Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

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. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

Even when orders are clearly on the upswing, you need more funding to cover inventory and lagging accounts receivable. You have tried all the popular initiatives and quick-fix remedies, including social media, search engine optimization, and content marketing. Each must be documented clearly and refined regularly.

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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

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. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

When you are starting a new business, every resource is precious, including time, funding, and people. Daily updates from the top and documented processes are critical. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

Don’t send investors documents and notes that would be rejected by any high-school teacher. It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2016

Carefully explain how you intend to use the funds requested. Document your commitments, as well as theirs. Warm introductions from friends and family to existing investors is far more productive in fund-raising than email blasts, social media connections, or cold-calls to famous investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Just like good sales people have a repeatable process they follow, every startup has to overcome the chaos of a new business, put structure in place, document their processes, and focus on scaling up the engine. Every growth business must have a repeatable process. Everyone on the team must adopt the same culture and recipe for success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

Don’t send investors documents and notes that would be rejected by any high-school teacher. It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.”

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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. Yet if that leaves you with no documented business plan or unclear strategy, most investors and even customers will walk away. Prioritize your tasks ahead of helping others with theirs.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A huge amount of cryptocurrency is believed to be stored on a device that is now inaccessible, leaving customers in the dark as to what has happened to their funds. During the dispute, the courts took control of the contested funds. In that cold wallet, according to Robertson, are the following funds: Bitcoin: 24,488.59834.

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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

MAY 27, 2015

The Internet is the source of data for alternative views, and social media allows direct customer interactions to test these views. The process of documenting what you think you know in a business plan, for the team and for investors, solidifies your own understanding of your new business.

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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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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 31, 2010

I find a simple working business plan is adequate for most (unless you are seeking outside funding in which case you would want to be more in depth). This would include at a minimum the follow components: Mission: The high level aspirations of the business (social, economic, financial, etc.). Current owner investment. Marketing Plan.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A new startup Meritful, out of Michigan Univeristy and accelerated and funded through Ann Arbor SPARK has launched into public beta to unite both students and mentors or even teachers. Ann Arbor SPARK Accelerated. Meritful is a professional network for students and mentors. Online Evaluation For Placement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2019

Just like good sales people have a repeatable process they follow, every startup has to overcome the chaos of a new business, put structure in place, document their processes, and focus on scaling up the engine. Every growth business must have a repeatable process. Everyone on the team must adopt the same culture and recipe for success.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and investment director at Intel Capital, and tells us how his fund--which he co-founded with Atom Factory's Troy Carter--is looking to find companies solving large problems outside of the typical Silicon Valley bubble. How did the fund get started? I led a number of investments for that company.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Social media and other channels provide the vehicles, but everyone has to be open for the process to work. Find someone with complementary business knowledge, and the time to help, with your trust and respect, Document your objectives and talk often. Willingness to observe, listen, and learn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2016

The Internet is the source of data for alternative views, and social media allows direct customer interactions to test these views. The process of documenting what you think you know in a business plan, for the team and for investors, solidifies your own understanding of your new business.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Education 61

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Using new tools for recruiting key players and advisors. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

Even if you are funding the project yourself (bootstrapping), you should be asking yourself the same question before you have burned all your resources. Start selling it on social media before you build it. Document and initiate a multi-faceted marketing plan. Marketing is everything these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

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. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business.

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Services Startup Training Writing 72

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

GraphEffect is a collaboration platform for social marketers which had only been available to large marketing partners including American Express, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Clorox, and Samsung. Venture Funding. Impact of Social Networking to Marketing. Impact of Social Networking to Marketing.

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Social Network Marketing Networking Social Media 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

Even when orders are clearly on the upswing, you need more funding to cover inventory and lagging accounts receivable. You have tried all the popular initiatives and quick-fix remedies, including social media, search engine optimization, and content marketing. Each must be documented clearly and refined regularly.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Social Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Just like good sales people have a repeatable process they follow, every startup has to overcome the chaos of a new business, put structure in place, document their processes, and focus on scaling up the engine. Every growth business must have a repeatable process. Everyone on the team must adopt the same culture and recipe for success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

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. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business.

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Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

You have to persuade the right partners to join and build the solution, the right investors to fund it and the right customers to buy it. The psychology involved in winning over others has been studied and preached for generations and continues to evolve as our culture changes, as documented on the website Psychology Today , and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

Through peers, social media or connections, make every effort to meet one or more of the investors before the actual pitch. Don’t be afraid to ask an investor group leader for its track record, sweet spot and connections to startups funded. Don’t be a total unknown to every investor in a meeting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

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. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

I spent about 20 years in that space, starting with some East Coast companies, including Digital Gateway Systems, which you might was where one of our users first posted the Scientology documents to the Internet, and we ended up getting sued by the Scientologists to protect our user. Our wallet name is only used to route funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2016

Even when orders are clearly on the upswing, you need more funding to cover inventory and lagging accounts receivable. You have tried all the popular initiatives and quick-fix remedies, including social media, search engine optimization, and content marketing. Each must be documented clearly and refined regularly.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

One interesting project, a bit different, is helping a paper-based collections agency implement a CRM/workflow software package and also select and integrate an eDocument Management Solution including scanning the paper-based backfile and putting in a go-forward process for capturing digital documents. What keeps you up at night?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

You need all these before you start looking for funding. Social media accounts. Immediately go to relevant social media sites and grab the same name, even if you never plan to use the accounts. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents.

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Social Media Media Patents IP 94

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

You need all these before you start looking for funding. Social media accounts. Immediately go to relevant social media sites and grab the same name, even if you never plan to use the accounts. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents.

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Startup Patents IP Social Media 145

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2011

It was an online document delivery portal for the medical industry. Threw up a website and leveraged social media to see what interest was out there in the community. I’ve seen startups get funded, take it easy and blow the money. Kyle : Is this your first company? We learned some hard lessons from that first go.

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