Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. But, don’t be fooled into expecting people to flock to your site after you tell a few friends. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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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. We'll be taking that information out to job sites and financial publications, as a way to enhance the data that is already there.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What's the business model behind the site--everything is free? What's Scripped?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. 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. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. We’re a busy bunch.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat. The site looks to be very well executed, where did you get the technology expertise to pull off the site? We have a really good team that brought this site up.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. The bar brings chat to the website and sites have seen share rates double using the bar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

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. Start a blog and write for industry forums and newsletters. Every organization and web site is begging for content, so spread yourself around.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. That changed very quickly. And covered we did.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How unique are you from them?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Lucky is a hybrid – half agency/half production company that writes, directs and produces viral films and branded content. . In 2001, he co-founded SponsorHouse.com, the leading online sponsorship site for action sports. He began directing & Lucky Viral Branded Content was born. Cameron Olthius 5ones.com. .

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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 company has opened its API to approved sites for distribution and approved developers who want to build games, etc. And of course we had, TheMan.

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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. People can come to the site, pay you directly, and we provide them with access to your genie, and away they go. It has links to supporting web site and resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

This move is indicative of the possibility that the traditional ways of going about making a living through a college education, an entry-level position at a firm, and steady promotion through the ranks is a dead model. But if you've spent all your money on the website for party supplies, you may not have the funds to have the site redone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In my view, no amount of academic education can prepare you for the challenges of running a business, but real experience will quickly open your eyes to some of the challenges, and let you know how much you enjoy responding to these on a day-to-day basis. Write a business plan for your desired new business.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

I often write about the best strategies for startup fundraising or how to manage startup financing and optimize for growth. Equally important, is an area many startup founders don’t always prioritize: choosing the right service providers and understanding the value they can bring, especially to early-stage startups.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Accelerators.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 22, 2013

There are over 4,500 influential Mommy Bloggers covering topics from pregnancy to child raising to education. Some write about relationships and others about sex. They write how they feel and they influence millions. We’ve included a link to their site, an email address (very hard to come by) and a social profile link.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

In a world where we have blogs, social media, sites like TheFunded, and a variety of other sources where entrepreneurs can figure out what other people think about VCs, being open and transparent matters. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. It''s the single best.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 2, 2014

A family that doesn’t write down their instructions or their assets doesn’t make things easy, especially when the spouse that took care of things dies. In addition to that, we are also scanning documents and allowing families to upload them to our site. This lets us offer not only solutions, but it also lets us educate.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2014

Provisional filings are especially beneficial for startups because: You gain a year to write a thoughtful, defensible patent without delaying your filing date. In order to internally draft your claims, you must educate yourself as to which prior art to include (and exclude) in your patent application.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Mo’s other degree was English, mine was Political Science.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. in terms of time spent on the sites. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5 Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. A program manager would traditionally be responsible for: Writing the detailed specification for how the software should work. Communicating with the developers who write code. Defensibility in Software.

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