Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

I’m sure you have all seen entrepreneurs and startups with great ideas that never seem to live up to their potential, while others with more mundane solutions seem to take off quickly and never slow down. Initially, you may be able to do everything in your startup, including product development, marketing, and shipping orders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Social media facilitates marketing and sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2014

While not investing in certain areas may seem like a good idea in the short-term, not spending enough on key elements could shortchange your business, leading not only to headaches but requiring expensive fixes down the road. Outsourcing can be an extremely cost-effective solution here. Legal Expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer. Skip the costs of payroll, office equipment and employee benefits by using remote contract services and low-cost freelancers available online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 29, 2013

The flik app is a new social video platform developed for the iOS, utilizes short videos for sharing and discovering. Chris and Tracy talk with TechZulu about the flik app, social media, and startup advice. Tracy Hayes: A few years ago we had an idea to launch a website where people can share the things they loved.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. One of our teachers was teaching new media and it was really inspiring. We came up with an idea for an app and around that time we met with Chris. He’s the most talented developer we have ever seen.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

From a marketing marketing perspective, that allows filmmakers to quickly and easily promote their films through social media and build a fan base, and incentivize fans to support their films by offering access to exclusive content, livestream video chats, and production updates, as an example. That's really the core focus for us.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

For those who may be living under a rock and have no idea what SXSWi is, its five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Social + Location + Mobile = The Perfect Beer (Untapped). Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. We then acquire those videos directly from content owners.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had called on Chamillionaire from the audience and asked him to provide some views on how artists view social media, why they use it and where it’s heading. There are many analogies here for software development. On JFDI (play on Just Do It) - Chamillionaire talked a lot about social media. On What Next?

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ideation & Protecting Ideas. Vet your idea with the idea checklist. Protect your ideas when sharing them with others by using an NDA. Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Recommended. Recommended.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances.

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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 That system allows us to arrange shoots and coordinate with contracted talent to produce that content.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

When I published This Remote Working Experiment Failed And Succeeded on the Wall Street Journal last year, I had no idea it would generate so much social media attention. Early in his career, Dan proved to be a valuable contributor on my GoToMeeting business development team (acquired by Citrix).

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

I joined ranks with an Austin App developer, taking the role of Creative Director and setting up their design team and process. There was a distinct disconnect between apps developed by stand-alone companies, such as Gowalla or Path, versus what “work for hire” companies were producing. It simply makes more sense.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Where did the idea for the event come spark from? One mastermind focuses on how to outsource development and programming. People who are on the call will be able to ask Liam Martin, co founder of Staff.com, direct questions about anything and everything outsourcing. The phone sessions will be held on March 5th and 6th.

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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. Outsource services back to the customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. This world changes rapidly, and needs a professional with experience in digital and conventional media to keep up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. This world changes rapidly, and needs a professional with experience in digital and conventional media to keep up.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. We believe there are awesome entrepreneurs everywhere, not just in the places constantly covered by the media. Subscribe to RSS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

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. Outsource services back to the customer.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

While a great idea, wouldn’t it be better to have them floating so they’re in your line of sight when commenting? I am happily contracted with Social Media Today and support Wordpress. What I write here is protected by a Creative Commons License. My site is both valid XHTML and valid CSS.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? By doing the job.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

The short story is that he received 400+ responses and goes through how he categorized/vetted the responses: 300 Didn’t Fit – Outside expertise/interest, pushing for immediate funding assistance, too many ideas (not focused), looking for sales agents. And a big factor is how big is the Founder Developer Gap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. This world changes rapidly, and needs a professional with experience in digital and conventional media to keep up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2016

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. Outsource services back to the customer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. We spoke about employment contracts for entrepreneurs – We talked about “change of control&# provisions in your contract and how to negotiate them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. This world changes rapidly, and needs a professional with experience in digital and conventional media to keep up.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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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. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Let me quickly take these in turn.

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