Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What channels will you use (e.g., Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? What’s different, special here? Other types of users?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What channels will you use (e.g., Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? What’s different, special here? Other types of users?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Find customers, partners and channels early. There is nothing like a real customer pipeline to convince you that you need partners and channels, and to convince partners, channels, and investors that you are real. Use social networking to start the wave.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Crypto projects like BAYC have successfully created a new social network, transportable to any other social platform, yet exclusive with real-life benefits. BAYC is a social network, crypto culture, that can become a game, a commercial brand or something we have not thought of yet. Picture: nftculture.com.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay , is a sales veteran with more than 20 years of experience in direct sales, channel and partner development and business strategy. By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect the social web with the corporate wallet.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

We have partnered with existing developer communities, including academic communities to offer developer days and workshops. Over 35,000 applications available on App World (Note: as you know, App World is just one distribution channel where customers can download applications). •

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

The simple solution I recommend to inventors is to find a partner who can focus on business and marketing, while you focus on technology. Even the best solutions these days need to be marketed on multiple platforms, including online, social media, and the proper industry and customer channels for customer geographies.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Choosing the Right Marketing Channels for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As of October 2017, there are roughly sixteen marketing channels available to us. Businesses need to get very, very good at getting clients in just a few of these channels. Why do I recommend that you do this?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brands partnering with celebrities, influencers and advocates to reach a larger and more relevant audience is not a new approach to marketing. However, where audiences are active today is continually changing forcing marketers to adapt their approach to partnering with advocates especially when it comes to connecting with teenagers online.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

LinkedIn is the largest social network specifically for professionals in the world. With more than 200 million users, with 3 million company pages, this social network brings together profiles from all areas. 60% of them believe that being on social networks is the most successful.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

I’ve been podcasting a long time and it’s been pretty fun to see how this “channel” has evolved, particularly of late. Radio and TV networks look to this form of distribution as the way forward and big time players like NPR have embraced it fully as a way to reach an audience increasingly tuning radio out.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

We’re backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and individual investors like Ron Conway, among others. Prabhdeep Singh: We become their learning partner and they become part of a special and vast community of professionals. David Teten: And what do startups get for their participation?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Instead of countless usernames and passwords, you have one identity to use for a variety of activities you want guaranteed security: online shopping, social networking, online dating, and online financials. miiCard will build the user base directly and through partnering vendors using multi-channel distribution strategy.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. Today, instead of going niche and focused, he and his partners are going broader, even, and planning to burn even more money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network. Don’t skip all business social settings.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

To create this guide, we partnered with Larry Kim, the CEO of MobileMonkey , a popular Facebook Messenger Marketing platform used by millions of users worldwide. According to Larry Kim, founder and CEO of MobileMonkey, “Facebook Messenger chatbots are the #1 growth marketing channel for the next +5-10 years.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

But there’s an important paradox facing small businesses and startups – effective content marketing requires the creation of consistent, high quality content AND a strategy for distributing/promoting that content across social networks and the Internet. from Velocity Partners. ensure that the content is high quality.

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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. Find road-trip partners on Zimride.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Unfortunately his customers didn’t know that his hard stop was really his social studies class. Later, Michiewicz partnered up with someone much older (not 15) who had the business know-how to take WebmasterResources to the next level. A notable site is FaceSmash which sold for $30k the week the movie Social Network came out.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor. SCORE.org A resource partner with the U.S.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

Establish partners and referrals. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Despite the fact that social networking and other online processes are essentially free, good marketing still costs money. Figure out what is valuable to your audience.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The bad news (for HP) first: - Confusion and uncertainty among many of HP’s channel partners and customers. HP will reassure both groups, but some will take this occasion to reevaluate their partners or vendors, to the benefit of HP’s competition, notably Lenovo and Dell. Potential division of key assets, especially HP Labs.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The competition between super angels and venture capitalists may be leading to a new golden age for entrepreneurship. How long that will last is another question entirely.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

The Social Layer. social media. social networks. social networking. RWW PARTNERS. ReadWriteWeb. Key Trends. App Stores. Real-Time Web. Internet of Things. Structured Data. Top Topics. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

Establish partners and referrals. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Despite the fact that social networking and other online processes are essentially free, good marketing still costs money. Figure out what is valuable to your audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Cyndi and Brent discuss driving profit in social media. Cyndi Thomason , president and founder of bookskeep, has channeled her energetic nature and passion for her work into the perfect business model for assisting small businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations. Cyndi and Brent discuss driving profit in social media.

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