Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today. The Wal-Mart home page is customized for each shopper based on location, local weather, and the customer search and purchase history.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2022

One 11-year study of over 200 companies over a decade ago, detailed in the book “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. I saw a good summary of these in the classic book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. They didn’t do this by selling better books or electronics, they did it by building a logistics & warehouse powerhouse. years of software development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2013

Facebook has today partnered with OpenTable to allow users book tables via a Facebook app dubbed Facebook Pages for restaurants. According to Facebook,”The update represents a new way of discovering and booking great dining experiences, all within the Facebook mobile app. ” Available on Facebook Mobile pages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. Now all we hear about is providing the best “customer experience.” I like the insights outlined in a more recent book “ Summit ,” by F. Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2012

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The market is changing so fast these days, and if you are not planning a solution today for tomorrow’s customers, you may be setting yourself up for failure and don’t even realize it. Regularly follow reviews and influencers in your industry. Ask the right questions, and listen to your customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2011

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Instead, expeditiously pick a reasonable moniker and then get back to work delivering value to your customers. Amazon – While arguably better than the company’s initial name, “Cadabra.com”, “Amazon” does not convey the company’s original core competency of selling books online. Thus, do not obsess during the naming process.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. I'm never trying to embarrass someone. I know how it feels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

There are also many other good sources of guidance, including the classic book “ Click Millionaires ” by Scott Fox. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Automate to the max.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software. 25 Years of Writing Code. The firm says its customers benefit from closing deals faster, exchanging files securely, and being able to manage more deals at any given time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2010

Yesterday I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups. Look for validation from your mainstream customers.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. Mike tells us about the company, who uses its software, as well as how he was initially turned away from the Amplify.LA

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2019

I saw a good summary of these in a classic book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. These can be as simple as how to handle customer over-payments, or more complex in how to handle the choices every employee may face between conflicting customer and company interests. Ethics can’t be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

I remember first seeing a good summary of these risk-reduction myths a while back in a classic book, “ How to Start a Business & Ignite Your Life ,” by Ernesto Sirolli, PhD. Their lack of trust and sharing will be noted by employees, vendors, and customers, and the business will suffer. Partner with experts who share the risk.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2011

It really provides the most relevant reviews, because when you're looking for reviews, you want them from someone very similar to you. Johnson: It's different from a traditional white label because if you look at a normal white label, you're just taking the functionality and you're just taking the software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

There are also many other good sources of guidance, including the classic book “ Click Millionaires ” by Scott Fox. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Automate to the max.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It’s true that we also fund more mundane stuff like B2B software aimed at productivity improvements but we want some big bets in every fund where we feel we can contribute to “making our own little dent in the universe” as the saying goes – by backing ambitious entrepreneurs with that same goal. ” Enter Grove.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Buy.com also reported that average customer orders are up by over 20 percent due to bigger purchases. Buy.com sells consumer electronics, hardware and software, books, games, clothing, music, toys, and more on its online site. READ MORE>>

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

There are also many other good sources of guidance, including the classic book “ Click Millionaires ” by Scott Fox. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Automate to the max.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

I saw a good summary of these in a recent book reissue, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. These can be as simple as how to handle customer over-payments, or more complex in how to handle the choices every employee may face between conflicting customer and company interests. Ethics can’t be managed.

Software Review 66

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

profitable and companies like Amazon who chose to focus on growth > profitability were not losing money on each book sale (ie they were gross margin positive). If you acquire 10 customers a month at $100 per customer and this scales to 100 customers at the same price you may make assumptions about 1,000 customers that don’t hold.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I should note that my friend Brad Feld has written a new book on the subject that I would recommend if you want the bible on the topic. The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Mentorship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2015

I saw a good summary of these in a recent book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. These can be as simple as how to handle customer over-payments, or more complex in how to handle the choices every employee may face between conflicting customer and company interests. Ethics can’t be managed.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2016

The software does keyword research, and it has an SEO checklist. The user of the software does not have to have previous marketing experience. One of the drawbacks of using BoostSuite is that once you install the code to your site, it may not add the BoostSuite tracker to all of your web pages. BoostSuite. QuickBooks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

The problem, according to Tiffani Bova in her new book, “ Growth IQ ,” is that it’s never just one thing. As the Global Customer Growth Evangelist at Salesforce, with implementation roles at many other companies, she makes a host of relevant observations for every business owner. Focus on selling more to your existing customer base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2013

I saw a good summary of these in a new book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. These can be as simple as how to handle customer over-payments, or more complex in how to handle the choices every employee may face between conflicting customer and company interests. Ethics can’t be managed.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Not too many people are aware of the success and story of Lynda.com (www.lynda.com), started by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin , and how the firm's now grown to a double-digit, multimillion dollar business which is known as THE source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Eric is also author of the book The PayPal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, And the Rest of Planet Earth , where he documented that experience. Let's talk about your experience at PayPal, as one of the first employees--for folks who haven't read your book? I wrote the book because I thought the story needed to be told.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. And when you’re looking at even earlier-stage companies (as VCs do) you might be even more focused on customer growth than revenue growth. Your revenue is the $75 million you got paid in booking fees. Not necessarily.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. If you’re a startup or product person and haven’t read his book Four Steps to Epiphany please do.

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