InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

However, many people are not aware that prior to entering academia, Steve was a wily and creative marketing entrepreneur. As the VP of Marketing, Steve inherited a department of 14people that was burning $4M annually. All of a sudden I now had customers telling what market, how to reach them and what applications are important.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

However, certain questions can be tricky for an entrepreneur to answer. Below are five common questions an entrepreneur will encounter when seeking venture funding. Handled appropriately, these questions provide investors a window into an entrepreneurs’ soul, which minimizes the chances of a future misalignment.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Trade Show Guerilla Marketing Done Right . Be Closing, No Posing – The ultimate measure of effective marketing, especially at a startup, is revenue.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

As an entrepreneur, I helped create companies which achieved two IPOs and two trade sales totaling $385 million. Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. In order to reasonably assess the size of your addressable market, you must perform a bottoms-up analysis which is based on a number of elemental assumptions. Fallacy: Yes.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 6, 2013

Paul Singh, a partner at the seed stage firm 500-Startups, effectively articulates the market forces driving this investment strategy in his Money Ball presentation. According to Jim Andelman, "These market dynamics combine to leave good companies unfunded, even when they do not need ''much'' more capital to achieve a good exit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. Refresh it often. Let’s face it, static websites are dead.

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Berkonomics

JULY 28, 2015

September 21st, 2015 marks the sixth anniversary of publication for BERKONOMICS , the blog containing insights for business management, entrepreneurs, and investors. Starting with just 4,000 circulation in 2009, BERKONOMICS has grown to well over 100,000, and is read on five continents by an audience that is 45% female.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers. Skimlinks is an affiliate marketing tool that allows website publishers to readily monetize their online content. According to Lex ,“The next wave of online marketing is the seamless integration of contextually relevant advertisements within the content itself. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. Twitter is my curated RSS feed.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 29, 2012

However, certain questions can be tricky for an entrepreneur to answer. Below are five common questions an entrepreneur will encounter when seeking venture funding. Handled appropriately, these questions provide investors a window into an entrepreneurs’ soul, which minimizes the chances of a future misalignment.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. We weren''t marketing the newsletter, it was just out there, sort of growing organically.". Crowdsourced Advisors. crawl(ing) up.".

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Entrepreneurs with a high-profile role in their organization cannot credibly claim they were speaking "personally" when they make a divisive public comment. Mr. Friend attributed a portion of the lost sales to the radical and unplanned change in the company’s marketing mix during the quarter. Association Guilt. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 15, 2013

Scaling normally occurs after a startup achieves product-market fit. Sophisticated entrepreneurs understand that everything is easier at scale. At scale, entrepreneurs have the luxury of shifting their focus from survival to maximizing the return on their resources. Don''t Define Scale Too Early. Photo credit: Flickr born1945.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

According to Tige Young, Founder and CEO of Tui Tai Expeditions , entrepreneurs should de-emphasize ROI and focus on a more accurate measure of wealth, Return On Life. We both lived in the city (San Francisco), she was in event marketing and I was a software engineer. Being an entrepreneur) can be a really good thing for ROL.

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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 covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.

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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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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Whenever a VC assesses a potential investment opportunity, they attempt to match the entrepreneur(s), their solution, and intended markets with a pattern they have previously encountered. Conversely, even if a venture is pre-revenue, the operational risk is reduced if the entrepreneurs have a relevant track record of success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. When you extend this to include social media marketing, you can imagine that startups and small businesses are in fact at an advantage over their less flexible big brothers. Geographic customization.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Entrepreneurs can learn a great deal from the manner in which Pink Floyd created DSOTM. Unfortunately, successful musicians seldom have the luxury of market testing their subsequent albums. Entrepreneurs should always err on the side of long-term gain. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. Refresh it often. Let’s face it, static websites are dead.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. Each week he brought in passionate and successful entrepreneurs to speak to his students and give advice about the different facets of creating a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. Refresh it often. Let’s face it, static websites are dead.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Nearly every entrepreneur has heard the refrain, "Get back to me when you have some traction,” while seeking funding. Evidence of validation manifests itself in many forms and is derived from a variety of market forces. From an unsophisticated investor, this response might be a non-confrontational way of saying "No." Share and Enjoy.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. 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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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

Make no mistake, successful entertainers are entrepreneurs. At the outset of their careers, they are forced to market themselves with little to no budget and differentiate their product so that they gain adequate attention without alienating too many potential customers. Entrepreneurs and entertainers alike must address their fears.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 18, 2013

There are a variety of factors entrepreneurs should consider when evaluating a potential early-stage investor. The obvious downside of this strategy is that most pitches from experienced entrepreneurs "sound good." However, entrepreneurs frequently over-estimate the impact an investor will have on their venture. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 18, 2012

Some first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that they are not entrepreneurs because they have never invented anything nor have they come up with a novel idea upon which a company could be built. However, I am no less of an entrepreneur. Only a small percentage of innovators are also inventors. TV photo by gbaku.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Academia’s arbitrary, bureaucratic structure, combined with its predominant focus on theoretical issues, causes many entrepreneurs to depart college early. Entrepreneurs are misfits. Entrepreneurs are often societal rejects.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2012

Most focus on two things though, the amount of women that use the site and the amount of money dirty marketing people are going to make from it. If you’re in the market for a new bag, Chris may have already pinned it for you. Of course, there has been no shortage of articles about Pinterest lately. Matt Galligan. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Dynamic, growing startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, including: entering into potential partnerships, developing new products and accessing emerging markets. However, at that time, our resources were better applied to exploiting our primary, PC-based market.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

One the most frequent questions asked of me by entrepreneurs is, "How can I become a Venture Capitalist?" The inquiry is common because being a VC is (to an entrepreneur, at least) a sexy job. Spend as much time as possible in the company of aspiring and accomplished entrepreneurs. Microscopic Industry. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Mark began his career at Citrix as a middle manager in its Marketing Department, eventually rising to the ranks of CEO. He then went on to identify four approaches entrepreneurs can take to enhance their chances of achieving success. Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to become self-aware. Success Is (Mostly) In Your Hands.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.". Hacker News encourages entrepreneurs to solicit feedback by using the "Show HN" prefix in a post's title.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2013

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. Refresh it often. Let’s face it, static websites are dead.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 24, 2015

Matt says that this service approach has helped Lowercase really win the loyalty of the founders they back in a market that has grown increasingly competitive. We spoke about how we both like to back entrepreneurs with a healthy chip on their shoulders and a desire to stick ones middle finger up at the establishment.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 13, 2012

Successful Olympic athletes share a number of common qualities with entrepreneurs; including boundless energy, uncompromising tenacity and a willingness to innovate. An entrepreneur’s ability to devise innovations increases exponentially once they enter the market and are forced to fight for their venture’s survival.

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