Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Gamify: engagement to get what you pay for.

Startup 126

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 126

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. We think it''s really powerful in our platform.

Coach 252

Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Both need to be clear and direct.

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Media Tips Social Media Startup 118

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. DTC entrepreneurs are more focused on immediate impact, because if they’re not selling product, there’s no large brand propping them up. If the entrepreneur has trouble answering this, it’s not going to work.

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

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. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. We started sending out the newsletter. every three weeks.

Newsletter 233

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Both need to be clear and direct.

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Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Josef Holm: Tubestart is a crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators, web series creators, and for digital video in general. The main difference between the mainstream platforms and us, is first, that we have really, really great hands-on support people who only do video all day long, which has a significant impact. READ MORE>>.

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Content Platform Sites Web 231

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. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. We started sending out the newsletter. every three weeks.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access.

Startup 76

Startup Angel Funding .Net 76

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

There's a tightness which is squeezing the lifeblood from the entrepreneurs, even as it remains an amazing place. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. The first step, is to attract more entrepreneurs. You want those investors to be local.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access.

Startup 106

Startup Angel .Net Entrepreneur 106

socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

It''s a place where people can submit their ideas and patents, and we provide a platform for them to try to find entrepreneurs who would like to work on those patents together with us an the crowd. How do entrepreneurs get involved? Once we have formed a company, that company can use our platform for crowdfunding.

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Ideas Patents Funding Startup 178

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Gamify: engagement to get what you pay for.

Technology 97

Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, Our platform not only distributes your jobs, but helps with your brand online, and helps candidates move forward to see if they have a great fit with the company.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access.

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Invest Angel Funding Startup 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2016

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. I would summarize the views and qualms from professional investors as the following: Crowdfunding platform costs could trickle down to angel groups.

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Equity Platform Entrepreneur Demand 54

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Geared towards artists, entrepreneurs and innovators, crowdfunding is a great way to get any projects off the ground, be it startup, movie, music or invention. Statistics show that 60% of projects on crowdfunding sites fail to reach their funding goals. Cause related campaigns (only for certain crowd-funding platforms).

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Statistics Entertainment Google Web 90

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Most investors won’t touch a first-time entrepreneur at this stage. Yet, knowing this distinction is important. Here they are: A crowdfunding campaign.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Gamify: engagement to get what you pay for.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Gamify: engagement to get what you pay for.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Both need to be clear and direct.

Press 105

Press Social Media Startup Training 105

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Gamify: engagement to get what you pay for.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Both need to be clear and direct.

Media 55

Media Social Media Startup Training 55

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2018

We caught up with Allen Kamrava , the CEO and founder the startup, to learn about how the company is building a consumer platform that allows assembled and self-selected groups to form for the purpose of sharing unexpected costs of life. I don't think there's any more complex of an insurance platform. It's truly broken.

Technology 165

Technology Startup West Los Angeles Platform 165

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. How would you describe your relationship with your investors and what can young entrepreneurs learn from your philosophy? “I

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Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

The service was created by experience serial entrepreneurs Mark Sylvester and KymberleeWeil, who some might know from creating service introNetworks. We're entrepreneurs, and we like to build our business, and wish we were known a little more. Socialtech is an enterprise wiki, social business platform in Palo Alto.

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Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. Size of gross margin.

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Metrics Technical Review Sales Customer 100

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application. Our online publishing platform allows users to monetize and share what they know. We track certain statistics, including checklist items and usage.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The intent of our Spotlight events is always simple: to provide a live platform to showcase the very companies that our driving our tech/start up industry, to show our hometown investors a handful of worthwhile companies, and to give other founders some inspiration and innovation for their own companies.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 Future plans for the app includes commercializing it so that it can be a platform for companies to alert people when they have something interesting to offer them. As of June 17, it has 50,000 users and has sent a total of 4 million messages.

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Snapchat Social Media Social Network Media 82

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Josh Resnick is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of nProgress , the company behind ntro. Mobile was just obviously the best platform that, because the smart phone has essentially become a ubiquitous device. That's the problem that the mobile app ntro is looking to solve. What's the strategy there?

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Electronic Arts Startup Mobile West Los Angeles 236

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

According to current Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity now exceeds 86%, more than 12 percentage points higher than ten years ago at the height of the last recession. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Social Media Satisfaction Entrepreneur 128

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

By now if you follow me on Twitter you probably know that I do near daily “Snapstorms” or a collection of short videos (usually < 5 mins in total) with entrepreneur advice on Snapchat. Every platform has its unique strengths. If I blog on a stand-alone platform I have to work to get distribution. Snapchat is similar.

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Snapchat Course Media Venture Capital 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Satisfaction 108

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, startup investor, and blogger. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

According to statistics by Fundly , crowdfunding contributed $34 billion in funding last year around the world, including peer-to-peer lending. Yet crowdfunding is no panacea for hungry entrepreneurs and startups. That exceeds the amounts contributed in the U.S. by either angel groups or VCs alone.

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Equity Entrepreneur Statistics Funding 72