Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

Courting them with ongoing updates and special offers through their social networks is a natural way to keep their loyalty. Without social media, companies must rely on incoming calls and letters to address customer problems and concerns with products and services. Keep up with the competition. Proactive customer service.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Platform 108

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Courting them with ongoing updates and special offers through their social networks is a natural way to keep their loyalty. Without social media, companies must rely on incoming calls and letters to address customer problems and concerns with products and services. Keep up with the competition. Proactive customer service.

Social Media 59

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 59

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners.

Competition 113

Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As an experienced business advisor, here is my current summary, with some of the pros and cons or special considerations for each: Product is free, revenue is from advertisers. The challenge is to get the first million customers, before advertisers will sign up. Facebook spent $150 million getting started.

Pricing 66

Pricing Customer Custom Advertising 66

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners.

Competition 116

Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. Tell us about your backers? Getting the talent is an issue.

Southern California 170

Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

Courting them with ongoing updates and special offers through their social networks is a natural way to keep their loyalty. Without social media, companies must rely on incoming calls and letters to address customer problems and concerns with products and services. Keep up with the competition. Proactive customer service.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Marketing Platform 79

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners.

Invest 74

Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The event is open to tech enthusiasts who want to join an event filled with some of the top leaders, investors and mentors from tech industry to network, find mentors and build their companies. Advertisers upload their 30 second ads and each time a user watches the ad, they receive $.50. Targeted mobile advertising.

Startup 79

Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world.

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

It should be the next generation content/ entertainment portal that leverages millions of user profiles to more accurately provide data to advertisers on what is appealing to specific demographics. Work with the studios to have premium Hulu-ish content prominently branded and for sale. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA.

Development Team Review 76

Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Bottom of the sales funnel.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization advertising effectiveness, content distribution, monetization. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I have other VCs that I love to work with but through a combination of desired geography, no known competitive investments and also Dustin’s preferences we settled on these two.

Invest 303

Invest Company Companies Web 2.0 303

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In the simplest form, new startups have a product that is INFERIOR to that offered by the competition but at a dramatically lower price with the seller opting for a very thin margin on their product. Google – They have led the deflationary pressure on advertising, bringing whole industries into chaos. Why Deflationary Business Win.

Startup 386

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 386