Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

In that critical first minute, no one needs to hear that you have a passionate dream of changing the world, introducing new disruptive technology, or a product with more features than competitors. Focus on quantifiable and relevant specifics, such as “reduces your cost by 40 percent,” or “increases productivity by 50 percent.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I then worked at a startup, SocialVibe.com, and basically ran all of their trade marketing and consumer marketing, focusing on consumer growth engagement, insights, and product marketing, and how to shape their product to heighten and capitalize on consumer engagement. The vision we have and the product suite is really exciting.

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Paramount Entertainment Hollywood Content 187

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Many of you have read or at least know the primary thesis of “ Crossing the Chasm &# the seminal book on marketing your products to mainstream consumers by Geoffrey Moore. We like to use new product and gain benefits before our peers. It influenced a generation of tech marketers. We are evangelists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

First of all, a definition. Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. Free and freemium products need a solid base. Average transaction size and revenue per customer. Customer acquisition cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 9, 2013

Do you ship your product in what you don’t feel is feature complete so that you can be in market first or should you hold back and deliver a product you believe will get better reaction from the market but is 3 months later? By definition leaders make hard choices given incomplete information. Larry Page.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.".

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. Do so at your peril.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. Beat the competition.

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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.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

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. First, talk about what SmartPants Vitamins are? We give it to our own kids.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

You definitely should be having these conversations in order to find out what things you might not be considering ( Questions Developers Should Ask a Startup Founder ) that are going to be important to your startup that as a non-technical founder you just don’t know to ask. Or what else you might need in Document Your MVP for a Developer.

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CTO Coach Startup Web Guide 211

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Working with brand partners and viewers, they find that we're providing the content they need in terms of readers and brand partners, such as getting to moms interested in the green movement, moms specifically interested in beauty products, etc--where they can create a more intimate relationship with readers. Lolita Carrico: I think so.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. A crisis is an event, precipitated by a specific incident, that attracts critical media attention and lasts for a definite period of time. All the lessons from traditional media apply, and more.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

spent 2011 raising our seed round, which we used to build our team.and launched the product into beta about a year ago, at the end of 2011. We then spent the first half of 2012 beta testing the product, getting feedback and input to the point where we could start selling it. The platform can be divided into three products.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

We create a page which starts at first rumor, and engages and supports those projects. It's the definite portal about movie information, TV listings, ticketing, and all these different thing. They are used to producing great product and putting it out, and having people come. In reality, it's very different today.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. If you look at the career sites and pages out there right now, they look like they were built a decade ago. Chris Ovitz: Definitely. How did you two meet?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Operating productivity. Obviously, measuring staff productivity is important, and the reasons why are obvious. Productivity ratios can be applied to almost any aspect of your business.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

Recently, they launched a Kickstarter video to fund their first production run of the powerful notebook sized solar charger. Stats on product longevity and use: The solar cells have been tested to produce 80% of its original power output even after 25 years of use. Know someone who might find this article or product useful?

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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.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2012

There are lots of sites, with different codes to choose from, some of which are expired, some of which are for product that you aren't buying. Ryan Hudson: We definitely have plans active working on other browsers, and also to support stores all over the world. It takes a lot of legwork to figure out if it works or not.

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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.

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Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 114

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

They bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Tell us about the breakthrough they’ll have when they’re using your product. I’m gonna do this page over from the start.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

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.

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Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 56

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

There was an opportunity to capture htose advertiser dollars, and do it by serving up a product that was compelling to both advertisers and consumers. That makes the model for content work a little better than just breaking news, where someone just comes in for one page and leaves. That was back in 2000/2001.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Often I find that experienced investors flip to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. Being relentlessly resourceful is definitely not what you learn in big companies, or in most schools. Every investor is looking for the “dream team” of executives to put his money on.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

According to Patrick Vlaskovits another proselytizer of the term, “Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit.”. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it. It’s the whole conversion flow.

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Hulu Startup Social Media Organization 111

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

million new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. With the an estimated 150,000 new websites and 7.3

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Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

I kept thinking that someone would eventually come up with a hub or place you could do everything--a home page, for example, where if you were going on a trip, and you could easily load your iPad full of stuff automatically. We''ve already integrated Twitter and Facebook, and our product is in its earliest MVP, and it''s now out there.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

In the dictionary definition, character is said to be “the stable and distinctive qualities built into an individual’s life which determine his or her response regardless of circumstances.” Entrepreneur examples include Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google, who turned a new search technology into a tool that most of us couldn’t live without.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

For example, goods for sale – people add items that are for sale, their contact details, images of the product. Using our quick export function – he can embed this on a website or facebook page. So yes, we definitely think that it can provide solutions to these groups. There are also a few influencers in the Product lifecycle.

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Advertising Media News Content 91

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We hired initially the Editor-in-Chief at LeapFrog, and then creating complex spidering and algorithmically generated ways to find the best games, web pages, and YouTube videos for kids. We also hired 200 teachers and parents in 25 states, so that we eventually created a library of 5 million web pages, video games, and YouTube videos.

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Content Startup Web Technical Review 165

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. A crisis is an event, precipitated by a specific incident, that attracts critical media attention and lasts for a definite period of time. All the lessons from traditional media apply, and more.

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Media Social Media Startup Training 55

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. billion views.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Let’s face it– between finalizing your product for launch and working with developers to get the site or app up (or maybe you are a developer yourself), a marketing strategy, big or small, can feel like a bad hangover the same morning you need to go into work. This is the very definition of pivoting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Often I find that experienced investors flip to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. Being relentlessly resourceful is definitely not what you learn in big companies, or in most schools. Every investor is looking for the “dream team” of executives to put his money on.

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Startup Resource Mentor Writing 93