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

MAY 23, 2020

On the other hand, stealth mode does make sense for large companies, like Apple and IBM, who will likely be sued for pre-announcing a future product, since other companies have used this ploy in the past to freeze the market and lock out new competitors. Who are you fooling by not allowing your startup to be found?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. Focus first on the social media trinity.

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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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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

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

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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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

On the other hand, stealth mode does make sense for large companies, like Apple and IBM, who will likely be sued for pre-announcing a future product, since other companies have used this ploy in the past to freeze the market and lock out new competitors. Who are you fooling by not allowing your startup to be found?

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Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas Customer 101

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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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

APRIL 13, 2016

On the other hand, stealth mode does make sense for large companies, like Apple and IBM, who will likely be sued for pre-announcing a future product, since other companies have used this ploy in the past to freeze the market and lock out new competitors. Who are you fooling by not allowing your startup to be found?

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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. Watson, IBM Founder. As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company. People are free or cheap because of the recession. You don’t really buy servers anymore…the tools are all open source. Basically, everything is free.

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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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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? New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. The Game, Let Us Live.

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