Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

As a public company executive, your management style, and even your personal life, is subject to extensive scrutiny by stock analysts and stockholders. Private companies typically have an internal board of friendly owners, unlikely to be pressured by the media to consider an unfriendly tender offer from another major player in the market.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Thanks to Tom La Vecchia, X Factor Media ! #2 Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. On the 4th of July, 2015, I shared my vision with Erin. Image Credit: Natalie Harper.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Now, jump to 2015: according to a study published by VentureBeat last year , 77% of “digital natives” (roughly, generation Y and a huge part of X) expect their online experience to be personalized. While in the media, the words recommendations and personalization are pretty much used interchangeably, they’re not at all the same thing.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Think; custom stock photography. The only difference is, our high-quality content is shot by the leading social media creators, crowd-sourced from around the globe, at a fraction of the cost a client would traditionally pay. This is a paid media buy on Facebook or Instagram through the influencers’ accounts vs. a brand’s account.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). 2021 Tech Trends: Israel is winning the global race for tech funding. Part of a global trend. Records were broken globally as well, both in terms of funding and number of unicorns. To put things in context: startup fundraising 2021 Global: $643 billion ??US:

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2016

As for 2015, the number of its users reached the 6 million point. Their website provides stock market information, business news, useful article – and it all looks just perfect, thanks to Rails. This ad-supported streaming service provides its users with movies, clips, TV shows and other streaming media. Couchsurfing.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

You have visits that you assume from clicks through social media. What is our plan for social media? That generates what I call ownership, that isn’t shares and stocks, but caring about your part of the business, your functions, your tasks. That was from the 80s and early 90s, we’re in 2015. Can I do it?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 6, 2016

This type of technology allows even small startups to perform on the global stage in a way that has never been seen or even imagined before now. A 2015 survey conducted by Virgin Media Business predicted that 60 percent of office-based workers will regularly work from home by 2022. The workforce goes virtual.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2015, McKinsey did a study of average corporate lifespans on the S&P 500. And today, the rate of global change is so rapid that even these four year-old estimations are optimistic. As a company grows, corporate leaders must become fixated on the stock price, internal politics and compliance.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

I lost my mom to metastatic breast cancer in 2015. Eric Ries : But I do remember, and correct me if I've got this wrong, but that in 1918, in the last global pandemic that has any kind of resonance with this, it was the second strain of the virus that was more deadly. Please share it on social media. Eric Ries : I'm sorry.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It’s like blaming the media for incessantly covering Donald Trump and then watching the ratings when Donald Trump is at a debate and being surprised that the media gives him so much coverage. But when you fast-forward 1 year to 2015 5 out of 7 were down rounds. None of these. It’s just a market. Markets are markets.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Currently located in the historic Southern Pacific building at One Market Street, Salesforce has plans to occupy a twenty-seven-floor tower at 350 Mission across from the new Transbay Terminal in 2015. But its stock is trading at twenty-odd times the company’s annual sales.” A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

He was the White House Ebola Response Coordinator in 2014 and 2015, when the Obama administration set up a pandemic prevention office and created a playbook for managing future outbreaks. The media, our leaders, people on social media keep mentioning this idea, as if we've never seen anything like this before.

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