Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Most existing metrics and analytics for measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty, including the popular Net Promoter Score (NPS), don’t distinguish between recommend messages to others (word-of-mouth), detract messages, or no message. In the past, retention and loyalty were often used interchangeably. Nobody said it would be easy.

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Custom Customer Satisfaction Social Media 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse. According to an Ernst & Young report , the number of startups that have gone public in the US over the past decade is down about 75% from the previous decade, to about 10% of startup exits. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 97

Startup Report Entrepreneur Statistics 97

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor).

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Invest Class Entrepreneur 174

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

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

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I have learned lots of lessons over the past 20 years about technology, entrepreneurship and investments. The net result of my posts plus the comments forms a tighter view of my evolving belief system. If I had link bait with stupid ideas then entrepreneurs wouldn’t want to work with me. So it goes with blogging.

Blogging 250

Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

In his premier film appearance in the blaxploitation send-up “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” Chris Rock inadvertently addresses a key pricing challenge faced by most entrepreneurs. A recurring entrepreneurial challenge is to determine the optimal price of a new product, especially absent a directly competitive alternative.

Pricing 100

Pricing Product Startup Custom 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. Any competition in LA? Events pay a listing fee.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. They have produced the only measurable increase in test schools for lower-income areas in the past 40 years on a sustainable basis. Please go see the film.

Class 340

Class Education Technical Review Writing 340

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart.

Venture Capital 311

Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Why has Monopoly, which takes hours to play, moves at a relatively slow pace, is completely devoid of surround sound and offers players no opportunity to blow up aliens or other combatants in high definition, remained so popular over the past 70-years? Just like in Monopoly, if this contract is broken, the entrepreneur can be thrown in jail.

Outsource Development 154

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Training Startup 154

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Many entrepreneurs stumble at this point, losing the deal or most of their ownership, by having no answer, saying “make me an offer,” or quoting an exorbitant number. The cost approach attempts to measure the net value of the business today by calculating how much it could cost for a new effort to replace key assets.

Startup 108

Startup Invest Patents Outsource Development 108

InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2011

As Fred points out, many entrepreneurs hear the word “debt” and promptly run the other direction. In the past, venture debt was often viewed as a funding vehicle of last resort. As with most negotiations, competition is the only way you will obtain an optimal result. Go ahead, I will wait…. welcome back. Do we have a deal?”

Equity 235

Equity Startup Invest Funding 235

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

To comment on the rocky state of Bitcoin affairs in the last 30 days, does Dan believe we’re past the worst of a media firestorm? A profile of the state of the Bitcoin industry and its presence of female entrepreneurs. Brock Pierce – Digital Currency Entrepreneur and Angel Investor. The ultimate plan?

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Many entrepreneurs stumble at this point, losing the deal or most of their ownership, by having no answer, saying “make me an offer,” or quoting an exorbitant number. The cost approach attempts to measure the net value of the business today by calculating how much it could cost for a new effort to replace key assets.

Funding 98

Funding Startup Patents Outsource Development 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Many entrepreneurs stumble at this point, losing the deal or most of their ownership, by having no answer, playing coy, or quoting an exorbitant number. The cost approach attempts to measure the net value of the business today by calculating how much it could cost for a new effort to replace key assets. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 93

Startup Patents Outsource Development Web 93

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. The whole point of this story, is that it's these little, small insights that entrepreneurs need to know.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

Doing nothing was the most realistic and potent competition faced by Citrix. Tags: Entrepreneur Strategic Planning The Fringe. Such companies, if they are able to complete a transaction, often sell at a discount. We avoided the risk of the deal becoming shopworn by not initiating a bidding process. . Do Nothing. Meredith Publishing.

Company 160

Company Companies Pricing Santa Barbara 160

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

It is surprising how often entrepreneurs forget this simple fact. As noted in Frugal is as Frugal Does , entrepreneurs on The Fringe only spend their cash on items that add value to their adVentures. Some companies use lawsuits as an arrow in their competitive quiver. In Search of an Oxymoron – The Ideal Lawyer.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124