Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

As an advisor to business executives and owners, I often hear discussions about employee accountability , almost always focusing on the negative. I would challenge you to look at accountability from a more positive perspective, as I see in a new book, “ Uncommon Accountability ,” by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2013

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Fix something that’s broken.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

Starting a new business is a serious undertaking. As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” focusing on the first few steps that determine long-term success. Moderate your optimism.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. We're not an accounting system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

Starting a new business is a serious undertaking. As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” focusing on the first few steps that determine long-term success. Moderate your optimism.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

Starting a new business is a serious undertaking. As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” on the first steps that determine long-term success. Startups always involve risk, but should not be risky.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

I can’t change who your board members are so let me offer some thoughts on how to make your interactions with your board more productive. But I find that the more informed your board is and the more you’re staying on their radar screen the more effective they’ll be for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? People often ask me why I started blogging. It really started simply enough. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar. Who are your customers, partners or suppliers?

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Well, you shouldn't have to be -- or at least, that's the premise behind Payoff.com (www.payoff.com), a new startup launching today. I built up the company, the Walz Group, with partners. In 2009, I teamed up with my partner, co-founder Eden Warner. So, we set up to start up the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans take too much time, are inaccurate, and rarely add value. The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Jeremy Gocke: With Fliptu, we're aiming to fix the disjointed media and product discovery process for consumers and brands. What Fliptu does, is it enables brands to sync and import all of their social media accounts into a comprehensive, single display. Does this look like a Facebook page, or is this a separate site?

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 1, 2017

Once a novelty act reserved for indie band albums and curious art projects, crowdfunding is starting to play a major role in the world of startups and new products. In fact, the majority of your work should be finished by the time you start your campaign. Rule #3: Do Your Homework.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

It all started in 2010 with Klout. I had always liked and respected CEO Joe Fernandez but could never get my head around the fact that the Klout was putting up charts showing who influenced me and it didn’t map to the reality I knew in my head. Every startup needs accounting and it’s often a huge distraction and non core.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2012

In my experience, there is no magic gene involved, just simple good habits executed consistently and convincingly until everyone around you in a startup wants to follow your example. Be accountable for your actions. " Check your ego at the door (and keep it there). Good ideas can come from anyone at any time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Behind most great startup success stories is a long list of mistakes! But rather than dwell on the failures, I’ve tried to extract from them a list of practical action items that will improve your survival probability. Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Greathouse: We’ve known each other for a long time but let’s start with the basics for my readers. I have always worked on early stage products. Semick: They are.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

As the human ear ages it loses its ability to hear high-pitched sound frequencies (above 15-16 kHz) through a condition known as presbycusis that starts at 18 years old. I just need to break you of the idea that Snapchat is for one thing – it is not. Snapchat will be used for both like the Internet (and TV) are.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2011

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Fix something that’s broken.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. We followed up with Luc to see just how he’s been managing the entrepreneurial waters. The quintessential problem that every startup has is one of visibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality. People love the fact that Microsoft was started in a garage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2012

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Fix something that’s broken.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2013

In my experience, there is no magic gene involved, just simple good habits executed consistently and convincingly until everyone around you in a startup wants to follow your example. Be accountable for your actions. " Check your ego at the door (and keep it there). Good ideas can come from anyone at any time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

It’s also a great way to build relationships with people interested in your topic area. Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. How to find your “voice&# ? Be authentic.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

What's the idea behind Lottay? Harry Lin: The idea behind Lottay, is to make gift giving online as satisfying as it is in the real world. Our idea was, if you could send someone a gift as conveniently, and as fun as a virtual gift, but with real cash attached to it, that would be a fantastic experience.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. How has your history with Jason Spievak , Colin Kelley and the rest of the former CallWave team shaped and benefited the company?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Many new startups and small businesses are shooting to crowdfund their campaign. I started my company with four of my friends and all of us are first time business owners and entrepreneurs. What IndieGoGo allowed us to do was start a campaign on October 2011 and we had a goal set at $10,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

I’ve spent almost 20 years starting businesses and helping hundreds of clients, colleges & friends start theirs. I created this resource to have the single most comprehensive guide anywhere on all the different items involved in starting a business. Ideation & Protecting Ideas. Forming Your Entity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in. Others are skeptical, “Ha!

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

Do you have a wallet full of rewards credit cards, but don't have any idea how to best earn enough points to take advantage of those rewards? A few days ago, Wallaby ([link] the latest startup out of Los Angeles technology incubator MuckerLab unveiled itself, to solve just that problem. What is Wallaby?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Pitching stories and getting your name out to various companies and editors requires a lot of work. TechZulu catches up with the founder of Assignmint, Jeff Koyen, as he talks about Assignmint, freelance, and LA startups. I built the product I wanted, as a writer, editor, and as a publisher.

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