Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2013

Amazingly, Tim Cook, current CEO of Apple, has surpassed Steve Jobs high score, and was ranked by a Glassdoor Survey as the #1 respected CEO as voted by employees. Those of you who viewed the movie The Social Network , saw some examples of entrepreneurs dealing with conflict poorly, almost leading to the demise of Facebook.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Sales and Social Media. Social networks are a real breakthrough of the 21st century. According to Smart Insights, the number of social media users globally grew from 4.2 In 2022, it has become necessary for both a startup and a large enterprise to increase their visibility on social networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

Mark Jeffrey - Q: “Is it more traditional to do your ESOP (employee stock option plan) before or after your angel or Series A funding?&# I talked about the need to have a restricted stock plan for your earliest employees. You’re not screwing me – you’re screwing your fellow employees. Tough, but true.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2014

” This thought leader in new media asserts that every business needs to understand social psychology and rethink their business models, approach, and relationships in order to create unique and memorable experiences for both customers and employees. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2013

” This thought leader in new media asserts that every business needs to understand social psychology and rethink their business models, approach, and relationships in order to create unique and memorable experiences for both customers and employees. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. Social networks become more valuable with more users; consumers’ discounts become larger when more people join the coupon; commerce marketplaces benefit from increasing liquidity, and so forth.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This could be as simple as painting your storefront or making sure that all of your employees stick to a dress code, but sometimes presentation can go further than that. Having professional photos done of your team, individual employees, and even of your office space can greatly impact the success of your business.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2021

Businesses looking to expand their reach online should consider setting up an employee advocacy program. Turning employees into advocates can shorten the sales cycle, boost growth, and help your team differentiate from the crowd. . Setting up a culture of employee advocacy. What great employee advocacy looks like.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

This trend is particularly true in markets that are highly susceptible to network effects, such as online auctions and social networks. Even beyond auctions and social networks, the web tends to prefer the category leader. However, now individual employees get the ball rolling by using a product.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

You invest in your employees—mentoring, conferences, training. Employees take other jobs. It moves knowledge from the head (or hard drive) of a single employee into an accessible, company-owned repository. That transferability is a competitive advantage: Critical knowledge stays with the company, not the employee.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

This thought leader in new media asserts that every business needs to understand social psychology and rethink their business models, approach, and relationships in order to create unique and memorable experiences for both customers and employees. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Your social media policy needs to outline how team members behave in the online universe during and outside of work. All messaging coming from employees should be aligned with your company’s values and brand. Just ten percent say they will not use social media in 2012, down from 24 percent for 2011 and 39 percent for 2010.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2019

However, you need to use it within legal boundaries; be sure to confirm the state, local, and federal laws concerning mobile tracking, and obtain permission from employees to monitor their personal devices to avoid violating their privacy. Below is a closer look at these features and how they work: Social media monitoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Your social media policy needs to outline how team members behave in the online universe during and outside of work. All messaging coming from employees should be aligned with your company’s values and brand. Turn your social media efforts into profit, rather than just another expense.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

And that they don’t set your co-founders or key employees against you in meetings. Remember “ The Social Network ” movie about Facebook? Once you take investment, you will also have a fiduciary board, with the responsibility of making the company successful. Some of those will be outside the company. Deadlines and benchmarks.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

social network start up – trademark and copyright are more likely. Make sure you have Employee Invention Assignment Agreements. (If What type of intellectual property matters to your company, and what you should do to protect it is highly company/industry dependent, requiring unique analysis and/or protection.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Many companies are beginning to allow the flexibility to help cut costs while boosting employee productivity. Using technology for work clears away a lot of the old office abstractions, and allows employees to work more efficiently. Yet they don’t have a single employee in Silicon Valley. Workin’ 9-to-5. What gives?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

If you need additional ammo to convince your boss, we’ve written up detailed benefits for employees of established organizations.) -- The Conference Core: Two Days and Three Nights of Intense Education and Connection -- We don’t fix what’s already awesome. Here’s an overview of it all, and of course, you can find more detail on our site. (If

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2018

They need to set up accounts with social networking platforms as well. Some of the planet’s most widely known social networking websites these days are Instagram, Twitter, Google Plus and Facebook. If a clothing boutique has a toilet that won’t flush, that can be a serious inconvenience to employees.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

consider (getting out more, or) using current corporate connections and social networks to advertise your discretion and trustworthiness, and get your home-based business off the ground. If you’re the type that has nothing to do from 5 p.m. Etsy Store.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. They are not alone. Oracle, the maker of business hardware and software, is an example of a broader trend in the US high-tech industry.

Technical Review 170

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Turnover of employees in capital in Beijing is very high. business models.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

This succinct example is hard to argue with: “If you wanted to study access to information, for example, you would simply measure how much time it takes to locate information before and after implementation of your enterprise social network. Listen to people you trust for the best options for your enterprise.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. What’s the ARPU of a business on a social network? Next-Gen Networking. 2029 Stierlin Court. 1 Hacker Way.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

You can be sure that most of your employees are active on social media. But suppose an employee shared pictures of your product prototype? Messaged a Dropbox link with confidential information (even if only to a fellow employee) over an insecure connection? Put social media policies in writing. They should.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

Social networking and email — 16.8%. But employees aren’t helping matters, either. Three-quarters (75%) of CIOs and IT managers said employee-installed software created problems, including increased security threats (51%) and interference with authorized software (20%). Sites affected included those for: Banks — 32.9%.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Create an interactive, regularly updated site or blog , or by build informative yet informal profiles on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. A great offer goes a long way quickly…especially through our favorite social networking sites! Help Other Employees. Are you a thought leader? Be visible!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

Social listening tools like Radian6, Google Alerts, and Trackur may also help you to learn what’s buzzing on social networks. Use social networks to engage with community. Here are several steps to do so: a) Build Social Communities. Consider too the unique characteristics of each social network.

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VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

The early buzz of Clubhouse (despite being invite-only and iOS having a total reach of about 2 million users) along with the rising popularity of podcasts has shown that consumers crave social audio interactions and that there’s plenty of room for innovation in the space. 31 employees according to Linkedin, but seems to be bootstrapped.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2017

This thought leader in new media asserts that every business needs to understand social psychology and rethink their business models, approach, and relationships in order to create unique and memorable experiences for both customers and employees. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2018

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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

On the one hand it denied Facebook from enormous amounts of web traffic that Google controlled at the time but in the longer-run due to network effects of social networks it made Facebook significantly more powerful. It is a really big historical decision that Facebook made not to have Google index its pages.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2014

was milking the moment as people flocked to Twitter, the engineers at Google weren’t panicking, according to employees from the Reliability Team who were participating in an AMA on reddit at around the same time. When Bebo, the UK social network went down in 2012, users flocked to Twitter to complain. While Yahoo! A banner ad.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Widespread global availability of free or low-cost web access, easy-to-use social tools, and algorithms by companies like Klout and PeerIndex have also resulted in an “influence revolution” According to Schaefer, the rules of online influence are affected by several factors: 1. Big brother is watching!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2018

The HR team of all companies works to find, hire and retain employees. You will be able to manage employee information payroll, attendance records among others. Helps in keeping time track and office information of employees. Helps in offering benefits plans which fits your employee’s needs and wants. Payroll software.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Get employee buy-in on your brand.

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