Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). Innovative technologies have no value until they are turned into solutions to real customer problems. Training and coaching. Value creation. Accountability.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Innovative technologies have no value until they are turned into solutions to real customer problems. Training and coaching. Business risks are not just development risks.

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Innovative technologies have no value until they are turned into solutions to real customer problems. Training and coaching. Business risks are not just development risks.

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you're an expert in a certain technology--say, business process design--and have thought about publishing a book, this is a quicker, faster, and more comprehensive way to share it with the world. We have patents filed on this process. For an educator, it helps to bring classroom training to life.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Now some never see the people they support, but are experts on the technology involved. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Services Search Engine Optimization Startup 106

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2012

Don’t define your scope so narrowly that you would not consider airplanes to be competitive with your new train, or you will suffer their fate. We can all argue the shortcomings and non-defensibility of patents, but these are still your best competitive protection, sustainable for twenty years. Dramatic cost improvement for cause.

Competition 97

Competition Patents Startup Social Network 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2011

Don’t define your scope so narrowly that you would not consider airplanes to be competitive with your new train, or you will suffer their fate. We can all argue the shortcomings and non-defensibility of patents, but these are still your best competitive protection, sustainable for twenty years. Dramatic cost improvement for cause.

Competition 102

Competition Patents Startup Social Network 102

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Now some never see the people they support, but are experts on the technology involved. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Services Product Search Engine Optimization 89

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Now some never see the people they support, but are experts on the technology involved. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Startup SEM 48

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2010

Don’t define your scope so narrowly that you would not consider airplanes to be competitive with your new train, or you will suffer their fate. We can all argue the shortcomings and non-defensibility of patents, but these are still your best competitive protection, sustainable for twenty years. Dramatic cost improvement for cause.

Competition 49

Competition Tips Patents Startup 49

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78