Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. For reference, here is a quick summary of key elements which most investors include in their due diligence process: Key personnel review.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

This thought leader in new media asserts that every business needs to understand social psychology and rethink their business models, approach, and relationships in order to create unique and memorable experiences for both customers and employees. We all have a natural inclination to emulate those we like and admire. Consistency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

It refers to multiplication factors that occur when complementary actions or approaches are used together for greater impact. Here is an outline of some key force multipliers that I have seen used effectively in the ongoing battle for business survival and success: Establish a presence on multiple social media channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

Social Media. Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn manage communities comprised of millions of people worldwide. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Gamification.

Technology 133

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2021

In this age of social media and world-wide Internet, message delivery from business leaders needs to change, just like the message changes from leaders in your personal lives. Leaders who never refer to themselves, or use the ambiguous “we,” appear to be dodging ownership and responsibility.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks. What is Fliptu?

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Structured Data refers to information organized in a defined manner, making it easier to search and analyze. This category encompasses a vast array of content, from emails and text documents to social media posts. Broadly speaking, data can be categorized as either structured or unstructured.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Enter the social media challenge to receive a chance to win a prize with #DVxGASpookyPoochy. If you're unable to join us in person, have no fear!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. For reference, here is a quick summary of key elements which most investors include in their due diligence process: Key personnel review.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2011

These were good packages in the pre social media world at helping figure out who was driving your traffic. And figuring out who is referring your traffic is a very important part of determining how you allocate your marketing budgets. As in they weren’t referred by anybody. Today they’re wrong. Terribly wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies. But as I pointed out on the show, look deeper at the impact of social media as a tool to organize crowds, hold public debates and spread information in a decentralized way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

New platforms led by YouTube have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways. Popbase is an app that operates almost like an interactive forum for new media.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2021

Now, Shopify has apparently approached major publishers including Complex and Vox Media as well as getting Buzzfeed to sign on to the new program. For publishers, it offers a potentially lucrative revenue stream — especially if the publishers can manage to refer potential customers at scale on relatively big-ticket items.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2023

With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey. One of the free sources above, or just the teaser data from an online report advertisement, often is more than adequate as a third-party reference for credibility. Conduct your own customized market research.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Maybe those references to TFA sound like bragging, or he thinks “passion for numbers” sounds silly. The information provided was all pulled from data he’s already entered - just Mark, Houston, Math Teacher, Teach for America. And if this description doesn’t resonate with Mark, he can ask for a new one, while providing feedback.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2022

If you are in this second category, you probably don’t like the references behind your back that you are a “control freak” or a “micro-manager.” For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. For a few, delegating comes easily, maybe too easy. Listen and observe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

This thought leader in new media asserts that every business needs to understand social psychology and rethink their business models, approach, and relationships in order to create unique and memorable experiences for both customers and employees. We all have a natural inclination to emulate those we like and admire. Consistency.

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Customer Custom Social Media Technical Review 85

Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Social media and email marketing act separately as great marketing tools. While social media offers a continuous interaction with your followers, email marketing is a tool to provide a steady flow of information received directly by your connections.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2016

During this period Kobie worked closely with many SaaS companies including ExactTarget from its early days and the Founder & CEO, Scott Dorsey, served as a strong reference for Kobie. Please help me in amplifying this message and in welcoming Kobie to the team on social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

When polled 88% of marketing professionals said they couldn’t accurately measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and the majority said lack of ROI measurement is their single greatest frustration with social media (Forbes). Clicks are also a simple measure that you can get from basic link tracking packages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

These authors reference real cases and real business leaders, based on their decades of experience in building companies and executive coaching. You see this today on the Internet with people who dominate social media as “influencers,” leading customers to new trends and brands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business.

Startup 174

Startup Training Services Writing 174

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2020

With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey. One of the free sources above, or just the teaser data from an online report advertisement, often is more than adequate as a third-party reference for credibility. Conduct your own customized market research.

Marketing 157

Marketing Statistics Research Report 157

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We caught up with Soylent VP of Marketing, Andrew Thomas , to hear how the company finally decided to embrace the nameand the frequent trolling on social mediato instead emphasize the sustainable aspects of its products, as well as the new product line, with Plants, Not People. That said, it does come with a challenge.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A new generation of entrepreneurs is emerging to refashion the Los Angeles studio system for the digital age forming companies that combining live-streamed video, podcasts, and the newfound social media celebrities to craft entertainment for a new breed of consumer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Alex is a Silicon Valley veteran and Cisco executive, often referred to as the ‘innovation therapist,’ who details his knowledge of many real-world cases and specifics on how to keep up with change and win in the marketplace. Don’t forget the new social media platforms and industry forums.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Social Media. Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn manage communities comprised of millions of people worldwide. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Gamification.

Technology 86

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

A couple of these people have offered me freelance work, or referred me to others for job leads. I have applied at Google 1000 times, never heard back, but I used social media to finally get a call from them about a decade later. Networking through social media. Apply for jobs you want. Ask for feedback.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. My husband referred me to your blog. I am always.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

What he was referring to is how Hollywood only focuses on producing “broad spectacles” that usually cost at least $80 million. Indie movies are promoted by building them up around a virtual distributed version of a screening event through social media. Film-Making Technology Is Crushing Hollywood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor.

Technical Review 124

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The most likely outcome if you manage to interest the senior exec (for the sake of this post let me call her the CEO) is that she will refer you down the organization to somebody who would be involved in the decision. “We don’t have budget for that this year” “I don’t believe in social media advertising.”

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