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When Founders Need Referrals to Meet Investors, Fix This About Your Startup Ecosystem

Friday, 08 November 2024 by Paul O'Brien

In a well-functioning startup ecosystem, founders should know who their potential investors are and how to connect with them. In a supportive startup ecosystem, founders should know how to develop ventures that attract attention, supported by journalists and ecosystem leaders who promote fundable startups, so that investors engage them. Yet, we often see founders struggling

Published in Raising Capital, Startup Ecosystems

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The Networking to do BEFORE you Startup

Monday, 18 March 2019 by Paul O'Brien

A simple list of five. The FIVE groups of people to start networking before you start anything… Toward investors. Start now. Getting know them before you need them. Get to know those who will likely support what you’re doing. They’re advisors so they can invest, not banks that are just there for capital. With potential

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How to Network with (and meet) Entrepreneurs

Tuesday, 11 September 2012 by Paul O'Brien

There was a great question posed to the Quora community, “How do I meet other young entrepreneurs/startup-oriented people?” Met with the usual answers about hackathons, startup events, and even online networking, I took a different tack and whipped up my own experience getting to know entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and Austin. While the trendy tech and

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Published in Insights / Research, Startups

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In SF next week? Come Chat with Lorna Li and myself

Saturday, 11 July 2009 by Paul O'Brien

I am very excited about the Unintentional Entrepreneur meetup next Wednesday! If in the Bay Area, I’d love to see you there! We’ll have pizza, drinks… the event is FREE! We’re going to talk about some the fundamentals of a new business; managing income, expenses, and taxes; establishing and maintaining your brand online; and quick,

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Published in Conferences / Events, Natural Search / SEO, Paid Search, Search, Social Media

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Starting Your Business When Times Are Tough

Wednesday, 08 July 2009 by Paul O'Brien

What might we learn from companies successfully started in tough, turbulent economic times? More than you’d think when you consider Fedex, HP, and Apple rose from ashes similar to those we’re experiencing now. Lan Nguyen, today, outlines some great Tips for Downturn Entrepreneurs on TheStreet.com including, to name a few: Study the market Take the

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Published in Conferences / Events, Industry, Social Media, Startups

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Social Search Networking

Friday, 05 September 2008 by Paul O'Brien

Full disclosure! This post completely violates the laws of link baiting, enticing industry leaders and bloggers to come to SEO’Brien just to see how/why I’ve linked to them; so to you I say! “hey there” I’m not doing that intentionally but had such a fantastic time with the folks at the Search Engine Strategies, WebmasterRadio

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Published in Conferences / Events, Fun, Search, Vendors / Agencies

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Setting up a home network

Thursday, 22 December 2005 by Paul O'Brien

Hack Attack: Take your data home for the holidays – Lifehacker: As I prepare to leave my warm desk at Lifehacker-LA for the blustery cold of the great Midwest, I want to make sure that I can still access my home computer at any time, in any way, so that my work is just as

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