Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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. Raising money is difficult, even with the best idea, so don’t assume any entitlement to loans, grants, or seed funding.

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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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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Congratulations!

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

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. The Dropboxes and Instagrams of the world still flock to the original Silicon Valley. None has succeeded.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

One thing Vin said that I liked a lot is that the Malaysian government is spending heavily on tourism development campaigns, and Qyzzy may be able to become a part of that campaign. Should those entrepreneurs who have built their business elsewhere move to Silicon Valley to raise money? That sounds great.

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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]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Your Brand is What You Do – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail I had the privilege of volunteering for the Obama campaign in swing states for a few weekends during the final push towards victory. Im quite confident I got more out of the experience than the campaign got from me.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – [link]. “Silicon Valley loves to talk big about innovation; it’s just not as good at following through.” Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. Most of the technology industry is notoriously apolitical.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

So, so we campaign the largest OEMs who never call, but who could, if we could persuade the, make us in one swell foop? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. We must get established EDI companies and new SAAS B2B platform operators to adopt our EDI API, with all of its amazing advantages. Order Here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. In a sales campaign you always need to call as high as you can. I hear Silicon Valley firms bragging all the time about how often they release software. It taught me a lot of lessons.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. In a sales campaign you always need to call as high as you can. I hear Silicon Valley firms bragging all the time about how often they release software. It taught me a lot of lessons.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

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. So we’ve launched some campaigns to be sure we’re picking up these crowds with different messages.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Not just in the military, but also in Silicon Valley, where it dooms otherwise successful companies. Misinformation Warfare : Disinformation campaigns designed to influence large numbers of people in subtle ways will likely be a mainstay of future conflict. The third is a focus on technology as opposed to transfer.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. The $1,000 annual fee grants paying members unlimited usage of the service I have learnt a great deal being based in the heart of Silicon Valley for the last 15 years and having access to its inner circle. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. Not building marketing & sales integration processing and thus wasting millions in poor lead quality and misguided sales campaigns. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

And I think of it as a failure of Silicon Valley startups (and occasionally SV VCs who lack an understanding of enterprise purchasing) to assume you don’t need a sales process and sales reps. These all involve becoming part of a sales process. So the simplest rule in sales is … ask!

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I could not have predicted the painful 11 months of campaigning that would ensue after I bought those tickets. And again many times during this campaign. From 2006 to 2012, more than two-fifths of the start-up tech companies in Silicon Valley had at least one foreign-born founder, according to the Kauffman Foundation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

In the past few years, several of his video campaigns have amassed more than five billion views, and 35 of them have landed on the first page of YouTube. Tim Staples is the CEO of Shareability and co-author of Break Through the Noise: The 9 Rules to Capture Global Attention. Biggest takeaway: Today everybody has a megaphone.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

So much excess in hiring by Silicon Valley startups. Amazon’s secret $90 million ad campaign – [link]. Clever and Creative Sticker Advertising Campaigns – [link]. Clever and Creative Sticker Advertising Campaigns – [link]. Some frustrated workers quit in weird ways – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

The worst news : The worse news was what wasn’t said, less than 10% of our existing customers bought because of some proactive marketing campaign. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. We were losing money on every board we sold. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

For example, one of the first home grocery delivery companies, Webvan, was so enamored with early traction in Silicon Valley, it raised and spent nearly a billion dollars and went public, before filing for bankruptcy three years later. Suddenly you face new overhead, with hiring, office space, benefits, and new advertising campaigns.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

What is the best time to send email campaigns? What is the best time to send email campaigns? Don’t let Silicon Valley fool you—millenials are the least entrepreneurial generation | Quartz – [link]. What is the best time to send email campaigns? Great data – [link]. Great data – [link].

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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. Are we just at the beginning of massive, widespread hacking and disinformation campaigns, even against corporations and individuals?

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2014

Silicon Valley area nonprofit The Club has found success with this funding source because it fits their mission—the mentorship of women in business leadership. Typically, these types of donations are procured by a simple phone call or door-to-door campaign.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2017

Rules when followed will give you access to the Silicon Valley world, where you can wear shorts and slippers to work. That’s why at my last company I initiated an ‘unplug for the day’ marketing campaign.”. Like all games, it has its own set of rules. Where pool tables are aplenty and the hustle is as common as your next breath.

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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. far more huge companies in Silicon Valley. April 13, 2012. et al) were down on the peninsula.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The original model was launched through a crowdfunding campaign and became a quick success, with the couple selling over a quarter of a million units to 69,896 backers. The system provides efficient charging solutions that also look beautiful among any décor because there are no messy cords to deal with.

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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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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 It’s easy, especially in Silicon Valley, to get hung up on all the whizbang new technologies available to developers.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She wants to sell these products on her site. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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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.

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