Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. When the world gets smaller.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

It turns out, nowadays, creating the content is only a small part of your job description The most successful YouTubers, studios, brands and agencies today are intensely focused on using social media to engage with fans, get that content out there, and grow their audience. Juan Bruce: My background is in design engineering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2011

One of the hot new approaches I have seen around the country for assisting startups looking for funding has been “crowd-sourcing” sites ( Kickstarter ) or “crowd-pitching” events ( Funding Universe ). These are variations on a “crowd-funding” theme to raise money for a startup through social networks and voting at public events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2021

In my role as an advisor to startups, I often have to remind entrepreneurs to think more like sales people from day one, in finding a real problem to solve and designing the solution. That’s why Steve Jobs spent as much time on “insanely great design” as technology, and marketed to customer emotions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

If you are one of the thousands of entrepreneurs who need equity funding to get your startup going (no loans to repay), you are probably overwhelmed at the prospect of finding, contacting and pitching to the huge number of qualified angels and investment groups around the country. Register Internet and social media startup names.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

If you need investors, it’s important that you understand their filters, and even if you are funding your own efforts, you need to recognize the red flags. These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers. Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. And they do all this in the span of four intense months. Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing. That is not to say the Partners are breathing down their neck.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. Ellis describes himself as a lifelong product guy, and lover of design and photography. I am drawn to it.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MySocialNightLife.com (www.mysocialnightlife.com) announced a seed funding round, and its technology platform for the nightclub and bar industry. In addition, we though we'd connect this to social media, as a forward-facing view for customers. What are you doing with your seed funding?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

If you need investors, it’s important that you understand their filters, and even if you are funding your own efforts, you need to recognize the red flags. These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

Investors are looking for breakthrough solutions to fund. For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. Be forever curious and optimistic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. It’s not too late to start. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2010

One of the hot new approaches I have seen around the country for assisting startups looking for funding has been “crowd-sourcing” tools ( ProFounder ) or “crowd-pitching” events ( Funding Universe ). These are variations on a “crowd-funding” theme to raise money for a startup through social networks and voting at public events.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

For example, you may feel you are saving money by doing all your own administrative work and monitoring social media feedback. Remember the concept of minimum viable product (MVP), which is designed to test viability and interest before you burn through too much of your energy and resources. The reality is often the opposite.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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). I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Investors like me look for these in the people they fund, and you should be looking for them in yourself: Forever curious. It’s the province of game designers and creators of new social media platforms. It’s imagining original themes, people with new roles, and things with unique designs. Think the opposite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Luckily, I had always been a “hands-on” professional, and I had learned the pragmatics of people leadership, marketing, management tools, and funding. Simply defining yourself as a marketing specialist, designer, or project leader minimizes the stigma of the consultant role. Use social media for more visibility.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We've created a social media platform which helps you meet new people, and we're also very focused on privacy, and don't sell your data, don't spy on you, but provide an environment where you can meet other people based on shared interests and shared locations. How is the company funded?

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. Taylor started pushing out content through social media and share what was happening in the industry. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5 And UploadVR was born.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2019

In my role as an advisor to startups, I often have to remind entrepreneurs to think more like sales people from day one, in finding a real problem to solve and designing the solution. That’s why Steve Jobs spent as much time on “insanely great design” as technology, and marketed to customer emotions.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. 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. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. These days, even with the pervasive Internet and social media, it still takes time and money for your marketing and customer communication efforts to have an impact. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. Ariel understood her customer?—?the the modern buyer of home products?—?better

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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. The web is broken by design and we cannot fix it anymore.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2012

Over the weekend the 12 teams worked on business model creation, coding, designing, and more important, market validation. 1 st Place: Flutterly –A social media platform that uses audio to connect with people led by Denise Walker. On Saturday teams were coached a mentored by a number of successful entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 16, 2019

In an interview with The Verge last year, Bartasi said she’s taken inspiration from SoulCycle and DryBar, companies whose millennial-focused branding strategies and prolific social media presences have helped them accumulate customers. “We are women designing for women.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 29, 2013

Have you received any funding yet? No, we are currently self funded but entertaining offers. Scroll through available promotions and perks and submit their photo either from their camera roll or via Instagram by tagging their photo with a designated hashtag. How does it work? Users connect their Instagram account with SnapMyAd.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. And they do all this in the span of four intense months. Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing. That is not to say the Partners are breathing down their neck.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Recycled Bride is the world’s largest wedding marketplace; a peer-to-peer platform that connects buyers and sellers of designer wedding dresses, accessories, and anything else wedding-related. Recycled Bride uses PayPal to hold the funds until the seller ships their item and enters a tracking number into the system.

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