Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Most people agree that even negative media attention is better than none. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver. Evaluate customer response prior to development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2015

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. In all cases, it’s more effective and less painful to do it as a planned process, rather than a crash course in survival. Carpenter, Gary F. Gebhardt, and John F.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. In all cases, it’s more effective and less painful to do it as a planned process, rather than a crash course in survival. Carpenter, Gary F.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Most people agree that even negative media attention is better than none. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver. Evaluate customer response prior to development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2014

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. In all cases, it’s more effective and less painful to do it as a planned process, rather than a crash course in survival. Carpenter, Gary F. Gebhardt, and John F.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Most people agree that even negative media attention is better than none. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver. Evaluate customer response prior to development.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

IBM has shared ideas with us, EMC, Microsoft, and a whole raft of other major companies are working closely with us now. Clearly, globally, data is coming out of the explosion of cloud, mobile, social media, and healthcare areas. We are the founders of these companies, and the ideas come from our own team. It's just exploding.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. In 2001, at Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix), we received tremendous media coverage as a contrarian success story during the depths of the dotbomb crash. Watson, IBM Founder. People are free or cheap because of the recession.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Of course, we all love disruptive new products, like the Pebble Smart Watch and Google Glass, but recent innovative services startups, including Uber for transportation and Airbnb for lodging, have grown much bigger and faster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Now, of course, they all do much more, but those things came later. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you have a big challenge that you can’t afford to meet. People still remember Google for Internet search, Amazon for books, and Facebook for talking to friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Timing your startup - Chris Dixon , November 7, 2010 I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have been a huge mistake). Has nothing changed since the early days of IBM? This doesn’t make sense. The Game, Let Us Live. So what gives?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the social Web as a global force in the last several years has done a great deal to highlight their potential to fundamentally alter the way we communicate and collaborate both at home and in business. Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media.

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