Joe Procopio

Editor’s note: Veteran blogger, author and entrepreneur Joe Procopio welcomes Tatiana Birgisson of Mati Energy and Jame Stauch of Neuro Plus to The Startup Show. DURHAM – There are some obvious reasons why I wanted to get Tatiana Birgisson, founder of Mati Energy, and Jake Stauch, founder of Neuro Plus, on The Startup Show. And also some not-so-obvious reasons. Tatiana is one of the most impressive people I’ve met over the last five years. And it’s conscious decision I just made to not call her the most impressive woman or the most impressive young entrepreneur I’ve met over the...

Editor’s note: Veteran entrepreneur, author and blogger Joe Procopio talks about how one bad early hire can kill a startup in his Teaching Startup series. DURHAM – Two years ago, an entrepreneur came to me with a dilemma. She had been approached by another entrepreneur who was being forced to wind down his own fledgling startup as his funding dried up. He was a one-person shop, he had made a decent run of it, but time was up. Now he wanted to go to work for her. I walked her through the dilemma. The guy had great tech and...

Editor’s note: “We’re on the cusp of a video data revolution, and we need to tell those data stories,” says veteran entrepreneur, blogger and author Joe Procopio. DURHAM – “It is estimated that media companies and user-generated content creates over 2 billion digital images and over 1 billion hours of video watch time every day.” — Justin Pang, head of publishing partnerships at Google. I don’t have to tell you that a digital video revolution is underway. That you know. But what I do want to get across in this article is that we’re quickly approaching a critical point...

Editor’s note: Veteran entrepreneur, blogger and author Joe Procopio wears his Automated Insights executive cap in an interview with NPR where he talks about the company’s technology for automating news. DURHAM – So I gave a radio interview to NPR last week on the future of news and automated journalism. Like most good NPR radio, the host turned our casual conversation into an audio story, and when this happens to your own words, it’s like 100x more cool. Dylan Syverson at KSFR happened to read an interview I gave for MediaShift while I was out at SXSW. We exchanged...

Editor’s note: Veteran entrepreneur, blogger and author Joe Procopio offers what he calls the “final post in the final series for startup foundation concepts.” And a new book is forthcoming, he adds. DURHAM, N.C. – A few months ago, I came up with The Grid, a five by five layout or map of what all my research and experience tells my what startup looks like. Then I started writing about each topic for Teaching Startup, with five concepts in each post. It’s so nerdy, but that 5x5x5 is a cube, and it’s a perfect 3D map of everything you...

Editor’s note: Veteran entrepreneur, blogger and author Joe Procopio takes a look at the five personality traits that he sees most often in great entrepreneurs. DURHAM, N.C. – In the fourth installment of Five Reasons For Startup, I dive into the five personality traits that I see most often in great entrepreneurs. But this piece is a little backwards. Instead of talking about things you need to succeed, I’m looking at things that you might already have that might help you succeed. Be advised though, just because you don’t fit any type doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try your hand...

Editor’s note: Veteran entrepreneur, blogger and author Joe Procopio talks about the key motivational factors for launching a startup, beginning with independence. DURHAM, N.C. – I’m going to level with you right out of the gate. No matter what your reasons are for getting into startup, I can assure you that those reasons are valid.  There’s no judgment here, there’s no list of right and wrong reasons for becoming an entrepreneur, despite what you will hear from people, including me, about phony entrepreneurism (known as wantrepreneurism), greed, or even whether or not your idea is particularly good. Let the...