Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. Build a following and start a brand through social media.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Jennifer Schwab, the founder and CEO of Entity, has built the business since 2016 on virtually no outside funding, but said that this latest financing is a precursor to the company working on its first, more traditional VC-led equity round. Often speakers will donate their fees to scholarship and childcare funds, she added.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

Supply and demand ignored. We all believe that supply and demand meet to create stable prices (reflexive). But sometimes higher prices create higher demand, causing a boom. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. Cheap money. Policy-driven distortions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Working for a well-funded existing company, or pursuing your dream as a hobby, may be more satisfying and productive. Assess your own resources as well as funding sources. Assess your connections, both social media and financial. You can’t really succeed in life if you are not happy.

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Social Media Writing Ideas Resource 105

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Community means more than supply and demand. Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions. Assets need to move in a community of engaged users.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

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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. Lolita Carrico: Social media had a lot to do with it, for sure. How's this new venture funded--and actually, how was ModernMom funded?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Yet all too many succumb to the pressures of survival, driven by demanding investors or a cutthroat competitive environment. Investors provide funding, but they also have their own set of expectations on how things should get done, with aggressive milestones. Big bad investor interference. Lack of communication from the top.

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Startup Social Media Organization Entrepreneur 128

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm. An expanding customer base demands better support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

I often hear about efforts that have been stalled for several years, pending more funding, economic change, or other priorities. Every startup demands logical changes along the way. It still amazes me that some entrepreneurs seem totally at a loss on this question, or customer retention rate, or even margin expectations.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2016

On the positive side, friends and family probably won’t be as demanding on your financial projections as a professional investor, and they likely will be satisfied with an initial offer of a convertible note (loan with option to convert to equity later), so you don’t have to give away the store before you get started.

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Funding Startup Ideas Slides 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

is providing funds for food, AV, security and an amazing venue at their HQ complete with every amenity one could ever need to pull off a successful meetup. Through the use of social networking, we have sold out all 150 spots available for this event two weeks before the date and recently added another 50 to accommodate the demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term.

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Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

All relationships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work. As an example, I find that most Angel investors still decline to fund startup founders that are romantically involved, citing the high risk of breakup. But all good things can be overdone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm. An expanding customer base demands better support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments.

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Organization Social Media Custom Customer 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 103

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. It's the source for keeping a pulse on the dynamic world of technology, reaching venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, social media. Funding great entrepreneurs. to San Diego. If you're interested in reaching our.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

In fact, for startups, it usually makes sense to announce your solution on social media and blogs even before you have built the first one. Funding to support a rollout is much harder to procure than funding to support a scale up, after an initial hint of success. Maximum agility for required pivots.

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Startup Social Media Resource Training 63

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments.

Organization 93

Organization Social Media Custom Customer 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Community means more than supply and demand. Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions. Assets need to move in a community of engaged users.

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Commerce Social Media Platform Class 98

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured. Get Physical!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2013

Supply and demand ignored. We all believe that supply and demand meet to create stable prices (reflexive). But sometimes higher prices create higher demand, causing a boom. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. Cheap money. Policy-driven distortions.

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Demand Google Commerce Pricing 89

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

In fact, the report suggests that the total amount raised annually (over $30 billion) now exceeds the funding from venture capitalists during the same period. Don’t underestimate the amount of funding actually required. Get funding sizing input from senior advisors. How can you go wrong? Keep all IP details close to the vest.

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Technical Review Platform Entrepreneur Funding 58

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. The Startups.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD., Producer of Mixergy & AsAble.com.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Yet all too many succumb to the pressures of survival, driven by demanding investors or a cutthroat competitive environment. Investors provide funding, but they also have their own set of expectations on how things should get done, with aggressive milestones. Big bad investor interference. Lack of communication from the top.

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Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Organization 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2011

Supply and demand ignored. We all believe that supply and demand meet to create stable prices (reflexive). But sometimes higher prices create higher demand, causing a boom. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. Cheap money. Policy-driven distortions.

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Startup Demand Google Commerce 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

Community means more than supply and demand. Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions. Assets need to move in a community of engaged users.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Commerce Social Media Platform 111

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm. An expanding customer base demands better support.

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Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Custom 116

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

All relationships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work. As an example, I find that most Angel investors still decline to fund startup founders that are romantically involved, citing the high risk of breakup. But all good things can be overdone.

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Startup Course Competition Social Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances.

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