Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Silicon Valley is focused on disrupting established industries, but in many parts of the world, innovators must create new sectors, such as education, health care, financial services, and energy. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Design the full stack, not just a new software element.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Ownership. Idea management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Meeting people and talking about your ideas won’t get you very far.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. They drive the market, rather than the other way around. Input = output.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 You need executive buy-in, committed budgets, and education for the whole team on objectives and activities. Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. billion users). LinkedIn (300 million), Twitter (288 million) and Pinterest (70 million). You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Meeting people and talking about your ideas won’t get you very far.

Ideas 53

Ideas Startup IBM IBM 53

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2013

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities, where people relate to and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. I’m seeing a renewed appreciation of culture and values in business these days. Input = output.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Key social networks are Facebook (500 million consumers) and LinkedIn (60 million professionals). Put your social network links on your stationery, business cards, and email. Implement metrics and analytics. Then set your goals.

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Social Media Media Startup Blogging 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2012

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities, where people relate to and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. I’m seeing a renewed appreciation of culture and values in business these days. Input = output.

Startup 100

Startup Custom Customer Social Network 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities, where people relate to and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. I’m seeing a renewed appreciation of culture and values in business these days. Input = output.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Pierce mentions the bigger potential of the technology beyond currency, diving into its role as a decentralized network. He mentions double and triple bottom-lined companies and tells us investors are starting to require metrics to see measurable social and global value. . An audience member brings up education.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

AltspaceVR has created a virtual replica of NBC’s Democracy Plaza in New York’s Rockefeller Plaza, the backdrop for network anchors during the debates and on election night. The use of biological metrics and neuroscience in marketing is starting to expand to political research and campaign strategy-making.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code. It's very easy to implement, and we're also starting to sign up partners not in the application space but who are traditional social networking sites. We're going through the education process right now.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: What is great about Anderson, is it has so many programs to help you streamline your ideas, come up with viable idea, and articulate the vision and asses the market, write out business plan, learn how to pitch, how to do a long investor pitch, how to do fast pitch, and learn effective, entrepreneurial specific networking.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code. It's very easy to implement, and we're also starting to sign up partners not in the application space but who are traditional social networking sites. We're going through the education process right now.

Social Media 100

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2015

However, social networking sites also have rules. If you are planning to go digital and employ social media marketing, you must educate yourself on these rules or all your efforts will go to waste. Measuring online metrics is important to give you direction in your digital strategy. The online-offline connection.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). Not so bad.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

Not only that, it has also improved how we communicate with others via our social media networks, e-mail addresses and voice chats. The internet has revolutionized human life by being able to provide instant and quick access to information.

Social Media 40

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

He found it was extremely difficult to raise money and had a limited network. As quickly as the bill began to pass new regulatory statutes, Chance was able to build up an active network of accredited investors. In addition, they aim to educate entrepreneurs on important topics like: Defining a lead investor and how to find one.

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