Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. The reasons for this requirement, and some practical guidelines for how to prepare, are outlined in the classic book “ The Curve Ahead: Discovering the Path to Unlimited Growth ,” by Dave Power.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

we spoke with co-founder Chuka Ikokwu to learn more about the startup and how it's helping companies to recruit more diverse workers. We have not just engineers, but designers, UI, UX, analytics, product managers, user acquisition, marketing managers, and others. It's not easy, which is why Los Angeles-based Divercity.io is all about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The world of marketing is changing faster than technology these days. Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and more recently added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Proactively seek out win-win alliances.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students have asked my opinion of Robert Greene''s The 48 Laws Of Power , prompting me to check it out. For instance, his second law encourages power seekers to, "Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies." Greene: Reputation is the cornerstone of power. .

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

That's exactly what Retention Science (www.retentionscience.com), the latest firm out of the MuckerLab acceleartor, helps e-commerce companies do. Jerry Jao, the CEO of Retention Science, tells us how the firm is using big data to help e-commerce firms convert more customers. How to you better convert web visitors into customers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. The reasons for this requirement, and some practical guidelines for how to prepare, are outlined in a classic book “ The Curve Ahead: Discovering the Path to Unlimited Growth ,” by Dave Power.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The world of marketing is changing faster than technology these days. Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and more recently added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Proactively seek out win-win alliances.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. The reasons for this requirement, and some practical guidelines for how to prepare, are outlined in a recent book “ The Curve Ahead: Discovering the Path to Unlimited Growth ,” by Dave Power.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible. Trada – Guerilla Marketing In Action.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. Frankly, many of their views are shaped by unconscious biases, word-of-mouth feedback, stereotypes and how they perceive your communication style in the world of open, social communication fora. That was the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

In today’s world of constant change and information overload via the Internet, content marketing and branding are often more important to success than product quality or technology. Contrary to a popular myth, word-of-mouth and viral marketing are not a substitute for more basic branding activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Here are the new marketing rules I support: Insight comes before inspiration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. The reasons for this requirement, and some practical guidelines for how to prepare, are outlined in the classic book “ The Curve Ahead: Discovering the Path to Unlimited Growth ,” by Dave Power.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Here are the new marketing rules I support: Insight comes before inspiration.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Market Opportunity. But what about markets? We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. “There’s no such thing as a large market with lots of white space. Lines vs. Dots is all about people. Let me explain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Here are the new marketing rules I support: Insight comes before inspiration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2013

There is nothing more exciting than finding a lucrative market that everyone else has failed to spot or target. That quality can help you capitalize on competitors vulnerabilities and shortcomings. Start with social media, blogging, and word-of-mouth. Being a risk taker in business is not the same as being reckless.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. Osmosis marketing. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. Super-angels. Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

Pressure Helps You Break Through Your Breakdowns. "Mickey Properly channeled, stress can help generate the energy and creativity required to move you from one breakthrough to another. Properly channeled, stress can help generate the energy and creativity required to move you from one breakthrough to another.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

The global advertising market is estimated at around $475 billion / year with only 12% of this online and measurable. And market research seems to confirm this. They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down. Nowadays banner ads get on average 0.2%

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Here are the new marketing rules I support: Insight comes before inspiration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2012

There is nothing more exciting than finding a lucrative market that everyone else has failed to spot or target. That quality can help you capitalize on competitors vulnerabilities and shortcomings. Start with social media, blogging, and word-of-mouth. Being a risk taker in business is not the same as being reckless.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Finally, DataSift has an enormous about of historical data already stored we we can help you go back and retrieve some older data for analytical purposes. As a former hedge fund guy, Roger immediately saw the value in helping companies better sift through the masses of data; often to gain better insights into financial information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

There is nothing more exciting than finding a lucrative market that everyone else has failed to spot or target. That quality can help you capitalize on competitors vulnerabilities and shortcomings. Start with social media, blogging, and word-of-mouth. Being a risk taker in business is not the same as being reckless.

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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. While running my family wine business , I used Twitter’s search for market research and to find new customers. Later, as I achieved a sort of cult fame status with my first YouTube show, WineLibraryTV , Twitter helped me grow my personal brand.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

We have a major expansion not only to SoCal, but also at our offices in Salt Lake City, and will be taking a more aggressive stance than what we are doing today to help harness the power of video through the Internet. What is Sorenson Media about? Peter Csathy: Sorenson Media has been around for several years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2010

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Here are the new marketing rules he recommends: Insight comes before inspiration.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The founders selected California as their test ground, entering the market with deep aviation experiences and the same entrepreneurial spirit they expected of their Members. As noted in Success, Santa Barbara Style , my definition of success includes living where you want to live and making money doing what you love.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Being an entrepreneur is about, “The journey through the ‘NO’ to get to the YES’ ” said by Ryan Caldbeck, CEO of CircleUp , on a panel at the Connections Conference in Indianapolis. image EPA/Andrew Gombert. Being an entrepreneur is about making a commitment no matter how painfully difficult it is to keep it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

He believes if they can help build up good companies; they can also help the local economy, noting that the first class has created 100 new local jobs. A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. He is looking to find more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

There is nothing more exciting than finding a lucrative market that everyone else has failed to spot or target. That quality can help you capitalize on competitors vulnerabilities and shortcomings. Start with social media, blogging, and word-of-mouth. Being a risk taker in business is not the same as being reckless.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . The time is once again upon us.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. ► October (1) New Video! . ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes. Where's Jack Bauer?

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