Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. He has helped many companies with this problem, and as an advisor to startups, I see the same common themes leading to growth slowdowns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Halla exists to help people understand a more curious world. When you say you help people make better choices, what does that look like to a user? Spencer Price: That's a fair question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. He has helped many companies with this problem, and as an advisor to startups, I see the same common themes leading to growth slow-downs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. He has helped many companies with this problem, and as an advisor to startups, I see the same common themes leading to growth slow-downs.

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Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 105

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. He has helped many companies with this problem, and as an advisor to startups, I see the same common themes leading to growth slowdowns.

Pricing 52

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 52

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2016

Facebook has Anthology, a service that connects business with media partners to help them produce quality videos to promote their brands online. Facebook already includes some report automation tools in their campaigns to help track metrics, but you may want to automate some of the publishing effort too with Hootsuite.com or Argyle Social.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

In fact, contestants were even given a chance to call a friend and poll the audience for help. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The term “flip” is used derisively by institutional investors to describe the sale of young companies. The payout was also unique.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

In fact, contestants were even given a chance to call a friend and poll the audience for help. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The term “flip” is used derisively by institutional investors to describe the sale of young companies. The payout was also unique.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. For businesses like this, finding new ways to drive more of these high-value inbound sales calls is key. Our platform helps them do that.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

I’ve spent almost 20 years starting businesses and helping hundreds of clients, colleges & friends start theirs. Choose a broker to help find an adequate business space on TheBrokerList. Create a sales forecasts and financial projections regularly. Execute the 5 Step Sales Process. Operations.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

“As voice API, voice broadcast and text messaging technology advances and cloud computing becomes increasingly sophisticated, more and more business – across all core market sectors — are discovering why cloud telephony is the future,” said Dinesh Ravishanker, CEO and co-founder, CallFire.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Get your votes in quick because it all end on Friday, August 27 th ! The constrai.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. Bottom of the sales funnel. Search for a restaurant, book a table, eat in 30 minutes. Morning in VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

In the past 6 months we’ve heard from Dmitry Shapiro on the future of online video, Ian Rogers on the future music model, David Sacks on the future of social networking and Michael Crandell on where Cloud Computing is headed. All have been fascinating. He also consults companies in Asia.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. I have seed some compelling arguments for or against – but mostly on costs. From a reliability & performance perspective for most applications it will perform beautifully.

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