Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

I’ve also known startups who have worked for months on the infrastructure of their business – front office, manufacturing, product design, marketing, personnel, and sales – then started work on a web site in parallel with their “grand opening.” Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Not only does it boast a sleek ergonomic design, but it also X every single feature you'd expect from a top-tier internet phone system. Here are some affordable tools designed to keep startups safe. Zoho Social is the best social media management tool we've reviewed, largely because of its affordability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

But they can otherwise save you much time and effort, and are also safer and more productive than the old-fashioned approach of broadcast emailing or cold-calling every investor you can find in online directories, or responding to the risky spam offers you get for funding on social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

We’re excited to announce TechZulu is officially partnering with New Media Expo (formerly BlogWorld) to create a Startup Launchpad at their next event taking place January 6-8, 2013 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas. What does this mean for you ? If you don’t meet the qualifications, don’t fret.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). Sometimes I make a blog entry. Love the minis!

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

This fest will include panels, workshops, cocktails and keynotes for startups, content creators, developers, social media marketers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more. Design/Dev Hub (Launchpad LA) : Design + developers, UI, UX panels. Influencer (PromoJam) @ Tech Cube : social tools. CoWorks : TBA.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This category encompasses a vast array of content, from emails and text documents to social media posts. Here's a suggested approach: Ground Truth Creation: Design a test dataset with established answers or recognized documents to serve as a reference point.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Jason laughed when he told me that he has rattled off inspirational emails to Paul Bricault, Amplify’s managing director, at 11:30 at night only to find an equally enthusiastic response in his in-box five minutes later. And they do all this in the span of four intense months.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2015

3 Take advantage of email. If you already have an email list, you’re ahead of the game. Email can be an invaluable resource in the tech industry, as the bulk of your target audience will already be receptive to this kind of marketing. 4 Use social media. If you don’t, now is the perfect time to start building one.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The former founder of the publicly traded Shenzhen-based gaming publisher iDreamSky, acknowledged that his new company couldn’t work in China’s tightly controlled social media market. “This project will have a lot more legs outside of the Greater China reach,” Ko said. were a foreign concept. ” Ko said.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. We streamline strategy development using a Reality-Based approach, then execute cross-media programs including websites, brochures, ads, booths. It has been fun to get to know her again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Shape your business by design, not by default. Focus on your passion and your vision of what you want to accomplish, and make that come alive in the design and delivery of everything you do. Use visibility and social media to pull clients in. Picking a niche is another good way to focus.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. However Gmail is only private email conversations. We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some boards are designed to showcase each and every member of management by having everybody lead a 20-minute update only to find out that no time has been allotted for discussion or debate. Some board members spend all of their time in the meeting on electronic devices doing email or even checking social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Sleek in design, the HTC One features front-facing speakers. HTC BlinkFeed aggregates your content from a variety of media sources, serving up fresh content all in one place, without the need to jump between multiple applications and web sites. Lynn Walford of Wireless and Mobile News shows it off for us here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I’ve also known startups who have worked for months on the infrastructure of their business – front office, manufacturing, product design, marketing, personnel, and sales – then started work on a web site in parallel with their “grand opening.” Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer.

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Web Startup Sites Design 76

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012. My cofounder and I came up with this concept, and had been talking for awhole about how fragmented the overall market is for online ordering.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Attendees include startup CEOs, accelerators, VCs, investors, Hollywood movie and music studio execs, agencies, fashion, content creators, social media gurus, developers, designers, and more from LA, Silicon Valley, OC, San Diego, New York, and international. SBF attendees should be able to attend for free or at a discount.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Jason laughed when he told me that he has rattled off inspirational emails to Paul Bricault, Amplify’s managing director, at 11:30 at night only to find an equally enthusiastic response in his in-box five minutes later. And they do all this in the span of four intense months.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. It''s sort of an Etsy for flowers.

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Technology Council

OCTOBER 3, 2008

4 Rules For Email Design In [.] Here are quick links to the feature articles in this issue: Magnify360 Wins VentureNet Best Of Show 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Building Your Startup “Out Of The Box” PR Tactics. Offshore Outsourcing is Dying…Long Live Hybrid Nearshore.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

On your birthday, something special happens on social media: you receive hundreds of likes and well wishes from friends, family, high school classmates and people you haven’t talked to for years on Facebook. The Star-Match feature is designed to be a friendly connection builder. The Star-Match.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I wanted to spend the rest of the blog post telling you why we decided to fund the company, how we settled on the final product design and our unique way of launching the app. Second, videos that we do share end up in fragments across Facebook, Instagram, cloud services, email or text messages. That is Ferris.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

I’ve also known startups who have worked for months on the infrastructure of their business – front office, manufacturing, product design, marketing, personnel, and sales – then started work on a web site in parallel with their “grand opening.” Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer.

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Web Startup Sites Design 62

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. Thus, the key to properly timing social news exposure is to channel your inner Boy Scout and be prepared to make the most of such opportunities, irrespective of when or where they arise. For us, the audience was perfect. Engagement.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. Social, Facebook, and Twitter referral is meaningful. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 6:00 – 7:30).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

I’ve also known startups who have worked for months on the infrastructure of their business – front office, manufacturing, product design, marketing, personnel, and sales – then started work on a web site in parallel with their “grand opening.” Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer.

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Web Startup Sites Design 99

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2014

We can have the community benefit to see their products there, but it’s all socially-based,” says Ash Sater, Founder of eddi. It feels like you are on a social media platform. eddi is a listing site similar to Craigslist but with a social element added to create more interactions among community members.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Then we started advertising and getting media attention. Also, advertising in print media just doesn''t have the ROI that it once did. Travel, and the trust it requires, is too personal to rely solely on email and social media. What tactics have worked best for you and how have these changed over the years?

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

There are so many different routes a person can take to enter the industry, such as design, buying, production, marketing, eCommerce and styling to name a few. Besides individuals with a merchandising/design degree, many other degrees can be applied to fashion industry jobs. Three, do not launch the week of Black Friday!

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

The amount of data in social networks and the amount of social networks are growing with the time. All this is happening as social media gets more and more important in our lives. We are getting very excited just designing them! Every time we have more friends, more followers, more and more content is generated.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

The best form of this right now is email, and even then, that's through a one-size-fits-all email. We made it easier for local businesses to acquire customers through search and social media We sold that to Deluxe Corp. That's currently very ineffective. That led me to Punchcard.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Design a logo ( 99designs ). Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Create and manage your social media presence. Pick an internal email system ( Gmail , Outlook ). Master social media marketing.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. It''s designed for business people.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

You can even invite friends through Facebook, phonebook contacts, or email to help you be motivated in gaining your goals. Since you are using social media, how does this help “motivate” your friends? Testing and designing the app was difficult as well. For example, let’s say you are determined to be fit.

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