Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile. Use social networking to start the wave.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2021

For example, my dictate that entrepreneurs need to find a “ painful ” problem to solve (such as high cost, low productivity) to attract customers, doesn’t really account for many successful startup businesses today, including top social media platforms, dating sites, and new fashions.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

While all three of our most recent investments built on this foundational idea still remain stealthy, everyone utilizes connected technology to uniquely deliver a service or bundled product. Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

83 percent of online users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase. Social networking penetration by Boomers is now catching up with the other age groups, reaching nearly 90 percent across the board. In terms of job creation, innovation, and productivity, entrepreneurs drive growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

In fact, businesses need to adapt even more completely to the changes in the buying and social behavior of consumers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Survey results show that more than 80% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. What problem is your product trying to solve? A Product Manager? Wireframes?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The pervasiveness of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “open leadership.” Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2019

65 percent of online users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase. Social networking penetration by Boomers has now caught up with the other age groups, reaching about 80% across the board. In terms of job creation, innovation, and productivity, entrepreneurs drive growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Six out of 10 Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase. Social networking penetration by Boomers has now caught up with the other age groups, reaching about 80% across the board. In terms of job creation, innovation, and productivity, entrepreneurs drive growth.

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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. Data Tracking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2014

In fact, businesses need to adapt just as completely to the changes in the buying and social behavior of consumers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Survey results show that 81% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase.

Technical Review 252

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Secondly, Google has some really outstanding products that are attached to its search engine. Her articles have been published by the Hot in Social Media, Yahoo! Thinking Aloud Alicia Lawrence Google page rank search engine social media social network WebpageFX' Who doesn’t have a Gmail account at this point?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

You might have scratched and clawed inside your social network to get the first 10, but that doesn’t scale to 100 (though it might scale to another 10), and just because you were successful convincing customers one at a time to convert through hour-long Skype calls doesn’t mean you can convert 100 customers self-serve via Facebook ads.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 22, 2017

Product teams have been repeating the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) mantra for a decade now, without re-evaluating whether it’s the right way to maximize learning while pleasing the customer. Get it into the market quickly, because real learning occurs only when real customers are using a real product). of something simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Ship a minimum product now. For a true scientist, the product is never good enough, so it’s never done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. He told me in some combinations of device / OS / network they are crashing 4 times per 100. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. In our next meeting I asked them how often it crashed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

In fact, businesses need to adapt even more completely to the changes in the buying and social behavior of consumers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Survey results show that more than 80% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

With the pervasive internet, and global social networks, it’s easy to be visible and connect to your customers, and they expect it. Business leaders with wide relationships are able to more quickly find and close on alliances to fill gaps in their product line, increase distribution, and reduce costs through common components.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Put yourself on the site. They will exit quickly.

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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. Social Has Been a Tale of One Coast. The city I call home, Boston, is not known for its social products. 1 Hacker Way.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. Don't scare off your prey.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Being a business owner can be overwhelming what with staffing, product, and customer service to worry about. So invest in some professionally branded and consistent photos from a digital marketing agency to make your public relations, social network branding, and SEO tasks easier.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Take a look at your social networks. If you want to launch an influencer campaign, you need to have social media accounts. And before launching any campaigns, you should make sure your social networks are up-to-date and appropriately branded. First of all, which social network are you launching on?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

Integrate Your Content with Social Media. Using the most-trafficked social networks, you can place snippets of your content on Facebook, tags on Instagram or even turn an article into a video for YouTube. This can work out wonderfully for some businesses; it really just depends on what service or product you offer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Marketing generally includes advertising a company or products via media and other sources. However, the procedures vary from time to time, depending upon the latest practiced marketing strategies, the audience, and the products’ specifications. However, the advertisement type can be custom-made to your business requirements.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

The integration of AI and generative AI is radically transforming how consumers interact with technology, potentially leading to a wave of innovative products and services. The potential is HUGE. Take a look at the summary in gallery below. I’ve seen many founders that don’t have a CTO and outsourced development.

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