Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 26, 2013

Since its inception into the mainstream fabric of people’s lives, social media and the concept of social networking has gone through a rather peculiar evolutionary transition. It is now a standard with any new social network to be able to cater to both the consumer and the brand; the person and the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Social media facilitates marketing and sales. For startups, social media and color printers have essentially replaced the need for external public relations and marketing services. You can now get tooling and products built very quickly either in the US or in China, with delayed payment options. Martin Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

With the advent of social media, and instant communication via the Internet, that definition has been expanded to include all aspects of the customer experience , from finding you and what they need, to the ease of completing the transaction, as well as all follow-on support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2022

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. By any definition, the opportunities from ‘big data’ have the potential to create a next wave of successful technology companies that could change the way we all live and work. Social media and web data.

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Social Media Research Framework Sales 96

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We all have a pretty good idea about things that drag down our productivity or suck up time that would be better spent on more fulfilling activities. At nighttime I don’t check my email or social feed right before bed, which helps me from having last-minute anxiety before going to sleep. Am I going to delete other social media apps?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Media Social Media Startup Training 55

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As a long-time business executive and adviser to entrepreneurs, I see a definitive shift away from customer trust in traditional business messages, and the executives who deliver them. Customers these days are turned off by timeless safe messages, delivered repeatedly on traditional media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Customer expectations of a relationship and personalization are stretching every business today, and pervasive use and confidence in social media by customers can override all your image building and marketing messages. Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981).

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2021

Entrepreneurs must enjoy the hard work of solving problems, and quickly get past the idea stage, with focus on a specific product or service, including timeframes and financials. Successful entrepreneurs have to be people oriented, to solicit experts with various skills, including marketing, production, operations, and finance.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

They'll need to open a TikTok For Business account and select a product to feature, before auto-generating video ads that can link any interested TikTokkers directly to the merchant's Shopify store. Fitting the right audience to the right product will be tricky, but the potential upside is big. Who Will Take Advantage? forward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. By any definition, the opportunities from ‘big data’ have the potential to create a next wave of successful technology companies that could change the way we all live and work. Social media and web data.

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Social Media IBM IBM Commerce 94

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Start the product design process by thinking about what a historian in the future would look back on as the one big thing that changed everything. This idea helps to distill down the most important things to make or sell in a product. Amazon uses this technique internally for all new product design efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Rather than hide seemingly non-productive gaps in your work to-date, investors look for logical actions, and iterative small steps that could be quick to market or quick to fail. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. MyGloss.com is our home page, and we also aggregate across our network, and that's definitely a popular destination. That definitely has something to do with it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Of course, every lifestyle entrepreneur wants their business to be “successful,” but I find that the definition of success and the expectations along the way differs from that usually associated with what I call “growth startups.” If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

In social media, the underlying artifact of the ecosystem is that consumers are following people. What do you think the social media ecosystem will look like in three years and what role will a fully matured Ad.ly I have been monetizing social media for six years. For exact quotes, watch the videos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yet even I have been known to recommend that approach, in cases where you have a highly innovative product, speed is of the essence, and no clear existing market is available. As a counter, here are some situations where it definitely makes sense to short-circuit the traditional approach: The market won’t wait for your planning cycle.

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Marketing Demand IBM IBM 138

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. It’s more of a mockery,” said Isa Watson , founder and CEO of social media app Squad. There definitely have been, but the room to recover is completely limited.”. It’s not a compliment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2023

Highly saturated domains (more than 10 existing players), such as niche social media sites, are highly risky. Skip the fill words and fuzzy phrases, like better, cheaper, easier to use, or more productive. Make it ready to play in all media. A smaller market sizing may make a good family business, if you have the funding.

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Startup Education Ideas Customer 96

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Press Social Media Startup Training 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Begin with the end in mind - your definition of success based on your principles. Many entrepreneurs, especially technologists, relish building the product, and assume the business will build itself. With today’s interactive social media, there is no reason to assume that you know what customers want, or they know what you have.

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Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Social Network 148

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

At the time, it was doing Facebook media buying for e-commerce companies. DTC entrepreneurs are more focused on immediate impact, because if they’re not selling product, there’s no large brand propping them up. What kind of clients are definitely not a good fit? And then bit by bit, we grew the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

The days are gone when a techie or a genius could build things in his garage and customers would find and buy the product, based purely on the “wow factor” of the technology. In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools. Try branding yourself, not selling a product.

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Media Startup Company Companies 91

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

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Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Highly saturated domains (more than 10 existing players), such as niche social media sites, are highly risky. Skip the fill words and fuzzy phrases, like better, cheaper, easier to use, or more productive. Make it ready to play in all media. A smaller market sizing may make a good family business, if you have the funding.

Startup 166

Startup Education Ideas Customer 166

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. By any definition, the opportunities from Big Data have the potential to create a next wave of successful technology companies that could change the way we all live and work. Social media and web data.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Social Media IBM IBM 109

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. By any definition, the opportunities from ‘big data’ have the potential to create a next wave of successful technology companies that could change the way we all live and work. Social media and web data.

IBM 75

IBM IBM Social Media Commerce 75

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Rather than hide seemingly non-productive gaps in your work to-date, investors look for logical actions, and iterative small steps that could be quick to market or quick to fail. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Social Media Patents Mentor 126

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. Companies and professionals have a product or service they provide or support.

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Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92