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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. You will be able to get to all of these posts on our 2020 reflections here. In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries.

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6 Benefits of Outsourcing and Freelancing In Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required. Direct customer-facing non-technical roles should be the last ones outsourced. with experience.

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5 Keys to Ensuring Credibility, Trust, and Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

All of us are struggling to keep up in this age of technological acceleration, where we learn every day that we can’t trust links in our email, marketing guarantees, or phone requests from people we don’t know. For trust, they look online to see how you handle real support and satisfaction issues. Take your first step today.

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6 Motivations Shared By Most Satisfied Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

While these are quite reasonable, I find that the real superstars in the entrepreneurial world today, such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk, started with even bigger aspirations, including moving computer technology into every home, and establishing a human outpost on another planet. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/18/2020.

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8 Brand Models To Attract Your Perfect Fit Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

Tech-focused service that solves complex problems. The customer experience is a function of satisfaction with both the service, support, and usability of complex products. You can find specialists in almost every industry, and their success is gated to customer experience and reviews. Purpose-driven rather than profit-driven.

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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs, especially technical ones, are excited by early adopters, and tend to focus on their feedback, which will always suggest more product features and options. Maintaining business momentum requires constant analysis and vigilance for market and technology changes, as well an internal focus on optimization.

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10 Positive Signs For Starting Your Own Business Now

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Marty Zwilling.

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