Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

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Engineer Entrepreneur Offshore Merger 219

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Personal relationships do count.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

These sites are often highly ranked in search engine results because they are heavily linked. In fact, damage to reputation and brand has moved up to #4 from #6 in the Top 10 risks identified in Aon''s 2013 Global Risk Management Risk Ranking , moving ahead of business interruption and failure to innovate to meet customer needs in 2011.

Reputation 248

Reputation Affiliate Technical Review Social Network 248

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Personal relationships do count.

Silicon Valley 256

Silicon Valley Las Vegas Phoenix Montana 256

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2023

Use your favorite search engine and keywords describing your solution to find online sales reports, trade association statistics, and online newsletters with the latest statistics. Pay particular attention to the titles discussing the latest issues having big opportunities, like alternative energy, global warming, and technology trends.

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SBA Venture Capital Business Plan Social Media 300

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Elon Musk is a South African born Canadian-American engineer, business magnate, investor, and inventor who founded and built PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors, and is still going strong.

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Technology Entrepreneur Social Network Networking 328

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. TikTok is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups.

Social Media 352

Social Media Media Viral Audience 352

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. I’ve heard all the excuses for not stepping up to this requirement - like I don’t have the time, skills, or money.

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Web Viral Naming Internet 349

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In a recent Deloitte Review of “ Diversity as an Engine of Innovation ” executives were asked about the connection between diversity and company performance, and 90 percent agreed it was critical. In reality, diversity in a startup can be your big competitive advantage.

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Advisory Board Silicon Valley Startup United States 228

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2020

Use your favorite search engine and keywords describing your solution to find online sales reports, trade association statistics, and online newsletters with the latest statistics. Pay particular attention to the titles discussing the latest issues having big opportunities, like alternative energy, global warming, and technology trends.

Business Plan 393

Business Plan Marketing SBA Venture Capital 393

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Personal relationships do count.

Las Vegas 120

Las Vegas Silicon Valley Phoenix Montana 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Artificial Inteligence 315

Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups.

Social Media 238

Social Media Media Viral Audience 238

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Use your favorite search engine and keywords describing your solution to find online sales reports, trade association statistics, and online newsletters with the latest statistics. Pay particular attention to the titles discussing the latest issues having big opportunities, like alternative energy, global warming, and technology trends.

Marketing 219

Marketing SBA Venture Capital Business Plan 219

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. People like to complain about global warming and the plastics pollution problem, but they may not be ready to buy alternative energy at twice the price, or change bad habits for global gain.

Technical Review 391

Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 391

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. I’ve heard all the excuses for not stepping up to this requirement - like I don’t have the time, skills, or money.

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Viral Web Naming Internet 191

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2017

The cost of entry is at an all-time low, working from home through an Internet website seen globally, turning a hobby or an invention into an online business. All marketing costs money, including viral marketing, search engine optimization, click-through, and social media support. Having a website won’t help if customers can’t find it.

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Cost Social Media Startup Viral 144

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Your foreign market website will be more successful in local search engines if it uses the appropriate country domain and is hosted on servers within your target region. This will allow more effective search engine optimization within foreign markets. For example, a website aimed at the German market should have a.de domain name (e.g.

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Affiliate Marketing Social Media Germany 223

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Elon Musk is a South African born Canadian-American engineer, business magnate, investor, and inventor who founded and built PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors, and is still going strong.

Entrepreneur 141

Entrepreneur Social Network Networking Global 141

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Here is my summary and interpretation of the ten strategies that he outlines for driving the disruptive innovations that entrepreneurs and startups all dream about: Establish the engine of leadership. These are about being true, honest, and teaming with others, inside and outside the company.

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Leadership Global Employee Engineer 162

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

Use your favorite search engine and keywords describing your solution to find online sales reports, trade association statistics and online newsletters with the latest statistics. Pay particular attention to the titles discussing the latest big opportunities, such as alternative energy, global warming and technology trends.

Entrepreneur 244

Entrepreneur Marketing SBA Venture Capital 244

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups.

Social Media 161

Social Media Media Viral Audience 161

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2014

Here is my summary and interpretation of the ten processes that he outlines as key to driving the disruptive innovations that entrepreneurs and startups all dream about: Establish the engine of leadership (trust). These are about being true, honest, and authentic with others, inside and outside the company.

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Leadership Global Employee Entrepreneur 266

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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North America Incubator Initial Public Offering Exit Strategy 320

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

If you need part-time engineers to build a prototype, you can always find high-caliber grad students with the latest theory ready to work. Other engineering departments at ASU often provide grad students to build prototypes, and even venture funding for certain projects. Finding a team.

Phoenix 235

Phoenix Intellectual Property Arizona Incubator 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business.

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Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 255

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2013

These sites are often highly ranked in search engine results because they are heavily linked. In fact, damage to reputation and brand has moved up to #4 from #6 in the Top 10 risks identified in Aon's 2011 Global Risk Management Risk Ranking , moving ahead of business interruption and failure to innovate to meet customer needs.

Reputation 223

Reputation Customer Affiliate Internet 223

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

When globalization or technology shrinks distances (Internet), painful missing needs become evident, and opportunities abound. The impact of global instability. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new user interfaces, or a new search engine. When the world gets smaller. Truly “disruptive” technologies.

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Haiti Iceland Chile Startup 207

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2012

There you can sell your products and services 24 hours per day, seven days a week, on a global basis. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Make money whether you are working or sleeping. E-commerce on the Internet is a good example of this.

Bandwidth 236

Bandwidth Bootstrapping Equity Startup 236

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. I’ve heard all the excuses for not stepping up to this requirement - like I don’t have the time, skills, or money.

Internet 247

Internet Viral Naming Web 247

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective. Target a global market rather than a local from day one.

Global 345

Global Silicon Valley Marketing Indonesia 345

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2016

Use your favorite search engine and keywords describing your solution to find online sales reports, trade association statistics, and online newsletters with the latest statistics. Pay particular attention to the titles discussing the latest issues having big opportunities, like alternative energy, global warming, and technology trends.

Marketing 120

Marketing SBA Startup Venture Capital 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. I’ve heard all the excuses for not stepping up to this requirement - like I don’t have the time, skills, or money.

Viral 120

Viral Internet Web Naming 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2011

Ethanol can be mixed with gasoline to minimize engine changes. There is overlap between this category and the green category, as it relates to global warming and environmental impact. Ethanol is derived from agricultural products, including corn, wheat, fruit, wine, and various kinds of cellulose stalks and wood chips.

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Green Venture Capital Differentiation Technology 235

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2011

There you can sell your products and services 24 hours per day, seven days a week, on a global basis. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Make money whether you are working or sleeping. E-commerce on the Internet is a good example of this.

Entrepreneur 233

Entrepreneur Bandwidth Equity Bootstrapping 233

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2015

If done well, this will get you a wealth of positive comments, as well as provide real “Google juice” to push negative content out of view on any search engine results. Blogging is an ideal way to express your positive values, show your expertise and establish yourself as an influencer.

Reputation 120

Reputation Lead Generation Social Media Internet 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235