Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I travelled for a couple of days for work and decided to get some sleep on those days rather than staying up into the wee hours as I often do when I travel. It has also coincided with the kickoff of our Launchpad LA educational series which has taken some of my time. He ends up spending personal time trying to get through email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Start simple. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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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. Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know.

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Entrepreneur Startup Course Education 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

They are not the generalists required for new product startups. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. Administrative specialists.

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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. Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. Current young adults have grown up hearing about Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) as the paragon of success.

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Entrepreneur Startup Course Education 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Follow-up and persistence are a rare natural phenomenon. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Until then, the best alternative I can recommend is to sign up for job internships at every opportunity, while still in school.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

And while that cliché has been said about everything in the Lone Star state for years, it rings particularly true for the hottest startups showcasing their big innovations at SXSW Startup Night 2018 presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo. Beast Mode is taking on a new meaning in the startup world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. 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. And covered we did.

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

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.Net Examples Customer Custom 73

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem, with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and self-educate. When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. Current young adults have grown up hearing about Bill Gates as the paragon of success. Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Advisors Startup Course Entrepreneur 90

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

They are not the generalists required for new product startups. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. Administrative specialists.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Services Product Search Engine Optimization 89

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem, with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and self-educate. When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more.

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Entrepreneur Startup Class Education 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. We then spoke about startups.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

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? Should you have 7 people doing your seed round and why Ron Conway is the S&P 500 of Venture Capital (this discussion starts at minute 59).

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Follow-up and persistence are a rare natural phenomenon. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Until then, the best alternative I can recommend is to sign up for job internships at every opportunity, while still in school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Until then, the best alternative I can recommend is to sign up for job internships at every opportunity, while still in school. Marty Zwilling.

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Class Course Writing Slides 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs who run startups have to be generalists to survive. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. Administrative specialists.

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Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Startup SEM 48

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

ZexSports and PacSun are putting an amazing panel together to discuss the value of key social influencer's, where they are on your social network, and how targeting these potential brand evangelists will have a positive influence on your social media network and ROI. This Panel has gotten extreme and sold out!

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Social Media Social Network Media Writing 75

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Until then, the best alternative I can recommend is to sign up for job internships at every opportunity, while still in school.

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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. When was it launched and where? What inspired you?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Follow-up and persistence are a rare natural phenomenon. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Until then, the best alternative I can recommend is to sign up for job internships at every opportunity, while still in school.

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Course Email Social Network Ideas 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2011

Business Writing Skills. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Until then, the best alternative I can recommend is to sign up for job internships at every opportunity, while still in school.

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Course Writing Social Network Ideas 91

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Follow-up and persistence are a rare natural phenomenon. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Until then, the best alternative I can recommend is to sign up for job internships at every opportunity, while still in school.

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Training Course Email Social Network 57

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

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. How did the company start? Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. 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. Thank you @eminutes. .

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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