Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. Ignorance is not bliss in business, but it does allow entrepreneurs to face the unknown with a measure of confidence. No 19-year old understands business at the level of a seasoned, serial entrepreneur. Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Sometimes entrepreneurs are so focused on making change happen for others, that they forget that continually changing themselves and their company is equally important. Negative advice on an unknown is easy and safe to give, so every entrepreneur hears it over and over. Move to a higher platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans are a waste of time. They cite sources like the BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this Forbes article. You need money, and plan to do crowdfunding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Sometimes entrepreneurs are so focused on making change happen for customers that they forget that continually changing themselves and their company is equally important. Negative advice on an unknown is easy and safe to give, so every entrepreneur hears it over and over. Move to a higher platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Other companies have only seen a slight decline and may be expecting demand to return to normalcy later in the year. The reality is that when unemployment sinks in demand is likely to get worse. Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? Not anywhere nearly as hard as being an entrepreneur. That may happen.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. You have always been able to run HA (high available) applications on top of Eucalyptus, but now the cloud platform itself is actually HA.”. We are the cloud platform, so we form the cloud for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Entrepreneurs who experience promising initial success also play a similar game. Nearly every successful entrepreneur is offered a relatively modest amount of money for their adVenture during its early days. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. It takes options off of the table.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

We started with just a few tents, and saw an immediate consumer demand, and we've grown steadily from there. Ross Richmond: This summer, we decided to seek investment, so we could grow and meet the consumer demand we were seeing. Rachelle Snyder: We are launching across the country, making sure we can meet consumer demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. There is a lot of pent-up demand. Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. – IPO-able in any normal market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. We like to be able to see the concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

My advice is to pick one, start slow, and spread out as you learn. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. entrepreneur get started small business social media' Don’t mix your personal and business profiles or messages.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

We’re essentially a data platform and envision others building applications to take advantage of this information. Density is simply the data & analytics platform. It’s been so great to collaborate and work towards this common purpose) and with Jonathan Triest at Ludlow Ventures, Amit Kapur at Dawn Patrol and several others.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

I thought it would be interesting to understand the challenges and concerns of entrepreneurs who began selling online for the first time in 2016, so I sat down with Heidi Muther, COO at Z S upply , LLC. I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. It is additive.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup. Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

My advice is to pick one, start slow, and spread out as you learn. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

My advice is to pick one, start slow, and spread out as you learn. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Just 20 years old and a recent Harvard University dropout, Olenka provided insight into her transition to Los Angeles, life as an entrepreneur, and how she’s passionate about helping non-English speakers see American movies in their own native language. So being an entrepreneur is a lot like being a student. You have deliverables.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Yet the number of businesses looking to build on the Facebook platform seems to have increased. They looked unstoppable.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. After starting three companies, I've found that some widely accepted advice lead me to failure while. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.

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