Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Silicon Valley is focused on disrupting established industries, but in many parts of the world, innovators must create new sectors, such as education, health care, financial services, and energy. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Design the full stack, not just a new software element.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers. They are too busy to follow-up on a major partner opportunity, customer inquiry, or a critical internal process that simply isn’t working.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Startups should begin by selecting just a few of the vast array of social media offerings out there, and customize based on results. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 Ask yourself where are the influencers in your market, the majority of your target customers, and what type of interaction will be most productive to your business?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. You can’t force people to treat customers well if they feel ill-used themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2012

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities, where people relate to and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. You can’t force people to treat customers well if they feel ill-used themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers. They are too busy to follow-up on a major partner opportunity, customer inquiry, or a critical internal process that simply isn’t working.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2013

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities, where people relate to and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. You can’t force people to treat customers well if they feel ill-used themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Key social networks are Facebook (500 million consumers) and LinkedIn (60 million professionals). Put your social network links on your stationery, business cards, and email. Implement metrics and analytics. Then set your goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities, where people relate to and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. You can’t force people to treat customers well if they feel ill-used themselves.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). Not so bad.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

Not only that, it has also improved how we communicate with others via our social media networks, e-mail addresses and voice chats. Online retailing has also allowed every person like you to establish a career at the comfort of your home—from freelancing to selling clothes to baking cupcakes for online customers.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

AltspaceVR has created a virtual replica of NBC’s Democracy Plaza in New York’s Rockefeller Plaza, the backdrop for network anchors during the debates and on election night. The use of biological metrics and neuroscience in marketing is starting to expand to political research and campaign strategy-making. See how it works here.).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2015

Traditional brick and mortar stores might say, “We don’t need likes and shares, we need customers.” Focus on customers. However, social networking sites also have rules. If you are planning to go digital and employ social media marketing, you must educate yourself on these rules or all your efforts will go to waste.

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