Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 31, 2014

Friday I spoke at the Convergence in Communications Conference , and Evan Burfield of 1776 got a big laugh when he said, “Let’s face it, failure sucks.” Successful Startup Story: Fresh and Fluffy Natural Dry Dog Shampoo . Why: Startup life’s not easy, which is why we love to hear success stories.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 3, 2013

Image: UOregon Conference Services via Flickr, CC 2.o. A tip: pretend you have less than three days to launch your startup. Business Career Daniel Cohen Guest Posts Marketing Networking freelance standing out start-up marketing startups' Imagine you’re at a party. Whatever you say you do, make it less over time.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 30, 2011

Far too much has been said on the valuations of the social web startups. Even for a startup that fetched $41 million, that is plain wasteful, if not irrationally exuberant. I posed this question to one of the breed recently at a conference. waiting to pounce on laggard corporations. And the answer?

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 6, 2013

If you’re also in startup/entrepreneur/small biz mode, as I am (and it’s really neat to think of my business as a startup, but of course it is one!) You don’t have to go into the gory details if you don’t want to (or can’t, because of privacy or other concerns). What about you?

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2010

It’s the reason I was really happy that BNET chose me to be its Startup Storyteller … and it’s what I do. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, though. Connecting with the media is a big part of public relations… but it’s not the only part. And that, I think, is something we sometimes forget.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In addition to finding good fits in our relationships and continually challenging one another with mastermind meetings and consciously developed conferences, we can treat one another well as fellow business citizens and business partners. An experienced startup investor once told me, “Marketing is a race to the bottom.”

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I have never – NEVER – seen the top folk at startups respond to the questions and requests of the “every day people&# who use their services. (What I’d love to see if they can pull off, is for a way for people to tag Facebook friends through Amplify. Now that would really be something.) Responsiveness.

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