Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. It will definitely show off your energy and vision, and will make you a more competitive candidate for any role. Pick a startup business that you can do for minimal cost, like a services business with the skills you have. You don’t even need an investor.

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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. Being proactive in a new business means starting with a vision of how to do things better, rather than following someone else’s success model. Keep commitments, with no excuses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Smart potential customers only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites.

Web 117

Web Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising 117

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. With social media, you are always “on the record” and once you say it, it’s out there forever. People judge you and your company in the first few seconds.

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Media Tips Social Media Startup 118

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.

Startup 117

Startup Pricing Customer Custom 117

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. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks.

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Sales Metrics Guide Startup 147

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. These are exciting and fun experiences for everyone involved.

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CTO Hire Startup Metrics eHarmony 175

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. But it's definitely a different pattern. The third, is the platform, and anonymous social network we built. What does that look like to a user?

Social Network 113

Social Network Startup Platform Networking 113

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.

Social Media 82

Social Media Entertainment Media Tool 82

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.

Startup 168

Startup Customer Custom Netflix 168

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year. Clearly there is a shift occurring in users'' behavior, as social networks continue to hone their product discovery and purchase capabilities. Google is great at search, yet their G+ social network wasn’t the most successful.

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Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

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.

Ideas 117

Ideas Entrepreneur Netflix IBM 117

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.

Networking 185

Networking Startup Ideas Mobile 185

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

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.

Startup 100

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2007

There are more than enough meet-ups and networking events; we’ve got plenty of examples of successes in the area; and there are plenty of startups to jump to in case of a startup failure. Ben actually didn't address the issue raised by Will that there is definitely a shortage of really good developers, engineers, etc.

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Southern California Startup SoCal El Segundo 150

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. Babette Pepaj: BakeSpace is a food social network and recipe swap. So very much a social network involved? What is BakeSpace?

Social Network 174

Social Network Startup Sites Networking 174

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

Resource Entrepreneur Social Network SpaceX 97

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Smart people only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites. They will exit quickly.

Search Engine Optimization 88

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 88

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

We started with the initial idea of building vertical, B-to-B social environments, and soon figured out that was a terrible idea. Dan and I, my co-founder, obviously have social networking and advertising backgrounds. And, it is a social network. A social network without people is an oxymoron.

Social Network 273

Social Network Startup West Hollywood Ideas 273

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Of course nobody really knows what the future of social networking is and anybody who claimed to know would be a shyster (yes, a little bit too close to my last name for comfort.).

CalTech 222

CalTech Startup Santa Monica Venture Capital 222

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

One of the original classics, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Attracting key stakeholders requires sensitivity.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Invest Platform 79

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2016

To get a discount, we ask customers to share information on the brand on Twitter and in the future, other social networks, and that discount is based on how influential they are for that brand. Any plans to expand this to other social networks? Finally, What's next?

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Network Examples Startup 100

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 20, 2009

That said, for professional speakers, they definitely should be thinking about video on their site to show them in action. Couple of additional thoughts… First, have a photo ready so you can add it to any social networking site. It's important. See Profile Photos.

Social Media 150

Social Media Ideas Media Blogging 150

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. That's been very effective.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

This comes up a lot and if you are thinking about one of these kinds of startups, definitely take a look at Matching Algorithm. By doing so, you definitely constrain the problem, but it doesn’t strictly go away. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc.

eHarmony 204

eHarmony Marketing Startup Zag 204

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. With social media, you are always “on the record” and once you say it, it’s out there forever. People judge you and your company in the first few seconds.

Press 96

Press Entrepreneur Social Media Training 96

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

This comes up a lot and if you are thinking about one of these kinds of startups, definitely take a look at Matching Algorithm. By doing so, you definitely constrain the problem, but it doesn’t strictly go away. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc.

eHarmony 196

eHarmony Marketing Startup Zag 196

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Check your brand definition against the clarity of this one from Xerox for office software. Assess social media relevance to your product or service.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

By definition, these are all really thinly disguised Internet search engines, provided by or competing against the 500 or more existing search engines already out there, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Yet another social networking site.

Ideas 87

Ideas Sites Social Network Startup 87

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

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I don't know if it's because of luck or independence, or just the vertical we were in or the combination of all three, we realized early on that Wall Street's definition of real time was different from Twitter's definition. We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. This is a structural shift in our industry few have talked about publicly. The iPhone was released.

Venture Capital 398

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The inverted logic loop of Klout works like this, “If you use a social network and connect to the right people, and they reshare what you share, and so on, we’ll give you a biscuit.” That means all you have to do is go buck-wild and crazy on top of the social network mechanical bull to make ends meet!

Social Network 106

Social Network Metrics Technical Review Sites 106

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. 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

JULY 17, 2015

We have enough social network startups. Begin with the end in mind - your definition of success based on your principles. Being proactive in a new business means starting with a vision of how to do things better, rather than following someone else’s success model. Keep commitments, with no excuses.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Social Network 117

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2011

What we all need is a digital tool that can extract data from business cards, as well as sync it with your cell phone, your email, and the social networks you use. That doesn’t address social networks and other lists you may have. Social networks have added additional layer of complexity to this challenge.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Social Network 83