Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In fact, the first challenge is to build a strategy, put together a budget, and define measurement metrics. Set specific objectives, budgets, and metrics for each one. Content that works should be relentlessly repurposed, from web site to social media, events, etc. Pick a theme and a team for each and get started.

Marketing 96

Marketing Metrics Social Media Content 96

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Recipe Suggestions for Culinary Sites For culinary platforms or recipe websites, user searches can be incredibly varied, given the diverse range of ingredients and dietary preferences. Here's a suggested approach: Ground Truth Creation: Design a test dataset with established answers or recognized documents to serve as a reference point.

Generative AI 346

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Tool Knowledge Base 346

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Now, if your web site is not clear and clean, or you don’t have a chat robot for a product question online, you may be abandoned as providing poor customer service, just as certainly as having to wait in a long product exchange line after the holidays. The marketing metrics covers support as part of experience.

Custom 84

Custom Customer Company Companies 84

InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

Kelsey Doorey: "Vow To Be Chic is the first company to offer designer bridesmaid dress rentals. How will you balance designer dresses that wear out quickly with sturdy, fashion-unfriendly apparel? That said, we are working with our designers to create dresses in fabrics and styles that are more durable and will have a longer life.

Design 208

Design Custom Customer Satisfaction 208

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat. The site looks to be very well executed, where did you get the technology expertise to pull off the site? We have a really good team that brought this site up.

UCLA 256

UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

If you already have a strong customer base, create a brief survey to help you determine what social media sites they’re using and how to reach them in a targeted way. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Don’t forget the metrics and analytics.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional network and reputation of a globally recognized technology and innovation leader. see When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

Technical Review 170

Technical Review Technical Advisors CTO Coach Startup 170

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The day after we shut down the site, we got an email from this company, saying they had a big opportunity they'd like to talk to us about. We had some investors very interested but wanted us to validate some metrics, so we spent time building things to prove those metrics. We had a lot of reasons we had to do a lot of things.

Software Review 100

Software Review Startup Metrics Content 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Simply defining yourself as a marketing specialist, designer, or project leader minimizes the stigma of the consultant role. Adopt a project-based revenue model with metrics. A client relationship suggests that the consultant is in charge, whereas the customer designation recognizes the more modern model of the customer in control.

Social Media 56

Social Media Software Review Custom Customer 56

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

I also read - The Difference Between Apple and Microsoft Marketing that tells us: Apples marketing is designed for Time Poor buyers, while Microsofts is designed for Time Rich buyers. I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. Its certainly something to keep in mind.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

Reiss started with service design in the 1980s and thinks a lot of the things done then are the same things that people are doing now. It’s a whole bunch of different things including service design…that are all part of the UX.” ” Some call it service design or experience design or product design.

Social Media 101

Social Media Design Los Angeles Media 101

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. The best CEOs realize that they must transition from being individual contributors to team builders and adjudicators who settle conflicts of “resource allocations.”

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 286

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2015

However, in the hands of government bureaucrats, the definition of "physical presence" can become farcical, encompassing an independent affiliate which links to your site or a company's participation at a trade show. That may sound like a lot, until you consider that the metric is gross revenue, not profit. Sadly, this is not the case.

Sales 100

Sales Custom Customer Metrics 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2014

Augusta is rightfully proud of this emphasis, stressing that, "The program wasn''t designed around (job) performance or metrics. It was designed around our culture. At Zappos, the Coach''s primary responsibility is to make employees better people, not necessarily better workers. What''s going to make them happy?

Coach 182

Coach Startup Study Custom 182

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. The end user, regardless of the mobile device from which the website is being accessed, will see a mobile version of the your site!

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

They would search through Craigslist and other jobs sites for a film crew and the process of finding people manually was quite cumbersome. We got a very design-centric online portfolio for people to showcase their work like scripts, images, resume, and other things like that. We narrowed it down to key-metrics.

Content 81

Content Entertainment Startup Los Angeles 81

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Klout Puts Metrics Into Social Media Management - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , May 21, 2010 I really like klout.com for three good reasons: 1.) it’s about measuring online influence and I’m big on metrics as a key element of business planning; 2.)

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Those sites are on the large side, with 20,000 or 30,000 people. We wanted to bring the beauty of data visualization, of actionable insights to people in a very easy, very fast, very simple but very well designed way. We're working on how quickly we can provision servers, and what those metrics are, and it's been fantastic.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

One guy was a designer, two guys were Ruby engineers, and I included – not an engineer. My every day is trying to fundraise, reaching, re-reaching out, and trying to keep people updated with metrics. But the most important thing about design forward companies is that your conversion rates are a lot better.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Their solution is ingenius in its design. In seed stage funding, we’re often told that the investments are ultimately about the people/teams, and not necessarily the metrics. Ohmconnect - “AirBNB for energy” solves the ever-growing energy crisis by recruiting the help of everyday utility users.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Such cultures, those industries, are what drives investment, talent, and success to those locations, as the entire ecosystem is designed to foster growth therein that very culture. Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics. Outside of cattle, boots, and oil, are Texas’ industries readily apparent?

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

This year, it being our third year in a row conducting on site interviews and live streaming, we definitely had to ensure this year’s lineup was up to snuff with the great ongoings of SXSW. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Here are some sites from the trade show floor!

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Startups have always pushed the edge by emailing investors they didn’t know, so overall, there’s been no transformation of the process, except now, with sites like ours, there is now a more streamlined way to do it.” Our goal is to design something that can help people craft their stories.”

Invest 83

Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Design-wise, here are some things to consider: What’s your “event&# hierarchy and what level of granularity do you want?

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29