Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. More and more customers choose a company based on their perceptions about the good that they do, as well as their price and service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

It also highlights all aspects of required customer service, satisfaction, loyalty and referrals to peers. If your customer needs service and support procedures, then your deliverables should include customized creation, implementation and training, rather than simply recommendations on what to include.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Selz, run by a team of around 50 in Sydney, Australia, bills itself as a one-stop-shop for small businesses to start selling products and services online. ” However, the platform shuttered in 2015, just five years after its launch. As we mentioned above, Amazon used to operate a similar service to Selz with its Webstore platform.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service. Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are entering the mainstream for mobile users, but I’m not sure why. But entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the B2B space for more lucrative opportunities. And comScore tells us that there are already more than 100 million smartphone users in the US.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Coming up with a new idea, and launching your startup is one thing, three entrepreneurs do this every second. 2016 looks set to be a sobering year for the growth of startups in the world in contrast with the highs of 2015. This could involve moving to a bigger office, readdressing your core data systems or launching new services.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software. Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. You’re not a SaaS entrepreneur, you’re a software entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

These days, I’m hearing more and more about Location-Based Services (LBS) as the next big opportunity for startups. But entrepreneurs need to look more broadly than this to tracking, navigation solutions, safety, security, local business search, and payments. They claim 51% of the people surveyed around the world have already used LBS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A popular myth these days is that successful entrepreneurs must attract investors to get their businesses going, when the reality has been that more than 80 percent of new businesses are started and grown with no outside investment at all. They forget that the product or service makes the brand, not the environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2015

Being an entrepreneur seems to be one of the most popular lifestyle aspirations these days. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to pick the startup model that best matches their real motivation. You won’t be a successful and happy entrepreneur if you aren’t motivated to build a business.

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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. So, what is TaskUs?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. are actually matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/13/2015.

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

Currently, the model that most companies use, including the industry leaders, is to employ independent contractors to deliver their service. Scot Wingo, founder and CEO of on-demand car wash service Spiffy says that model is not a one size fits all option and has caused other services to collapse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Yet, as an advisor to startups, I see some common disasters, and recommend some anticipation and recovery moves that can save every entrepreneur some painful time and money. While every entrepreneur needs to remain upbeat and optimistic on all of these, it is also smart to anticipate the worst case scenarios that are possible with each.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Every entrepreneur is quick to tell friends and potential investors about his or her vision of changing the world, about all the customers who have expressed an interest, and about all the other investors who are lining up to get a piece of the action. Many entrepreneurs feel they need to spend more money to increase traction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Most investors won’t touch a first-time entrepreneur at this stage. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/25/2015. Yet, knowing this distinction is important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets. Interaction with customers is usually started by responding dynamically to customer-service requests, but must be extended to online chats, comments and social media. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/19/2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The IoT for Cities Summit and Challenge , scheduled for March 10-11, 2015 , in San Francisco will welcome government officials, industry representatives, entrepreneurs, investors and residents to conduct a large-scale listening and idea sharing session.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the value of your expertise, insights and ideas. Start today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2016

Most first-time entrepreneurs seem to believe the myth that they need a minimum of a half a million dollars to start a business. Managing employees and contracts is difficult and expensive, and new entrepreneurs aren’t very good at it anyway. Entrepreneurs who start without a plan spend more money. It never hurts to ask.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

It's a concierge service, which helps individuals and plans throughout the year. Instead of just enrolling people in a plan and saying good luck, see you later once a year, we also provide a concierge service that is unheard of in health insurance. What's the biggest lesson you've learned as an entrepreneur? What was next?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

When pitching to investors, entrepreneurs always seem to start with a customer pitch, then add a slide or two about the business. Investors are business experts, while the entrepreneur is more likely the product expert. The entrepreneur needs to show a strategy for such an event, and a projected value and return to the investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

It’s a new age for aspiring entrepreneurs, where anyone with a dream or a hobby should be turning it into a business. Too many entrepreneurs still think plans are for investors, and investors are required to build a startup. Many entrepreneurs today build and maintain their own websites, with powerful tools such as Shopify.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are transforming the smartphone Industry, but only for consumers. Entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the business-to-business (B2B) space for more lucrative opportunities. entrepreneur B2B startup smartphones location-based services business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2015

Many of the entrepreneurs I meet prefer to focus on the technology, so they desperately need a people-oriented partner for balance. This means every entrepreneur needs partners who are smarter than they are in complementary domains. This also applies to how you both see quality, service, work ethic and employee relationships.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Some entrepreneurs, though, are acting as if Prop 64, known officially as the California Marijuana Legalization Initiative, has already passed. Co-founder and CEO Eric Gomez said Canopy San Diego won’t enroll startups or entrepreneurs who are directly engaged in the cultivation or sale of marijuana or its derivatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2016

In business, this means an entrepreneur who never says no to any customer is doomed to a hard life and some expensive mistakes. Those entrepreneurs who wait for customers to randomly find them will be disappointed by the match, and find themselves always playing catch-up with customers who don’t fit. Help them find that new provider.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Traditional coworking spaces offer startups the ability to rent a desk, or space to measure (sqft/sqmt) and co-hab with other startups and in some cases also with investors, freelancers and service providers (some communities restrict membership to startups only). And just announced an acquisition of Meetup. Factory Berlin.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In this interview with #StartupsEverywhere , I talk withMichael Iseman, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Junkie, about the mentorship pool, knowledge transfer, the latest happening in the ecosystem and the energy of this community within the region. I came on full-time with Startup Junkie in 2015, and haven’t looked back!

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015. This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

Every entrepreneur needs a value proposition statement for his or her startup that can hook potential investors and partners in less than a minute -- the short time you might join them in an elevator on the way to their offices. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/22/2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 14, 2015

.” Their next stop is Los Angeles – your chance to get an inside look into one of the largest and most diversified economies on the planet – from aerospace, entertainment, and fashion to biomedical services, consumer products, and tourism. Meet and learn from the best entrepreneurs in an intimate setting.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

In fact, they led the way for the state’s GDP growth of 3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, which was the highest in the nation , according to the U.S. Some of these entrepreneurs are faculty and staff members who license their own work. Their first thoughts likely turn to agriculture and manufacturing. The results?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. This model, called pay per click (PPC), is the one most commonly offered to entrepreneurs.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 21, 2019

When this occurs, as it nearly always does, retailers return unsold inventory, which makes it difficult (at times impossible), for the fashion company to service its debt, resulting in bankruptcy. This model works well until the brand falls out of favor.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

At Idealab, we saw many shots on goal with companies who were consumer focused, and we have found the quality of entrepreneurs going to consumer Internet companies has changed dramatically, which represents a real opportunity. It's all about the entrepreneur. All of that represents opportunity, as well. But, that's just ebb and flow.

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