Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

In the entrepreneur world, your perception is equally critical, except the “managers” in this world are your investors, customers, vendors, business partners, and team members. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners. Your personal life is now public.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Ad.ly – (disclosure: I led the funding on Ad.ly) Provides an in-stream advertising platform for any content creator (individual or organization) with an online social presence. . Rumored to be appox.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Network Effect B2B. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

You’ve found a VC partner or principal who has invited you to the Monday partners’ meeting. You come into a meeting where your sponsor (the person who invited you to present to the partners) knows a lot about you and the rest of the room may have varying degrees of knowledge. Congratulations. Happy to do that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In the entrepreneur world, your perception is equally critical, except the “managers” in this world are your investors, customers, vendors, business partners, and team members. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners. Your personal life is now public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. If you have neither, you better have a prospect pipeline, connections to distributors, or partner relationship with a known company to bolster your credibility. Show personal investment.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2017

by Julia Kravchenko, partner and VP of HR at Qubit Labs. The second issue is a social network API. At first, it seems to be a piece of cake, but IRL it takes a week to develop such an integration because popular social networks servers follow their own principles. Why don’t we make an app?”.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Are there other founders, business leaders, partners, or administrators? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. If you have neither, you better have a prospect pipeline, connections to distributors, or partner relationship with a known company to bolster your credibility. Show personal investment.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. If you have neither, you better have a prospect pipeline, connections to distributors, or partner relationship with a known company to bolster your credibility. Show personal investment.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Find customers, partners and channels early. There is nothing like a real customer pipeline to convince you that you need partners and channels, and to convince partners, channels, and investors that you are real. Use social networking to start the wave. Get out there personally and find that first customer.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites. to get hard-earned information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. If you have neither, you better have a prospect pipeline, connections to distributors, or partner relationship with a known company to bolster your credibility. Show personal investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

In fact, their affiliate partners dissuaded them from doing so. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. Google had huge destination traffic. uh, hello!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Investment firms specialize by business sectors, and each partner within the firm has a specialty. Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal. Identify the right people in the right venture firms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Remember “ The Social Network ” movie about Facebook? Moral: Before you decide that it’s absolutely necessary to take outside investment, explore all the possible ways you can partner, outsource, affiliate, collaborate, or…heaven forbid, get customers. Remember what happened to the alleged co-founders when Peter Thiel came in?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. I introduced my partners, we spent weeks with the team and felt good rapport. This article was originally published on TechCrunch.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

We have partnered with existing developer communities, including academic communities to offer developer days and workshops. Top five categories over the last two years: 1) Games; 2) Utilities; 3) Themes; 4) Entertainment; 5) IM & Social Networking.

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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. Quantity no longer matters as much; so don’t waste too much time finding low-value sites as backlink partners.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect the social web with the corporate wallet.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

kelkelly : Founder and CEO of Kel & Partners Kel Kelly discusses what it’s like to run an anti-agency agency that works in social media. Ischaefer : Deep Focus CEO Ian Schaefer loves to tweet about branding and advertising, especially in social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In Hulu it is each individual studio / network wanting to push their own stuff direct rather than through Hulu. I might talk openly about how Hulu is my partner, while simultaneously launching an iPad player before hulu does (as ABC did) – even when I’m a shareholder.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Things like winning startup competitions, getting selected to a startup incubator, partnering with a large company, are all good ways to show traction and some proof that you’re creating value. Social networking is so last year. Good examples include: Ycombinator, Techstars, Startup health and Rock health.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. " In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The growth of social networking, the spread of mobile devices, and the advances in the use of cloud computing have changed how people consume content from the news and media industry. This layer makes it possible for fast-moving and new applications to sit on secure and stable enterprise systems alongside partner integrations.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2025

We hired a strong mid-market banker, Lightning Partners to help us with the process and got an introduction to Bending Spoons in April of 2024. At the time, there were dozens of smallish social networks and community sites. Its just important not to overly rely on a partners current business model in a fast evolving ecosystem.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Let me tell you a story,” began Jim Palmer, a partner with e-learning developers LeanForward. An in-depth audit tackles two key sources for knowledge retention: The decision-making process; Internal social networks. Internal social networks. Internal social networks are often overlooked during knowledge audits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2018

In the entrepreneur world, your perception is equally critical, except the “managers” in this world are your investors, customers, vendors, business partners, and team members. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners. Your personal life is now public.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2011

Young Upstarts is a Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia and Apps World Asia 2011 media partner. If you are buying the passes, use the code: YUS15 for a 15-percent discount. We’ll see you there.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

Since its founding in 2006, online social network and microblogging service Twitter has pretty much become a permanent part of the Internet as we know it. Stone details how he and his partner Livia (and the later, his wife) lived pretty much hand-to-mouth during the early days of Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

Want meet one of his key investors, USV partner Albert Wenger ? It has to do with the future of social networking. I couldn’t have said it any better replacing music with tech. Want to hang out with Dennis Crowley ? He was there in the Pepsi pavillion playing actual FourSquare with anybody who wanted. He was there, too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word friend and even changed it from a noun to a verb. You need business partners, investors and customers. Social networking friends have real business value. You can’t start a business with friends alone.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

by Keith Tully , a partner at business rescue specialists Real Business Rescue. Social networking sites. Keith Tully is a partner at business rescue specialists Real Business Rescue , he has worked in the industry for over 20 years helping companies, directors and creditors across all manner of business issues.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. " In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

One really great experience was a discussion I had with the camera rolling with my good friend Dmitry Shapiro who founded the major YouTube competitor of its time (Veoh) that was sued into oblivion by Universal and who also founded a social network designed to promote pseudonymity. The responses were super compassionate.

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