Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2014

Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist. One new metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). This works by asking your customers for feedback, and dividing them into three categories: Promoters. Legendary companies like Amazon and Costco operate with an NPS between 50 to 80 percent. Detractors.

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Customer Custom .Net Competition 98

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars-Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. You mentioned a little bit about the mentoring, what what other benefits would companies get from becoming part of an accelerator?

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Mentor Startup Coach Ideas 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. You mentioned a little bit about the mentoring, what what other benefits would companies get from becoming part of an accelerator?

Mentor 100

Mentor Startup Coach Ideas 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist. One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). This works by asking your customers for feedback, and dividing them into three categories: Promoters. Legendary companies like Amazon and Costco operate with an NPS between 50 to 80 percent. Detractors.

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Customer Custom Product Marketing 85

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The challenge is how to know and exit gracefully when the right time has come, without trauma to either the company or themselves. Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch clearly fall into this category. Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are business examples in this category. Keep good company. Aging despots. Helping others?

Tips 83

Tips Help .Net Startup 83

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

70–80% of the costs of most startups are employee costs so what you’re really talking about when a company is unprofitable is that they are growing their staff ahead of their revenue. I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective? I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2014

Every company wants a name that stands out from the crowd, a catchy handle that will remain fresh and memorable over time. When choosing an identity for a company or a product, simple and straightforward are back in style, and cost less to brand. Everyone will assume that your company name is your domain name minus the suffix “.com”

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Google Customer Custom Sample 117

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. In that context, I offer you my latest collection of popular investor-to-entrepreneur terms and concepts. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

In business, one important measure is the value of the company. That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

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.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? years in LA (early 90’s) many of my friends left to start companies in Silicon Valley. Can’t hurt.&#.

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Startup Email Technical Review Course 295

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2013

Every company wants a name that stands out from the crowd, a catchy handle that will remain fresh and memorable over time. When choosing an identity for a company or a product, simple and straightforward are back in style, and cost less to brand. Everyone will assume that your company name is your domain name minus the suffix “.com”

Startup 104

Startup Google Customer Custom 104

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. How is the company funded and backed? He joined Redpoint after we founded the company, but before we had gotten the money. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The reality, however, of the coexistence between immigrants and their American peers is proving to be a one-sided pursuit, with qualified immigrants struggling to stay in the country to join the companies that they have co-founded. category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. Take the U.S.

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Startup Offshore Entrepreneur 77

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. This enterprise netted the entrepreneurial student a nice fistful of bills before each test. the smartass entrepreneur replied, “It’s called business. I was once on the Board of such a company. From Small to Tall.

Ideas 153

Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44