InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Most sophisticated investors ignore them, focusing their attention on an entrepreneur's pitch and presentation materials, financial forecast and executive summary. As noted in Entrepreneurs Shouldn't Pitch Their Ideas To Venture Capitalists , most sophisticated investors place their bets on people rather than opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Yet if your service is consulting, for example, real travel is required to deliver the product. It’s always valuable to meet new prospect clients face to face, rather than just by phone or email. Speaking gigs help establish your expertise. We all need help from time to time, and some fresh inspiration.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

We are the only, data-driven incentive platform that helps marketers optimize their audience participation across the channel. Our clients are retail, technology, consumer product goods, and other companies who are trying to address challenges with a very complex, digital marketing mix they face every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.&# Will they? The partner you saw is probably sitting on 5-6 boards which means he or she will be busy helping existing portfolio companies. And they have responsibilities for helping to manage their fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Search engines and people love blogs these days. Widgets and badges.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. 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. 5:00 – 5:55). 6:00 – 7:30).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. According to Hubspot , websites that have blogs get twice as many inbound links, 400 percent more indexed pages, and a more than 50 percent increase in traffic, compared to websites without blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Assistly’s main competitor is ZenDesk, whom I’m told also has a great product. 2.2mm in Series A.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 1, 2017

Once a novelty act reserved for indie band albums and curious art projects, crowdfunding is starting to play a major role in the world of startups and new products. Your campaign page should clearly highlight your track record, what you’ve already put in place to make your vision a reality, and why you are the one with the skills for the job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Customer service has always been reactionary, meaning someone has to wake up and answer website email requests. Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. This exemplary customer service is just savvy marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days? Most entrepreneurs I know are too busy creating a compelling product to give proper focus to the four phases of building a people and media platform that are equally critical for long-term success: Platform creation prior to launch.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Idea Mensch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2012

After struggling to create your business plan for months, every entrepreneur likes to think that their document is inspirational and will reach someone who is smart enough to see the brilliance of the idea, intuitive enough to recognize their business acumen, and enthusiastic enough to offer the money required to make it happen.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The Viral Loop / User Email. Each individual piece of content should have its own distinct URL(title tag), and a unique title (H1 tag) for the page that search engines can read and index. Increase the production of your content.It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”.The

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. According to Hubspot , websites that have blogs get twice as many inbound links, 400 percent more indexed pages, and a more than 50 percent increase in traffic, compared to websites without blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

After struggling to create your business plan for months, every entrepreneur likes to think that their document is inspirational and will reach someone who is smart enough to see the brilliance of the idea, intuitive enough to recognize their business acumen, and enthusiastic enough to offer the money required to make it happen.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

According to Patrick Vlaskovits another proselytizer of the term, “Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit.”. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it. It’s the whole conversion flow.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. Unless people feel a certain level of appeal towards what you are doing, they are less likely to want to help you. You can create your startup page in two clicks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In the online world, you need a solid connection between your domain name and your product, brand, or business. It’s sharing features built into your web site content like social bookmarking, emailing, or auto posting and interactive features like comments and voting. entrepreneur failure odds online startup strategies'

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

Unfortunately, there was a contingent within Expertcity, which believed that BuddyHelp should remain a free service, even after we launched DesktopStreaming (the genesis of DesktopStreaming’s terrible name is described in, Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You ).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

ThisNext.com has been a social shooping site, really for anyone and everyone, and for every product category. That's available on our home page. For StyleHive, in particular, we're adding a daily email newslette rprogram, and are reaching out to hundreds of thousands of email newsletter subscribers we have who have been underserved.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Harry Lin: Lottay originated before me, I've just been barely two months as CEO, from an entrepreneur, Andy Elliott. Klaus and Steve thought Andy was a great entrepreneur and it was a good idea, and seeded it. It's got a very simple function--helping you organize party invitations and RSVPs online.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

To help it along, we developed some software which makes it easy to create a mobile experience, which corresponds to a QR code you can place on any, real world object. We recently completed a pilot with William Morris and Disney, around Hannah Montana, where we helped print QR codes for 10,000 CD stickers, 2500 posters, and digital signage.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

Sean Broihier: We are an online art marketplace, and help living artists and photographers sell prints of their artwork. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2012

Customer service has always been reactionary, meaning someone to wake up and answer website email requests. Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. Self-service needs to have escape hatches.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

The Viral Loop / User Email. Each individual piece of content should have its own distinct URL(title tag), and a unique title (H1 tag) for the page that search engines can read and index. Increase the production of your content. The more pages indexed, the more traffic you will get. Search Engines. Social Media.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

But some larger companies, such as Canonical, came to the crowdfunding community to help them fund projects like the Ubuntu Edge. I started my company with four of my friends and all of us are first time business owners and entrepreneurs. The contributors want a piece of the action and help with the building of the project itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. I was an entrepreneur. The obvious starting point is to email a few friends and let them know you have a new blog. You also should have it be what your Twitter page links to. Some search.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

I’ve spent almost 20 years starting businesses and helping hundreds of clients, colleges & friends start theirs. If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We help them with this. We came together to help others in the same situation – ie starting a business but not knowing how to market it. More and more small business are becoming disillusioned with having to pay to have posts shown to fans they worked hard to get to like their page. Why the name? Any funding yet?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. 10) Thorsten, why does the world need RightScale? . “Oh,

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

All that combined is what lead us to the amazing group of participating companies that follow: CapLinked lets entrepreneurs focus on what they do best, while making sure their investors always stay in the loop. Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

The caveat is that these young entrepreneurs have to drop out of college to do it. Having no money can help you plan. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. If you will be making a product to sell, be sure the cost of materials is minimal and beyond that it costs only your labor.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. Bill Fried: I'm a serial entrepreneur. The automated part, is a customer fills out a form and buys the product through their shopping cart.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Be sure to tune in at 5:30pm PT. Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka.

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