Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

Another major source of services clients these days is online industry directory sites and ranking review articles. It pays to invest more in building remote relationships with these site owners, or spending quality time with podcasters and popular blog influencers. Provide relevant case studies illustrating your results.

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Services Technical Review Social Media Case Study 121

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

They do not know what they do not know which makes a meaningful conversation with a design agency very challenging. It will cost them too much and will create more work for them once the site has been deployed. And with 20% of traffic coming from smart phones your site has to be mobile friendly.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2009

Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com is looking to convince consumers that buying stuff online is greener for the planet than driving to your local store: and is backing it up with an academic study.

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Study Commerce Sites Design 113

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

It's really hard to do the study which requires you to drive weekly to a clinic, find parking, deal with traffic, and wait in a waiting room. The industry has been talking about democratizing clinical research, so it's not just restricted to traditional clinic sites, and is not restricted by socioeconomic income and status.

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Technology Study UCLA Research 133

Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

Designate a Work Area . According to a study from the Harvard Business Review , remote workers have a tendency to feel left out and even ganged up on when check-ins aren't part of the typical work schedule. This could include seeing log reports of the sites and services you've accessed. Avoid Public WiFi . Personal Well-Being.

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Tips Software Review Study Email 157

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Usability and user experience tests are an excellent way of discovering why your site is not performing like you thought it would. It is surprising to find out about what both web designers and marketers often miss, which are key ingredients of what your audience can see and not see on the website. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Professional user-friendly site design.

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Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Professional user-friendly site design.

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Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

million new users and 22 million unique page views to its clients’ sites as a result of its effective campaign execution. Our goal is to design effective marketing campaigns that are a natural fit with the Pinterest community and actually enhance the user experience of organic discovery,” Brennan added. million followers.

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Sales Technical Review Marketing Technology 101

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Professional user-friendly site design.

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Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 54

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

Most UGC sites try to spend time converting lurkers to contributors. Ming Yeow Ng asked, “Would you consider Facebook a UGC site?&# Great question. And more embarassingly to me Garindra Prahandono gave me this link to an article written by the guru of web design, Jakob Nielsen about the 1/9/90 rule written back in 2006.

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Technical Review Writing Content Sites 294

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. If you think about that, it's entirely logical, because commercial music is designed to be engaging. It's been very exciting, we're seeing an extraordinary amount of stickiness on the site.

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Help Startup Sites Research 219

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Deone Sulgatti: It's really the industry's first service and matching platform, designed specifically to connect Americans 65 plus with skills-based opportunities. I was consulting for an architecture firm, and essentially helping to recruit an individual to manage our firm's design team. What is Tengia?

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The company, along with its partners at PreistmanGoode also released the design for its passenger Hyperloop capsule at the London Design Festival. Former SpaceX rocket designer Brogan BamBrogan was one of the initial cofounders of Hyperloop One.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

I studied finance, and worked on Wall Street as a credit analyst, so I understand debt better. How''d you come up with the idea for the site? Ethan Senturia: If you''re a company, you can come to our site, give us a call, or shoot us an email. The site itself is the most efficient way to create a request.

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Startup Software Review Entrepreneur Equity 247

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Recently, an interesting project popped up on the site--a a 2D to 3D conversion project , from the inventor of the original, LCD projector, Gene Dolgoff. Then, there is our system.

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Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. Include links to other sites showing your positives. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them.

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Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

The curated design and photography-driven entertainment site is where GIFs and memes intermingle with stunning photography, video and the ability to purchase in app. Ellis points out a case study where they discovered viewers of a particular movie poster were the common thread among purchases of a particular turntable.

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Seed Funding Funding Commerce Social Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Simply, Sgrouples is designed to allow its users to share exactly what they want with exactly who they want without having anybody else see it. All users are protected from things like tracking, stalking and spying by advertisers inside of the site. As part of our privacy platform, we don’t discuss the exact membership of the site.

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Social Network Networking Sites Ideas 106

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

It is not limited to the realm of the top executive or board of directors, who could bring in consultants for studies and analysis. A client relationship suggests that the consultant is in charge, whereas the customer designation recognizes the more modern model of the customer in control. Treat a startup as a customer, not a client.

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Services Startup Software Review Social Media 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. It is not limited to the realm of the top executive or board of directors, who could bring in consultants for studies and analysis. Promote yourself with a title to match your expertise.

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Social Media Software Review Customer Custom 56

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2014

As Augusta sees it, "It''s that little voice in our head, that tell us, ''Go ahead, you can study tomorrow. 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. Why don''t you just lay on the couch?''

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Coach Startup Study Customer 182

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

Through simple design, extensive sensing mechanism research, and behavioral science principles, Moving Analytics is carving out its own innovative niche in a heavily competitive space by providing a simple solution for highly sedentary people. You recently conducted a pilot study. So that pretty much helped to influence our design.

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USC Southern California Activity Study 104

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

By having reputable people from reputable businesses listed in case studies, on the website with quotes and/or willing to take phone calls makes all the difference in the purchasing decision. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. Why Buy Now? That’s why websites offer newsletters.

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Sales Startup Platform Tips 319

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. If you want to succeed you need to study the competitors. But not to study what else is happening in a market is wrong. Study your history.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. Love the minis!

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Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Developing a mobile app can be extremely expensive and some retailers believe it is futile to spend that money if a mobile-optimized site is already in place. Why go through that whole process and use data when you can just go straight to a mobile site? REALITY: There are numerous features mobile sites cannot provide that apps can.

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Mobile Sites Customer Custom 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. She focused on her customer.

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Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The study of computer science brings broad based benefits, beyond the subject. Most importantly, he is a rockstar game designer, and had been at Disney for 13 years, working on things like Toontown Online, Pirates of the Carribean Online, and Pixie Hollow, among others. That was encouraging. Right away, we kit it off.

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Software Template Startup Study 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

So I did an internship in digital media space and then worked at Global Grind, a content media Hip Hop site, after graduation. Andrea: Anybody who’s looking for clothes, shoes or accessories can come to our site and put up a post of what they’re looking for with the size, price range, etc., We use the crowd source model.

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Startup Social Media Media Sites 99

Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

With the help of Visit Rapid City, Logar’s presentation convinced the ICPC Executive Committee to do a site visit. During the meeting, delegates also had the chance to share and display arts and crafts from their native cities at an event called “Pride of Place,” hosted by the Paducah School of Art and Design.

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Coach Technical Review Carson Networking 75

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

Here is a YouTube marketing case study they did. What these three successful viral videos have in common: Beautifully designed websites that are simple to read with engaging sales copy and a video on the homepage. To keep tabs on YouTube’s rising stars check out the site VidStatsX. 8 – Luck is always a part of it.

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Dollar Shave Club Customer Custom Marketing 101

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

In 2001, he co-founded SponsorHouse.com, the leading online sponsorship site for action sports. Emily Goligoski is a Strategic Programs Manager with online publishing company Federated Media’s and writes about arts, culture and design innovation. Scott Tilton loopd.com. . . Scott grew up racing motocross, BMX and mountain bikes.

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Social Media Social Network Media Writing 75

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. Mark Sylvester: We're only starting to study the data. Mark Sylvester: That's a great question.

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