Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Start building your customer community early. It's the first step to full use of social media marketing. Let that ideal co-founder find you.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2015

Your business name will have the same impact on potential customers. Tricky spellings send customers to competitors. Most startups don’t have the resources, and should be more humble in starting with a name that customers will recognize. Your desired name is not available on the Internet and/or social media.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

In fact, for startups, it usually makes sense to announce your solution on social media and blogs even before you have built the first one. Let me summarize the advantages of this to your startup: Immediate real customer feedback. Time to train and prepare staff to deal with customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Customer support is more than handling exceptions. Your challenge is to present a total business solution to the right customer set to build your credibility and momentum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Thus it’s a waste of time for most entrepreneurs to be looking for investors until they have a product and some customer revenue. Business success requires customers to see a solution as exciting, and they rarely care about the technology behind it. The ultimate risk is trying to sell a solution that customers don’t need or want.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In fact, both customers and investors often avoid the perceived high risk of innovative technology pitches. Customers don’t like new learning curves or dealing with unstable solutions. Early adopters love new technologies, but mass market customers want solutions, not technology. "If Do both in parallel to be timely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Customize your organizational structure based on individuals' strengths. Technology can be used to facilitate customer support and sales, as well as enhance your product. Comparisons should always be with competitors and customer expectations of excellence. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/14/2015.

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Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to reassure users Wednesday that its new and old modifications will prevent the wholesale capture of millions of personal profiles, like the 50 million that fell into the hands of political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica by 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2015

Customers and opportunities don’t wait. Some of you may remember MySpace , which came early to social media, but lost the lead to Facebook by evolving too slowly, many analysts say. People on the team need to see progress, investors relish growth and customers love brands that appear to be on the forefront of a wave.

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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. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Instead, find and quantify the specific demographics of the subset that your solution best fits, and target all your features and messaging to those customers. A near-term customer value proposition. In all cases, you need customer support, formal processes and training in place. Solution production and support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Keep some reserves for a focus on the urgent priorities of strategy, attracting customers and beating competitors, rather than the crisis of the moment. Actively listen to mentor and customer feedback. With today’s social media and crowdfunding platforms, you can effectively test the waters before you build.

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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. Bryce Maddock: We''re fortunate enough to work with a vast majority of today''s most successful startups.

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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. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Traction in the marketplace.

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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

Likewise, those who feel compelled to keep up with the popular media will spend most of their time courting investors. Defer your urge to find office space until you have customers. Social media is also an invaluable and inexpensive marketing approach, since no one buys a solution they can’t find or don’t know anything about.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Demonstrate a concentrated focus on customers early on. Investors look for entrepreneurs who are customer-centric, rather than technology-centric. Even before you build a product, you should be interacting with potential customers in person, and through social media. Confidence lost early can never be regained.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Serge Gojkovich: CurbStand gives customers the opportunity to go up to our valet stands, and know that those stands are there, and that they don''t have to have cash, and we''re just now launching on-demand services where those customers can request their car. What''s your strategy behind geographic expansion--has that been difficult?

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Tech.Co

JULY 31, 2017

While back in 2011, a cell phone user received or made 12 phone calls a day on average, the number has dropped to just 6 calls in 2015. With all sorts of text/video messaging apps, email and social media as the primary mean of communication, the phone has become both a public and a business nuance.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. Top media giants Facebook and Alphabet are determined to grow this number with the introduction of various airborne devices designed to bring internet to the far corners of the globe to boost their revenues. One of the stars of 2015 was undoubtedly Slack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

Through peers, social media or connections, make every effort to meet one or more of the investors before the actual pitch. If your startup has a proven revenue model, real customers and is ready to scale, approach the best investors even if it costs you more money. Don’t be a total unknown to every investor in a meeting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Crowdfunding is the hot new vehicle for raising money to support your entrepreneurial efforts, with over 1,250 website platforms around the world to help you, according to a 2015 industry report. While all this is definitely a boon to entrepreneurs, it does come with its own set of challenges.

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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. As outlined a while back by Adam Holden-Bache on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, along the following lines: Strategic partnerships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2015

Yet the 2015 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. Work relationships are in vogue, inside a company for collaboration and teamwork, and outside to customers and partners through social media for loyalty and interactive marketing. But all good things can be overdone. Marty Zwilling.

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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. 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. I did the rest.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. While running my family wine business , I used Twitter’s search for market research and to find new customers. It was, and still is, an incredible customer service tool. What Twitter looked like soon after launch in 2006.

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