Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2016

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? Let candidates educate you on attributes you need and they bring. If your kids can use computers by age six, every entrepreneur ought to be able to stay current with the latest social media marketing and e-commerce technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Self-service technologies, social media, and smart phones have created a new set of expectations for high-tech consumers today. I found a good summary of these new expectations in a book recently published by Micah Solomon, “ High-tech, High-touch Customer Service.” You probably won’t get a second chance.

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Customer Custom Services High Tech 89

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One trend in the Southern California high tech startup market has been an increasing number of startups--and executives--who have been looking to combine their interests in business with their enthusiasm for giving back through nonprofits and causes. However, you'll never see that in the media. You need a third profile.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Last year, we did fifty different educational programs, talking to on the order of 10,000 people in those fifty programs. The second thing is the stuff we have been doing--education, networking, and connections--and getting that primordial soup stirred up and catalyzed. Thanks for the time this morning. How has your first year been?

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." Innovation – and its sister topic, STEM education, is a topic that easily falls through the cracks. government.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. Victory usually satisfies, but it seldom educates.

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Company Companies Startup Study 257

Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

The violence, and nonstop Internet media coverage, is ripping away whatever bandages still covered the wounds from centuries of racism and other isms. More smartphones, more social media, and more viral video will help to expose police brutality when it happens. Politicians can’t seem to quell the discontent.

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