Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In this age of millennials and social media, individual workers are more driven by the greater good, work-life balance, and peer culture, than by organizational pressures. Outside contracts and freelancing rapidly dilute everyone’s focus on the higher company mission and purpose. They also look ahead to forecast what you should expect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

In fact, they may fear team leadership as a burden, or a potential dilution of their ownership. Even the best solutions these days need to be marketed on multiple platforms, including online, social media, and the proper industry and customer channels for customer geographies. Master of multi-platform communication and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2021

Yet every change can cause brand dilution or competition you don’t need. Pay close attention to social media and online feedback, and never respond defensively. Evaluate the brand impact of proposed market moves. The push is always on to grow your market with new geographies, new products, and new market segments.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2012

When not approached carefully, growth can destroy value as it outstrips a company’s managerial capacity, processes, quality, and financial controls, or substantially dilutes customer value propositions. Growth can dilute a business’s culture and customer value proposition and put the business in a different competitive space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Successful entrepreneurs start early building their own brand through social media, industry forums, scheduled events, book publishing, and speaking engagements. The focus is diluted, it’s hard to keep up with individual product changes, and you will always be on the defensive. Clear product differentiation and a singular focus.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

Social media is obviously one of the most powerful marketing tools we have at our disposal and it is becoming a non-optional part of a strong marketing strategy. Last year, we witnessed a significant advancement in social media marketing which proved to be quite beneficial for the majority of businesses and corporations in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. avoid being diluted). But it is. So know that going in.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 25, 2021

But existing shareholders are not happy with the company’s proposed plan to issue $500 million in new shares as it would only dilute its current float. You should focus on making your startup irresistible to investors without opting for a dilutive capital raise. Understand market share .

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Even if the other business does not have a registered trademark, they may still be able to sue you for unfair competition or dilution of their brand. Don’t forget that in the age of social media and the internet, many customers search for businesses by typing names into a search engine.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

In the Ad Tech world PS revenue often means providing “media services” as a value-add to using your product. It also is a great way to finance your business without facing dilution before you actually raise venture capital and when the valuation you might get from angels is less than you’d want. rollout support.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Anyone active on Facebook, Twitter, or the likes will have seen at least one social media crisis unfold. Social media is your friend, despite what happened. Use your own social media channels to get your message out in any way that best helps give your side of the story. Entrepreneur Social Media How-To''s'

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

With major investors, your equity and return is diluted and delayed. In my experience, the costs and risks of a lifestyle business continue to come down, as websites, social media, smartphone apps, open source tools, and customers via the Internet become more and more the norm. Use flexibility to match your lifestyle.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2023

Even if the other business does not have a registered trademark, they may still be able to sue you for unfair competition or dilution of their brand. Don’t forget that in the age of social media and the internet, many customers search for businesses by typing names into a search engine.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 5, 2013

When it comes to social media, though, I try hard to learn from mistakes since they’re all saved for me to reflect on. Plus, I research and write about social media enough to have access to stats that make it easier to pick up and rectify these kind of mistakes. Measurement overwhelm – Don’t measure every social media metric you can.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Funding is not an indicator of success, irrespective of the impression that you might get from the news and media. Participating and winning Startup competitions can also help you to accumulate some funds along with gaining some credentials and as well as getting some media mentions. Funding is just a stepping stone.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

Make sure you have links in the media to spread your message. If you are getting funded for the first time, which means that you have not diluted the shares of your company, you will be receiving Series A funding. It will be in millions and you will have to dilute your shares even further if you are aiming for another funding round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

For example, every business needs a company name and logo, incorporation, an Internet domain name and website, social media accounts, prototypes, intellectual property, and key executive positions filled. Dilution of focus kills too many small businesses, as they try to attract more customers and counter more competitors.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

The ability of social media to help you get escape velocity is great, but it cuts both ways. You get dilution sensitive and you start optimizing on price of a financing deal, versus finding the right partners or raising enough money to grow. It is easier to start something now than ever before.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. The key is making sure the second close isn’t too high (I think 50% of X sounds about right) because you’ll be adding on that dilution to yourself & “X&# investors will own less of the company. Photo credit: D.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

These examples range from media companies (NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian) to financial institutions (PayPal, E-Trade) to social media sites (Twitter, LinkedIn). There are countless examples of companies who have made similar pivots to refocus their API attention towards supporting the company’s primary business objectives.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

And it's somewhere between a hundred billion to 700 billion, which is depending on how you define those people that are within it, but it's growing every day, obviously with the advent of social media. But what the dilution, if you bring it down to it that even creator entertainers and educators have in common is it's this human element.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

So when founders lose focus, they dilute their power and effectiveness, which diffuses the force of their impact. The most valuable resource a founder has is his/her time and energy. Every hour of the founder’s day and every decision that is made needs to have as big an impact as possible.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 16, 2023

Anyone can make a reel or post a graphic on social media. But, your messaging will be diluted if you are trying to speak to many needs. (It increases your small business revenue by leaps and bounds too.). Thought sharing is serving. And I think we all want to do that. That doesn’t quite deem you as an expert though.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2017

Social Media is often touted as a fix-all marketing wonder channel. Justin Sachs of the Young Entrepreneur Council points out: One of the best features social media marketing has for businesses today is its low barrier to entry. But, like any other channel, social media is only as useful as the strategy behind it.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Some social media platforms allow people to follow hashtags. If so, feature those products or services and create a stronger social media following by giving them their own hashtag. They worked because they capitalized on the social nature of social media and related back to their brand in a natural way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 20, 2010

You can now watch all three of the content videos here (this is my affiliate link, but you don’t have to buy anything – I strongly recommend you watch the first video, it’s good stuff – especially in the second half, which changed my mindset about social media) – Social Profit Formula Videos from Don Crowther.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Either way, if you know you’re going to fail, it’s much better to do so with your own money on the line than money that also costs you in dilution, perpetuity or more. Not necessarily the entire business, but at some point, something will fail and you’ll either learn from it and grow or it will be the beginning of the end.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

You always need a budget for marketing, but don’t spread it evenly or randomly across digital media, social media, direct, and traditional channels. If you listen to everyone, and take money from everyone, your focus will be diluted to the point that you won’t be able to satisfy anyone, especially customers.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

And while the internet created both tremendous reward and tremendous investment carnage leading up to and after the 2000 tech bubble, it’s created long run disruption of broad sectors of media, advertising, business software & computing, and retail commerce and VCs that missed this shift have faced real struggles.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

A question I have is why is there no anti-dilution protection for the investor? I have a hard time believing an early investor wouldn't inset some anti-dilution provision. To make it clear, I don't have any problem with anti-dilution generally speaking and it is both standard and appropriate in a full blown Series A.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

If you like this kind of advice, check out my coverage of a talk by Paul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media, titled " Investing in Your Influencers. ". At this stage, the founders pay for the dilution of the shares and the funders will take 20 to 25% of the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

Is your crappy little 12-person company really worth they and their shareholders diluting by 2% given more than a decade they’ve put in building one of the Internet’s most solid business social networks? You just said, “nobody would take 1-2% dilution.” They’re worth $11 billion as of today. Hang on, Mark.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2014

From image carousels to social media logins, trends spread like wildfire in the eCommerce industry. They dilute the focus of the page if you have different promotional offers on each slide. But, have you ever stopped to question the business implications of following these trends? But that logic is flawed.

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Up and Running

MAY 27, 2014

Is the investor asking for a non-dilution clause (a stipulation that their equity shares never dilute) in your operating agreement? (No Every time an investment is made, everyone dilutes!). Is the investor asking for an equity stake that does not fairly correlate with the amount of money they are giving you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2014

Successful entrepreneurs start early building their own brand through social media, industry forums, scheduled events, book publishing, and speaking engagements. The focus is diluted, it’s hard to keep up with individual product changes, and you will always be on the defensive. Clear product differentiation and a singular focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2013

This morning I was reading my social media and came across an article that Christine Tsai had posted on Facebook. Given the brand dilution going on with the name Sriracha how can he still grow his business? This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. If you don’t like it hot, use less,” he said. That crazy rooster.

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