Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

You should also use these forums to test and hone your solution idea for general acceptance, before your risk your own money and investor funds to build a shippable version. Anticipate and establish supporting social media accounts. It’s easier, cheaper, and quicker to pivot at this stage rather than later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2023

In this age of interactive social media, your culture image quickly spreads to customers, and determines their loyalty. Everyone knows and admires the leaders , including Google and Zappos, but most entrepreneurs have only a fuzzy idea of what to do to get there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the value of your expertise, insights and ideas. After a few blogs about your concept, the comments better match your passion, or it’s time to rethink your idea.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As the founder of an accelerator, I'm constantly being approached by ambitious people with big ideas, and generally we invest in 1/100th of what comes to us. I think we're going to see a real shakeup in how people view social media. Finally, Google. Google continues to shape our futures. 7 years, 100 companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Social Studios TV introduces you to a new (beta) Facebook app called, Your Show and bridges the gap between TV and social media. Social Studios TV thought there was something missing in the social media world. This is an app designed for the social media fans looking for a new way to stay connected.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

. “In order to create a successful new company, you have to find an idea that. (1) How many ideas like that are left? ” He gives a nice little 6-minute video interview on Bloomberg reinforcing these ideas. And Dropbox & Box.net in a Google, Microsoft, Apple world. Where David is Totally Right.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I have applied at Google 1000 times, never heard back, but I used social media to finally get a call from them about a decade later. Networking through social media. Social media is a great networking tool, add people wherever you can. We will talk about this next. Ask for feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

These days, with all the new technology, including smartphones and social media, many are convinced that multi-tasking is the answer. Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2012

On August 9th, Startup Weekend San Diego and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University partnered with Google to host the very first Startup Weekend focused on helping Veterans, Service Members and Military Families turn their visions into reality in creating a startup company.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. At this point, we’re a little over 400 people, and we manage upward of $500 million in spend on Facebook and Google, including Instagram and YouTube. But I don’t want to limit us if it’s a cool idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this age of interactive social media, your culture image quickly spreads to customers, and determines their loyalty. Everyone knows and admires the leaders , including Google and Zappos, but most entrepreneurs have only a fuzzy idea of what to do to get there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

Thus I recommend that every business publish a website and start a blog even before they have a product to sell, enabling the following benefits: Get Google to work for you in highlighting your site. Market your ideas and expertise early for customer feedback. Blogging is a good hub for all your social media outreach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

These holidays, with all the new technology, including smartphones and social media, many are convinced that multi-tasking is the answer. Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

For example, a startup may hire you as an accountant, but you may also be asked to do social media marketing content gearing towards finance for the company blog. Piaw Na, who spent over six years at Google, writes on Quora that she recommends fresh grads to join a startup instead of big companies.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. There is a reason that companies like Google and Apple are notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to communicating their product strategy and roadmap.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We will collaborate on ideas and projects. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. I could go on and on, but in closing, my experience in using social media/networking has been short but remarkably fruitful.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. particularly like his first point, which is that you should draw out your ideas before you start coding them. We get it!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. We believe that the structural industry changes will continue to create big opportunities for technology firms that enable the changes in media consumption for television, radio, inbound calls, online & social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. In the idea stage, get customers involved with an engaging contest. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media. Shared ideas and rewards (open innovation).

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

With Google or Amazon , you can get all the application storage and computing power you need without even thinking about an IT staff and big up-front costs for computer servers and applications. Take advantage of social media and free websites for marketing. Use low-cost subscription software and cloud computing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Even more importantly, owners have no idea how to respond appropriately, or get the offending comments removed. Of course, you can’t monitor the entire Internet yourself, but fortunately there are many tools and platforms out there to do it for you, such as Google Alerts and Hootsuite Insights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

With Google, you get all the storage you need in the cloud for free. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. For startups, social media and color printers have essentially replaced the need for external public relations and marketing services. Isn’t it time that you joined the movement? Martin Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. TechZulu catches up with one of the co-founders of Bedloo, Vincent Plummer, and talks to us about social media, startups, and Bedloo. He went to Todd and they tried to tackle the idea of the “two-choice question”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Here are some key recommendations for building your branding plan: Find out who your customers are through social media. Now you can get direct contact and real insights by testing innovative messages through social media even before you rollout the product, and can tune both your message and the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. Social, Facebook, and Twitter referral is meaningful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

In the entrepreneur world, most of the energy I see is focused on the current opportunity bubbles, now including anything mobile, the new sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb), or yet another social media app (Snapchat, WhatsApp). Don’t trust your conviction that your idea has never been done before.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. In the idea stage, get customers involved with an engaging contest. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media. Shared ideas and rewards (open innovation).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2013

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. Overconfidence.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2014

Google Glass. Google Glass is one of the most famous examples of wearable Tech. The idea of a completely hands free and portable computer has a strong draw for most people. Although there are many companies making variations on the product, Google’s seems to be the most advanced and streamlined. Oculus Rift.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

Most of the people you would want as co-founders are now cruising the relevant blogs for ideas and partners. Your Google ranking will go up dramatically. Whereas Google and other search engines may take two or three weeks to list your new website in search results, new blog sites and new blog entries are indexed every day.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

The social signals seem obvious in some cases, but not always clear to me in other cases. I'm very curious to hear any reactions to this idea of a hot list. Still I would claim that most of those posts are pretty good ones - certainly I'm happy seeing that list.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And let's face facts, we normally are talking Google search. If you don't know the basics here, go look at Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (PDF). Off Page SEO The other aspect of SEO is at its most basic, how many pages with decent Google Page Rank point to you using anchor text that helps you with optimization.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

Using social media to increase your company’s touch and reach with each of your customers may be the most important reason to jump in to this game changing strategy. Social media can help bridge a long standing gap between customers and the companies they trust with their hard earned cash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Great ideas will have no trouble getting funded. Big businesses fund internal ideas with the money and people they already have. Entrepreneurs who expect funding at the idea stage are usually disappointed. On the other hand, large companies with existing resources and qualified people have different rules for innovative efforts.

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