Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Cold calling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. Smart entrepreneurs build market-driven solutions, per the following principles: Size the opportunity and customer interest first. Neither is positive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. In that spirit, I offer my perspective on ten common startup failure sources that rarely get admitted by entrepreneurs: Choose to skip the written business plan.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Investors and founders alike have been obsessed about “growth at all costs,” just as a virus colony grows without care to its effect on its host cells or whether the colony’s growth ends up destroying the host body completely, taking the colony down with it in a viral version of Lord of the Flies. But many of the winners are a mixed bag.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. In that spirit, I offer my perspective on ten common startup failure sources that rarely get admitted by entrepreneurs: Choose to skip the written business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. Smart entrepreneurs build market-driven solutions, per the following principles: Size the opportunity and customer interest first. Neither is positive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Cold calling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. This is still one of the best vehicles if your business has a small, well-defined purchasing audience as do government agencies or medical establishments. Cold calling. business David T.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Jon Favreau (who also wrote and directed the film) stars as Carl Casper, a head chef who is fired after a video of his spat with a food critic goes viral. This is the only movie on my list that actually involves an entrepreneur starting a business. That’s when he decides to start a food truck and reignite his passion for cooking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. Smart entrepreneurs build market-driven solutions, per the following principles: Size the opportunity and customer interest first. Neither is positive.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs what they loved about “being their own boss.”. #1-

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. They also formed a partnership with the City of LA that brought the first drive-through testing to the U.S., creating a model for how other cities can do it.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

The United Kingdom is seeing a surge of creative energy from young entrepreneurs bubble up from all corners of the island. Tommy Williams is a young entrepreneur that followed a familiar path by many like him, he wanted to solve a simple problem he noticed. The new generation is made up of a diverse set of creative minds with a vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2016

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. Smart entrepreneurs build market-driven solutions, per the following principles: Size the opportunity and customer interest first. Neither is positive.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Therefore, the world’s governments have issued varying degrees of lockdown or stay-at-home orders. Finding the opportunity amidst the crisis.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. We decided to find out, and talked with around 130 founders, entrepreneurs, investors and analysts. It''s a good measurement because it captures both satisfaction and virality.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

This is native advertising in real life, on a real website, acting as a key player in the race for the strongest, viral, engaging content. The company, known for viral social content, is predicted to bring in $100 million in revenue in 2014 from native advertising on 150 million unique visitors a month, according to a 2013 Forbes article.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. There were no sales people in the USSR – the government just decided what to produce and in which quantities, – so I pretty much have an anti-­sales­-and­-marketing background. Well, then you’ve got to go viral.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Is Government a good idea? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform. ► 03/25 - 04/01. (1). Global warming: a plague for humanity? ► 03/18 - 03/25. (1). ► 02/11 - 02/18. (2).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

It's easy to say that companies, universities and the government should be doing more to find a cure, but that ignores years of overlooking the importance of the work of those studying infectious disease, and in many cases, the lack of sophisticated tooling that they urgently need. Eric Ries : Explain what a reporter gene is.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2024

Entrepreneurs, with passion for a vision, invent the future they want. What makes something go viral on TikTok (like Bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’ did recently ), is still a black box. These are my predictions for abundant, awesome, technology-based, Possible Tomorrows (2035-2049) … if we allow them to happen!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

6:56) A look at how many biotech companies and non-biotech entrepreneurs have pivoted to work exclusively on COVID-19. (7:35) Obviously, I think that in a time like this, this is when we should have a government response, but I don't think there's been enough of a government response focused on funding the things that can get us out of this.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Part of the reason I encourage entrepreneurs to discuss their ideas with as many smart people as possible is because sometimes that clarity of thought can come from an entirely different field or industry. That’s why one of the factors that separates successful from unsuccessful entrepreneurs is their pivot “tool chest.”

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

When entrepreneurs gather to swap war stories, whether they’re meeting in person or virtually, one of the biggest categories of horrific tales are bad board stories. Every entrepreneur I know has them; I’ll even share a few of my own in this essay. They were right that I was a baby entrepreneur and had made a lot of mistakes.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Passion powers entrepreneurs; tenacity pulls them through, and entrepreneurship can do good for the world explained todays guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Although driven by a passion for changing our relation with food, Jered didn’t start out thinking of himself as an entrepreneur.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

Hannu is one of those entrepreneurs who has put everything on hold to try to make a difference in a worldwide pandemic and we're grateful to him for that. Hannu has called for mass coordination between the government and the private sector to get to a vaccine faster, not a few months faster but dramatically faster.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2018

Avoid Trying To Go Viral. As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. You can’t architect a viral success. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com. But don’t get sucked into it.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2013

Avoid Trying To Go Viral. As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. You can’t architect a viral success. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com. But don’t get sucked into it.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. I write this stuff in hope that it helps other entrepreneurs. Find your Allen Morgan. But, change the world.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders. Would that take away my right to talk about successful entrepreneurs and top managers? Of course, if the Biz Guy is a serial entrepreneur with references from employees and co-founders who made so much money they are investing as angels in this venture.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

“We’re trying to find entrepreneurs who are thinking of it as another stage in the company,” he said. “Entrepreneurs who sell to Google are doing it because they have a vision of what they’re trying to do,” Lawee told attendees. Nice piece and certainly one that covers what many entrepreneurs think.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

” Gary Messiana, Bessemer Entrepreneur-In-Residence and former CEO, Netli. The most innovative B2C companies are lead generation machines, leveraging search engine optimization (SEO), viral marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), email marketing, and other technically-advanced methods. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

Kim Kardashian Is a Lot of Things, But Not an Entrepreneur [link] crowdspring.co/1KKoh6v 4 Steps to Being an Entrepreneur Without Quitting Your Job [link] crowdspring.co/1C38ehk Meet Nava, A Startup That Wants To Fix The Government’s Crappy Design [link] crowdspring.co/1MbGeIk 1LyHlna . Launching a New Product?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

Proof The Time Is Right For The Government To Approve Same-Sex Marriage crowdspring.co/1ETu8RF. Read The Fine Print Before You Use Microsoft’s Viral Age-Guessing Tool crowdspring.co/1FSoMIx. The Future Of “Killer” Robots: Helping People crowdspring.co/1ETtAey. 1FSoMIx.

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