Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I’m certainly not saying that all of these are required, but they are certainly all worth some consideration: Get some business education, as well as technical. The education will be invaluable in setting up your own business, managing a team, and learning how to deal with constant challenges. Find your level of passion early.

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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. It shouldn’t be a huge transition.

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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. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

As I write these words I already imagine my next deposition in which I’m asked to read this out loud. I started writing about problems when founding a startup years ago but the problem has gotten worse. Be very careful with everything you write in an email or send in a text message. *. Lawsuits. It is insanely common.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. Business Email and Texting. Job Hunting Basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation.

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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. It shouldn’t be a huge transition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. Job Hunting Basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2011

Business Writing Skills. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. Job Hunting Basics.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

ZexSports and PacSun are putting an amazing panel together to discuss the value of key social influencer's, where they are on your social network, and how targeting these potential brand evangelists will have a positive influence on your social media network and ROI. This Panel has gotten extreme and sold out!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. Job Hunting Basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. Business Email and Texting. Job Hunting Basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. Business Email and Texting. Job Hunting Basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Budding entrepreneurs and home-based businesses should be writing business plans before they start, so they understand and can manage the tasks ahead, but no outside investor need ever see the plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly. A new easier to use social network may not get anyone excited. Educated customers ready and able to pay for the solution. That may sound obvious, but as a new venture investor, I rarely see it happening.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Teach Like You’re the Student - Steve Blank , August 10, 2010 “I never have let my schooling interfere with my education.”. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How unique are you from them?

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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. It shouldn’t be a huge transition.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. Business Email and Texting. Job Hunting Basics.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

This socially responsible app will help empower the community to capture real-time text, voice, video and images of incidents that involve law enforcement and individuals in non-emergency situations. The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. DatavizVR (Austin, TX).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. That changed very quickly.

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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. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. MUST be on this list!!

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem, with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and self-educate. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem, with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and self-educate. 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.

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