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. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. Kickstarter may take a bit of the credit for this, but they admit the majority of projects without media attention don’t even approach their funding goals.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

We've had event companies, and clubs, and web businesses, all vertically focused on either passions or really exciting subjects like knowledge management, sales, field force automation, and home office computing, small business, bedtime reading. Bill Curtis: It's by far the most exciting platform right now. Why podcasting?

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

On your birthday, something special happens on social media: you receive hundreds of likes and well wishes from friends, family, high school classmates and people you haven’t talked to for years on Facebook. During some early pop up events in L.A., Writing a wish list for birthday presents at 10 years-old is expected.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

The event was created in 2010 by Hank and John Green, when they hosted approximately 1,400 industry insiders and fans. The current year''s event drew over 11,000 people and has been sold out for months. Next up was Nick Tran, Taco Bell''s "Social Media Lead." Entertainment." Border Run.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. From a networking standpoint, it’s a lot more efficient than going to seminars and other industry events. Writing a blog is all about communication, and that’s your number one job as founder of a new startup. Populate your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. From a networking standpoint, it’s a lot more efficient than going to seminars and other industry events. Writing a blog is all about communication, and that’s your number one job as founder of a new startup. Populate your team.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. Immediately after the acquisition we held meetings with all of the integrated CMS vendors and highlighted to them which bits we were going to make our core platform and which bits we weren’t planning to offer ourselves.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

SXSW Startup Night 2018 is one of the “must attend” events at SXSW and it’s a celebration of inclusion, entrepreneurial ecosystems and startups. The event is open to tech enthusiasts who want to join an event filled with some of the top leaders, investors and mentors from tech industry to network, find mentors and build their companies.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Although the first draft of this post began when Kluge was a proud member of NextSpace; as of this writing we have moved to a bigger office to accommodate our expanding team. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

This is a highlight video from the event, to view the full discussion click here : “Where’s Waldo”, a social media discussion featuring great panelists, experts in the social media craze: - Jonathan Rosen, Lucky NY. Guest post by Caroline Graeff of Imagine Marketing Agency. Cameron Olthius, 5ones.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. From a networking standpoint, it’s a lot more efficient than going to seminars and other industry events. Writing a blog is all about communication, and that’s your number one job as founder of a new startup. Populate your team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

If somebody like Cookie Marenco or Phil Sugar ever pulled me aside at an event I wouldn’t know what they looked like but by name I’d immediately chat with them. I write lots of people on Twitter. Every social media analytics platform, video platform with data or similar that I’ve seen show the same phenomenon.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. They then headed back to the USA and UK to get comment and advice on the platform, after which they returned to South Africa, made the enhancements and launched a closed beta in 2011.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Although the first draft of this post began when Kluge was a proud member of NextSpace; as of this writing we have moved to a bigger office to accommodate our expanding team. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Its an event that provides a platform for the worldwide twitter community to: listen, connect, share and engage with each other, while collectively exploring the effects of the emerging real-time internet on business. Bruce Sallan (@BruceSallan) - I'm a former showbiz guy who writes a dad's column. s First Filipino Food Truck.

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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. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Idea Mensch.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

What they do: They’re a website, platform, and now mobile-app for crowdsourced annotation of song lyrics and texts. A lot of Rap Genius’ younger userbase list “Rap Genius Editor” in their social media profiles, as job titles. Rap Genius, Black Sheeps of Tech. The Future of Genius. Think Guttenberg 2.0,

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. How much money will airlines companies, hotel companies or event companies pay me as a referral or for booking? You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. Market Size.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? Generally, I prefer a single table or log that can be queried later that stores events. Make sense? Block IP address.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. Third, startups are social. but: Something is Still Missing. call to arms.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions? First Principles.

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