Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Start by reviewing current statistics, like the recent Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 , to learn which social media sites are most popular, which features drive the most impact today, and how other social media marketers have maximized their efforts and seen the greatest ROI. Incorporate brand personality and voice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

These will put your proposal in the circular file, and even future good opportunities from you may go to the bottom of my list: “Give me a call to hear about an opportunity that can’t fail.” It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 5, 2018

I just returned from a week’s vacation in the mountains where I had almost no Internet access but was aware that Ronan Farrow had published a damning sexual misconduct article about Les Moonves, the Chairman & CEO of publicly traded company CBS Corporation. whether in government or private enterprise. These weren’t simply flirtations?—?he

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

These will put your proposal in the circular file, and even future good opportunities from you may go to the bottom of my list: “Give me a call to hear about an opportunity that can’t fail.” It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What can you tell us about MuteSix as an agency? Greg Gillman: We’ve been around for about nine years. For agencies that work with large brands, usually it’s more about impression buying versus performance buying. The data science team also builds pretty robust reporting. Image Credits: MuteSix.

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

The change will affect “nearly all” of Google’s 200,000 employees, including contractors and full-time workers, according to The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the news. Only about 29% of workers had the option to work from home between 2017 and 2018, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Whatever the problem, the person or board to whom you report does not want to hear about it after it has become a threat to the enterprise. And if you’re the CEO, your board definitely does not want to hear that revenues are about to fall through the floor because bookings for the past two periods have been so far below forecast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Although I hear more and more about “global warming,” and the many ways we are destroying our environment, I still don’t see many global business winners in this space, comparable to Facebook and Amazon. The EPA estimates that 75 percent of the American waste stream is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30 percent of it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

There is additional encouraging news for aspiring entrepreneurs on many fronts, just in case you are thinking about joining the existing ranks: Valuations of successful startups have hit an all-time high. Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2019

I also see many successful entrepreneurs, including Richard Branson , who openly state, “I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.” Think carefully about what’s at risk if you follow through with the behavior you are fearful of or are being warned about.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

Branchout , often called LinkedIn meets Facebook, has done a lot in their application to provide users motivation and opportunity to spread the word about the service. Later in this post, I'll talk about some of the downside of how they've made this viral. The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

Branchout , often called LinkedIn meets Facebook, has done a lot in their application to provide users motivation and opportunity to spread the word about the service. Later in this post, I'll talk about some of the downside of how they've made this viral. The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

According to an Ernst & Young report , the number of startups that have gone public in the US over the past decade is down about 75% from the previous decade, to about 10% of startup exits. In developing countries, like China and India, the statistics are reversed. Public companies are always at risk for takeovers.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Its common for startups to think about services like hosting/computing, storage, analytics, maps, email delivery and tracking, and eCommerce. However, there's really been an explosion of services over the past few years that gives even greater leverage and opportunity. He ends by looking at how this might help startups in the room.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

In the Harvard Business Review Female Economy 2009 report, women purchasing power was predicted to control about $28 trillion in annual global consumer spending, if not more. Most importantly, humor can get customers talking about your product or service. Read more about boosting your marketing strategies on TechCo.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 26, 2015

When interviewed, the Professor''s response to any and all counter arguments seems to be, "I am just reporting the facts revealed by history." I realize it is an easy statistic to measure, but it is a pretty thin slice of data from which to boldly proclaim that, "the American Dream is an Illusion.". The group found that, ".

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

These will put your proposal in the circular file, and even future good opportunities from you may go to the bottom of my list: “Give me a call to hear about an opportunity that can’t fail.” It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2016

We spoke with Kyle Kamrooz , co-founder and COO of the company, about what the startup is doing. If you look at some of the statistics, getting a home loan is like pulling teeth, and it gets very poor customer ratings. Do all the many regulations about mortgages make it harder to automate this process? What is cloudvirga?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

These will put your proposal in the circular file, and even future good opportunities from you may go to the bottom of my list: “Give me a call to hear about an opportunity that can’t fail.” It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Patients on the drug, the two companies said, had a statistically significant improvement in motor function compared to those who took placebo. The disease affects about one out of every 10,000 newborns. About 25,000 people in the U.S. Europe and Japan have Type 1 SMA, while about 10,000 in those countries have Type 2.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

These will put your proposal in the circular file, and even future good opportunities from you may go to the bottom of my list: “Give me a call to hear about an opportunity that can’t fail.” It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

Business is more about people than product. The best work ethic for business is all about serving others, or win-win relationships rather than win-lose deals. Initiative is all about giving now and assuming a payback later, rather than the other way around. You need team members who genuinely enjoy delighting others.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , where are these women to fill these positions? In a report by the National Student Clearinghouse only 18 percent of women graduated with a science degree in 2014. Read more about emerging startups in Arlington on TechCo. Learn more about the Startup Arlington program.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I’m not talking about the overwhelming weight of responsibility of thinking about extreme global poverty. I’m talking about little African American, Latino & rural Caucasian children in our own backyard and on whom we can have an impact without having to change the world. and villan of the film.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

According to a recent industry report on travel spending, small businesses buy 37% more airline tickets than big business travelers, and spend 24% more when on the road. I’m not talking here about getting on the national speaker circuit, and collecting big fees. You would be wrong. Speaking gigs help establish your expertise.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

I have a story about this for later in this insight. There are statistics that show clearly that the likelihood of payment drops quickly as receivables age beyond terms. I promised a story about payroll taxes, and it is not a good one, despite the best of intentions. Accelerating revenues comes next. Well, almost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter. In non-conversion exit surveys, visitors often report that they need to think about it and come back later.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Ionis (NASDAQ: IONS ) and its partner, Cambridge, MA-based Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB ), this morning reported an interim look at an ongoing Phase 3 study of nusinersen—an RNA-based drug meant to help treat patients with SMA. The disease affects about one out of every 10,000 newborns.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

Randy Churchill and his team at PricewaterhouseCoopers meticulously prepare a quarterly report detailing the venture landscape, called Shaking The Money Tree. I guess no one told him about the medical startups that were purchased by Medtronic, Linvatec, Storz, Mentor, etc., all of which continue to thrive in Santa Barbara to this day.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

When teammate Darold Knowles was asked about Reggie’s hotdog status, he replied, "There isn’t enough mustard in the world to cover Reggie Jackson.”. However, unlike Mr. Jackson, Cal was a selfless, self-effacing player who routinely played with injuries and placed his team’s victories ahead of his personal statistics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last year about 40% of the total workforce was Boomers. In case you think that all of these are employed by big companies, listen to these statistics: According to an article in U.S. News & World Report , people over 40 were key players in 86.6% of startup businesses as far back as 2005. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. We caught up with Therese to hear about her company and why it's growing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

billion for 35 funds during the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 22 percent compared to the level of dollar commitments during the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Check industry average statistics to make sure you are in the right range.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 2, 2016

The New York Times reported last week that the NFL and USA Football had publicized inaccurate statistics about the efficacy of a training program called Heads Up Football in preventing concussions in youth football players.

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