Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.” ” That’s what we’ve set out to build at MakeSpace. 10x the experience.

Technical Review 380

Technical Review Software Review Cofounder CTO Hire 380

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. There are many books written on this subject, but a recent one by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen.

Entrepreneur 231

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

The concept comes from a Stephen Covey book called “ First Things First ,&# which is a worthwhile book ( Wikipedia overview here ) but if you haven’t read his seminal book “ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People &# you should start with that. When I first discovered the concept I found it enlightening.

China 374

China Asia Email Technical Review 374

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. This is simple in concept, but requires real effort and can be time consuming, and even expensive, if someone gets there before you and tries to sell you the rights to your preferred business or personal domain name. Professional directories.

Reputation 248

Reputation Affiliate Technical Review Social Network 248

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet. The book profiles markets like those for books. Why is that? Even a hundred.

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Media South Korea Distribution Technical Review 302

The Startup Magazine

JULY 28, 2022

The story of Nomad Internet is one that startup owners of every variety should be paying attention to. Today, the company advertises up to unlimited wireless internet for rural areas, but back then, the founders were stuck on a single problem. This technology is everywhere today, but it wasn’t a household name in rural areas of Texas.

Internet 157

Internet Technical Review Bandwidth Reputation 157

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2011

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. I always wonder how these destitute kids have computers with Internet access, and can buy the huge mailing lists they need for spamming. Cheap travel. Chain emails.

Technical Review 228

Technical Review Internet Startup Email 228

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I just finished a new book for entrepreneurs, “ Secrets to a Successful Startup ,” by Trevor Blake, which makes the same points, based on his own real-life experience with three successful startups. As your business matures and stabilizes, regular employees make more sense. The terms are clear, and there is no entitlement to deal with.

Technical Review 308

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Employee 308

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

By now you probably know that Netflix is splitting its business into two parts: its digital streaming business (retains the name Netflix) and its DVD mailing business, which was its original business (to be called Qwikster). If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it. Incumbents can’t react.

Los Angeles 329

Los Angeles Revenue Retention Acquisition 329

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

An eponymous book (e.g. As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. More than just ‘Content Marketing.’”.

Naming 119

Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. The book is 132 chapters broken into 11 sections. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

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Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 195

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. With the Internet and social networks, things you do in your personal life can affect your success in a big way.

Startup 331

Startup Technical Review Social Network Reputation 331

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many big names in education including MIT and Stanford offer programming courses, absolutely free. University of Michigan : From the University of Michigan, you’ll get access to great programming courses including Computer Vision and Internet History, Technology, and Security. Although courses aren’t free, the books are.

Ruby 237

Ruby HTML Michigan Artificial Inteligence 237

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. There are many books written on this subject, but this classic by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen.

Philippines 181

Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder Affiliate 181

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I came up with my business name Aging Youthful when the network marketing company I am involved with came out with a product for youthful aging.

Naming 106

Naming Entrepreneur Social Media PR 106

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I booked several high-profile meetings in advance. Every night you are just hanging out with big name bands and the teams around them that brought them to their peak.&#. Or how about the inventor of the Internet? It is called, “ the new rules for the Internet bubble &# and he just nails it. I stayed out late.

Technical Cofounder 294

Technical Cofounder Austin Hosting Cofounder 294

Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. This is simple in concept, but requires real effort and can be time consuming, and even expensive, if someone gets there before you and tries to sell you the rights to your preferred business or personal domain name. Image via Flickr by krossbow. Professional directories.

Reputation 178

Reputation Affiliate Technical Review Social Network 178

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. All the usual caveats apply.

China 328

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 328

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

It sort of reminds me of the new generation of innovation that is happening around user-controlled terrestrial & Internet station Jelli.]. He created his own domain and gave out email address with the name@chamillionaire.com nomenclature. How does he always wow a usually skeptical crowd? His email list became his power.

Entrepreneur 356

Entrepreneur Los Angeles Norway Audience 356

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2013

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. With the Internet and social networks, things you do in your personal life can affect your success in a big way.

Entrepreneur 274

Entrepreneur Technical Review Social Network Reputation 274

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 5, 2023

How To Write A Business Book That Matters written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Josh Bernoff In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Josh Bernoff. Josh teaches them how to refine their idea, choose a publishing model, and research, write, publish, and promote their books.

Audio 78

Audio Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Naming 78

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Additionally, the major factors contributing to its high growth are better Internet access, e-commerce platforms, the scope of international trade, smartphone usage, and a rise in disposable income. The admin shares the courier booking request – to the nearest courier delivery personnel.

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2024

How Writing a Book is Good For Business & Why You Shouldn’t Do It Without a Coach written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing   The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Leigh Shulman In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Argentina-based author Leigh Shulman.

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Cloud New York Curation Columbus 87

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As we are spending more of our resources online, we believe that a “new Internet” is being created – with the consumer at its centre – on top of a strong tech infrastructure: 5g/6g, cloud, edge computing, new powerful GPUs, spatial computing, decentralisation etc. . The “new internet” aka “Metaverse” .

Technical Review 178

Technical Review South Korea Due Diligence IP 178

VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

While Metaverse rose to fame initially due to Facebook’s name change into ‘Meta’ to express their ambition to become a Metaverse company within 5 years (and perhaps deflect some of the negative PR), there are now many large companies, startups and brands working on their metaverse strategy. What is the metaverse?

Technical Review 217

Technical Review Israel Non-Compete IP 217

Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

No one wants their hard work to do go down in the name of a shoddy investment. Smart or Self Driving Cars, IoT Devices, Smart Homes, Medical chip implants, Bots, and Robots to assist you; in short, everything will be connected to the internet and cloud. The future is the Internet of Things (IoT). 1- Sustainability. 6- Sensors.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Affiliate 133

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2015

Twitter, which originated as an accidental side project of a failing Internet startup, first launched into prominence in 2007 when it landed best start-up in the blog category of the technology portion of annual festival SxSW that year.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder New York 100

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

Last Wednesday, I went to a Global Internet of Things (IoT) Day Mixer that had 256 attendees from a wide range of backgrounds, including engineers, designers and entrepreneurs. The combination of loud music in a dark, crowded space and no name-tags made cold introductions awkward.

Networking 168

Networking Technical Review Due Diligence Analytics 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. There are many books written on this subject, but one just last year by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen.

Philippines 120

Philippines Startup Bandwidth Cofounder 120

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group.

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup San Diego 337

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2014

The highly diversified conglomerate includes businesses in travel, banking, music, mobile services, Internet, film, video games, and most recently space tourism. Naturally, the most asked question of Branson is how the name “Virgin” came about. Quoting from the book: Relax and have fun, ask questions and listen.

Virgin Islands 157

Virgin Islands Asia Leadership Hiring 157

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. 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. You have to be found and favored by search engines.

Internet 241

Internet Social Bookmarking Social Media Startup 241

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 16, 2020

Starting in the list business gave him a solid foundation in learning about audiences, demographics and database marketing; then, working in all media helping Boardroom as Executive VP sell millions of newsletter subscriptions and consumer books put all of that list training to good use. Have you ever tried looking for a domain name?

Direct Marketing 101

Direct Marketing Marketing Software Review Database 101

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. All the usual caveats apply.

China 220

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 220

YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

Most superstars with Ronaldo’s level of fame wouldn’t dare such a stunt, but Ronaldo’s manager, a brilliant guy named Ricardo, understands what it takes to make his friend and client stand out from the crowd of celebrities. From around 2008 until 2015, as the internet gained users by the hundreds of millions, viral videos were all the rage.

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