Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. The training becomes “adaptive.&#. The build “implicit social networks.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

million for a social networking site 18 months ago. It was 2003 and I was training for a marathon so I was in great shape (yes, I know this was YEARS ago but I did complete it in 3:57). Within the first 5 minutes of the meeting we had discussed that I was training for a marathon. You raised $1.5 Small story.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

For women - &# Don’t get off the train completely when you have children. After seeing “The Social Network&# there is an increased attitude amongst this generation (of women) that … why not go into startups? In the next generation everybody (including women (are going to write code).&#. Be a mensch.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. For an educator, it helps to bring classroom training to life.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. Social networking meets online personal health management. When I trained for the London Marathon in 2003 I bought a Nike device that I put on my shoe that measured my distance and pace via my Nike watch. We’ll see.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. We then captured this conversation again on camera. It then permeated my thinking and I began to explore the theme more as I looked around at web properties.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

On the other hand, I had never had to do the detailed work to get an intuitive feel for what customers wanted or how to train and service them. This includes writing product specs, going on sales calls, handling customer complaints, building the financial model and a host of other activities that will ultimately owned by functional experts.

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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. Writing specialists. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. Administrative specialists. Information specialists.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

It’d been a big year in tech, and the different supporting parts of team TZ – so what better way to kick off the festivities with an inaugural train-bound journey, courtesy of the good people at Amtrak. Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing.

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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. Writing specialists. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. Administrative specialists. Information specialists.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of. Otis Chandler – Founder and CEO of Goodreads.

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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. Writing specialists. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. Administrative specialists. Information specialists.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Dec 26, 2009). 10 cents per DAU. Developer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more. You can’t know too many experts, and social networks are the new way to find them. If you are thinking classes and training, you are already in trouble. Share what you do know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more. You can’t know too many experts, and social networks are the new way to find them. If you are thinking classes and training, you are already in trouble. Share what you do know.

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