Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2014

Certainly, I’m not recommending just one more Facebook, with a couple of features from Twitter, since social media has an unlimited potential for innovation. Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. Timing is critical, as well as a focus on marketing and customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Its only been in the last 10 years that social-media companies, such as Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars, while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. High customer loyalty and high team passion. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/1/2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

Many entrepreneurs are so enamored with their product vision that they believe their own hype, and are convinced that the market for their solution is so huge that no one will ask them for independent market-research data. Conduct your own customized market research. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/15/2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Customers buy solutions, not technology. Limit the features and complexity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Crowdsource: putting your audience to work beyond customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Scott, just published a new book that I like,” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media. Social-media advertising.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

After all, Glossier’s founder and CEO Emily Weiss is very, very far from the first entrepreneur to profit off of our desire to look good. Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. If you don’t have a high level of commitment and passion, you customers won’t seek you out. Customers can touch and see a great product, but services are a bit ethereal.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). Hamet is a 3x entrepreneur and also former EIR with True Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2014

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Nothing is more discouraging to aspiring entrepreneurs than the high failure rate. Otherwise, look for advances from distributors, vendors or even future customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). billion by 2014. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. Much more data in the full post. There are 2.9

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

Entrepreneurs looking for investor funding often fail to realize that all money comes with strings. For example, if you have watched the Shark Tank TV series, you probably noticed that the Sharks always ask the entrepreneurs for their intended “use of funds.” Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 5/22/2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Most new entrepreneurs don’t anticipate the burdens of being the leader, including the sense of loneliness and isolation at the top. Even in a single entrepreneur startup, the leader carries a heavy weight. Even in a single entrepreneur startup, the leader carries a heavy weight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. If you want U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

This is a whole new world for startups seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions.

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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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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. DTC entrepreneurs are more focused on immediate impact, because if they’re not selling product, there’s no large brand propping them up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

Marketers see it as a better way to target customers, but the current consumer offerings have been slow to deliver. But entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the B2B space for more lucrative opportunities. Segments mentioned include product tracking, navigation, safety, security, local business search, and payments.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

Like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre use rap lyrics, Seth and I use social media instead. ” So we launched schoolofbookkeeping.com in 2014 and it grew and achieved and became a brand name in the industry. This silent feud between Seth David and I had been pretty one sided, until now. I did the rest.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen. The large U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Splunk Fastpitch – Auto tech Entrepreneur pitch hour. How Entrepreneurs Will Change the Automotive Industry. From entertainment to social media, Airbiquity’s aim is to provide an easy and seamlessly connected network of apps to enhance the driver’s experience. Audi Press Conference.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Developments Blog.

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