Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

For example, think of all the specialized social-media sites that allow the use of your Facebook or Twitter credentials, instead of forcing a new one. That’s a win-win-win deal, since the ease-of-use attracts more people to the new site, it enhances the Facebook brand, and it simplifies the customer interaction.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2015

The post Emotional Intelligence Technology To Light Up Santa Monica at 2015 Twilight Concert Series At The Pier appeared first on TechZulu. In order for the lights to activate, there are four points of input: Crowd Density – Infrared technology tracks and displays the collective audience movement.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 12, 2015

However one of the often underestimated, or potentially overlooked, trends is the customization and personalization options we get because of tech. In fact, I wrote about a company recently that lets you design, choose, and print customized vinyl decals for your car – it’s super cool. All of us at Tech.Co have covered this topic.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

In November of 2015, Citrix announced that it will spin out the “GoTo” Division, of which GoToMeeting remains the flagship product, as a standalone public company. I knew that every dollar I spent to acquire a customer resulted in a 4x return. I paid them a flat fee for every trial customer they drove my way.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Developing a mobile app can be extremely expensive and some retailers believe it is futile to spend that money if a mobile-optimized site is already in place. REALITY: Regardless of cost, retailers need to deliver to customers through mobile and online channels to stay relevant. percent in brick and mortar stores.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2015

Your business name will have the same impact on potential customers. Tricky spellings send customers to competitors. Today, everyone expects to find you online, and competitors quickly learn to route all misspellings of your business name to their sites. Confusion will cost you customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Treat a startup as a customer, not a client. A client relationship suggests that the consultant is in charge, whereas the customer designation recognizes the more modern model of the customer in control. It also highlights all aspects of required customer service, satisfaction, loyalty and referrals to peers.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Bryce Maddock: TaskUs is the best provider in the world of customer care and back office services for emerging growth companies. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. We do a whole host of other back-office services in that space. Who are some of those companies?

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

We also work closely with manufacturers like Kia and Suburu, and work with research sites like Kelly Blue Book and Edmunds, who both utilize our imagery as well. We are across many platforms, and have a whole array of enterprise customers. Since the inception of the company, we've been doing everything in 360 degrees with our imagery.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 22, 2015

The results were recently published in the 2015 Call Intelligence Index. Non-mobile, online channels, such as desktop search, display ads and review sites drive 30% of calls. 75% of all calls to businesses originate on a mobile phone. 75% of all calls to businesses originate on a mobile phone.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

As part of Project VIP, AT&T plans to increase the density of its wireless network by deploying more than 10,000 macro sites, more than 1,000 distributed antenna systems, and more than 40,000 small cells. 4G LTE With Greater Speeds & Wider Coverage. The post AT&T’s 1.9 Billion Investment In Greater L.A.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2018

The reason why, is we want to let you fall in love with those products, and continue to let you buy them on our e-commerce site as well, and also discover all of the product line for those brands. Justine Lassoff: We launched in 2015, and we have now been around for three years. What's your background? Where is the business today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising. The control is yours to keep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Don’t expect angels to invest in work-at-home schemes, gambling sites or debt-collection type business proposals.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. In 2015, issues of online security and data privacy consumed headlines. wireless carriers will begin to treat enterprise customers differently. Data Security Concerns Dominate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2015

All of these must be updated at least quarterly, based on feedback and results from customers, and communicated to the team on a regular basis. Did you know that both Facebook and YouTube started out as dating sites? Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/12/2015. Do you fit that mold?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

They can find additional grants from large philanthropic directories, and your favorite alma mater site. Some entrepreneurs become stuck in development, fixated on winning just one more grant, rather than moving on to marketing and real customers. The only real funding that counts in startup success comes from customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2015

People can build great ecommerce sites with free tools, smartphone apps in their spare time and use crowdfunding to bypass the dreaded angel funding and venture capital penalties. A business that tries to do too many things for too many markets will likely excel at none and discourage all potential customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

Join online "matchmaking" sites for business partners. Co-founders are business partners for startups, so don’t be afraid to join and explore sites such as StartupWeekend, StartupAgents and CoFoundersLab. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 3/27/2015. Great teams persevere, and success breeds success.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2015

Between January and May 2015, Amazon has indicated it has received about 813 subpoenas with 542 already responded to. Amazon is famous for its web retail business but its future seems to have changed for the better courtesy of its cloud services powering millions of services, sites and apps across the world.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

Over the next few months, Seth focused almost entirely on creating content for the site. I was cool with this and we agreed that I would handle the site build out, site management, all customer facing responsibilities, all sales, marketing and operational aspects of the business except for our accounting of course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2015

Yet surprisingly, according to statistics on the Fundable crowdfunding site, friends and family are the major funding source for all entrepreneurs, investing over $60 billion in new ventures last year, almost triple the amount coming from venture capital sources. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 5/22/2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, if a company website generates extensive visitor traffic at a particular point in time, the enterprise may continue to serve customers without obvious interruptions in service because its cloud-based server architecture permits the distribution of visiting traffic among servers in different locations. Greater Niche Functionality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2016

Defer your urge to find office space until you have customers. Another is the use of an ecommerce site, rather than retail, to facilitate product sales seven days a week, around the clock and around the world. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/25/2015.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

That allows you, for example, to access your factory in Dubai, rather than having to always fly to the site. It will cost you money, or people will steal your money, or it will cost you a customer. As they did that, they were not only increasingly connected internally, but people started to have remote access to those same systems.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2015

Now finally, in 2015, the budget is estimated at $5.1 Hacking is big business , and cyber attackers can take down the websites of large companies and extort them for money to get the sites back online. The expenditures reported by the Pentagon have seen continual increases in budgets to protect against cyber warfare attacks.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco. With the help of Visit Rapid City, Logar’s presentation convinced the ICPC Executive Committee to do a site visit. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. Rapid City, South Dakota.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We manage user login so businesses can focus on core product and engage customers faster. Fun Fact: Preventing spreadsheet abuse since 2015 – one company at a time. Toys, treats, and training guides customized for your puppy. Fun Fact: Beeketing is named from Bi (beloved dog of Alice) and Marketing (our interest). From: India.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

If I write about startups where I’m concerned about bullying or inappropriate use of customer data I am all too aware that each have investors, each have founders and each have friends. I don’t know what blogging will bring in 2015 but I hope to go back to the day when I was just blogging for the hell of it.

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