Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. Hire more help than helpers. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We have enough social network startups. Begin with the end in mind - your definition of success based on your principles. That means knowing when to delegate, enlist help, and say no. Enlarge your circle of influence, and manage risk as an opportunity, not a negative. Keep commitments, with no excuses.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2017

We've combined online therapy with phone calls with licensed professionals, and also added an online social networking aspect and mood checkup. I was working at a job in Santa Monica, helping to run somebody's company. But it's definitely a different pattern. My goal is to help people, but I am not a trained therapist.

Social Network 113

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

If you are looking to start a new business in any domain, it’s definitely worth your time to check your fit for one of these models: Membership website model. With this model, you provide website access to insider information for a regular subscription payment. Front-of-the-line model.

Startup 117

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

We could still deliver applicants and deliver passive job seekers to a company, but we could also delivery applicants that already understood what the cultur of the company was, and be able to measure the kind of footprint people were making on a social network. They wanted to get help getting their resume out there.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Evolving Role of Social Networks for Startups In this talk, Tony traces the evolution of how startups have leveraged social networks and social media as part of their solutions over the past ten years. He ends by looking at how this might help startups in the room.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2016

Roni Eschel: It's a market network for outdoor sports, a social network for connecting like minded people, sharing conditions and moments in real time, and helping to find the best spots for your favorite sports, like surfing, paddleboard, kite surfing, and so on. Roni Eschel: We are building out the social network now.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The combination of Search and Social is redefining the way marketers are allocating their ad budgets. According to Jared Belsky, President, 360i , “We see Search and Social as a 24 hour real-time consumer focus group that helps us stay on top of what consumers care about for our brands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

If you are looking to start a new business in any domain, it’s definitely worth your time to check your fit for one of these models: Membership website model. With this model, you provide website access to insider information for a regular subscription payment. Front-of-the-line model.

Startup 168

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2021

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2016

How do you help online brand owners both reduce the abandonment of a shopping cart by online shoppers�and also get the word out about their brands? To help them convert more visitors, we allow brands to give visitors a discount, and we make that discount intelligent. Any plans to expand this to other social networks?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. We caught up with Babette to get the story behind the site, and how the site helped her escape from the world of reality television. What is BakeSpace?

Social Network 174

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2014

LinkedIn is one of the largest social networks, with 300 million users, and we fell that it has a higher quality user base. Max Fischer: There definitely is the idea that LinkedIn is a professional networking site. This is the first based off of LinkedIn. Why LinkedIn? But, so much about dating starts out very subtly.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The irony: a sad state that even with the huge number of social network applications we have at our disposal, we’re oftentimes lost, unable to keep up, or still lose touch so easily. It’s not your fault that we can only be social creatures to a certain extent before brain overload.

Web 74

Web Social Network Email Networking 74

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

Resource 97

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 30, 2010

People seem to be missing the really big picture of the value of social media and really the Internet for that matter. They look at how current social networking sites work and how online and offline relationships currently work and make the assumption that this represents the value proposition.

Social Media 179

Social Media Media Social Network Networking 179

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2015

Unless you are a true loner, you need someone like-minded but complementary in skills to help you with the startup plans. Almost anyone can handle this without professional help, and the cost is less than $100 in many states. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Explore finding a partner.

Startup 101

Startup Social Network Activity Ideas 101

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. Hire more help than helpers. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2013

Real friends help each other. In my experience, many of the people who “friend” me online today have only their interests in mind, and they aren’t interested in knowing me or helping me at all. According to most dictionary definitions , a friend is a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. Are these real friends?

Startup 95

Startup Study Social Media Social Network 95

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

Unless you are a true loner, you need someone like-minded but complementary in skills to help you with the startup plans. Almost anyone can handle this without professional help, and the cost is less than $100 in many states. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Find a partner. Incorporate an LLC.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Social Network Ideas 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2012

Real friends help each other. In my experience, many of the people who “friend” me online today have only their interests in mind, and they aren’t interested in knowing me or helping me at all. According to most dictionary definitions , a friend is a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. Are these real friends?

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Social Media Study Social Network 104

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

" Typically, this requires quite a bit more information for me to be able to respond and provide real help. Your technical advisor can likely help. Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented.

CTO Hire 211

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2015

We have enough social network startups. Begin with the end in mind - your definition of success based on your principles. That means knowing when to delegate, enlist help, and say no. Enlarge your circle of influence, and manage risk as an opportunity, not a negative. Keep commitments, with no excuses.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Social Network 117

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2011

Real friends help each other. In my experience, many of the people who “friend” me online today have only their interests in mind, and they aren’t interested in knowing me or helping me at all. According to most dictionary definitions, a friend is a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.

Study 112

Study Social Media Social Network Startup 112

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. LB: We are definitely looking for more investments. What are your next steps? Why not elsewhere?

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I've recently co-founded the first political social network FreedomSpeaks and CitySourced.com a real time mobile civic engagement tool. You are a really great networker and help put on great networking events, what do you think about the concept of visible networking? What are you working on now?

Los Angeles 150

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread. and as part of completing your profile, it helps you spread the message around Branchout.

Examples 331

Examples Startup Course Networking 331

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread. and as part of completing your profile, it helps you spread the message around Branchout.

Examples 323

Examples Startup Course Networking 323

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Defining “Good” and “Great” are completely subjective to the audience you’re trying to reach, but for starters, the Internet should be filled with interesting, useful, intelligent, creative, helpful, informative, entertaining, or fun things. Start there, and you’ll probably come out ahead.

Social Network 106

Social Network Metrics Technical Review Sites 106

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 101

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Unless you are a true loner, you need someone like-minded but complementary in skills to help you with the startup plans. Almost anyone can handle this without professional help, and the cost is less than $100 in many states. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Find a partner. Incorporate an LLC.

Startup 93

Startup Social Network Ideas Commerce 93

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. to help bloggers and blog readers with comments. Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. I definitely check people out using LinkedIn. event I did last fall.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 114

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

It's also a great way to build out your own YouTube channel, which we also help them do. To the extent that a business is not familiar with embedding, we also help them with that process, with claiming their Google Places page, and link that video. We've also found that online video really helps with search engine optimization.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: It's definitely both. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2010

Real friends help each other. In my experience, many of the people who “friend” me online today have only their interests in mind, and they aren’t interested in knowing me or helping me at all. According to most dictionary definitions, a friend is a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. Marty Zwilling.

Social Network 49

Social Network Study Networking Social Media 49

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The situation is pretty common it got us to riff a bit around how to get programmers to help him build out a proof-of-concept version for his startup. Ask for help. Only go social when they go social. You should definitely hit up the Startup Weekend events as well. You are selling them, but be subtle. Enlist them.

Guide 349

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