Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Among many other recommendations, they offer some practical tips on how any organization can make their work culture more meaningful and satisfying: Match people to work that stimulates and challenges them. Many companies also promote local mentoring and coaching opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Ask for short conference calls. Meeting Dynamics (also for VC pitches but also some practical tips for board meetings). If anything we feel indebted to him for his hard work. So if all I need to do is make some customer calls, interview potential employees or help with his fund-raising decks – hallelujah. Startup Advice'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

Here are my top tips (and I still use these with Mark!). Also, pro tip. He usually says no to weekend conferences and events. He was always over-scheduled, traveled constantly, had too little admin support and fell into the traps of a young workaholic. But I’m sure many would apply if the situation were reversed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Facilitate participation in industry conferences and networking. Thus, when you participate in trade shows and conferences, staff the booth from development and other organizations, as well as marketing. In this days of pervasive communication, this is powerful marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Their goal is to get you to appear in person at city roadshows that they run or to come to their annual Dreamforce conference. If you’re not ready to buy then you go into an email database. Here they surround you with sales professionals, product people and, of course, lots of referenceable customers!

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2015

Here are five tips that will help you get your first business deal. You can spread the word by attending conventions and conferences relating to your field of business. These five tips, if properly used, should help you land your first transaction and have you well on your way to having a larger customer base. |

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started. Every industry organization has regular local meetings and annual conferences for education purposes and bringing the right people together. The challenge is when and how to make the switch to the entrepreneur lifestyle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2023

So here are some tips I have learned over the years from strong leaders that can help you say no without damaging current business relationships or future opportunities: Establish boundaries and honor them for all to see. Either of these approaches always make a difficult situation worse, often leading to guilt or a later accommodation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2010

Here are some tips from his perspective and mine to stave off the summer “brain drain” and focus on the next step or starting a whole new career as an entrepreneur: Create and control your Internet image. Contrary to popular belief, business networking is not all done at investor receptions and conferences.

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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 Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Two tips turned into stories this week: Ford expanding its autonomous vehicle program to Austin and GM Cruise ramping up its hiring machine with plans to hire at least 1,000 more engineers by the end of the year. Got a tip or overheard something in the world of transportation? See the full conference agenda at: [link].

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. A 50 car line stacked up the street from the conference entrance filled with women idling, applying mascara, brushing their hair, and finishing early morning conference calls. So when I heard about Women 2.0 So when I heard about Women 2.0

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

Earlier this month, the annual Montgomery Summit conference was held in Santa Monica, including a special portion of the conference dedicated to the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur. We had over 400 attendees, including some who came from the core conference. Any good tips you gathered from listening to the speakers?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference, which we co-host every year. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year? We expect some big things in 2019.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 -- 140 Characters Conference! 140conf is not an event about microblogging or the place where people share twitter tips and techniques but rather where we explore the effects of the emerging real-time Internet on Business. Over time it will neither be the only platform nor the only language.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 -- 140 Characters Conference! 140conf is not an event about microblogging or the place where people share twitter tips and techniques but rather where we explore the effects of the emerging real-time Internet on Business. At the #140conf events, we look at twitter as a platform and as a language we speak.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

I sat on two panels in the past week – once at LeadsCon (** see appendix if you’re interested in a back story here) and today at the America’s Growth Capital conference. Tip : On panels I believe it is OK for you (even as a panelist and not moderator) to say, “I want to understand whom I’m speaking to.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2013

On April 7-9, 2013 San Diego welcomes the top influencers of social media in an extensive networking conference, Social Media Marketing World. The conference will kick-off at the opening-night networking party which will be held at the historic San Diego Natural History Museum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

If you need demo tips I’ve covered that before. They may have met you at a conference, attended a web conference or somehow else interacted with your company’s marketing department. Ideally it will be close to the problems that your prospect is trying to solve. But how would I use it?”. So what’s next?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Since it is sometimes hard to get the full context from a conference presentation, I have included blog posts links on the topics in which I have written fuller posts in the presentation itself. And what your views / tips for early-stage startup teams are. I’d love to hear your view on the presentation.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have a piece from GRP Partners' Mark Suster , who--after watching and judging pitches at last week's Twiistup event--gives some hints and tips about how not to suck at presentations. Read the rest of Mark's hints and tips. Most people suck at presenting to big groups. Continued.).

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

We think we're at the tip of the iceberg in the office-as-a-service concept. I met david through a mutual friend of ours, before we started this conference three years ago. I introduced him to our CEO at Cross Campus, because he wanted to understand how to put a conference together.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

The guy who popularized the term maven was Malcom Gladwell from his break-out book, “ The Tipping Point ” in which he talks about how ideas or products spread through networks until the reach a point where they “tip” over into mass adoption and the phenomenon spreads ever faster. Mavens & Super Mavens.

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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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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We post content from our show on blogs including show notes and tips and tricks. Jeremy demos various new programs and websites and shows all kinds of tips and tricks, DIY and other cool stuff. OSN 101 – Online Social Networking news and tips. We post podcasts immediately on the blog, websites and iTunes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Plus they run conferences with the top people (which is another form of POV marketing by the way). If you want more marketing & PR tips I summarized a few of them over here on my blog , BothSidesofTheTable and I’ll add to the mix over time.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

That’s what Kevin’s conference, Silicon Beach Fest (SBF), did for Los Angeles entrepreneurs. The experience included after conference events at LA elite places like a Hollywood Mansion overlooking the city to the uber exclusive Roosevelt Hotel. It was followed by TechZulu’s infamous “ Tech Crawl ” hopping from start up to start up.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Every conference is different. This was my second TCDisrupt conference, however my first attending as press. A few quick tips on conference communication (that apply to all communication, not just press): 1. It doesn’t tip over (they tried in the demo to prove it).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

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. For additional tips and advice, and information about Visa''s small business solutions, follow @VisaSmallBiz and visit [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2010

If you want some tips on small changes to make your daily routine more happy check out this post, “ Ten Tips for Being Happier. &#. I saw him speak at the Twitter conference last year in LA organized by the Parnassus Group. I have a friend who I estimate is worth about $500 million.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The 100,000 subscriber level is the tipping point for a YouTube channel to have accelerated growth. In the beginning YouTuber Olga Kay was extremely proactive about trying to figure out the YouTube game leveraging credit cards to attend as many meetups, conferences and events related to YouTube around the country.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

including tip. UberConference – Visual conference calling without video. Sometimes a simple phone call is enough and we don’t need fancy web videos and powerpoints to have a conference call. Uber Conference is an audio only visual calling system so conference organizers can easily monitor who’s on the call.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. It’s why I love the idea of the FailCon conference and hope to speak there one day. After a recent discussion I had with Steve Blank it made me remember that I had left off one of the most critical factors – a culture of failure.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. An example of that is we have built in daily tips, which we have put together after going through 17,000 medical studies on what to do to reduce early memory loss. I ended up managing that project. How did you connect with Nolan?

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