Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

They need to see results in the form of sponsored events, social media, and feedback from influencers and customers that your mission is more than the low-cost producer. Today, scaling an existing business in a large interconnected environment is generally easier than growing a disparate portfolio.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2017

Business intelligence (BI) is the gateway for achieving greater agility. Agility in this sense means the flexibility to make more informed decisions based on a diverse array of data outlining consumer patterns and purchasing behavior. by Dan McCarthy, event manager for Venueseeker. Poor data integration leads to poor overall data.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 14, 2020

Social Media is the first point of contact for many. You can hire someone based on their online portfolio, you can send them the materials via the cloud, they can edit documents in real-time, and when the job is done – you can pay them immediately online. Real-time messaging is becoming more prevalent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

The future of social media and 3D interaction is the biggest priority to Facebook. The large corporates might invest billions, but startups have the benefit of speed, agility and courage to innovate. There are now 2.8B monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020.

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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. Third, smart companies manage an innovation portfolio where they can pursue potential disruption in a variety of ways. Act Like a Startup.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Social Media. Social Media. When we launched The Muse , the result was the opposite — nearly 25% of the people who visited our site shared it with someone else via social media!" — Kathryn Minshew , Founder/CEO, The Muse. Not Embracing Agility. "If Follow @mashable. see more > Search.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

This platform is so much more than a social media tool, it’s your online business card and, thanks to recent additions—like the new publishing platform—a potential stand-in for a personal website. If multiple employees are active on social media within your company, this is also a good way to keep an eye on what they’re saying.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Your portfolio of businesses is all over the map. And I think they have to move very agile. I mean, it's like everybody's into technology or social media or whatever the thing of the day is, and then all of a sudden direct mail works better than ever. But that is people. I mean, that's what it is. It happens so often.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

But if you want to be an agile, nimble competitor, it is a discussion you have to have. One of my most retweeted quotes about social media goes like this: "Social media is like teen sex. An optimal inbound marketing portfolio will have balanced Owned, Paid and Earned channels.]. The debate is important.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 30, 2013

For example, Hootsuite started as a free Twitter tool for small/medium business and casual users; it’s now a social media dashboard serving Fortune 500 companies like Seagate and Pepsico. Smaller businesses are far more agile when it comes to purchasing and deploying a new technology than Fortune 500 companies.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

But as social media continues to pervade businesses large and small, and purchase decisions increasingly happen at the user level (see #2) we will see dramatically more customer acquisition happen via the web. RentJuice is doing much the same in real estate software.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Then there is Agile for engineering. For example, they don't account for a smart company's ability to form relationships at scale via mobile, social platforms with past, current, and, most importantly, future customers. But most of the frameworks available to us solve for divisional silos. And really the list is too long.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Do this experiment: Make a list of the new digital technologies (AI, Social Media, Internet of Things, Robotics). Then, make a list next to it of your existing products and IP portfolio. Ask yourself, what could be combined, from your existing portfolio, with those new digital capabilities?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. CVSDude (svn).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! How To Avoid Agility. Portfolio Design Tips and Examples – Design Milk crowdspring.co/1KQ07Em. Paging Buff Design Snobs!

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Brandanew

JULY 9, 2015

We have all met those that call themselves “storytellers” and “content experts” and do not understand a thing about Content Marketing / SEO or social media. The easiest way to understand whether or not you have found the right experts is to check their portfolio of work.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2010

These channels span traditional outlets such as storefronts and catalogs and newer outlets including all forms of eCommerce and social media. Coremetrics’ offerings are a new addition to IBM’s business analytics portfolio.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We have to do Social Media. Smart Marketers work hard to ensure that their digital marketing and advertising efforts are focused on the most impactful portfolio of channels. The company truly has a portfolio strategy when it comes to marketing. Are controlled experiments a part of your marketing and analytics portfolio?

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 10, 2011

5: Embrace agility, nimbleness & a portfolio strategy. It is critical to develop an internal ability (and fortitude) to be agile and nimble. Aggregation of marginal gains! Don't get suckered into the impossible. Not because being ambitious is bad, but because putting points on the board matters a lot. #5:

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

All while constantly optimizing your portfolio via controlled experiments. The web demands immense agility and flexibility from every company. Why not go from trying to have a Gatorade ad on every TV sports event in the hopes that I'm watching to doing that plus doing social media right and have a direct relationship with me?

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