Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2015

So it’s a disappointment to me that these esteemed journalists haven’t adapted to the modern media – to social media. NYT Learn How to Use Social Media. Social media affects all public figures and isn’t something that professionals can shy away from. It’s a two-way world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

One thing I have learned the hard way in business is that implementing new ideas is usually much more difficult than conceiving the idea in the first place. That’s why I caution my aspiring entrepreneur clients against proclaiming to investors that they are a great “idea” person. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. Social media is the realm of public opinion and customer conversations. If you don’t have a clear idea of why you are there, anything you measure will be useless.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 10, 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 -- Is Social Media Marketing Worth It? TechBizConnection.You get what they are, but have no idea the value they can apply to your business. Is it all just a waste a time or is there a major breakthrough here waiting to be leveraged? See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2013

If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. Jim Sterne, who has written many books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his book titled " Social Media Metrics."

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2023

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Allocate some time to spend on social media. Social media is critical today to almost every business. Build a team.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2019

They can talk with passion about their innovative new idea, and ask lots of questions, but never seem to really get started. The challenge we all have as business founders is to move from the idea stage to a real business. Create a specific plan to network to get the help you need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2022

During my many years of mentoring professionals and entrepreneurs in business, I more often see people focusing on how to get their ideas heard , than how to promote themselves. I’m convinced that great results are better than great ideas, and a great perception of you as a person is better than both ideas and results.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 19, 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010 -- Leveraging Social Media tools/ techniques for greater personal effectiveness. Featuring presentations and panel discussion by experts on Linked-in, Facebook, and other internal and external social media tools. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. Jim Sterne, who has written six books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his book titled " Social Media Metrics."

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. Before you start spending money and time being a user, you need to understand how it can help you and your business. Not having a social media policy.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it. We want to help you monetize your knowledge, your skills, and your social media. That's where I first started getting the idea to create what is now Indi.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. Before you start spending money and time being a user, you need to understand how it can help you and your business. Not having a social media policy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other.

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Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 22, 2018

All she sent was a cover, an idea, in my inbox. An idea so powerful, it made me get busy, and now I’m an author. Because I have so much to share, but honestly, I share my thoughts and ideas every day on social media, webinars, podcasts, etc. Give it a read, a review, help me write more books.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M One, is it helps our customers get that content instantaneously, when they need it. in a seed funding round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

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. Bring focus on your core competencies and expertise by educating and helping others, who can then return the favor by helping you or buying from you.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Leveraging LLMs to help users fill in text, whether it’s by providing starter content, samples, or highly personalized tips, makes their lives easier. Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge. Either way, it’s a huge improvement over starting from scratch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2022

In researching this question, I reviewed a classic book by Bryan Mattimore, “ Idea Stormers: How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs ,” which details eight attributes of the most creative people, which seem to match the mindsets of some of the best entrepreneurs I know. Professional facilitation also helps. Think the opposite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2023

As I work with aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals, I often hear about stress and disappointment from a great idea or innovation that failed for reasons that you don’t understand. I will summarize her recommendations here, as well as adding my own insights: Pick a problem to solve rather than an idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2010

If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. Social media is the realm of public opinion and customer conversations. If you don’t have a clear idea of why you are there, anything you measure will be useless.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2023

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. Help people know more, so they can do their job better. The days of leadership without engagement are gone. Marty Zwilling

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Social Media Week (SMW) is finally here and is set to be one amazing week filled with panels, discussions, networking, and much more. What is Social Media Week? Social Media Week is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is talking about the fact that there are over 2,000 billionaires in the world today, and how their innovative idea could make them one of the next ones. Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

With a little help from a friend, you can handle expenses, revenue, and payroll, with QuickBooks or a similar package. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Build a list of specific organizations that can help you, and how to engage them. Get your community involved in both the idea and the delivery. Maximize your online brand and media presence. Don’t forget the basics of search engine optimization, social media engagement, video marketing, and courting influential bloggers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Business advisors need to be ready to help at every stage, and I see it beginning to happen. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. The idea is to seek fundamental truths that will always remain true, after you remove all the things that don’t necessarily have to remain true. Elon Musk recommends this approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe that a great idea alone will assure business success. Your first idea about where pain resides is nearly always wrong. Too many entrepreneurs, especially ones with work-at-home schemes and multi-level marketing, believe that someone has to lose to help them win. No pain usually means no sales.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

At least six, Southern California companies -- Nimble , ParkMe , Quarterly , Beachmint , Chromatik , and Dollar Shave Club -- have been named as one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies list today, a healthy share of the publication's annual look at the best ideas, hottest industries, and innovators. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

What does the landscape of social media marketing look like, in the wake of Salesforce.com's acquisition of Buddy Media? In the past month alone, some of the worlds largest enterprise technology companies have acquired social media marketing start-ups accumulating a total spending of close to $2.2 billion dollars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Get competitors to surface early.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 10, 2008

So, I've got no idea who's going. They really need to take a look at how Twiistup , Mixergy and others are doing to both promote and help make their events better for attendees. I did a quick search and didn't find many blog posts mentioning that specific event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2022

That means we need all the help we can get to bring out the right-brain attributes we need to be the best entrepreneurs in this challenging new age. Engineering creativity, like innovate low-cost solutions, needs to be combined with marketing creativity, like viral social media campaigns, to build a sustainable competitive advantage today.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. Image Credits: Robiiiworld (Brandy Merriweather via BStarPR).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

Graduate from an idea person to one who delivers results. In entrepreneurial circles, the idea person always needs to be paired with someone who can deliver, before investors are interested. Ideas without results kill many businesses. Some people are all talk and no action. Timely follow-up on customer and team member requests.

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