Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2018

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners.

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ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. Name A Startup. Name A Startup. I’m often in the process of naming a startup. Here’s what I found: 1) Qualities of a good name. The following is a list of qualities of a good name for your startup. 2) Name types. The “Nonsense” Name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2013

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. The future of social media and 3D interaction is the biggest priority to Facebook. Yuga Labs Pitch Deck: BAYC founders raised $450M from Andreesen Horowitz from Pitch Decks.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood. 3- Sam Walton.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

He’s considering making me the permanent co-host so if you enjoy any of this episode or want to see me on the show on a more regular basis please Tweet @jason and let him know (he asked for direct feedback). I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. He’ll pivot.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2016

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The audience size identified is encouragingly large, and the frequently used phrases and words (brick mortar, retail, founder) align directly with our target audience. Developing a social media following. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin. This isn’t true. Take SparkToro’s website.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Starting out, you can’t hit every network and outlet full-force. Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. Before you can afford staff dedicated to social media, spread the duties around. Prioritize social networks.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 17, 2011

Finding and agreeing upon a worthy name is always a struggle, especially if you have co-founders. There’s a lot of advice on the Internet about naming companies; see this article from OnStartups.com for a particularly good, detailed checklist. Then of course there’s the domain name. Or consider Yahoo!

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

Noam Fine, co-Founder and CEO of Widdit , providing app developers engagement solutions over the mobile and Web platforms. As the number of users increases, you can provide incentives for these users to share your app on social networks. Of course, user retention will also increase monetization. Yours should be, too.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Imagine this: A startup with a vibrant and successful founder arrives with the vague notion of a good idea. Venture capitalists, knowing the success of this founder, throw a bunch of money at him and his team, even without a tangible product behind it. The startup eventually releases a product that few understand or find useful.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Imagine this: A startup with a vibrant and successful founder arrives with the vague notion of a good idea. Venture capitalists, knowing the success of this founder, throw a bunch of money at him and his team, even without a tangible product behind it. The startup eventually releases a product that few understand or find useful.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Its founders (Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs) have extensive experience with some of the biggest online properties. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. Gibbs was the founder of Google’s App Engine.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

New domain names are launching at a rate of seven per week just this past month alone. Finance-related domain names that have become available to pre-register include.bank,loans or.ventures. Finance-related domain names that have become available to pre-register include.bank,loans or.ventures. If you’re in finance.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

Every night you are just hanging out with big name bands and the teams around them that brought them to their peak.&#. I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Scott Spiro is founder and President of Computer Solutions Group, Inc (CSG), and author of the book “Hassle Free Computer Support”. In 2013, CSG was named one of the top 100 I.T. He enjoys working in a variety of industries and is currently actively involved in a publishing, a MI (music instrument), and a social networking business.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. ” Devotees to the “culture-as-brand” school of startup are loathe to admit that there’s sometimes a downside to too many company-wide discussions — namely that they can fall off the rails. To an extent, all of this is true.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. Do it because you love small teams. Dying at 70?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

If you are considering including social login in your marketing strategy, take a look at my top nine things every marketer should know about it. Some e-commerce websites might decide against offering social login if their target audience is aged 55 or older – these users are much less likely to have social accounts.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. No matter the name?—?the We all know the famous story of Apple, which at one point kicked out its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

FitzGerald is the co-founder and CEO of Submittable , a cloud-based submission platform used by thousands of publishers for accepting and curating digital content. I went out to lunch one day with an astonishingly good developer and entrepreneur named Glenn Kreisel. We had a name, and a logo ripped off from a free logo site.

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shelfmade.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

ShelfMade Home About Best Article You’ll Ever Read and Not Understand Finding Non-Tech Founders October 3, 2007.5:27 Are people that you meet (point 2) passing you the names of programmers? If your idea sounds anything like “A social network for &# you probably need something else. Develop a Remarkable Idea.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Importantly, your brand is not what you say it is.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

The name of the last part? First, just to provide a foundation here, Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” (available for free online), “ Markets Are Conversations ”. And the Blockbuster name became synonymous with late fees. Netflix vs. Blockbuster: Round Four (Lights Out?)”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. Co-working spaces tend to provide businesses with savings up to 30 percent , which can be huge savings for new companies with a lot of expenses to contend with. Consider a coworking space. At the end of 2017, nearly 1.2

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2017

by Meenakshi Venugopal, co-founder of Hashtag17. Instagram is highly popular amongst today’s social networking audience to share images and pictures of people, their hobbies and their passions. Instagram is a highly popular social networking site with a considerable number of people spending their time IGing.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Imagine this: A startup with a vibrant and successful founder arrives with the vague notion of a good idea. Venture capitalists, knowing the success of this founder, throw a bunch of money at him and his team, even without a tangible product behind it. The startup eventually releases a product that few understand or find useful.

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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 free office space at Loosecubes. Thats real money."

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. One of the easiest mistake to fix is timing.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. MaryAnn Bekkedahl is co-founder & president of theSwizzle and an expert in email organization.

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