Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

In addition, consumers have traditionally been reluctant to share personal information with any non-human entity, fearing some misuse or privacy invasion. Not surprisingly, brand trust plays a big role in consumer willingness to share data online, across all categories. Norton, Ph.D., Is your business ready to ride the wave?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

The CFO requires financial acumen driven from metrics, which can be had from sales and operational information, however, they're often locked into these silo'ed application stacks. The problem is traditionally, there is a swivel chair problem, where when one customer has an issue they want to report to that service provider.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Dedicated to our Clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. According to a recent article in Entrepreneur , 94% of small and medium businesses (SMBs) now use social media as a marketing tool, and 81% use it to drive growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

We have an informed point of view. We might differ in opinion but not in information sources and knowledge of the issues. Here’s the thing: entrepreneurs who aren’t at all of our private meetings really didn’t know what do think about the situation. It sure wasn’t when I was a first-time entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Southern California's high tech news and companies. Technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Many new entrepreneurs are so excited by their latest idea that they can’t resist contacting every investor they know, assuming the investor will be equally excited and want to contribute immediately. Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

It''s a perfect opportunity for data geeks in marketing and the business side to get information on customers in real time. Brands across all categories are launching incentives and promotional marketing every day, every hour, every week, every month. carla bourque smartify facebook social marketing entrepreneur startup interview'

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. According to a recent social media industry report , 92 percent said that social media is important to their businesses, and more than half report it helped them improve sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2019

As an advisor to entrepreneurs for many years, I strongly disagree, and still see the value of at least combining intuition with logical analysis, as we face customers and markets driven by relationships, emotions, and unpredictable social trends. The venerable Steve Jobs was reportedly in the same category.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Launching and growing a startup is one of the biggest missions an entrepreneur can undertake. The free accounting platform can be used to create invoices and quotes, produce financial reports, view unpaid invoices, apply discounts and refunds, and encrypt your data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

Many new entrepreneurs are so excited by their latest idea that they can’t resist contacting every investor they know, assuming the investor will be equally excited and want to contribute immediately. Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2011

It's GPS tracking, and what that allows you to do is for you to receive a report, telling you here is every location you've visited, here are all the routes you've taken, this is how long you've spent at any location. You can make your information private to a limited number of friends, or make it public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. business entrepreneur fusion Lon Safko marketing social media startup' None should be considered mutually exclusive to any other.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Okay, maybe financial planning isn’t as much fun as drinking egg nog, but, for entrepreneurs, it’s an essential practice that will yield far greater rewards. Some entrepreneurs shoot for a five-year financial plan, but I think that’s too long. Report budget by department and major cost drivers. Absolutely. Plan actions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. We talked about how the metaphor for finding information might be changing and why large companies such as HP and Microsoft are betting so big on this industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 It was reported that it exposed 4.6 And why is that? You can also send photos to your friends individually.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. None should be considered mutually exclusive to any other. The tools and measurements are the same for both.

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Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” They have 15 channels of categories with publishers like Alloy Digital, U.S. Buys can happen on a keyword level or a channel category. from Carnegie Mellon University. News, Gannett, and Tribune. “We How does it work?

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Social Media – Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter.This is a separate segment of referring traffic that warrants its own category. If you were the most popular site in your category, would it give someone a reason to come back to the site everyday? Helpful Resources for Getting Traffic from Partnerships : : Web 2.0

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. More Mansion Videos.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

You can search Technorati to find the most popular blogs on the web across various categories. This is a separate segment of referring traffic that warrants its own category. This is the hardest category to give specific “how to” advice. To make sure you maximize the potential for referring traffic: 1.) Distribution Deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2019

Don’t count on people reading your Annual Report for breaking news. As a business advisor, I still find owners and entrepreneurs who have never sent a business text message, written a blog, or produced a small video to update their constituents, or highlight a key message. Minimize the use of meetings to communicate.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Still, my wife had seen a report that almost all sun blocks for kids had a chemical known to be dangerous to kids. I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. It is additive.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We all know Friendster was the trailblazer in this category allowing people to create personal pages and connect to other people in a LinkedIn style but without the “business&# and with a little more interactivity (let’s face it, for the longest time most users “friended&# people on LinkedIn but then never really did much else).

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