Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 senior sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business 6 months. Is it one product line or multiple?

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Nickelodeon under Herb was the top-rated network in cable for 10 straight years. He was also Vice Chairman of MTV Networks and oversaw adult brands Spike and TV Land. legally for medical school, served in the Air Force and then was a productive, tax-paying contributor for nearly 40 years. billion to finance US startups.)

Media 269

Media Content Course Technical Review 269

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. What we saw with CareerArc, was there was already a tremendous amount of investment in the middle of the market, with all of these different services and products that went into taking care of an employee when they were hired until they were let go. What is CareerArc?

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

After college Joanne worked for 4 years in retail apparel at Macy’s where she initially managed sales reps on the floor and then worked as a buyer of clothing. This is where she first developed sales skills. She doubled her salary by going into sales. to $12m in sales. “A lot of sales is innate.

Startup 311

Startup Sales Venture Capital Entrepreneur 311

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). New product process. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions. Net result and reward. Failure is the best teacher. Observe and measure.

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. USA Angel Investment Network. Angel investors are people too. Keiretsu Forum.

Angel 96

Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 96

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Bobby’s strong sales acumen, genuine charisma and leadership abilities make him an invaluable asset to the founding team.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea.

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). New product process. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions. Net result and reward. Failure is the best teacher. Observe and measure.

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic.

Southern California 228

Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

Intros.They’re the lifeblood of networking – the currency of mavens. Your entrée to sales meetings. Ask yourself the tough question about how you might spend that time more productively getting your job done well. There are also many times where that meeting isn’t really focused or productive.

Email 359

Email Venture Capital Startup Technical Review 359

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. USA Angel Investment Network. Angel investors are people too. Keiretsu Forum.

Angel 67

Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 67

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis: PurePhoto is a social commerce network, for buying, sharing, and selling original photographic art. John Ellis: For most of the last decade, I've been in various product and marketing roles at a number of online companies, including Earthlink, Overture--which became Yahoo over time--FastClick, and Valueclick.

Westlake Village 164

Westlake Village Yahoo Commerce Social Network 164

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. Keiretsu Forum.

Angel 115

Angel Startup Funding Keiretsu 115

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). New product process. They benchmark their ideas against competition, use metrics to track acceptance, sales growth, and return on investment. Net result and reward.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed. New England Investment Network.

Angel 108

Angel Keiretsu Organization Invest 108

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

You need to explore more common and more productive approaches for getting your startup moving forward. Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. If you are looking for $25,000 to $1 million, the next step is to tap into a local angel network. Friends and family. Angel investors.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Equity Incubator Venture Capital 103

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 850 accredited investor members throughout twenty one chapters on three continents. New England Investment Network. Angel investors are people too.

Angel 102

Angel Keiretsu Organization Template 102

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We’ve all become so used to having Microsoft in our lives that we’ve started to take their products and services for granted. Since then, Microsoft has come out with product after product, always improving and innovating – and you can keep counting on it to keep doing so. That makes it the first in console sales.

Writing 88

Writing Training Email .Net 88

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. I learned how to better run a product management process. I never built Google.

Startup 285

Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. You probably want at least a home page, product page, order page, and contact page. A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. You probably want at least a home page, product page, order page, and contact page. A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

You need to explore more common and more productive approaches for getting your startup moving forward. Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. If you are looking for $25,000 to $1 million, the next step is to tap into a local angel network. Friends and family. Angel investors.

Startup 93

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 93

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Along with Selling (see Be Like Sam ) and Networking (see Making Stone Soup and Personal Pitch ), negotiating is a vital startup skill. ALL of your employees must sell, network and spend the company’s money as if it were their own. Professional Negotiator. At Expertcity, I shared the cost savings with one of our Financial Analysts.

Startup 221

Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Email 221

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. You probably want at least a home page, product page, order page, and contact page. A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. It's a real loss of productivity. Additionally, we have all the different instant messaging networks available in Orgoo. They can access them, organize them, and keep them in one location.

Email 113

Email Yahoo Startup Google 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 750 accredited investor members throughout sixteen chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate.

Angel 48

Angel Keiretsu Startup Template 48

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

For example, we support promotions for Sony movies, a combination of database and telecom work for interactive TV shows like the Price is Right, Deal or No Deal, the Game Show Network, and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. Our headquarters is in Los Angeles, with VoIP, telecom, and network operations in Chicago--but Los Angeles is our home.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

In reality, there are multiple more productive approaches you should explore in getting your startup moving forward. Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. If you are looking for $25,000 to $250,000, the next step is to tap into a local angel network. Friends and family.

Funding 59

Funding Startup Technical Review Equity 59

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

One of those firms is Hydra (www.hydranetwork.com), which is a cost-per-action affiliate advertising network. The online advertising world is full of ad networks, so we had Adam Wicks Walker, Chief Strategy Officer at Hydra, tell us where they fit into the market. Adam Wicks Walker: It's a broad field these days.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Custom 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

One of those firms is Hydra (www.hydranetwork.com), which is a cost-per-action affiliate advertising network. The online advertising world is full of ad networks, so we had Adam Wicks Walker, Chief Strategy Officer at Hydra, tell us where they fit into the market. Adam Wicks Walker: It's a broad field these days.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Custom 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

He is the passionate visionary behind the product. Exercise TV is the largest, on-demand, fitness TV network, and is in nearly 40 million homes now, providing on-demand, fitness content from expert trainers. There are lots of products out there for gathering information, but it'd figuring out what to do with that information.

Media 168

Media Pricing Sites Training 168