Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

After you claim your identity with placeholder domain names, accounts in social networks, and common blogging platforms, your next challenge is to create enough positive content as a “Google wall” to keep negative info out of the top Google search results. Twittering. Profile sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. Teens fueled that growth when in 2011 12% of teens reported using Twitter. I just finished a new book by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It.

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MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. Rinse & repeat.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

Jeff Overall: It all started back in 2011, when I was going to the University of Santa Barbara. I saw that there were a few solutions out there people were blogging about out there, mostly about taping polarized filters on the cameras. We saw growth from just 850 filters in 2011 to 7500 filters in 2012.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Ironically, studies have shown that the majority of value associated with high-tech innovations involve unique advancements in non-product areas, such as: pricing (SaaS subscriptions vs. licensing), delivery (downloads vs. retail) and customer experience (Apple vs. Microsoft). with those who inspire you. You be the judge.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) but the truer number of underemployed is a whopping 16.8%!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. It is true that you should mostly concern yourself with your customers, building a great product and providing excellent service. It doesn’t feel like that in February 2011.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Hulme, blogging at Cloud Commons , believes that the cloud will spur a jobs explosion, though the jobs descriptions will differ. An IDC study commissioned on behalf of Microsoft has shown that cloud computing will be responsible for creating nearly 14 million new jobs between 2011 and 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Don’t start podcasting, blogging, tweeting, “friending” on Facebook, and posting YouTube videos until you know what your messages are, who will manage them, who your audience is, and how they and you are going to benefit from the content and relationship. Social media is about maintaining a dynamic conversation between you and your customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. Then in May 2011, she earned an M.B.A.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Her forthcoming publication, On Privacy: Liberty in the Digital Revolution (Spring 2011), grapples with impacts of individual behavior online on our legal rights to privacy. Gagnier has customized Gagnier Margossian LLP’s technology practice to broadly serve the needs of “startups.” Christina holds a B.A. and citizen engagement.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

By using ShopperSeeks, a boutique can expand it’s footprint and reach new customers across the country. Nude shoes to be even more specific for the Summer 2011 season. If you are referring to the blog post about being a mom and a CEO, studies have shown that women are far better multi-taskers than men.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We did some informal research toward the end of 2011 when the “pinning” phenomenon emerged because we found it very interesting. In addition, LoveIt connects people with their friends – and helps them discover other people, brands, websites and blogs that share similar visual tastes. What inspired you to launch LoveIt?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2011

You are constantly working to discover who your customer is and how you can add value or remove pain for them. We are always listening to our customers and trying new ideas for them looking for ways we can improve their communities (ie. Just wrote a blog post about the difficulties of going from a founder to being a CEO.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We''re very much a global footprint company, and we have customers from all over the world who fit that type of description. Right now, we have around 380,000 customers, with about a third of those outside the United States. I was hired back in the middle of 2011, and have now been ceo for about two and a half years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

But only from customers. That’s because you are not their customer. The customer are advertising agencies and brands themselves. Unless you become a paying customer you’re just a cost center to them. I’d be driving them to merchants who want to reach their potential customers through me.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC &# tab). Do you really still need a Powerpoint deck in 2011? Progress to date of your company (when started, key milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot / beta customers, financing).

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. It’s also necessary to note that a poor mobile website experience can impact your customers’ perception of and loyalty to your brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While running my family wine business , I used Twitter’s search for market research and to find new customers. A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter. It was, and still is, an incredible customer service tool. montanatriplett nice, which Pinot Grigio.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

In this space, you can create or reuse your favorite online content from YouTube, Flickr, Slideshare, Twitter, Google Maps, Facebook, your blog and more by simply dragging and dropping any or all of it onto one canvas, which you can then republish anywhere you wish. What is the market opportunity?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Youtube.com, 48 hours of uploads every minute and three billion views daily, according to Youtube.com’s official blog in May of 2011. After all, our best friends usually are our first customer. IKEA’s, Ingvar Kamprad, loved to make and sell furniture but he wanted product that he and his best friends could afford.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Xconomy

MAY 14, 2019

Founded in 2011, the company adapted traditional data security safeguards by monitoring not only computers in customer data centers but also the laptops, smartphones and other devices that employees increasingly use outside the workplace.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011. And in August 2011, Facebook began leasing about 13,000 square feet in Playa Vista.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2011

Just like iGottaGuide, the idea was all about democratization–taking the power away from the gatekeepers and giving customers a greater range of choices at a lower price. Check out one of my most recent blog posts: Fear of Failure. Henry Ford. Walt Disney. What does “failure” mean to you? Failure is my motivation.

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