Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. Enter social media and its importance as a traffic source. Is Facebook unstoppable? Of course not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Supportive co-founder and executive positions. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite. Member of the Advisory Board.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

by Mike Bird, CEO and co-founder of Social Garden. Whether you’ve just secured your first graduate role or you’re looking to boost the numbers of your own business’s social media accounts, we can all agree that without experience, social can be scary. Sure, we all have Facebook accounts.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. I would go into specialty and natural food stores in New York City and look at the other independently owned and smaller brands and just cold-Instagram DM or cold-LinkedIn message the founders.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. We set out to find Jonathan’s “co-founder.”

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Social interactions. Every person requires some level of positive human interaction with co-workers and others to be satisfied and productive. The recent pandemic and remote team members have made the focus on social even more critical. Of course, you as the business leader have a key role in making all this happen.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Nils De Moor, Co-founder and CTO at Woorank. After a brief passage through the academic world where he researched simulation of distributed systems, he decided to try his luck as an entrepreneur and cofounded Woorank as the CTO. Marketing Podcast with Nils De Moor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors. Budget time and dollars for each. Target income and expense by year, including funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

This is what Fred Wilson talks about in this post about the FourSquare founders. The media eats it up as they always need something to write about. Be unique, find free marketing opportunities and use social media to build your following. Bieber & Co. Foursquare is a great example of this. Go Watch the Movie.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Mention that you do “Consumer tech” as a startup founder and you’d be limiting your funding options to one third of the venture capital funds (in Israel that figure is probably closer to 10%). Gaming founders know this challenge well. What will it take for founders to win in consumer? Speed is also critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

I found that role validated and highlighted in a new book, “ Scale or Fail ,” by Allison Maslan, who has built ten successful companies from the ground up, and consulted with many more in her current role as founder and CEO of Pinnacle Global Network. For example, I knew Bill Gates back in the early startup days of Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? ” As far as “terms” go I’m 100% aligned to have the most vanilla, founder-friendly terms I can. And I listen to the reasons their co-founders quit their well-payed job to join them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. Build a following and start a brand through social media.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

by Saqib Ayaz, co-founder of Hire an Assistant. A general virtual assistant is one responsible for performing logistics and administrative tasks, such as managing appointments and meetings, planning tours, data entry, coordinating with clients, managing phone calls, email accounts and social media accounts etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman. The result?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? ” As far as “terms” go I’m 100% aligned to have the most vanilla, founder-friendly terms I can. And I listen to the reasons their co-founders quit their well-payed job to join them.

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Deal Flow Early Stage Investment Bankers Technical Review 347

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. Post to a social media network. The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). This investment in a refined digital strategy is setting large companies up to satisfy needs only an SMB used to be able to.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2017

by Ana Grasic , cofounder of WeGrowth. If you are looking for marketers, take into consideration WeGrowth : a great platform where you can decide whether you need SEO, PPC, Content Marketing, Social Media, or other professionals. Being your own boss has its ups and downs, just like any other part of your life, really.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Chris Brogan commands $22,000 for a single day of consulting in an industry (social media marketing) where all the information you need is already online and free. P.S. If you're raising money, investors love to see a co-founder or even just an advisor who has been successful before. Personal authority. The Dream Team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2018

In my experience, the initial idea for a new product usually comes from a single entrepreneur, but the implementation plan for a new business requires a team, or at least a co-founder. As a mentor to aspiring business owners, I often get asked to find that partner for them, since founders are usually too busy with their solution.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The audience size identified is encouragingly large, and the frequently used phrases and words (brick mortar, retail, founder) align directly with our target audience. Developing a social media following. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin. Social’s obvious drawcard is its reach, with 3.6

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” This includes creating content like blog posts, videos, social media posts, and more. And he’s right. Content Creation. This is the power of SEM marketing.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. In my interview with Brain Berger , Founder and CEO of Mack Weldon, he told me how to approach this multichannel strategy: It’s about being really strategic around how you position your brand to your customer and what channels in which you do that. Do you want us to offer delivery?’ We did them.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

by Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo. Last year, Twitter announced that it would unveil its Buy Button in the first quarter of 2015, cementing the role social commerce will play in the way businesses must market their products to consumers. Use these platforms to turn posts into calls to action.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Adriana Rozo-Angulo, founder of international consulting firm MAS Connections and author of The Buoyant Business: How Simplicity Can Keep Organizations Afloat in a Stormy Economy. TSM: Are you on social media and can your readers interact with you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown. This time on mysterious party bus to nowhere but situated with the CTO & Cofounder of Living Social, Aaron Batalion.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. Parallel to this, social media has grown as well, allowing businesses from anywhere in the world to market to anyone,” he says. Attracting Overseas Customers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Some idealistic founders believe the root cause of scaling issues is the “command-and-control” organizational structure.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2022

Xenia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planable, a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 5,000 teams behind brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and United Nations. Key Takeaway: Social media is a marketing channel today that can’t be ignored. This is John Jantsch.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

If you and your co-founder(s) are friends, why not work on your home instead? Social media is free, too, (if you don’t buy ads) so make sure to maximize its use to reach and interact with your customers. Now, they run co-branding campaigns that are even bigger than before. Get an executive suite or coworking space.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. This never ends well.

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