Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Don’t be shy about networking for advisors with business experience for coaching and mentoring. If you will need to supplement your own funds and assets for your business, don’t wait for a crisis to enlist family, friends, angel investors, or start a crowdfunding campaign. The ability to pivot quickly is a key to success.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. In terms of monetization, Vin expects the ad networks to supply ads to his site by selling ads to local restaurants. That sounds great. Suresh is a 1M/1M premium member.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. Moreover, only 13% of these successful campaigns raised over $20k. Taking a campaign online and encouraging non-accredited investors to use a crowdfunding platform is a great way to show their support, manage the volume, and market your business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. If you can’t see the video of the Helmsman team presenting click here. If you can’t see the Helmsman slides click here. He runs H4X Labs.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In the past few years just about every country with a high-speed network and a national budget has hatched a “startup ecosystem.” From [link] to the Silicon Taiga , these programs offer entrepreneurs funding, infrastructure and support in an effort to lure a critical mass of promising young companies and spawn the next Silicon Valley.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. cities flocking to these machines, downloading apps for each network, and paying just a few bucks to get from Point A to B.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. Facebook makes it official — an external advertising network is coming soon | Gigaom – [link].

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. And, when compared to Silicon Valley, those bars get higher to meet (with the resources from this market…).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – [link]. Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – [link].

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Social networking is a very important marketing channel at some startups – [link]. So much excess in hiring by Silicon Valley startups. Amazon’s secret $90 million ad campaign – [link]. Nearly 50% of surveyed retail shoppers use social networks – [link]. Ad Networks Next?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

I worked with an entrepreneur who was to appear at a startup networking event where he was to talk about his company’s plans. The corollary is that it is very hard to recover from a crappy marketing campaign that over-hyped. I haven’t heard them pounding their chest and running big marketing campaigns.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

A marketplace is not often a natural hangout, and relies on a barrage of emails, offers and marketing campaigns to get you to remember to go back to check out the site or app. “In The non-monetary motivator can be especially significant in expert networks, where one’s professional reputation is at stake.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Thus began my marketing campaign. As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions. So there you have it.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Clients include Pepsi, Sony, CNN, Universal, AT&T, Victoria’s Secret and Facebook, which has used the service for multiple campaigns.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. We both loved this company (and lamented the fact that we weren’t investors since they were founded in LA before relocating to Silicon Valley). Total raised: $29.5mm. Total Raised: $17.7mm.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2018

“Every company is a media company,” Tom Foremski, ex-FT journalist and the editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, said a decade ago. Commercial: business naming, slogans, commercial campaigns, public relations, advertorials. To start building your client base: Use your personal network.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). “Silicon Valley” (see Note 2) is hardly alone in this urbanization of startups trend. April 13, 2012. I was back in the SF Bay Area last week for a bit of work and a bit of fun.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

Matt, Jeff, and I believed that there was an opportunity to bring market dynamics and workflow automation to the freight markets…better visibility into prices, access to a broader network of providers, eliminating the human error component in order entry, etc. Can you share an overview of what you discovered?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Come network with your friends and share your secret parties, plan your conference sessions, and discuss whose undiscovered indy band is cooler. Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

Both mobile applications lets you share food photos with your online networks, but work somewhat differently. The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. Burping An Idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

Both mobile applications lets you share food photos with your online networks, but work somewhat differently. The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. Burping An Idea.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

But once again, Brian and his team showed a remarkable ability to adapt, and they did so in a way that preserved the health of the entire network of Airbnb. I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. If you want to see startups in the Concierge phase, follow what happens after a Kickstarter campaigns get successfully funded.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Let me know what “stuff&# is old, and I’ll update it. steve Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Order Here. For International Orders Now In Print!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council. She hosts technical and networking events for developers and designers in Austin and also facilitate partnerships with local tech companies. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

Or on a sales campaign you’ve finally gotten your project sponsor to take you to the “executive committee&# where decisions are made and budgets are agreed. If one vocal person blurts out, “just give us the details, we all know social networking&# don’t assume that person speaks for the entire room.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. Run an Adwords campaign targeting keywords that are relevant to your idea – make sure to set up conversion tracking or the whole exercise is pointless. You’re solving a problem!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

As you become a large, open network for referral traffic your long-term strategic value goes up. The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies. So we value things like &# referral traffic&# much less.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. I went to excellent public schools (so-called science magnets) that had computer classes, which meant they had networked computers that I could use. Ill explain in a moment.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Look, one thing that everyone tends to do (in the whole cult of culture in Silicon Valley) is to establish one and then you stay there, almost like the 10 commandments. Because that’s something that we all in Silicon Valley [need to do]. Again, you know, we don’t have it perfect. RH: Yeah, totally agree. Culture evolves.”

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