Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

If you research the backgrounds on some of the most successful entrepreneurs, you will find some, like Mark Cuban , espouse the “go for it” risk everything approach to give you the motivation to keep going, while others recommend a more measured approach. You can’t keep all these in your head.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2019

Mark Cuban image via Flickr by jdlasica We all have had setbacks in business – the challenge is learn from each one to improve skills and decision making, rather than let failures get you down and reduce your chances of ever achieving success. Make uncertainty and discomfort your growth indicators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

Contrary to the advice of Mark Cuban , don’t quit your current job until the new business is cash-flow positive. In these cases, you both win by expanding the market. Similarly, a custom contract for a big customer can get you over a growth gap, without diluting your brand in the market. Everyone wins with this approach.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. Microsoft’s success is proof that the best technology is not required in order to dominate a market. Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 27, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. Dominate Your Home Market Before Going Global. Once the UK market was fully penetrated, they began touring the major cities of Europe.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Dell. In today’s digital market, emerging entertainers cannot rely on business professionals to position, market and distribute their “products.” Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I think this is a combination of being realists as venture capitalists that outsized returns in our funds must come from taking on bigger, more impactful projects that can move markets. Could we produce this at cost? Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? .

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The basic concept has to make some kind of sense given the technical, market and competitive environment, otherwise nothing else matters. Coding, design, production, sales, finance, operations, marketing, and the like are all execution skills; and without great execution, success will be very hard to come by.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

As noted in What’s Real About Shark Tank , the show can give consumer product companies a significant marketing and revenue boost, as it did for one of my former students, Jeff Overall, Founder of PolarPro. The best TV moments come from Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary, but they are also the least realistic.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. As part of their job search efforts, one of the station’s producers created a montage tape of their work and sent it to a number of major-market stations, including WLS in Chicago.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. My cofounder and I came up with this concept, and had been talking for awhole about how fragmented the overall market is for online ordering. We did not anticipate that in terms of what we needed to adapt our product to the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2010

I follow people like Steve Case, Bill Gates and Marc Cuban – none of whom I know. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. In a “symmetric&# following model they’d have to choose between following me back or not accepting my request. In Twitter we can have a one-way relationship.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

.” “[Founders underestimate] how difficult it is to get a deal done, and how few deals get funded out of how many deals that are pitched,” said Thomas Flake , Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of bcause , and who has been on both sides of the table. Wisdom,” said Mark Cuban in a recent interview with TechCo. Less Is More.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2019

When we first started, we had the same idea many other startups had, including one that had raised money from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank. However, it's a very competitive market, and there are a lot of clubs and a lot of cities, and in every city we are in there are venues looking to drive more foot traffic through their doors.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Next time you’re trying to remember the name of that Cuban restaurant you tried (or want to try) while in Miami, just go to your myfab5 profile and search “Cuban” to quickly find the place. At that point it will make sense to raise money, but not until we solidify our business model and go-to-market strategy. Expansion plans?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2012

Featured speakers included, Entrepreneur Mark Cuban, Vice Chair of the Board of Viacom and CBS/President of National Amusements Shari Redstone Bridesmaids’ Director Paul Feig; and Sony’s Chief. Jason Alex , Head of Digital Marketing at DreamWorks Animation. Liz Jones , SVP of Digital Marketing at Relativity Media.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2012

Featured speakers included, Entrepreneur Mark Cuban, Vice Chair of the Board of Viacom and CBS/President of National Amusements Shari Redstone Bridesmaids’ Director Paul Feig; and Sony’s Chief. Jason Alex , Head of Digital Marketing at DreamWorks Animation. Liz Jones , SVP of Digital Marketing at Relativity Media.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Batch 15 is a group of scrappy start-ups that explores unusual markets, including postpartum care (Mahmee), underwater robots, airplane maintenance, and even crocheting. Fun Fact: Beeketing is named from Bi (beloved dog of Alice) and Marketing (our interest). Congrats to the Melissa Hanna and the rest of the Mahmee team! From: Toronto.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Though they have pending high profile deals (with notable names like Mark Cuban) in the works, Crowdfunder’s focus is on entrepreneurship as a whole. With Crowdfunder, entrepreneurs can fundraise, bring in their own investors, then use the Crowdfunder platform to market themselves accordingly.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Movie studios are evaluating audience reactions to films and adjusting marketing spend based on early customer reactions to films. talk about their Twitter integration and how you can use Twitter analytics to better monitor social media conversion on marketing campaigns. Corporations are monitoring service outages based on user Tweets.

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