Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Use strong communication and writing skills. Find the right tools to analyze the ROI.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Communication and writing skills are required. Find the right tools to analyze the ROI. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

This one deals with “arming&# your teams – preparing them for battle by giving them the right tools to increase their win rates. And the only way to do that is to help them calculate the ROI (return on investment) of using your product. Our big, integrated competitor is investing across 12 different product sets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Communication and writing skills are required. Find the right tools to analyze the ROI. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different.

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Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2019

In my experience, trust is the most powerful tool that an entrepreneur can wield, both inside and outside of his own realm of control. Like attracts like, and if you invest early in becoming a person others can trust, business people who you can trust will be attracted to you. They won’t come if they don’t trust you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2011

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Metrics 91

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. Here is what I imagine Rob would say were his most effective tools. Each of your angels or seed investors may have 20-30 investments. Rob does it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

In my experience, trust is the most powerful tool that an entrepreneur can wield, both inside and outside of his own realm of control. Like attracts like, and if you invest early in becoming a person others can trust, business people who you can trust will be attracted to you. They won’t come if they don’t trust you.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. ” The Details.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2017

In my experience, trust is the most powerful tool that an entrepreneur can wield, both inside and outside of his own realm of control. Like attracts like, and if you invest early in becoming a person others can trust, business people who you can trust will be attracted to you. They won’t come if they don’t trust you.

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Startup Entrepreneur Metrics Writing 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2013

In my experience, trust is the most powerful tool that an entrepreneur can wield, both inside and outside of his own realm of control. Like attracts like, and if you invest early in becoming a person others can trust, business people who you can trust will be attracted to you. They won’t come if they don’t trust you.

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Entrepreneur Startup Metrics Writing 106

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Our fitness events and mapping tool is a key differentiator. Jenna can also search for local events, boot camps, or fitness classes.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. LinkedIn has been my primary tool for keeping track of who to invite. * I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. How do you use LinkedIn?

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Mike Norman – WeFunder , bringing crowd investing to the world. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements. Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

When I described to people why I initially invested my calls went something like this, “He’s taken kicks to the face for nearly 2 years and is still standing. EcoMom’s metrics improved throughout this process and that’s when I decided to invest. It soon became difficult to manage the many new investment leads.

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