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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. The Internet is the source of data for alternative views, and social media allows direct customer interactions to test these views. Learning means understanding, far beyond memorization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Is there an educated marketplace waiting? An educated marketplace is one where your target customers already understand the problem and the impact of your technology. Truly disruptive technologies are tough, since it always takes extra time and money to educate and motivate the customers to move away from current approaches.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool. Therefore, it takes time, sometimes whole generations, of education, communication, and incremental proof to get momentum going and overcome old fears.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, and also which also included Experian Ventures, Cherry Tree Investments, Dig Ventures, Mucker Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, TechStars and Wavemaker Partners. What we do, is we take them from social media into a one-to-one relationship, via text, directly to their phone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2023

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that's a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. There are a wealth of tools available today, relying on social media and marketing, to create or foster the market your company needs. So hang in there and get busy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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. Community means more than supply and demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. The Internet is the source of data for alternative views, and social media allows direct customer interactions to test these views. Learning means understanding, far beyond memorization.

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. I've really gotten an in-depth education about what women want when buying and selling online. I didn't have any funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2020

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that's a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. There are a wealth of tools available today, relying on social media and marketing, to create or foster the market your company needs. So hang in there and get busy.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The equity round will help it built more compelling technology to analyze social data to provide deep user analytics, actionable insights and personalized offers for its clients. Co-founded in 2011 by Sina Sohangir and Shahram Seyedin-Noor, GraphDive raised over $1 million in initial funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. Higher education.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. We have a licensing business with that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2010

By Adam Hoeksema According to a report distributed by the Angel Capital Education Foundation , total startup funding from venture capital funds, state funds, and angel investors totals approximately $20.8 Tags: entrepreneur startup friends and family funding business. billion annually. Have an exit strategy.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

That money is being distributed across real estate, educational, and local business redevelopment, as well as moving Zappos into the old City Hall in downtown Las Vegas. “As corny as it sounds, Tony Hsieh is a seller of dreams,” said Sarah Evans, founder of PR firm Sevans Strategy and social media venture FAVES + CO. “So

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutelier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

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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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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

I saw so many different applications for virtual reality in education, entertainment, mental health and communication,” he said. 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

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

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. Community means more than supply and 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. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2016

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. The Internet is the source of data for alternative views, and social media allows direct customer interactions to test these views. Learning means understanding, far beyond memorization.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Social media allows women to seek out other, like minded women, and learn from them. We understand you're backed by $100M in funding? The other, is to surround that experience with both community and content, which we push out through various social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Snapchat.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutleier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

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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. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

Is there an educated marketplace waiting? An educated marketplace is one where your target customers already understand the problem and the impact of your technology. Truly disruptive technologies are tough, since it always takes extra time and money to educate and motivate the customers to move away from current approaches.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I know of at least 2 deals from that cohort that are either funded ( Backupify ) or nearly funded (can’t really disclose, I’m not sure if it’s yet closed and/or announced. Jason & Tyler brought forward 5 high quality companies and super high quality ones rose to the top and quickly got funded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

The fact that entrepreneurs tend to think outside the box with passion and persistence is a big positive, and it's clearly the reason many large companies now fund or buy successful startups for new innovations rather than depend on internal projects. Great ideas will have no trouble getting funded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2014

Yet if you already have some early adopters, that''s a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance. There are a wealth of tools available today, relying on social media and marketing, to create or foster the market your company needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

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. Community means more than supply and demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. We’re a busy bunch. 6:00 – 7:30).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Barry Schuler (@BSchuler) - former CEO of AOL, Ex Producer of LOOK, Managing Director DFJ Growth Fund. Carlos R (@CarlosHernandez) - Social media educator & co-creator of Social Media for the Uncomfortable. Ciaran Blumenfeld (@momfluential) - Owner Francie Pants & Producer Momfluential Media.

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