Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

We can find tons of "marketing' courses in colleges and universities but everyone must think that “selling” is intuitively obvious. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2012

Moofacese is out to help those opportunities thrive when is comes to the jobs market. 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.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2013

Mommy bloggers are one of the most influential social networking resources that lead to increased awareness and sales. Their stamp of approval can put the spotlight on any product or service and can open doors to new markets and opportunities. If you sell into these markets, here’s what you should consider: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Investors realize that the resources and risk required to hit both markets concurrently are great, so they will likely look for focus, or a staged approach. A niche market sizing or a shrinking opportunity may make a good family business, but is likely not of interest to investors.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Creating a successful startup is all about marketing these days, no matter how compelling your solution. According to Urban Dictionary , hype is “a clever marketing strategy where a product is advertised as the thing everyone must have, to the point where people begin to feel they need to consume it.” Peak of inflated expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

When it comes to social media for your business, expect a high learning curve, but rest assured it’s not rocket science. Social media is now one of the key marketing tools, but not the only one, so the challenge is to manage the resource tradeoffs effectively by constantly assessing payback versus cost. billion users).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In a bid to help research from the University of Southern California reach the market, the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation said Wednesday afternoon that it is awarding $439,000 in gap funding to seven projects from USC, which have a high potential to spin out of the school. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

They get marketed as such. Will that be enough or will high churn rates creep in, new toys be introduced into the market, new time sucks pulling user attention away? Why had it endured though market machinations and become this year’s darling IPO? Not improving your life or business. Not solving a real problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2010

Many entrepreneurs send me invitations and accolades for their latest Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) companies, and others tell me how much they hate these things. I’m simply annoyed that their pervasive use of social networks like Twitter and Facebook devalue that medium for all businesses. Promise big money with little work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. In the second stage, marketing and sales are highly specialized functions. Marketing shapes the concept, branding, packaging, pricing, and positioning. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

Kaleio users will also get filtered results from over 45 specific industries, including technology, construction, education, healthcare, blogging, and many more. What will Kaleio as a social network gain from the partnership? Marketing & Advertising. Mashable, and several others. Below is our interview in detail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Everyone is talking about how social media can help you jumpstart your business at no cost, and experts are springing up on all sides to help you do it at a high cost. Before you start, analyze existing media, demographics, and new social media alternatives for a fit to your rollout campaign requirements. Then set your goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Most startups I know have “refined” their target market several times during their rollout. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Make marketing and sales a priority. In business, “most important” means time to market, customer service, low cost, and beating your competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. I have some educated guesses. In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. I will cover this in my post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

We can find tons of "marketing' courses in colleges and universities but everyone must think that “selling” is intuitively obvious. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

To start, New Media Expo (NMX) is the first and only industry-wide conference, tradeshow and media event dedicated to blogging, podcasting, social media, social networking, online video, music, Internet TV and radio. Simply put, if you want to get in front of influential online content creators, this is the place to be.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2018

market capitalization, and tech is a growing target for corporate research and development dollars. Online Education Is Up. And since YouTube is the largest social network according to a recent Pew study — 73 percent of Americans use it, compared to just 68 percent with Facebook accounts — that percentage is even more important.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 1, 2012

Moofaces is out to help those opportunities thrive when it comes to the jobs market. 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.

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socalTECH

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. Max Fischer: We''re in the process of fundraising right now, to fund our future growth and marketing. This is the first based off of LinkedIn. You never know who there might be actually admiring you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., Shivani Siroya: Tala is a data company that is working in emerging markets. What we've developed, is an Android app that allows us to open up financial access to customers in emerging markets.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.). Not just in Silicon Valley but in LA, NY, Seattle and other major tech markets. The future certainly looks brighter to me. “ And my fear? . “ And my fear?

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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. They drive the market, rather than the other way around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Most startups I know have “refined” their target market several times during their rollout. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Make marketing and sales a priority. In business, “most important” means time to market, customer service, low cost, and beating your competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. In the second stage, marketing and sales are highly specialized functions. Marketing shapes the concept, branding, packaging, pricing, and positioning. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 9, 2013

Enzo Monfre is a 12 year old founder of Enzoology Education and Exploration Nation. Victoria Walker is the 11 year old winner of a Silicon Beach hackathon beating out nearly 120 professional computer developers at a competitive event and ultimately winning $20,000 to further develop a mobile app and market it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Publish the site and now you are in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Most startups I know have “refined” their target market several times during their rollout. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Make marketing and sales a priority. In business, “most important” means time to market, customer service, low cost, and beating your competitors.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you? How does it work?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Not having a social media policy. Your social media policy needs to outline how team members behave in the online universe during and outside of work. It should include education on style preferences and confidentiality. Research your target market to find out who they are and how to reach them. small businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. In the second stage, marketing and sales are highly specialized functions. Marketing shapes the concept, branding, packaging, pricing, and positioning. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2015

A survey by the Webs Small Business Digital Trends revealed that 63% of small business owners are using digital strategies in their overall marketing efforts. An integrated digital marketing strategy can do that and so much more. These two forms of marketing are meant to work hand in hand. Pull your audience with content.

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