Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate entree on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good dinner, and be willing to pay for it. Make them “feel the love.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. The costs of these elements will be more than repaid by employee engagement and customer loyalty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

These show a focus on the business elements required for success, and metrics for ensuring accountability, management control, and feedback along the way. You need to show you have a “Plan B,” and a never-give-up mindset, in handling any competitive threat or customer reaction. Emphasize the value and skills of your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. This is a new class of software that can adapt in real time to market changes.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Steve's first question was, “Who are our customers?" I) took the 300 latest cards, personally wrote a questionnaire and called 300 customers. SuperMac's main customer base were color desktop professionals. All of a sudden I now had customers telling what market, how to reach them and what applications are important.

Marketing 271

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

To explain accountability, she and I are strong proponents of the Accountability Ladder , which has been included in every Management 101 class for many years. Usually these people think they are doing a great job, and are totally oblivious to their unhappy customers or cash drain. Wait and hope for a miracle.

Startup 116

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development!

Social Media 301

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate entrée on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good dinner, and be willing to pay for it. Make them “feel the love.”

Startup 81

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2016

To explain accountability, she and I are strong proponents of the Accountability Ladder , which has been included in every Management 101 class for many years. Usually these people think they are doing a great job, and are totally oblivious to their unhappy customers or cash drain. Wait and hope for a miracle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate entrée on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good dinner, and be willing to pay for it. Make them “feel the love.”

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2019

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. The costs of these elements will be more than repaid by employee engagement and customer loyalty.

Company 78

Company Companies Coach Satisfaction 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Ask for short conference calls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution.

Competition 113

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2017

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. The costs of these elements will be more than repaid by employee engagement and customer loyalty.

Satisfaction 67

Satisfaction Coach Startup Organization 67

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yes, we all know that stories of Facebook, Snapchat and Uber where the founders had either board control or super voting rights by class structure but this is actually the exception and you shouldn’t blow up a good financing option over this issue. If your metric move immediate up-and-to-the-right? But it’s quite rare.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. We are also building better segments of customer profiles that help the clients understand who their core audience is, but also helps us build predictive audiences for finding new people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate entree on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good dinner, and be willing to pay for it. Make them “feel the love.”

Startup 96

Startup Writing Metrics Marketing 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution.

Competition 116

Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Although we will do roughly one class a year, that''s 10 or so companies under the accelerator, seed stage model -- but we don''t really limit to three months in-and-out. An idea, prototype, customers, where? A prototype is one, but it could also be customer acquisition testing they''ve done. There''s many forms of data.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. Metrics availability. 0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn?

Startup 217

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2011

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate entree on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good pasta salad, and be willing to pay for it. Don’t stand still.

Entrepreneur 91

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

For investors, it gives them a dash board of key metrics, and ensures those investors stay in the loop. At one point, we had to turn around our model, when our number one customer--eBay--became our biggest competitor. We've had a class of people who have gone on to start fantastic companies, such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer.

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Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution.

Invest 74

Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Also, I consider ways to find and recruit world class team members and strategies for talking with investors--although mainly I focus on the product because ultimately everything starts with that.

Product 150

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2010

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate salad on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good pasta salad, and be willing to pay for it. Don’t stand still.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Startup Metrics Class 48

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Through ongoing analysis and refinement of existing processes, establishment of standards and metrics, team building and mentoring, Sergey has established a foundation and culture in which developers can flourish. Jenna can also search for local events, boot camps, or fitness classes. We have 115 paying customers right now.

Social Network 92

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

It forces the founder to spend time in front of customers. Now the AP class. ” Companies that are raising greatly in excess of their economic worth in today’s financial metrics had better absolutely grow into their valuations over time or hope they’re acquired before the music stops and the band goes home.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Redwood City, CA-based AltspaceVR is just one of the tech companies that’s trying to draw in more users or customers by creating new projects that put an election spin on their core offerings. The use of biological metrics and neuroscience in marketing is starting to expand to political research and campaign strategy-making.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Combine this significant pool of sophisticated Angel capital and expertise with UC Santa Barbara’s world-class entrepreneurial program and throw in a critical mass of entrepreneurs bold enough to build businesses around their passions, it’s understandable how a modest-sized community has produced so many successful tech startups.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. The exciting this, and the biggest benefit from bootstrapping this from recruiting, is I've been able to develop, and hand-pick a world class technology team. We've used the profits from NeoHire for funding.

Startup 140

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. Custom ad deals and partnerships. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

CalTech 91

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

You always want perfect data on what customers are doing. But what does the customer physically do at the theatre when they’re there and making a choice? Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads? He explains that PM’s must be data driven as much as possible. Online usage data, easy.

Product 87

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Who are the typical customers for your products? We've got a nice API with ties to the enterprise class applications. It's a month-to-month rental, although many of our customers buy the product--but they can do it on an operations budget. The pharmacy uses lots of passive barcoding and interrogators. READ MORE>>

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