Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

I won’t even try to cover here the ones you didn’t find for your personal life, like managing personal finances and credit. The focus here would be on the actual nuts and bolts of how things get budgeted and financed in business. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Job Hunting Basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Overconfidence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks.

Mezzanine 368

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Category leaders do very well, while the #2, 3, 4… players struggle to attract customers and financing. This trend is particularly true in markets that are highly susceptible to network effects, such as online auctions and social networks.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Social networking is so last year. Advice For The Young At Heart Asif Khan Funding fundraising startup startup financing' Things like winning startup competitions, getting selected to a startup incubator, partnering with a large company, are all good ways to show traction and some proof that you’re creating value.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Success is the right balance of both for fun and profit. Marketing is top priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2023

Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. True business titans deliver both invention and innovation. Find enough venturesome capital. Create a formidable and durable business model. Innovate or die. Standing still is tantamount to giving up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. True business titans deliver both invention and innovation. Find enough venturesome capital. Create a formidable and durable business model. Innovate or die. Standing still is tantamount to giving up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A breadth of understanding of common business principles , such as management, personnel and finance, is more important than a depth of knowledge in any specific area. Use networking, the Internet, and personal contacts to really understand the ‘how’ and ‘why’ behind related success stories.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

This includes e-commerce websites that ship internationally, content news sites accessible in the European Union, social networks like Facebook and Instagram, and more. In fact, any businesses that provide services to people residing in Europe must adhere to the new regulations.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The pandemic has hit finances hard for many businesses, and as a result, companies are looking for ways to tighten their belts and save money. Take advantage of social networks and use feedback and reviews to identify potential weaknesses and make improvements. Picture from [link]. Cost-Saving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

I won’t even try to cover here the ones you didn’t find for your personal life, like managing personal finances and credit. The focus here would be on the actual nuts and bolts of how things get budgeted and financed in business. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Job Hunting Basics.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2011

Here’s the list of the featured startups and some of my thoughts: Zipmark is using QR codes to replace checks, giving customers and vendors a lower-cost payment solution; Syphr is providing highly personalized credit management and financial optimization applications to improve lead generation for financial institutions and online finance sites; (..)

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

evolved around trends that focused on the idea of user collaboration , sharing of user-generated content, and social networking, so too does the concept of collaborative governance. The good news is that IT professionals have a blueprint from the companies that pioneered the use of the World Wide Web for collaborative data governance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. Problem was, Facebook, Yelp and Groupon were gay enough where a dedicated social network wasn’t entirely necessary. The Premature Death Of Private Event Based Social Networks. emphasis mine).

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. In addition, Priyanshu is also considering an enterprise solution with the notion of cleaning up the profiles of employees (based on social media policies) of objectionable material.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor.

Entrepreneur 94

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

For angels and early-stage pre-seed and seed firms, most of those financings do not come with information rights. Most Series A financings are not big momentum rounds where everyone is competing — often it’s a personal connection forged after an angel or seed investor keeps telling a VC about a specific founder or company.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Professional expert networks allow you to efficiently convert your financial capital into relationship capital. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. Or, you can go straight to the source. Previously posted at Forbes.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

The key assumptions are: offering not just a product, but a complete service (installation, rebates, and financing when necessary,) reduce the manufacturing cost of current wind turbines, provide home owners with a cool and sustainable symbol (achieving “Prius” status.). is an ad-supported, web-based comment platform for daily news content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. True business titans deliver both invention and innovation. Find enough venturesome capital. Create a formidable and durable business model. Innovate or die. Standing still is tantamount to giving up.

United States 239

United States Business Model Government Differentiation 239

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

One of my first ventures was an online social network allowing high school and college students to connect…no, not Facebook. If I’d been smart, I’d have gotten a working captial/business loan and financed the hiring of a professional. The key is to not give up.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

The ability to have a third party finance a solar project and guarantee a fixed energy cost or amount of savings was a major development that helped bring about current market conditions. We need software to empower those entrepreneurs to find customers, design systems, secure financing, monitor performance, and provide customer service.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. You can target multiple mobile platforms at once with tools like BuildAnApp , or you can look into the geolocation angle with a tool such as Socialight or Shout’Em. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search shopping small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports startup startups tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks. At a time when we are seeing content creators monetize content on social media at new levels, it is clear that Lightricks’ platform has the ability to create a one-stop shop that will be meaningful to its users.”. Startup Journey.

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