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5 Keys to Ensuring Credibility, Trust, and Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

This distrust for the scripted message has led to a new demand for unfiltered marketing, and the emergence of business credibility heroes, like Elon Musk, with his bold statements about space travel, and sometime villains, such as Mark Zuckerberg defending Facebook privacy practices. Real-time in-process updates vs after-the-fact stories.

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

Both Sides of the Table

In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. Some people draw satisfaction by pointing at you and saying, “See! They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. Look how stupid that guy is!”

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Interview with Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

socalTECH

We invest in and acquire software companies who are in somewhat niche markets, which often times the big venture capital firms have passed over, because the total available market for those companies is only $100 to $200 million. The market was probably $100 million or less when we first looked at Accordent.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. Letting our customers and the market know that we were a real organization with real people rather than a pre-packaged, pre-processed marketing machine. Customers, press and the market responded positively. ‘ Here are some steps in the Inside Out organization.

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

Even better, we resolved all of them to full satisfaction and refunded all monies requested. First Data of Santa Barbara has offered to extend below market rates to current accredited businesses like yours – again, just like they did for your BBB. 2006 Closed Complaints – 1. Not too shabby IMHO! Now it gets good!

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One Book Every Entrepreneur Should Own

Both Sides of the Table

After the accident I resigned as CEO of a public company put our house on the market, and set in motion a plan to take a year off and travel the world with my family once we all recovered (which we did in 2006)” In the past, I wanted more things. Now I want fewerebut higher-quality things. In the past, I dreaded vacation.