Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2019

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. I see too many investor pitches, and even executive summaries that ramble on for many pages without a clear message. Your reach with a blog is much broader than traditional business networking channels and industry conferences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Yet if your service is consulting, for example, real travel is required to deliver the product. Trade show and conference participation. Most young businesses with a new product plan to attend as many as ten shows or conferences per year across the country or around the world. Networking events with other entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg announced native Instant Articles as a feature update about a year ago and Facebook has been slowly rolling out and improving the product ever since. However, as of today, Instant Articles become available to anybody with a Facebook page and a blog. Nick Denton (@nicknotned) March 1, 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. The investor is "buying" the business, not the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

First of all, I will admit that there is some risk involved with talking to any potential investors, even with an agreement, just as there is risk in all the elements of your plan, product and market opportunity. The same is true for people who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences. Build trust first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2017

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

MAKEITWORK, our Twitter handle is @makeitwork , our website is makeitwork.com and our facebook page is of course facebook.com/makeitwork. For one, we built a following by using Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. OSN 101 – Online Social Networking news and tips. The Make It Work Mini Cooper Fleet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2014

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TechZulu is heading out to CES and we have tons of products/gadgets/games/companies to review and interview. Join us at CES LaunchFest on Jan 11 in Las Vegas for dinner, program and networking from 6pm-10pm. For double points Like Us on Facebook and leave a comment on our page on the product you want to see covered.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The firm used to be called Fotouhi Alonso and were one of LA's top mid-sized agencies for 20 years, working with clients like Honda, Epson, the LA DWP, and the FX Network. landing pages, etc. The analogy of a lively dinner conversation to describe Visible Networking is perfect. Same goes for online business networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

After you sign up for an account, super easy if you have a Facebook account, you are taken to a page with available lounges for you to view video. I was inspired by the combination of content, social networking and gaming. We decided to build a product around this simple idea of making live streams into social experiences.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

Each company will have 5min in the hot seat with Amanda Coolong as she gives you the opportunity to tell thousands of viewers in the TechZulu network about your company live. StartupDemo ( www.startupdemo.com ) is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. About Startup Demo. startupdemo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. Here are a few thoughts to help you get started: What is your product or service?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Speakers include Scott Hunger, a principal program Manager and Lead on the Azure Application and Platform Team; Richard Campbell, cofounder of Strangeloop Networks, Jeffrey Palermo, CIO of Headspring Systems and many more! In addition, world renowned speakers are invited to discuss the latest trends in technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2010

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Getting suppliers to accept terms that they said they never normally agree, getting accepted to speak on a panel when the conference organizer initially said “no,&# getting people to moonlight for you until you have the cash to bring them on board. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

To ensure that you are able to attend each and every event you ever wanted, this year the conference has introduced a $75 Premium Pass. More information is located on their “attend” page. SMWLA has posted a tentative schedule of events on their “Schedule At A Glance” page. WHAT EVENTS ARE HAPPENING?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Valu e and Exp erience versus Price and Product.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

In other words, we really want to take social shopping to the next level, and make it product focused. The concept is divided into 3 areas: myTibesti, where people can put up their favorite products, create wish lists, and where people can click on those items and buy them, we share 50 percent with our registered users.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. contextual text ads (e.g.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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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. You can visit the official event page here. Here in Los Angeles we've tied the entire conference together with the Twelethon , a creative fundraising platform in support of Inner-City Arts.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

From local Los Angeles tech events to worldwide conferences and expos. CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. BIL is an un-conference for people changing the world in big ways.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. A version of this article appeared October 5, 2012, on page M1 in the U.S. LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY. Conferences. "Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says on its website.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Viral – One of the most important value drivers of any social network is the degree to which it makes content go viral. Not so on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Not just the fact that you Tweet publicly versus privately, but also that they’re open in letting their Tweet stream flow into other products & services. I just want to point out that longer-term value is often harder to perceive when a product is still going through its growth stage. They’re an open feed. Not so open.

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