Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Wordpress blog startup kick-start consulting business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Add content regularly. Add outgoing links.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

TechZulu catches up with the founder of Assignmint, Jeff Koyen, as he talks about Assignmint, freelance, and LA startups. I have run newspapers, magazines, and websites and I have written for them all. I built the product I wanted, as a writer, editor, and as a publisher. Where did Assignmint come from?

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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. They cite sources like Profitable Venture Magazine, “ Why Business Plans are a Waste of Time ” and this Forbes article.

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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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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

It is not rational to put oneself into the uncertain, stress-filled environment of a startup. If it were a decision to be an entrepreneur, then most right-minded individuals would decide to turn back when they encountered the first inevitable startup crises. Your smaller, more nimble part-time startup can outperform BDCs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Add content regularly. Add outgoing links.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Add content regularly. Add outgoing links.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2012

As Guy Kawasaki says in his book “ The Art of the Start ,” if you can’t describe your business model in ten words or less, you don’t have a business model. Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.” It’s the electronic version of a catalog and shopping cart, and today rarely involves any stock of product.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2010

CEOWorld Magazine prioritizes about 40 of the most famous business networking sites. The latest is “crowdsourcing” your startup with thousands of tiny investments. A portal is a “home page” which you can partition to be the entry to a dozen others, with a single login to minimize the “yellow stickies” on your computer.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. Do you find it's been more difficult to build up traffic for a more targeted site, or easier? What is Gloss Network? Lolita Carrico: I think so. I was very lucky.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Every generation of new technology and new media starts out by emulating those that came before them without realizing that things are fundamentally different when you change media types. Early online newspapers and magazines were merely digital versions of their physical self. They recommend up-sells and cross-sells of products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Add content regularly. Add outgoing links.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

As Guy Kawasaki says in his book “ The Art of the Start ,” if you can’t describe your business model in ten words or less, you don’t have a business model. Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.” It’s the electronic version of a catalog and shopping cart, and today rarely involves any stock of product.

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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. Simply click on the title of the panel you like and you will be taken to their SXSWi panel picker page. Bootstrapping: Score PR for Your Start-Up, On the Cheap. Bootstrapping bootstrapped, Startup. .

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We caught up with Zach James and Rich Raddon , co-founders of MOVIECLIPS, to learn more about the company and also hear about the firm's funding round. So, before Zach and I started the company, we spent six months talking with constituents at the studios, and made sure things were possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. The road is littered with startups that shined bright before burning out. Startups are All Naked in the Mirror. It was a lot to bear. Every founder knows this. The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. MAKEITWORK, our Twitter handle is @makeitwork , our website is makeitwork.com and our facebook page is of course facebook.com/makeitwork. We are currently in production for this show and we hope to have it on the air soon.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

Play it in the background while you otherwise remain productive (or listen to it while you update your FB page, your call). 5) When I interviewed people at my past startups, I rejected them if they asked me about our dental plan, as true entrepreneurs don’t care about such pedestrian benefits.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

To get to my point the waiting room is full of great magazines that I personally don’t subscribe to, but love to read. These magazines are full of wonderful photos and articles depicting the “good life”. On opposite pages were two ads for two very large companies. You get the conversation started and then stop talking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As Guy Kawasaki says in his book “ The Art of the Start ,” if you can’t describe your business model in ten words or less, you don’t have a business model. Try something like, “the product costs X dollars, and we sell it for Y dollars.” Products are usually drop-shipped directly by the manufacturer. eCommerce model.

Startup 48

Startup Custom Customer Summary 48

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

We started that in 2006, and sold it to Chicken Soup For The Soul in 2009. Matt Edelman: Before I started, the company had acquired a company called StyleHive, which also owns MyStyleDiary. ThisNext.com has been a social shooping site, really for anyone and everyone, and for every product category. So let's talk about ThisNext.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. magazine and the LA Business Journal. Post navigation.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Although a new company, it is already gaining momentum—being featured in European CEO, Playboy, and Da Man Magazine.

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