Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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TechEmpower

MAY 28, 2015

At Peak Hosting , we're big fans of TechEmpower's Framework Benchmarks, an open source project the company has been coordinating since early 2013. As a managed hosting provider, we were able to provide the project with the same types of machines that our customers use to run their production environments. versus 1.05M).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Yet the average perception of customer experience continues to decline. You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the Facebook fiasco. Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection. Line up a winning team.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. Today they announced the mobile version of their product – I’d be grateful if you would download it and give it a spin. and then took the lid off of the product by announcing the company – I wrote about that here.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Bobbie One startup that's proved to have the formula for success this year is Bobbie – the first infant formula to be certified as organic by the USDA, and the fastest-growing product of its kind to enter the US market since the 1980s. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. million in 2023, up from $181.5 million in 2022.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. If you can figure out why people care about your product, you’ll have success regardless of the platform du jour. You need influencers more than advocates. Where did your friends go?

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Being one small company amongst the sea of thousands of startups vying for customers, capital, and talent, the way to get noticed above the crowd, connect with that next big partner, and raise some capital is to throw your hat in the ring to compete at Startup of the Year. A Strong Alumni Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

You may have gotten some articles that covered your product launch or may have gotten into industry rags but this might be your first time on TechCrunch, AllThingsD, PandoDaily, GigaOm, Business Insider or the equivalent. So while you get the benefits of recruiting, being on VC radars and customer legitimacy there are also downsides.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. If you can figure out why people care about your product, you’ll have success regardless of the platform du jour. You need influencers more than advocates. Where did your friends go?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. If you can figure out why people care about your product, you’ll have success regardless of the platform du jour. You need influencers more than advocates. Where did your friends go?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. Inogen''s products have allowed hundreds of thousands of housebound lung disease patients to leave their homes without the fear of running out of oxygen. The TMP began in the late 1990''s as a single class inside the Engineering College.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. If you can figure out why people care about your product, you’ll have success regardless of the platform du jour. You need influencers more than advocates. Where did your friends go?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3 This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Analytics will soon drive nearly all business decisions for any company that wants to remain relevant to its customers.

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Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

Add in public company demands, lawsuit targets, & millions of customers to continually satisfy, and you have to have great respect for those doing it well. After selling my last company in 2013, I was part of Intuit, one of the better-run large companies. At scale, product differentiation is taken for granted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2013

Too many relationships never advance beyond this stage, resulting in poor communication, no cooperation, low trust, and low shared productivity. This is a productive working relationship where one party, more knowledgeable and/or experienced, takes an active role in fostering the advance of the other. Workship - Mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. These are the ultimate chess players in the game of business, always looking to be two or three moves ahead of the competition. External forces (competitors and customers). But none have any lock on success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Yet the 2013 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. She outlines the potential benefits of “workships” (work relationships) evolving into friendships and romances as follows: Improve communication and productivity. Can be a competitive advantage. Competition over salary, promotions, and position.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp was launched online in Beta in January of 2013 and our startup team is based in Los Angeles. Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production. Any competition in LA?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

The site went into public Beta in October 2013 and the Grokker community is growing rapidly. Monthly new members are increasing 800% increase since Dec 2013. You can completely customize your Grokker experience into collections to create your own series of exercise and/or recipe how-to videos for easy access.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A main goal is to meet other people through the content they publish and find products and services you are looking for. Articles give deeper insight than short descriptions of products/services and allow users the chance to demonstrate their industry knowledge. Competition? How unique are you from the competition?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The premise is simple: if you want to engage with your customers, go where they are and where you can matter. Apps largely depend on smartphones and since people check their phones by the minute, sleeps with the phone beside them, and just can’t live without them, your brand automatically occupies that special place in their customers’ lives.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 22, 2008

billion in 2013. “Now we need to ensure that policymakers at the state level help promote ePerscribing and that medical practices across the country embrace the technology.” As more IT vendors comply with government regulation, the systems integrate better and customers and clients receive more efficient products.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.

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