Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s important to define your growth strategy, document it, communicate it to your team, and align metrics and employee rewards to target goals. The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader. Build a strong employee culture focused on growth. Plan a long-term strategy, and avoid crisis moves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

The Vinetta Project (www.vinettaproject.com), a group which is focused on helping to accelerate the growth of female-led startups, announced a few weeks ago that it is working with P&G Ventures, the internal "startup studio" of Procter and Gamble on an effort to help female-led companies in Los Angeles. What is The Vinetta Project?

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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. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

Networking is all about marketing yourself and your company. You can get started by visiting your local Chamber of Commerce and attending the next Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Build a marketing plan with deliverables and metrics. Cold calls to strangers and email blasts are not so productive.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I was speaking recently to the team at NuOrder , an LA-based company we’re an investor in about “realism in startups” — an impromptu talk I have given to any of our portfolio companies who ask. I am much more attracted to technical product teams than to new business concepts or commerce types. Innovator’s Dilemma.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. What is the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2019

Customers are pulled to companies that are role models for saving the environment, fostering social change, and giving back to the less advantaged. Implement marketing metrics based on inbound data. Inbound marketing requires that you be where your customers are, or they won’t find you or care. The key is consistency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

Don’t forget the local Chamber of Commerce and local business executives. Set target date milestones and metrics to gauge progress. For example, every business needs a company name and logo, incorporation, an Internet domain name and website, social media accounts, prototypes, intellectual property, and key executive positions filled.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

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Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Now, a new breed of companies is finally making it out, which has had a huge impact on valuations. There''s a huge backlog of companies trying to make it out. What''s interesting about ad-tech, is that with the exception of AdaptTV and AOL, there''s not a lot of large buyers out there for ad-tech companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2016

The number one metric we are targeting with Gatsby, is the pre-conversion and abandonment rate. While there are other companies trying to help companies with social influence, they are mostly trying to do this post conversion, and trying to measure influence of customers after the transaction. I love the book The Great Gatsby.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

The afternoon, with Tech Wildcatters ‘ Gabriella Draney and a handful of still-stealth eCommerce ventures, solidified that the industry of commerce is in Texas. Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics. One of Austin’s fastest growing companies, product video producer Invodo. Offline engagement platform EyeQ.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

By the late 1990’s, Conventional Wisdom dictated that companies should give their products away in order to quickly establish massive adoption. Never consider size metrics, such as headcount and square feet of office space, as measures of your venture’s success. The game was as bloated and sluggish as the company which spawned it.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

Kelsey Doorey: "Vow To Be Chic is the first company to offer designer bridesmaid dress rentals. We combine e-commerce and the shared economy with the bridal industry to bring an age-old tradition into the 21st century. We keep our eye on a handful of metrics, but we’re focused on customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

According to a study of 1700 CEOs last year, only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

The company has raised $1.9M We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. We're an AI company that works at the intersection of personalization and food.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that. UCLA Anderson really seems to be a hotbed of entrepreneurs nowadays - did you know going into the MBA program you'd be starting your own company? I started a handbag manufacturing company with my mom in Paris, prior to school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

This was a chance to blow open the story on their companies, to address a room full of potential investors, mentors, partners, customers, and press. Weekly inspiration talks with founders and CEO’s of successful tech companies (Box and Mailchimp to name a few). of the run rate came from foreign companies.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006. We also make some e-commerce revenue, because some people are ranking products, so we can make affiliate revenue or lead revenue on clicks on things like cars. Clark Benson: I founded the company in 2008, and we took a little over a year to launch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success. Define relevant metrics and measure. What’s the problem? My advice is to pick one, start slow, and spread out as you learn.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2016

How can your company best benefit from social networking ads in 2016? Heightened Security – While cloud computing, global e-commerce technologies, and mobile marketing has made it a wide open marketplace, these same technologies also increase the risks of being hacked or attacked from anywhere in the world. That was $15.5

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. There is a reason that companies like Google and Apple are notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to communicating their product strategy and roadmap. Sounds like a great group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. A business profile starts with a business account using your company logo as your picture (avatar), rather than your photo or a picture of your cat. Define relevant metrics and measure.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew spoke to us to give us a better idea of what the company offers and why it was started. What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company? It was the third week of December 2006, and I was involved with a biodiesel company. Who are you targeting with this -- buyers at companies?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

An example from Fullscreen: Optimizing user analytics tracking on a Fullscreen product, only to find out Facebook (which his company uses to broadcast user content) had completely changed their layout. Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads? Sometimes, the challenge comes from optimizing prematurely.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! Customers have long included some of the biggest names in social commerce and online gaming plus startups like TopSpin, Local Response, Maker Studios, StockTwits and the like. End of story. Or Likes – LIKES!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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