Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Happy customers quickly become your biggest advocates, today reaching far beyond friends and family, and they make traditional marketing efforts pale in comparison for growth, loyalty, and new customer acquisition costs. Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. But there is one overwhelming method of appraising the effectiveness of a business leader.

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Resource Satisfaction Metrics Course 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer Custom 101

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

These events are also opportunities to get a better handle on customer requirements, as well as measure your customer satisfaction and market trends. Look for a merger or acquisition that will bring multiplier resources to your business, such as related successful products, a positive brand image, or a proven distribution network.

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Marketing Social Media Mentor Conference 119

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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Satisfaction Startup Customer Custom 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Review of opportunity and segmentation.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

But a lack of competition has also lead to a lack of innovation, resulting in low customer satisfaction and frequent complaints of difficult-to-use products. Jackson added, “Their pricing and technology are hold-overs from the 1990s—it goes to show how they have been shielded from competition for too long.

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Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2019

Ian talked to us about the rewards and challenges of being an entrepreneur, plus how important it is to manage lifetime value (LTV) of a customer versus customer acquisition cost (CAC) in making a successful company. (We The LTV versus CAC (Editor's note: life time value versus customer acquisition cost) would be so different.

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Startup Equity Customer Custom 113

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Metrics related to customer acquisition, lifetime value and churn. We also ran landing page experiments to understand customer acquisition and cost.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet accepted the fact that customer satisfaction and loyalty in this “always connected” age are about more than product and service quality. But to engender loyalty, you have to be delivering a good experience and keeping satisfaction high. Marketing-driven customer acquisition.

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Customer Custom Satisfaction Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

In most companies, maintaining momentum requires the right strategic partners and acquisitions, in lieu of short-term price adjustments and special sales. Track competition to stay ahead of copycats. Your long-term success and satisfaction depends on it. The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader.

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Technical Review Technical Advisors Startup Mentor 160

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet adapted to the fact that customer satisfaction in this “always connected” age is more than product and service quality. But to engender loyalty, you have to be delivering a good experience and keep satisfaction high. Marketing-driven customer acquisition.

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Customer Custom Satisfaction Social Media 97

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In enterprises, performance objectives are usually tied to internal processes, rather than beating competitors, customer acquisition, and revenue growth. Corporate entities operate under strict competitive and accounting rules. Measurements set on internal objectives, rather than market traction.

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IBM IBM Entrepreneur Technical Review 85

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2022

I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. They don’t have a comfort zone or protocol to fall back on. They assume that new tools and structures will have to be built along the way.

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Competition Company Companies Startup 102

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2020

I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. They don’t have a comfort zone or protocol to fall back on. They assume that new tools and structures will have to be built along the way.

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Startup Entrepreneur Satisfaction Ideas 122

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. They don’t have a comfort zone or protocol to fall back on. They assume that new tools and structures will have to be built along the way.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Ideas 107

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2018

I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. They don’t have a comfort zone or protocol to fall back on. They assume that new tools and structures will have to be built along the way.

Startup 51

Startup Entrepreneur Satisfaction Ideas 51

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Progress on the learning curve is their satisfaction. They don’t have a comfort zone or protocol to fall back on. They assume that new tools and structures will have to be built along the way.

Entrepreneur 59

Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Ideas 59