Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Make strategic versus opportunistic decisions.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. Look for value points to control.

Develop 138

Develop Development Platform Mobile 138

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. Look for value points to control.

Mobile 126

Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. To help companies make informed business decisions, we are building statistical models that show information at higher-than-the-platform level. The key takeaway? Editor’s note: The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. We''re looking for lighting bolts in time which are important.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Without a sustainable strategy, these challenges lead to the terrifying statistic that nine out of ten online businesses will fail, and lead to the current ratio of Internet failures to millionaires being thousands to one.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Statistics Startup Social Media 124

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The idea for exploreB2B resulted from my own experience in business development for a young consulting company and my brother’s enthusiasm for tech and social media. The result was a social platform especially built to serve the needs of Business-to-Business interaction and networking. Competition? How does it work?

Networking 71

Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Technical Review Statistics Startup 119

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. Look for value points to control.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Statistics 109

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Startup Statistics Social Media 109

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Make strategic versus opportunistic decisions.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Scott, published a classic book that I recommend, ” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media. Social-media advertising. Nearly $50 billion is being spent annually on direct mail, according to statistics , and the amount has been increasing each year.

Social Media 55

Social Media SEM Startup Advertising 55

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. Use visibility and social media to pull clients in. They expect reviews and testimonials from other clients.

Social Media 56

Social Media Pricing Technical Review Demand 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Use social media and live customers to eliminate any reality distortion in your internal perception of value. Labor Statistics data suggests that half of the ones actually started are gone in five years. Assume you will need multiple iterations and multiple pivots costing more money and time than you anticipated.

Startup 62

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Statistics 62

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information.

Funding 62

Funding Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup 62