Believe in your startup

Liberty Madison Liberty Lesson

This is most likely the most valuable #LibertyLesson that I can share with you.
I know it’s hard and can be lonely but trust me if you know you can accomplish something then go for it!

Being an inventor or visionary can be lonely, mainly because people seem to be wired to only believe what they see. When you manifest it and build a product you will be met with a ton of supporters. Think of it as the stock market. Once you have a product and it is out there and doing great people are ready to hand over their fortune and life savings at your IPO, they just want to be involved. But until that point people honestly just may not believe enough in you or your product.

There is always a small demographic of folks who get extremely wealthy on new products. It is because they take risk and believe in a product. That’s it. Many will say it is because they have a disposable income and it’s a ‘rich get richer’ society but I don’t see it that way. To me they have a vision and are not counting pennies. Their vision is very simple. They want their money to work for them. They do not want to work for money. So they take risk many average joes just don’t take.

This point brings me back to you. Take the leap and believe in yourself. The leap is also very simple. You have to believe in yourself when no one else believes in you. If you do not believe in then you who will?

How to Take the first step to increase your confidence and cement an unshakable belief in yourself?

The #LibertyLesson is
Surround yourself with partners not employees.

Partners vs. Employees

Partners – listen, strategize, contribute, build you up, and most importantly ACT!
Employees – wait for you to take action, wait for you to give them direction, wait for you to give them more direction, and leave all of the heavy lifting to you.

As a result of surrounding yourself with employees you become a manager not a visionary.
Surround yourself with partners and leaders and you become an innovator.

Find your confident partners and believe!

#StartupLife for the #Millennial and #Transitional
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Silicon Valleys Top PR Maven Marie Domingo lands at CES

CES brings out the best of the best!
Meet @mariedomingo
One of the best #tech #pr professionals in #SiliconValley
She probably reps 75% of the apps on your phone!
I ran into her at #ces #vegas at the #monster party. If only she repped humans! I’d snap her up #mariedomingo
Marie Domingo does PR for a number of venture backed tech products, hardware, and software companies.
Check her out!

Marie Domingo and Liberty Madison

#LibertyMadison is #ThatTechGirl, the #Oprah of #SiliconValley

#StartupLife for the #Millennial and #Transitional

How to speak StartUp

As someone who lives the #StartupLife and brings it to millennials across the country I can +1 EVERYTHING Tech Crunch said in this article. This is by far the funniest thing I have ever read on Techcrunch

My favorite:

“Cash Flow Positive”
“I work in PR”
“The Space”
“We’re a design-centric organization”
“Growth Hacking”
“We are growing 500% week -over-week”

I literally almost dropped my phone while reading “Cash Flow Positive”

I absolutely hear ALL of these comments and lingo at tech talks, tech events, conferences, pizza shops, MUNI, BART, CalTrain, and the bathroom in Silicon Valley. It is everywhere.
LibertyMadison StartupLife

And I am openly saying as #ThatTechGirl, we live in a bubble and have lost touch with reality and I love it!

CarpeDiem the #Founder!

Read the rest of the article at
How To Speak Startup: http://tcrn.ch/1yTmBwr #CRUSHINGIT

The BART – How startups in Silicon Valley get around

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I have been enjoying my summer exploring the #BAYAREA
Just #bartandyourethere !
#TheBart is essential to your #StartupLife in #SiliconValley
The Bay Area 5 point transit system is one of the best in the country
Yes it’s great to use a #lyft #uber #sidecar #getaround but sometimes its easier hop on Bart and just get there without waiting in traffic!

BART stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit

ATTENTION : Spot #ThatTechGirl on #bart and get a prize! Plus get your startup featured at libertymadison.com

Deals are done all over #SiliconValley explore and build your team!

#ThatTechGirl is #LibertyMadison
The #Oprah of #SiliconValley

#StartupLife for the #millennial and #transitional

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Before you launch your website

Many professionals over look simple things. Being perfect has nothing to do with experience its has everything to do with absolutely nothing. Perfect is a myth. However being better is achievable.

Many millennials and transitionals in the startup world often assume their peers and or competition have the upper hand. I don’t know why we tend to think EVERYONE else is superior but its simply untrue. We all have areas that we can improve on. I wanted to share an example.

My friend Nora Oravecz a Hungarian blogger in Silicon Valley for the summer is trying to improve her English skills so she decided to seek out a public speaking class. She suggested I join her so I can polish my skills and meet other speakers. I was super excited! I asked her to forward the link so I can begin my research. After more than 15 minutes on the site my excitement began to wane. I could not find anyone actually giving a talk.

A common mistake that I do not want others to make.

This is a speaking class with packages ranging from $50 to $550 and not one bit of footage of anyone actually speaking or giving a talk was listed on the website? The class is reliable, reputable, and a great investment. However that was not conveyed with this slight over sight.
I am a bit stunned.

How do you expect to sell your service or brand without showing what your service or brand is?

The founder was not speaking. The staff was not speaking. I honestly would have accepted a 30 second snippet of a student speaking!
I would have felt more incline to enroll and engage.
But no such luck. It was a bunch of words. Which would have been great for a wordpress class. But not ideal for a class selling the ability to become a better public speaker.

#ThatTechGirl #TechTip

When launching your startup place a sample/reel/demo/or preview of your product or service ON your site. You can do this by creating a video, animation, or offer a beta test experience. Remember
“Showing is often better than telling”.

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Place a sample/reel/demo/or preview of your product or service ON your site Showing is often better than telling via @libertymadison

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Should you seek to increase your wage?

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#Tech #Tuesday tip for the #millennial #startup #entrepreneur

Wage, rates, and salary are often the goal of a worker. A person who may not achieve financial wealth. The Only thing that brings true wealth is Profit, not wages.

Wages are cool for those who do not want the responsibility of leadership. Which is 110% ok. However you must realize that you will be executing someone else’s dream, doing 99% of the work and earning a wage instead of sharing in the profits.
Stop trading your life for the “wage dream”

The picture is “Profits Over Wages” by #LibertyMadison
A #LibertyLesson for the #startuplife #motivation

A Tech Tuesday Tip for the millennial entrepreneur

#ThatTechGirl meets a star at Starbucks! #STARTUPLIFE

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Did you do this today!? Look who I met at #starbucks! That #startuplife is amazingly beautiful + sporadic!
Wearing the traditional #startup uniform (hoodie,  logo tee, skinny jeans, backpack, tennis shoes) Yes I hang with a #dragon! Not from #dragonsden or #SharkTank but I love him!! He is 5 months old! #peopleofthebay
Photo credit to @iayori
#Thattechgirl is on it!
My #randomhotguy today is a dragon!
#vegan #SFBayArea #hellarandom #supercute #lizard #reptile

Drag & Drop Website Deployment from BitBalloon

BitBalloon

#ThatTechGirl, Liberty Madison Interviews BitBalloon before they hit the SF New Tech stage in San Francisco

BitBalloon,from the dudes who brought you WEBPOP
Mathias Biilmann Christensen , CEO
Michael Ruescher, CMO

Your website, a whole lot faster. BitBalloon is a new way to deploy websites. Simply drag and drop your site onto the app. In one fell swoop, it’s optimized for performance and uploaded to the fastest cloud servers available. And, your forms just work.

https://www.bitballoon.com | @bitballoon

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