Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

From its start in 2015, the number of registered users has “suddenly” climbed from 45 million in 2017 to a reported 300 million by the end of 2020. And the tools for most are available, sometimes free, for the educated marketer. Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. Here is my list.

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The education sector tends to have limited resources dedicated to IT investments which can make it challenging for schools to integrate the network technologies and keep up with the latest advancements. Even so, schools are increasingly relying on cloud computing to store and handle data in lieu of managing data on local servers.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. In 2017, it was in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was always sort of shocking to people, even on a national level, when they would hear [that Rapid City was hosting ICPC 2017],” Jensen said. “And

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. Makerspaces and hackerspaces have sites and events, including education and training, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Customers can choose among its many templates to quickly add a chatbot to any Facebook page and then use its different reply types to create lead generating bots, list of articles taken from RSS feeds, Mailchimp and Zapier integrations, carousel of images and full-fledged ecommerce or food ordering solutions within the Messenger interface.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

Your concept has to be understood by customers and investors in 30 seconds or less, and everyone needs to immediately see how awesome it would be, or that they would be nuts not to have it. I’m looking for the “hook” right up front, or I lose interest quickly, just like every customer and investor these days.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

We focus on digital transformation and customer experience. When you start doing that, you create an offering that can be purchased by more customers, and that becomes easier to maintain for us. 2017 will be a great year for us. It's about the customer life cycle, and taking a single view of your customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2017

According to Small Business Trends , over half of the existing small businesses in the US already have international customers. This kind of disruption used to happen only a few times per century, but now it is commonplace Customer and employee power trumps stakeholders. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/21/2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Unfortunately, often the result is potential customers who are confused, the limited resources of your business are spread too thin, and customers and investors look elsewhere for a better fit. Customers want a solution from you, not many. Your team, customers, and investors will all be confused with your lack of focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2017

True business success and leadership starts with real personal values, extends to building a team, and finally to inspiring customers and your community. In business, consistency is the key to productivity and trust by team members and customers alike. The days of educating customers to sell your current solutions are gone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Lock in customers with loyalty and high cost of change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2017

Good business relationships make better teams and customers. They learn resilience and confidence, as well as how to show respect for investors and customers. When I am mentoring, I’m always surprised at how much I learn about how people think today, and what I can do to work effectively with them as team members and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

Subtle differences don’t usually attract investors or customers. Many customers will not want to pay for all, or will be confused by the additional options. Revolutionary ideas that require customer paradigm shifts require extra time for adoption, and larger budgets for education. Now is the time to float your own.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

This is an emerging theme in the past decade as investors learn that customers assign more value and loyalty to business owners who display this attribute. The result is a win-win-win situation for investors, entrepreneurs, and customers alike. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/22/2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Tim O'Neal: Kazhm was founded in 2017. We worked on consolidation with business units, and did that for Bridgepoint Education and smaller companies, where I actually drove a lot of cloud migration stuff. With all the complexity of the IT environment, how do you convince customers to add one more piece into this puzzle?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

For example, if I don’t know you, and you didn’t sell your last company for $800 million, your story needs to educate me on why anyone would bet on you to succeed, and how you would reward me for success. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/04/2017. Don’t forget that investors invest in people, more than ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

That means that you need to overtly market yourself, rather than wait and hope that the right people or customers will find you. Every Chamber of Commerce, educational organization, and many business organizations are looking for people who are willing to share some special expertise, skills, or interests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

You can’t learn and adapt quickly to the changing needs of your customers and the marketplace if you are afraid of failure. Make sure they have the resources and the education to get change done with you, or without you. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 02/02/2017. Don’t let blame rear its ugly head.

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