Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

I’m not talking here about a small pivot. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.”. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Be Simpleminded.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them. Our motto is, ‘ease of use equals use and use equals revenue.’

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

We'll use all the panel members' experiences to tell a "how to story" about bootstrapping to million. Most entrepreneurs fail because they start the business the only way they know how - thinking about. Stop Listening to Your Customers. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. .

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

The company’s platform aims to serve as “an operating system” for lawyers, offering cloud-based legal practice management, client intake and legal CRM software. Clio has more than 150,000 customers across 100 countries. In 2018, Clio made its first acquisition with its buy of Lexicata, a Los Angeles-based legal tech startup.

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