Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2014

The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Make your business name one that customers can pronounce and remember easily. Avoid unusual spellings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Focus first on the social media trinity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2010

If you are in this second category, you probably don’t like the references behind your back that you are a “control freak” or a “micro-manager.” Almost every entrepreneur needs to improve their skills in this area, so I did some research in the basic principles. Tags: entrepreneur startup delegate authority business.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In that same post Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret where he argues to make things open, he defines only one group of people that you may want to avoid having a conversation with: The handful of people in the world who might copy your idea are entrepreneurs just starting up with a very similar idea.

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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. Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

But recently I was asked about success factors for services startups, and I quickly realized that there is very little published to help the thousands of startups that fall in this category. Customers don’t like people who don’t show their passion and love for the job. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In that same post Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret where he argues to make things open, he defines only one group of people that you may want to avoid having a conversation with: The handful of people in the world who might copy your idea are entrepreneurs just starting up with a very similar idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

But recently I was asked about success factors for services startups, and I quickly realized that there is very little published to help the thousands of startups that fall in this category. Customers don’t like people who don’t show their passion and love for the job. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Because many great entrepreneurs work with lawyers in registering their companies they have their ear to the pavement on the earliest of company formations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2013

The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Make your business name one that customers can pronounce and remember easily. Avoid unusual spellings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Make your business name one that customers can pronounce and remember easily. Avoid unusual spellings.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Referring Traffic / Press. Referring Traffic / Press. make sure you maximize the potential for referring traffic: 1.) Social Media – Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter.This is a separate segment of referring traffic that warrants its own category. Search Engines. Social Media. Distribution Deals.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. As Emmy Award winning comedian Bill Grundfest aptly points out in this video , entrepreneurs should seek the intersection of the things they enjoy doing and the tasks which will make them money.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I would mostly lump me in that category. In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. In Bijan’s post he references Bryce Roberts who recommends getting up and white-boarding.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Our special sauce in that, is instead of focusing on categories like groceries and restaurants, we've mapped everything to brands instead. Ultimately, that will provide an opportunity to involve those brands in our world, while giving them an avenue to help their customers achieve their goals and dreams.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? By using ShopperSeeks, a boutique can expand it’s footprint and reach new customers across the country. That was half-true.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Referring Traffic / Press. Referring Traffic / Press - The web is interconnected, and traffic flows among sites that interlink. To make sure you maximize the potential for referring traffic: 1.) You can search Technorati to find the most popular blogs on the web across various categories. Search Engines. Social Media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2013

Some entrepreneurs forget that talking is not communicating. Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the understanding barrier categories: Unclear frame of reference. Stereotyping and biases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Some entrepreneurs forget that talking is not communicating. Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the barrier to understanding categories: Unclear frame of reference. Information withheld.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2017

Some entrepreneurs forget that talking is not communicating. Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the barrier to understanding categories: Unclear frame of reference. Information withheld.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

There is an old management saying, “measure twice, cut once” which refers to the benefit of doing some planning. As an investor I can tell you that when I meet an entrepreneur who knows very little about our fund or me as an individual it’s a huge turn off. People make this mistake all the time. So you are meeting a gate keeper.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2010

and then sub categories underneath. Make sure to denote which sub categories are the most important by making them bold, italic, shaded in yellow, whatever. Also, I think most companies should offer bounties for people who refer other employees provided they join and stay for a minimum period of time. Who introduced you?

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