Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day. Incorporating a business entity early through online services.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It reportedly paid a hefty $230 million to acquire the podcast publisher and network startup Gimlet Media, and has also acquired the podcast monetization platform Anchor for an undisclosed price. Spotify Acquires Gimlet Media and Anchor. Above all, this news points to a big shift in the podcast industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2020

Similarly, despite the rise of services such as UberEats and Deliveroo, the experience of eating at a restaurant can't be replaced. The equipment and services required for this can be purchased at a low entry cost and also bring a host of additional benefits. Field Service Software. Great for service businesses.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. is a decent security solution, startups should be aware that ‘freemium' VPN services tend to profit by displaying ads and tracking your data.

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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. Entertainment has changed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A just-announced partnership between the social giant TikTok and the ecommerce giant Shopify could mint a brand-new class of TikTok-friendly ecommerce stores. The platforms will add additional ecommerce features down the line, though they're a little vague on what those will be. Why It's an Opportunity. Start With a Free $300.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon is CEO and Co-founder of StockTwits (www.stocktwits.com), the financial micro-messaging service. He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

How did an email marketing provider turn into a provider of software which mashes up a combination of email marketing, wiki, customer service management, event and meeting management tool, project management software, and much more? Lars Helgeson: We started about ten years ago, with an email marketing platform called CoolerEmail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Over 500,000 new businesses were created last year, or about one per minute of every day. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Incorporating a business entity early through online services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We review the credentials of Advisors via LinkedIn and other social media sources to ensure they’re worth their weight in advice. We suggest using our built-in communication platform which allows us to settle review disputes. I am defining competition as a platform to offer free Advice to Entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Our headquarters are in Berlin, but we have platform users from all corners of the world. The idea for exploreB2B resulted from my own experience in business development for a young consulting company and my brother’s enthusiasm for tech and social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I see many good video companies (media companies, mobile apps, distribution platforms, monetization platforms) but it’s often hard to distinguish good from great. Second, videos that we do share end up in fragments across Facebook, Instagram, cloud services, email or text messages. is non trivial. That is Ferris.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

Right now, that''s a jumble of different social services, websites, and more--which is the problem that Yapert (www.yapert.com) thinks it has solved. What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. The ROI was solid.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

When I published This Remote Working Experiment Failed And Succeeded on the Wall Street Journal last year, I had no idea it would generate so much social media attention. Dan is now CEO of Mobile1st , makers of Mobilizer, the mobile customer experience optimization platform. Image credit: John Zich/Bloomberg News.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. How did you do that?

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral. We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. We find the content they want, and we user our technology and people to service the show.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

If the user shares the add on social media, they earn an extra $.25. This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. That’s the concept behind AdWallet.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

version notice boards are disrupting publishing and news content aggregation in Africa, influencing even how media houses on the continent relay news. Johan Nel, CEO and founder of Umuntu Media says,” Mimiboards will help people on the continent record and handle issues live as they emerge. Mimiboard, virtual, 3.0

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

12,000 apps currently on the platform. Watch the video to hear Busher’s tips on how to effectively reach out to bloggers and get publicity for your apps using release distribution services, developer diaries, visual assets, teaser trailers and more. The service is currently available in five markets with more to come this year.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Chill.com , from the makers of Namesake , is a video community sharing platform. Everything from hip hop music videos to entertainment news and gossip, there is sure to be a lounge to suit your taste. Were you inspired by that service or was this something that you came upon independently? You can also create your own lounge.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 13, 2011

There isn’t much difficulty in operating the platform, so I could only believe that this was probably due to a low volume of users. To their credit, social media startups are quite difficult to develop and they have seen some measurable amounts of success. People from more than 30 countries have had conversations on Lissn.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Cloud services. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. provides online service to compile and compare plans and rates across multiple monthly services. It filed for an IPO on August 6th.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. A snapshot of some of the projects mentioned: International remittance services. Trading platforms. Escrow applications. Setting Up 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Its an event that provides a platform for the worldwide twitter community to: listen, connect, share and engage with each other, while collectively exploring the effects of the emerging real-time internet on business. Carlos R (@CarlosHernandez) - Social media educator & co-creator of Social Media for the Uncomfortable.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

This is where you go to influencers, bloggers, media and press, but instead of saying May 9th, tell them a later date (for example, Tuesday May 11th) and ask them to wait to publish any news on your campaign until that later date (May 11th). Accepting Money via Credit Card.

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