Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2010

Gemassmer We all intuitively believe in maintaining personal and business contacts, but most of us don’t do well in this area, despite the advent of social networking. This clearly represents a good education with numerous contacts around the world. I’d like to share my personal experience with you, to prove my point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2016

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most investors agree that the “idea” is worth nothing alone, and it’s the entrepreneur execution that counts. Your personal life is now public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and are a growing part of this new “ age of the entrepreneur ” that I discussed last week. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago, focused on a skill specialty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2014

What we all need is a digital tool that can extract data from business cards, as well as sync it with your cell phone, your email, and the social networks you use. It needs to have great search and display capabilities as well as spreadsheet-like sorting so you can look at the information in various ways. Shareware.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2018

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most investors agree that the “idea” is worth nothing alone, and it’s the entrepreneur execution that counts. Your personal life is now public.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2012

Recently launched Moofaces is a new spin on old social networks in which helps creative people connect based on their professions and interests. Their bringing the conversation back into social networks with a professional twist. Moofacese is out to help those opportunities thrive when is comes to the jobs market.

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OCTOBER 10, 2014

LinkedIn is one of the largest social networks, with 300 million users, and we fell that it has a higher quality user base. You can remain anonymous, and remain at your level of comfort, but at the same time get a chance to date someone of higher quality, because of the better information you have on that person. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs who run startups have to be generalists to survive. Yet I’m seeing another critical group of entrepreneurs, self-employed specialists, who are a growing part of this new “ entrepreneurial revolution ” that I discussed a couple of weeks ago. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Technologists have long believed that marketing is only required when selling the next pet rock, but in this age of information overload, even the most exciting solutions will be lost from view or assumed to have no value unless they are surrounded by hype. Every new startup rolling out an innovative solution is the start of a new cycle.

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APRIL 4, 2013

That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Being an entrepreneur these days requires an understanding of a thousand topics, many of which don’t even exist today in traditional learning vehicles, like schools and textbooks. True entrepreneurs love to learn, unlearn, and relearn, whether they are 20 years old, or 60 years old. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. Values start and emanate from you, the founding entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. Once you know the space, China really helps entrepreneurs. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

If you are looking for funding and customers for your new business, you need to identify your “unique selling proposition” (USP) right up front, in 30 seconds or less, to differentiate yourself in today’s information overload. A new easier to use social network may not get anyone excited.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

due to a less developed financial system, lack of credit tracking, and oftentimes and informal economy. However, because they are holding a smartphone in their hands, we're able to gather credit data and information on those customers, just through those devices. Shivani Siroya: Across the world, about 2.5

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 1, 2012

Recently launched Moofaces is a new spin on old social networks, in which it helps creative people connect based on their professions and interests. they’re bringing the conversation back into social networks with a professional twist. No, it’s not another LinkedIn or something similar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, lawyers, venture capitalists, or Angels. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. business ecommerce entrepreneur startup' The cost of entry has never been lower.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. No matter how well-educated you are, and how certain you are that you understand all the nuances of a business area, it is a good idea to work in a similar business for a few months to get a feel for the market and observe the unwritten rules before taking the plunge.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing. It doesn’t strike me as a “social network&# in the way we’ve come to define them. But its focus on solving a real-world problem makes it uniquely valuable to most other social graphs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

High on my list is the joy and satisfaction of having helped many entrepreneurs face-to-face this year, and hopefully many more by my blog reaching out over the Internet. These last couple of years have not been great financially for entrepreneurs, but it always helps to look at the cup as half full, rather than half empty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

Before social networking, an unhappy customer might tell three people. The Page serves as a space where small business owners can access educational resources, read success stories from other business owners, engage with peers, and find tips to help businesses run more efficiently. Respond online to feedback received online.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. Over time we’ll continue to build out the applications – helping make the entire web more social.&#. We then spoke about startups.

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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. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. I met a lot of really bright people that were passionate about and experienced in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Citysearch is an online guide that offers information and recommendations regarding local businesses including restaurants, shops, bars, hotels, and others. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. PriceGrabber.com is an online comparison shopping service.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. twenty in your wallet? Short-sighted, no?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. So I encouraged entrepreneurs to think about raising their funds as quickly as they could because. I have a young entrepreneur friend who IMs me a lot. Unemployment likely to rise.

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