Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. How to respond to media in a crisis. Prepare, prepare, prepare for every media event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Here are some tips on how to look at work, make some hard decisions, and keep your health and sanity: Maintain a big picture perspective. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway. Don’t let it lead to anger and frustration, or loss of productivity. Block out time for priority work items. Take a break to recharge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Every new startup needs to fight the urge to get the product out, and then start selling it. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. Every month, the Page will introduce a new theme that will focus on a topic important to a small business owner''s success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Here are some tips on how to look at work, make some hard decisions, and keep your health and sanity: Maintain a big picture perspective. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway. Don’t let it lead to anger and frustration, or loss of productivity. Block out time for priority work items. Take a break to recharge.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2016

Newegg said it is selling t-shirts to support Jordan Gwyther, the founder of Larping.org, and an online reseller of foam-tipped arrows used for live action, role playing. Newegg said that Gwyther has been sued by Global Archery Products, which claims the arrows he is reselling infringe on its patents. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2017

You can cover everything you need to convey in 20 pages of text. The one-page Oprah plan is a good executive summary, but it’s not enough to get the investment. Use page breaks to separate sections. When in doubt, go to the next page. Nobody worries about having to turn to the next page. Include table of contents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2010

For minimum content, see my article “ Ten Tips to an Investment-Grade Business Plan.” You can cover everything you need to convey in 20 pages of text. The one-page Oprah plan is a good executive summary, but it’s not enough to get the investment. Use page breaks to separate sections. When in doubt, go to the next page.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2012

You can cover everything you need to convey in 20 pages of text. The one-page Oprah plan is a good executive summary, but it’s not enough to get the investment. Use page breaks to separate sections. When in doubt, go to the next page. Nobody worries about having to turn to the next page. Include table of contents.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2015

Here are five tips that will help you get your first business deal. Create pages for your business on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and any other social sites that are used by potential customers. A good website allows you to sell your products and services online. Social sites are a great way to advertise your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Here are some tips on how to look at work, make some hard decisions, and keep your health and sanity: Maintain a big picture perspective. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway. Don’t let it lead to anger and frustration, or loss of productivity. Block out time for priority work items. Take a break to recharge.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 8, 2013

Monday, January 14, 2013 -- Use 90 Sec Videos to Explain Your Product - Create Awesome. Explainer videos (those 60-90 sec videos on home pages around the Internet) are all the rage. How do you quickly and succinctly explain your product or service to your target customer so that you can engage them right away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2022

Here are some tips on how to look at work, make some hard decisions, and keep your health and sanity: Maintain a big picture perspective. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway. Don’t let it lead to anger and frustration, or loss of productivity. Block out time for priority work items. Take a break to recharge.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

Founders are understandably very passionate about their product and startup. It shows, you’re just thinking of the end goal, and not thinking about the product/offering,” said Francisco. No CEO/founder I’ve ever met when they had under 10 employees (Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Airbnb) ever said that to impress me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Ask yourself where are the influencers in your market, the majority of your target customers, and what type of interaction will be most productive to your business? SEM is the most common form of online marketing, which increases your website visibility on search engine results pages through optimization and advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2012

Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Some entrepreneurs seem to think that their product pitch is also their investor pitch. I outlined what investors expect to see in another article “ Limit an Investor Pitch to 10 Pages and 10 Minutes.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Here are some tips on using your advisory board effectively: Select people who complement your experience. It’s smart to schedule a monthly Advisory Board meeting, with a formal agenda, as well as informal communication to keep everyone on the same page. If you give and ask for nothing, you will get nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. According to Hubspot , websites that have blogs get twice as many inbound links, 400 percent more indexed pages, and a more than 50 percent increase in traffic, compared to websites without blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). He also defines the five floors of relationships as follows: Meet and greet relationships (first floor). This is where most business relationships start and remain. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Correspondingly, my traffic increased nearly 3 times over the prior year, page views increased approximately 2.5 The following entries generated the most page views during 2011. Appeared on Reddit’s front page. Startup Tips From Jeff Bezos. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. All Time Rank.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

After the first few hundred applications, every word on the page is like Velcro across our eyeballs (which, btw, is why you should never wait until the last minute to apply to a popular accelerator program). We once received an application that ran 22 pages – of text, no graphics! Consider this a self-defense essay. The #EpicNovelFail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. Beat the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2010

Here are some tips on how to look at work, make some hard decisions, and keep your health and sanity: Maintain a big picture perspective. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway. Don’t let it lead to anger and frustration, or loss of productivity. Block out time for priority work items. Take a break to recharge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business.

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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. Find your niche and highlight how your product meets the customer’s exact need, and is the best in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

It’s especially important to highlight your uniqueness in some easy to remember way, so people will think of you and what you do, in case they need your product or service. Every product or service has specific attributes that are important to key customers, like integrity and trust, or customer focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Yet if your service is consulting, for example, real travel is required to deliver the product. Most young businesses with a new product plan to attend as many as ten shows or conferences per year across the country or around the world. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business One of the keys to maximizing the productivity and success of your team, as well as yourself, is motivation. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. It has been estimated that the average team member at any given time works at less than 50% of his capacity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The continuing rise in the price of fuel, combined with the ongoing evidence of global warming, has highlighted the need for alternative energy sources, and green products. Here are some key tips to optimize your cash flow in anticipation of these busy holiday periods: Start with re-sizing per-unit profitability. Margin is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. So don’t move the search bar from the top of a web page, or select a digit other than “0” for getting a human on the phone. Respect your customer’s view of usability.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.".

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 1, 2017

Once a novelty act reserved for indie band albums and curious art projects, crowdfunding is starting to play a major role in the world of startups and new products. Your campaign page should clearly highlight your track record, what you’ve already put in place to make your vision a reality, and why you are the one with the skills for the job.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

It integrates with 600+ customer relationship management systems (CRMs), marketing automation tools, and landing page builders. This software features a set of tools dedicated to helping you host flawless and productive webinars every step of the way. Read more about lead generation tips at TechCo. Pricing: $9/user/month.

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Tool Startup Help Template 81

Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

Internet speed can have a direct impact on worker productivity and business success. Employees that experience sluggish web page load times and data transfers waste time better spent on other projects. Read More: 4 Tips to Maximize Internet Bandwidth. Read More: Top Strategies to Reduce Network Cost. Slow Internet Speeds.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

MAKEITWORK, our Twitter handle is @makeitwork , our website is makeitwork.com and our facebook page is of course facebook.com/makeitwork. We post content from our show on blogs including show notes and tips and tricks. Jeremy demos various new programs and websites and shows all kinds of tips and tricks, DIY and other cool stuff.

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