Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Project your costs as diligently as your revenues. On the other hand, if your solution is aimed at boomers or requires in-depth technical knowledge, crowdfunding may be futile. Keep all IP details close to the vest. Several crowdfunding successes have failed as a business. Be extra careful with your intellectual property.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They understand current marketing trends like digital media landscape shifts or customer preferences evolution because they work with various clients across sectors concurrently. Tech Savvy The digital landscape evolves rapidly; therefore it’s crucial for fractional CMOs to stay ahead of the curve. But what exactly sets them apart?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 1, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Tech Start-Ups Struggle With Followup Fund-Raising – [link]. 10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups - [link]. How to Hire a Graphic Designer – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2020

Oftentimes when people think of video marketing, they think of social media content. Testimonials, reviews, and case studies all play a similar role in the lead nurturing process. Of course, you have a vested interest in selling your business as the best business out there in your field. Client Testimonials.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. So did the media. Then came blogs.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

They can pour through the pages of your website, read reviews from existing customers to glean the unvarnished truth about your business, and peek at your social media presence to get a better sense of your personality. You can get great results in sales with low-tech personalization, too. In fact, the U.S.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. Self-Awareness will conclude this list for today.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. For technology entrepreneurs, we need to encourage them to understand the lean startup methodology, as a means to help them validate their assumptions.

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The Next Web

JUNE 21, 2015

I felt like I read about their experiment with vested interest – personally, I could not imagine how a company could run with no managers. Suggested by: Crystal Richard , Director of PR @ Onboardly Media. “My Read Next: Mark Zuckerberg’s year of books: Michael Suk-Young Chwe’s ‘Rational Ritual’ review. What’s on your Kindle?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. Technology Cycles Measured in Years. This seems to be occurring more and more.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

BRIC nations especially are innovating and creating new technology platforms, while the west holds onto fossil fuel era. Mass media, top 40, stadium ethic and the horrible idea of the Grand Prix is out dated. It is being reborn now that media is interactive and not passive. This has flipped with the rise of social facilitation.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

First of all, the long-term woes of the stock market have been under-reported because there really isn’t anyone that has a vested interest in pointing it out. And even better, the same technological trends that have made public market investing so difficult in the last 10 years have made startup (i.e. angel) investing easier.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 11, 2007

After doing some diligence, I found ClubPenguin , created my own penguin, and discovered that it is basically like second life for kids – a virtual world of penguins designed for kids to interact in a safe manner. Being a technology VC, I would be a complete hypocrite if I did not let my children try these services.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally. The ingredients are all here.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The ultimate irony is that when we later sold the Company for a substantial amount of money, it was discovered during due diligence that the prestigiously inept firm (whose name rhymes with a type of pasta) screwed up a basic corporate filing. We are in Nashville which is not tech friendly. Consultant. Our goal is to get to CA.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. Go vest yourself. We focused too much on technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good & useful post for entrepreneurs about founder stock vesting & things to consider – [link]. PR people continue to struggle with social media – [link].

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 26, 2014

For example, we have articles that rank very well on the topics of value propositions , customer lifetime value , customer personas & social media marketing. … A page that would be technically easy may have many stakeholders or vested interests that can cause barriers. I’m looking at you, home page.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2017

One, and from a content perspective the firm I work with Relationship One is a marketing, technology services company and we focus pretty much exclusively on the oracle marketing cloud suite of solutions so — and my background before joining this firm, I was with Eloqua which is kind of the crown jewel of the oracle marketing cloud.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Eric Ries : You're not like a lot of other tech folks. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. Eric Ries : And pretty unusual among tech platforms, if we're being honest. That's not usually the way that tech companies have thought about people they derisively call users.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

It’s pretty easy to forget how much a new technology changes our lives once it’s adopted. Sure, some new technologies are like shooting stars, but some change everything forever. The problem was this created a dangerous idolatry of any innovation big tech companies launched at us.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Startups are guided through the closing by inputting information such as investors, the amount invested, how much is being raised in total, vesting schedules and more. While startups may still want to have a lawyer look at the documents for review, the costs will be minimal (a few thousand dollars vs. the amount mentioned above).

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