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5 Strategies For Business Growth Many People Forget

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. Rather than rely only on linear thinking, the best entrepreneurs are always looking to offer in parallel a more dramatic new alternative. Redefine your product to reach a new category.

Examples

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? You probably follow some high-profile entrepreneurs on Instagram and Twitter and see conference pictures of them in Davos, Mexico, Monaco or wherever.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. inspired with entrepreneur Aaron Ross at our next meeting, on July 28th in. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective? I want to understand how many units the company is selling, whether this is increasing over time and how well they’re doing at retaining the customers that they do acquire. Thus the trade off between profits & growth. You need to understand the “quality” of the revenue.

Startup

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course

Smarter Digital Marketing With Smartify's Carla Bourque

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. It''s a perfect opportunity for data geeks in marketing and the business side to get information on customers in real time. That''s what I get excited about. READ MORE>>.

Marketing

Marketing Pasadena Platform Email

Interview with Shivani Siroya, Tala

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

What we've developed, is an Android app that allows us to open up financial access to customers in emerging markets. The really, really exciting this, is in emerging markets, customers have been underserved by financial institutions for years, because they lack credit scores. It took me 2.5 I've been loving it and plan on staying here.

Startup

Startup Santa Monica Customer Custom

Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. I have had this discussion with many a first-time entrepreneur. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

Startup

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world.

Technical Review

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California

This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x eCommerce is hot again!

Clearstone

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google

How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

Startup

Startup Marketing Study SEO

Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price. This is wrong.

Venture Capital

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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

However, the ubiquity of the iPod including use by many folks who certainly would fall in the Time Rich category (lots of time to play with music) suggests that their product and marketing appeals to both segments. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

CTO Coach

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media

Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever.

Competition

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch

Interview with Jody Sherman, CEO of EcoMom

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Jody--an experienced entrepreneur who was most recently co-founder of a firm he sold to the Virgin Group, and has been involved with such firms as Lycos, Buydirect.com, and Xoom--told us the story of EcoMom, plus how he connected with McClure on the investment. We caught up with EcoMom CEO Jody Sherman , to learn more about the company.

Software Review

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites

Small Ideas, Big Benefits

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. the smartass entrepreneur replied, “It’s called business. The two Founders then offered their security software for free on the Internet and it quickly became one of the most popular open-source security solutions on the market.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? The Present Era.

Social Network

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup

Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 4.0 – Wireless is the next big thing – hurry!

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big.

Startup

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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