Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Tech may be the tool, but hospitality – making life a little easier, more comfortable, and more enjoyable for your customer, is the winning focus. Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers.

Technical Advisors 82

Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 82

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked, Cloud-based enterprise platform for deal management and investor reporting, Wednesday announced a new suite of enterprise features in a move to take transactions mobile. But a lack of competition has also lead to a lack of innovation, resulting in low customer satisfaction and frequent complaints of difficult-to-use products.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Cloud-based business transactions platform, CapLinked ,today announced additional investors and the final results of its Series A financing round totaling to $2.1 Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors. Over $3M Raised. Easy To Set Up.

Draper 68

Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets. SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.”

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SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2017

Having a website won’t help if customers can’t find it. They expect to find you on the first result page from search engines, and position ranking is driven by relevant keywords, new content on a regular basis, and inbound and outbound site links. Use social media to actively engage with your customers.

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Social Media Search Engine Optimization Startup Customer 57

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Plus, we provide all of the back end fulfillment--it's soup to nuts--from manufacturing, to fulfillment, to customer service. There are lots of custom merchandise sites out there--how do you compete?

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. It won’t be easy.”.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The premise is simple: if you want to engage with your customers, go where they are and where you can matter. Apps largely depend on smartphones and since people check their phones by the minute, sleeps with the phone beside them, and just can’t live without them, your brand automatically occupies that special place in their customers’ lives.

Mobile 40

Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The product is broad, because it covers everything from ancestry testing to whole genome scan, to genetic predisposition testing, which tests if you might have a risk of diabetes or heart disease. We spent four months designing the product--traditional wireframes and specs, and built and launched it in September last year.

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Content Services Resource Sample 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. One story is, “Hey, maybe there’s something to this Google+ product?”. It is a must have if you’re building a technology product these days.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307