Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence. Pick the right platform for your business.

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Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media may be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence. Pick the right platform for your business.

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Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Social network app developer and ad network. InviteMedia (acquired by Google). Revenue model: % of total ad or data buy purchased through platform.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. Facebook.

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Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. They know this because Twitter is social, open & asymmetric. The Importance of Twitter. Not so on Twitter.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role.

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Content Google Media Hulu 386

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. If one vocal person blurts out, “just give us the details, we all know social networking&# don’t assume that person speaks for the entire room.

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) OTHER DEALS.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Several free blog platforms, like Wordpress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. The unique part of this company is their Internet-of-Savings® platform that helps users multiply savings for big ticket items and create a shared experience. The Mentor Method (Washington, D.C.).

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Startup Mentor Platform Help 80

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

million for a social networking site 18 months ago. Google has announced that they are planning to compete with you. - Instead of BS’ing me he said, “we spent 18 months building out our product and a set of graphic editing tools when we realized we had developed in the wrong platform. You raised $1.5

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Venture Capital Startup Training Sales 264

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. They realized that as entreprises were increasingly using many different Cloud-based applications they didn’t have good cross-platform tools for deployment, monitoring and decommissioning. Work it did.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

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. You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing.

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. Share Buttons Work… In A Way Share buttons on your post help your content reach a greater audience by creating easy channels to social networks.

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RSS HTML JavaScript Doc 29

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. If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20). call to arms.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175