Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cashflow personally every day.

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Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

As a startup advisor and investor, I find that more and more entrepreneurs avoid using the term “profit” in pitching their new venture. Thus I was pleased and a bit surprised to see a new book, “ The Purpose Is Profit ,” by Ed “Skip” McLaughlin, an entrepreneur who has both succeeded and failed in starting multiple businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day.

Search Engine Optimization 124

Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media Equity 124

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

I am a raving fan of AppSumo because the creator of the brand, Noah Kagan , leads his company focusing on community first and sales second. And he showed us examples how implementing his team’s innovations directly sky rocketed company sales. Noah has what I believe he called “Thank You metrics”. But you need to pay the bills!’

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

David Loo: Ultimately, at the C-level, the CIO requires data metrics and intelligence, in order to compete and make decisions and take actions to further a company's agenda. They end up either calling or emailing, and someone literally takes that same content, and manually enters it into a trouble ticket in a system like ServiceNow.

SaaS 113

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne: FEM is a video discovery platform that provides quality, relevant video recommendations for any website, app, or content network that is seeking to drive more engagement around video. Other people have worked on content recommendation before, how are you different? A lot of people have done content recommendations before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

Marketing media content from real customers in real time is now commonplace via sites like Yelp, Foursquare, and online reviews. All require planning, deliberate actions, and quality content and event creation which will likely absorb all the savings from reduced paid media campaigns. Long-term sales. Real customers.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

However, many people are not aware that prior to entering academia, Steve was a wily and creative marketing entrepreneur. He met with the editors of the three Mac magazines that his customers read and showed them metrics that confirmed that SuperMac's boards were the fastest on the market. "I Marketing's job is to make.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Marketing media content from real customers in real time is now commonplace via sites like Yelp, Foursquare, and online reviews. All require planning, deliberate actions, and quality content and event creation which will likely absorb all the savings from reduced paid media campaigns. Long-term sales. Real customers.

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Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day.

Startup 89

Startup Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 89

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day.

Startup 108

Startup Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 108

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Includes content mobile guides, ie.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2018

They start second-guessing their own vision, and are prone to making snap decisions suggested by someone else, in lieu of their carefully crafted processes and metrics. Entrepreneurs who can keep their cool under fire are the long-term winners I look for as an experienced angel investor.

Metrics 57

Metrics Entrepreneur Customer Custom 57

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

Unfortunately, many passionate entrepreneurs read this initial surge as success, and charge ahead with more of the same passion, leading to a series of potential pitfalls that can quickly jeopardize the health of the entire business. Early success is great, but it’s only the beginning of your hard work.

Startup 57

Startup Training Entrepreneur Customer 57

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? Especially with DVD sales declining, we offer an interesting way to help studios. Fascinating story.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2011

The venue was lined with vibrant and inviting decor, a spacious loft style presentation room, and plenty of mini-workstations for the motivated and social entrepreneur; a great setting for the presentation at hand. Metrics-Guided. Iterate until validated (through sales or tangible exchange). Lean Approach. Model-Focused.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

The same should be true of an entrepreneur who is attempting to secure money from sophisticated investors. Step 1: The Person, Not The Firm – As Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson make clear in their book Venture Deals , entrepreneurs should identify specific venture partners, rather than target firms as a whole. It’s not.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

After the event, we caught up, Parker Thompson , Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) charged with leading Batch 8. About $37B worth of lost sales a year, worldwide. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators. First, A Look Inside 500 Startups.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

The ability to objectively critique ones creative output is vital to an entrepreneur. In the early 1960s, conventional wisdom in the music industry did not lend itself to a systematic manner of evaluating creative content. Evaluate each of the following metrics on a scale of 1 – 10. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Ideas Resource Technical Review Startup 187

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Peter Csathy – CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures, accomplished media and digital media entrepreneur. Heather Wilburn – Founding Member of AdWords Program & Biz Dev Manager for Channel Sales team at Google. Peter Csathy jumps in to answer questions about content. Big or Bust?

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2013

It''s a line from an old movie "Field of Dreams" which is still leading to the demise of too many startups, led by entrepreneurs who really started their business to build an exciting new product or service. Most struggle with the idea and practice of marketing and sales, and see these as a necessary evil, if even required.

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Sales Startup Metrics Customer 105

InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

We were happy to accommodate his request, as the money derived from the sale of the sets allowed us to purchase vintage cards via our weekly newspaper ads. Many collectors, whose primary goal was to complete their collections, were content to have an Excellent or even a Very Good card, which ensured broader demand for lesser grade cards.

Pricing 138

Pricing Advertising Marketing Startup 138

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet. But while universities are developing online content they are not fundamentally disrupting leaning because the method of delivery is not a new business model. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Aggregate metrics. Content creation? See the books I recommend to friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. Only rare great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, have proven to be both. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline.

Ideas 122

Ideas Entrepreneur Startup IBM 122

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. Only rare great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, have proven to be both. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline.

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Startup Ideas IBM IBM 155

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. Only rare great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, have proven to be both. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline.

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Ideas Startup IBM IBM 115

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. Only rare great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, have proven to be both. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline.

Ideas 53

Ideas Startup IBM IBM 53

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur. Metrics availability. The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things).

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