Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. That’s why investors look for entrepreneurs who have true grit, dogged persistence, and a disdain for the status quo. Innovate or die.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

With free coffee and Internet, workspaces, and built-in community, coworking spaces provide a great place to get things done without feeling the isolation of working at home, or trying to overcome the frenetic nature of working in a coffee shop. Dogs are welcome in this welcoming, casual coworking environment, too. Thinkspace.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Google trends data strongly suggests that content marketing is hot in the United States, but much less so elsewhere in the world. B2B marketers use numerous social networks to distribute content. Interestingly, when viewed over the past 90 days worldwide, this trend has softened quite a bit, as the below graph shows.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2014

In the United States, 58% of the population use at least one social network, and that number leaps to 98% for those aged 18 to 24 years old. And yet, I still have organizations or consultants tell me, “my customers aren’t really on social media.”. Your customers ARE on social media. Source: Rival IQ.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

If knowledge is power then every entrepreneurial startup should succeed because the information needed to do so is almost in plain sight, out there on the Internet. However, he was not the first to build a social network. In fact, surprisingly, there were hundreds of social networks before Facebook. But why there?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2019

What’s more, customers have more power to choose and probably change loyalty, and all this is facilitated by the advent of the internet. The good news is that you can also use the internet to create awareness and gain the trust of your customers. Studies show that social media has become a powerhouse of law firm brand presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2013

According to a recent MIT study , only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. That’s why investors look for entrepreneurs who have true grit, dogged persistence, and a disdain for the status quo. Find enough venturesome capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Where are the young social media users going? By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. That’s why investors look for entrepreneurs who have true grit, dogged persistence, and a disdain for the status quo. Innovate or die.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. Some precursors to the bubble happened when Chinese Internet companies listed on United States stock exchanges. No one doubts that social networks and web and mobile applications are reinventing commerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a recent MIT study , only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. That’s why investors look for entrepreneurs who have true grit, dogged persistence, and a disdain for the status quo. Find enough venturesome capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

High on my list is the joy and satisfaction of having helped many entrepreneurs face-to-face this year, and hopefully many more by my blog reaching out over the Internet. I published my first book this year, Do YOU Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur , and my following on the social networks now exceeds 275,000.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

This applies equally to B2B - 71 percent of enterprise purchase decisions in the United States begin with research conducted on a search engine. Even though social media and internet rule, customers make purchase decisions using a combination of old media, new media, and old-fashioned conversations with friends and family.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2011

Over 500 Groupon “copycat” websites have sprung up all over the Internet, taxing the already somewhat “faddish” demand for the daily deals site. So we are left with that sinking feeling that this whole social networking advertising space may be just one giant bubble waiting to burst….

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Additionally, Kauffman research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. Six out of 10 Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Other VCs use Klout * to identify relevant influencers who can evangelize their ideas and Contently * or Social Native (HOF Capital company) to create relevant content. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. 2) Raise capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

Additionally, Kauffman research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. Half of the Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, an 88 percent growth from the previous year.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2020

Consumers in the United States are estimated to receive an average of one million such ads per year. You know one only from seeing it on the Internet and the other has been recommended to you by several friends. Social networks, in this case, are used, above all, to disseminate and publicize these Sponsorships.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

It’s already coming close to saturating the limits of world Internet usage. For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The idea is to enable up to 10,000 people per year to enter the United States if they are here to found a company that will employ US citizens. Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network. I think the benefits are a no-brainer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Last year, only 50% of all small business in the United States had a website. But a blog or an active presence on a popular social network does present a great opportunity to provide your opinions about key issues relevant to your business and to build thought leadership. Do all small businesses need to have a website?

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

With the internet access available almost everywhere finding an investor, nowadays, is just a Google search away. It is important to get involved with different startup networks, conferences, and competitions. Here is a short list of conferences, competitions, and networks to check out for upcoming events.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Last year, only 50% of all small business in the United States had a website. But a blog or an active presence on a popular social network does present a great opportunity to provide your opinions about key issues relevant to your business and to build thought leadership. Do all small businesses need to have a website?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 16, 2011

Yet ten years later, in the United States they are little more than punchlines to mall cop jokes. The answer is simpler than you’d think: take time to unplug from your blog, email, social network, and business contacts. And to do that, we need to stay in touch with our non-KoolAid drinking targets. “How?&#

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 16, 2011

Yet ten years later, in the United States they are little more than punchlines to mall cop jokes. The answer is simpler than you’d think: take time to unplug from your blog, email, social network, and business contacts. And to do that, we need to stay in touch with our non-KoolAid drinking targets. “How?&#

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 23, 2010

And thanks to the age of the Internet, reaching a consumer directly and personalizing that experience has had a major revitalization. It would seem the Internet has been the best friend of the one-to-one marketer, but now is making one-to-one marketing less relevant on a daily basis. However, all that is changing rapidly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

The buzz on the Internet these days is that if you want traffic, your website better have video. They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). One large Internet information provider, comScore , says U.S. billion for the site in 2006.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Hulu is an online video distribution system owned by 3 of the largest 5 film & television suppliers in the United States with the goal of limiting the supply of high-quality online video available in order to defend high prices of the supply of this content on televisions through cable, satellite & broadcast TV.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

I want to know what Social Network people are coming from. Do notice the clever use of the filter (Social Source Referral Exact Yes) above. It was deeply frustrating to keep track of social networks (they come and go every day!). And if you have not, really, what are you doing on the Internet?)

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In the United States alone, we are registering 564,000 new small businesses every single month. That’s 2% of the United States population starting a company at any given time, and that’s just a mind boggling number for me. Jeremy Miller: There’s actually a naming drought. John Jantsch: Awesome.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Then there’s Nobu and the institution he has built through all of his restaurants in many different cities in the United States and maybe abroad. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. You take a more tacit approach. Why is that?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Beth Noveck (United States deputy chief technology officer for open government). The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic. The trend for social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is to expose their graph interfaces so new applications can automatically inspect and bring new value to undiscovered social patterns.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2011

One of the trends in Internet use today is the creation and consumption of video content. Already, there are over 2 billion daily views in YouTube alone, while online movie service Netflix accounts for over 30-percent of total Internet bandwidth in the United States during peak hours.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

Additionally, giving away smart outstanding products results info Free “Word of mouth” sharing in social networks which gives the brand additional impressions and exposure. And making people feel good about the brand is what matters most.

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