 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

SEO 40

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

Satisfaction 101

Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer Custom 101