Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. The challenge is to find the time and initiative to keep up with the information wave, and be able to curate the data into knowledge that must be learned, unlearned, or relearned. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I’m certainly not saying that all of these are required, but they are certainly all worth some consideration: Get some business education, as well as technical. The education will be invaluable in setting up your own business, managing a team, and learning how to deal with constant challenges. Find your level of passion early.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2019

The panels of seasoned and newer investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! At this OC Event, we will be showcasing some of the newest early-stage venture funds and angel groups in the San Diego area!

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. We learn from our experience and education that growth comes from “top–grading” at all levels of the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2019

Image via Flickr by jardenberg Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. Then write it down.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. It's a hands-on kind of education. What is CreatorUp all about?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

He is the author of various best selling books including Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma ’06 and Usable Usability. Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining. Reiss is a world-renowned usability expert.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

So I thought I’d write a piece on how not to suck when you give a presentation. Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations. You’re there to leave an impression – not to educate. Show some energy! They simply need to know: who has a problem?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

She highlighted for me how we measure human potential today and it’s based on the workforce that existing post WWII where teaching rote memorization of facts: Math, reading comprehension, writing, basic science, etc. We educate and train and test for a set of skills designed to succeed in 1950. Fundamentally the system feels broken.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

We also are building out sections on the Huffington Post, the Impact and Education brands, with our technology, and powered the AARP's Create The Good site to help in cause marketing and audience engagement. It turns out, there is a lot of interest from other companies in that space for that kind of information.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

But we’ve gotten the point where ENIFA and they will invest with no information based solely on the name of who else has invested. Even if one disagrees with the premise, why would anyone feel the need to attack Mike for writing it? Information Leaks are a Real Problem. Information leaks. This is a hard one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2017

Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. Then write it down. Easy to digest. Visually appealing.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. Saying, ''Hey, we want to pay you to write a book.’

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2014

Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. Then write it down. Easy to digest. Visually appealing.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

It gives us the ability to do what we love, which it to create engagement and content that people find entertaining, informative, and authoritative, and moves an audience, and introduces the right kind of selective sponsors and clients to that engaged audience, in a respectful way. It ends up being good for both. That is amazing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. If you have investors or board members that have wide relationships you can get significantly more value out of them by keeping them informed. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. More information comes out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. The challenge is to find the time and initiative to keep up with the information wave, and be able to curate the data into knowledge that must be learned, unlearned, or relearned. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2014

Do not rely on the IP lawyer to coax such vital information from you. Provisional filings are especially beneficial for startups because: You gain a year to write a thoughtful, defensible patent without delaying your filing date. The filing date is often the deciding arbiter in IP disputes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

After more than three decades as an educator -- in both the classroom and the corporate world -- I've found that the most impactful learning and development program integrates this theory from beginning to end with three main strategies. Make it learner-centric. Why should an employee take this training?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Most men in the 1940's and 50's did not know how to use a keyboard and thus could not write code. Diversity on all levels, be it ideas, education, background, gender, ethnicity or otherwise, is critical to our growth. Our customers are some of the world's largest, most diverse organizations on the planet, such as IBM, HP and Dell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. Then write it down. Easy to digest. Visually appealing.

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Content Startup Newsletter Writing 99

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. Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com),

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Education Startup Course Tool 124

InfoChachkie

MARCH 6, 2018

The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss’d by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This does not mean you shouldn’t solve big, complex problems or write complex code. how informed will they be about our product / service? You give them an education in whatever topic it was that they asked about. To be much smarter than the information you’re divulging. You are professorial.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. Saying, ''Hey, we want to pay you to write a book.’

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2016

The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. The challenge is to find the time and initiative to keep up with the information wave, and be able to curate the data into knowledge that must be learned, unlearned, or relearned. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Education 61

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Out of 41 companies who submitted their software for approval, only three were accepted--us, McGraw Hill, and Peoples Education. We then aggregate that information to teachers, for the entire classroom. Software is set to be transformative in the space of education. It's at a more granular level. Jake got a similar amount.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2011

Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. Educational. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. Then write it down. Easy to digest. Visually appealing.

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Content Startup Newsletter Writing 94

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. It is because when you share too much of this information with staff you develop an “options culture” the I find unhealthy. .”

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Once again, there is a need to educate board members that in conflict of interest cases, the corporation comes first.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours. We are hoping to educate new writers.

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Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. The ten companies selected for the programe are: • AccessDNA : – Think WebMD for genetic information. And of course we had, TheMan.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 18, 2015

To this end, politely and persistently ask the following questions until you obtain enough information to estimate each of the variables in the formulas shown below. This variable is obviously an educated guess, at best. Answering these questions will allow you to reasonably estimate what your options may ultimately be worth.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

The TechCrunch team was judicious in its determination of qualifiers, insisting that the accelerators be, “fixed-term, cohort-based, with educational and mentorship components, culminating in a public pitch or demo day.” If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

In this age of information overload, success is all about building a brand that stands out above the competition. Every Chamber of Commerce, educational organization, and many business organizations are looking for people who are willing to share some special expertise, skills, or interests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Budding entrepreneurs and home-based businesses should be writing business plans before they start, so they understand and can manage the tasks ahead, but no outside investor need ever see the plan. For additional tips and advice, and information about Visa''s small business solutions, follow @VisaSmallBiz and visit [link].

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