Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. “In order to create a successful new company, you have to find an idea that. (1) I described that here in this post.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. The firm says its customers benefit from closing deals faster, exchanging files securely, and being able to manage more deals at any given time. million Raised. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6

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Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It’s a fun company, but customer acquisition is the biggest challenge we face. We have 34,000 customers already, but we need more more more. Throughout the day, I typically refresh our new customer tracking to see how many new customers have been booked for the day. I think she gets that.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

CapLinked’s enterprise customers will also have the option to leverage Quipa’s innovative data-in-transit security technology for transferring files in and out of the cloud. This allowsCapLinked to offer its customers a security option that’s both state-of-the-art and unobtrusive.”. Cutting Edge Technologies.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni. Judges Prize: $250. Sizhao Yang: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga. George Ishii: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Early designer of Paypal. Josh Woods: Senior Engineer at BetterWorks. 8 patents pending, and world programming finalist.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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. I lived through an amazing experience over the next four years.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. Enter Xobni.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. Geni.com beget Yammer. They were rapidly innovating and involving customers. I could go on and on. Great entrepreneurs pivot.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I think our customers will appreciate it. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I think our customers will appreciate it. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

What Nimble is, is a web-based solution that unified contact, calendar, and the way you communicate with those people, which also integrates social listening and engagement, all in a single place, so you can attract and retain the right customers. Why did you decide to again set your sights on contact management? Everything is in one place.

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JULY 29, 2010

People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital. People also buy for defensive reasons or ego but that’s a different story.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

But what if you’re a credit card company and you want to know where to find your next customers? Already 2/3rds of our customers are ingesting 2 or more data sources including Facebook, Tumblr, WordPress, Bit.ly and so on and we do private implementations with the likes of Yammer and others. Those are the obvious cases.

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MARCH 22, 2010

If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. Use the fact that you were on an anointed list to build credibility when you eventually approach journalists (and VC’s, customers, employees). Many other great companies are not. - They see journalists as a means to and end.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

When I did my customer reference calls with some of the largest corporate buyers in the country who have adopted Tact I heard the same narrative repeatedly “We use CRM tools but our mobile workforce always struggled with adoption. making the experience “as easy as buying a book on Amazon.” This is the area where Tact has crushed it.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? They fund people with no customers. We need to sign up a few more customers and prove we can make money.&#. It is the very fabric of what I believe forms the entrepreneur DNA.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users. We will enable segmentation of the population to produce customized messages and actions. This is big business.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

Initially their only customers are people who can get by on the reduced functionality or perhaps don’t have the money to spend on the expensive product. Often major customers defect en masse to the new entrant as they realize that the huge price premium is not justified by the product differentials. It’s remarkable.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. Many of the biggest customers wanted to be able to physically walk through our data center – how could I give up something so strategic? I was dead set against it. Especially to a company that sells books!

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