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. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Yet if your service is consulting, for example, real travel is required to deliver the product. I’m talking about volunteering to be on industry panels for visibility, participating in startup weekends for education, and talking to groups of distributors or potential customers on technology trends. Brand building requires travel time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Every new startup needs to fight the urge to get the product out, and then start selling it. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. Every month, the Page will introduce a new theme that will focus on a topic important to a small business owner''s success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. Beat the competition.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. They have more knowledge of what a student's life is about, which is much better than a one page resume.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2013

Real job performance is more a function of productivity than hours worked anyway. Continuous improvement is the key to quality production. A constant increase in the quality of products and services, including more innovation and creativity, all lead to a healthier business. Find a stress reliever. Quality improvements.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. Or take a look at their team page to get a sense of why we were so inspired by their vision for the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

It’s especially important to highlight your uniqueness in some easy to remember way, so people will think of you and what you do, in case they need your product or service. Every product or service has specific attributes that are important to key customers, like integrity and trust, or customer focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link. I was wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

They bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Tell us about the breakthrough they’ll have when they’re using your product. I’m gonna do this page over from the start.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In school, you''re taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly. Maximizing Business Productivity. Productivity is much more than doing everything faster. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business One of the keys to maximizing the productivity and success of your team, as well as yourself, is motivation. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. It has been estimated that the average team member at any given time works at less than 50% of his capacity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. So don’t move the search bar from the top of a web page, or select a digit other than “0” for getting a human on the phone. Respect your customer’s view of usability.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

It’s a bedrock assumption in American economic policy that innovation and entrepreneurship drive job growth and lead to greater productivity, efficiency, consumer choice, and wealth. Or maybe it’s healthier in the long run when the government imposes more progressive taxation and puts the funds into education, social programs, and R&D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly. Maximizing Business Productivity. Productivity is much more than doing everything faster. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Operating productivity. Obviously, measuring staff productivity is important, and the reasons why are obvious. Productivity ratios can be applied to almost any aspect of your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Ask yourself where are the influencers in your market, the majority of your target customers, and what type of interaction will be most productive to your business? SEM is the most common form of online marketing, which increases your website visibility on search engine results pages through optimization and advertising.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining. Attendees will learn a method for evaluating and improving products and services in a truly lean and agile way – a way that. October 13: Usable Usability — Lean UX starts right here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The continuing rise in the price of fuel, combined with the ongoing evidence of global warming, has highlighted the need for alternative energy sources, and green products. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. New focus on a sustainable planet. Incentive to do something you love.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online. Michael Kleist: Oh gosh, that could be pages. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In the online world, you need a solid connection between your domain name and your product, brand, or business. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. Every month, the Page will introduce a new theme that will focus on a topic important to a small business owner''s success.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products. It's simple as Google Analytics, and you just place it on your canvas page for your application. So who is using your software?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The purpose of REACH is to explore, educate, and evaluate the future of tech, as well as experience new gadgets first hand. Inside Sony had a “booth” showing off their latest Vaio products for people to test and preview. Check out the TechZulu’s Calendar page to view all upcoming events here in LA and Silicon Beach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

Another approach is to diversify and broaden the product lines and services. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. Every month, the Page will introduce a new theme that will focus on a topic important to a small business owner''s success. Grab market share from competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

Incorporate your startup after the business plan, but before you spend a dollar on product development. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. Every month, the Page will introduce a new theme that will focus on a topic important to a small business owner's success.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products. It's simple as Google Analytics, and you just place it on your canvas page for your application. So who is using your software?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd. When the data are viewed in light of startups established by educated and experienced entrepreneurs, the success rate of such ventures increases substantially. Product Name.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. What's the biggest challenge you've had in bringing this product to market? I think the thing that is hard, is getting people to recognize how this product impacts their practice. What is Episona? Alan Horsager: We are an epigenetics data company.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

According to Patrick Vlaskovits another proselytizer of the term, “Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit.”. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it. It’s the whole conversion flow.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

He went out and found a developer and built a product. This person was educated at the best US schools and had worked for a top-tier strategy consulting firm – one of the big 3. The CEO had 60-page Powerpoint presentations analyzing every micro detail of the business. But then something awesome happened.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". It was really no longer than a page um. every three weeks.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. 49:35-51:30).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product? What about strategy?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers. And of course we had, TheMan. Now begins the 6-month journey.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 14, 2012

His logo, not the blank page, is what represented “a hundred thousand bucks down the drain.”. After much debate, the company agrees on their number one priority: to deliver a compelling product to the higher-education market by the Spring of 1987. And that is by what our product is and how timely we bring it to market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Go Boulder!

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