Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2022

Stepping into unknown territories takes real customer acquisition marketing and new costs through social media, public relations, and advertising campaigns. Start today with new customer acquisition efforts. Examples might include a “name your own price” option, free add-ons, or unlimited use terms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2014

Here are a few examples from their book and my experience of the many indicators, challenges that entrepreneurs will probably recognize, which highlight the value and need for increased focus on the human element: Collaborative team sessions seem to drag on. Investments and acquisitions fail.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2016

There are many factors to consider when your company is ready to embark upon an acquisition. However, it is also helpful to consider long term reach and the strategic impact that the acquisition can have on business overall. Here are the top three tips for getting what you want out of your company: 1. Have A Dedicated Team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Here are some examples from their book and my experience of the many indicators, challenges that entrepreneurs will probably recognize, which highlight the value and need for increased focus on the human element: Collaborative team sessions seem to drag on. Investments and acquisitions fail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The author outlines eight necessary steps for every business and entrepreneur to capitalize on this movement to on-demand project teams, versus permanent hires. Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. Build an on-demand team of strategic do-ers. It’s here to stay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

For example, most people thought Twitter was a total snoozer, when Jack Dorsey was looking for funding, especially with MySpace already owning that territory. For example, many products are now offered by subscription, which was a concept from the services world. I find that most new business successes minimize breakage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

For example, it’s great to pursue a higher purpose, like feeding the hungry, but don’t forget that running any business is a hungry mouth you have to feed. For example, if you have ever watched the Shark Tank show on TV, they always ask about the cost of customer acquisition. Every startup demands logical changes along the way.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Xu says that overall, demand from consumers has dropped off considerably compared to a year ago. While some of these have been to help it expand geographically (it made 10 acquisitions in the Los Angeles area alone), many have also been made to double down on technology. It is currently is the company’s biggest customer.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

The entrepreneurial mindset is a function of motivation, priorities, and risk versus reward, all of which you set or enable by your leadership and example. Again, you get what you demand and reward. The reality is that all entrepreneurial skills are learnable skills. Employees will care only about work they create.” Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

For example, I believe Bill Gates would have failed without his partners Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills. You need the funding and support, but venture capitalists can be very demanding, and set high targets. It takes the right team to build a great business.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Yet, there are constant examples of new entrants into a niche that grow, prosper and sometimes even become dominant. There’s an example of avoiding the encounter and losing the lead position when an opportunity to compete surfaces unexpectedly. At least that is the conventional wisdom. So when do we know which course to take?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018. Nonetheless, I expect that in 2019 the VC market will shift toward demanding profit. Given SVBs market position, that is great news.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” Congratulations! Every investor wants to be part of your growth stage , after your first $1 million in revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. For example, Mark McClain, cofounder and CEO of SailPoint Technologies , created an employee growth culture resulting in growth of forty percent a year, with more than $100 million in revenues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

What you don’t expect is to feel out of control , or to always be fighting the many demands for your time. YouTube and Facebook, for example, both advertised themselves as dating sites until they recognized from results that the dating market segment was already over-saturated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Financial institutions, for example, count on pure capital plays without innovation that can disappear quickly. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Thus I offer the following outline for how to organize and present your business plan, with specific examples: Start with outlining the customer problem, and your solution. For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Here are some examples from their book and my experience of the many indicators, challenges that entrepreneurs will probably recognize, which highlight the value and need for increased focus on the human element: Collaborative team sessions seem to drag on. Investments and acquisitions fail.

Training 123

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Get Physical!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

A VC wants to know that you have a solid plan to execute a stand-alone business and if you require capital for an acquisition they’d rather evaluate it at the time rather than over-fund you now. Every VC wants to fund a deal that seems to have too much demand. Having too little demand leads to bankruptcy.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Xu describes GrubMarket as a “major food provider” in the Bay Area and the rest of California, with (as one example) more than 5 million pounds of frozen meat in its east San Francisco Bay warehouse. It has made some 15 acquisitions in the last two years, including Boston Organics and EJ Food Distributor this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” Congratulations! Every investor wants to be part of your growth stage , after your first $1 million in revenue.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? We also just made an acquisition of Jovian over the summer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

For example, one of the first home grocery delivery companies, Webvan, was so enamored with early traction in Silicon Valley, it raised and spent nearly a billion dollars and went public, before filing for bankruptcy three years later. With that first wave of customers comes a whole set of additional demands on your time and energy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

For example, look at the following graph. For example, if you sell your product through a third-party reseller who charges 30% of any sale then your COGS will be 30% of revenue (assuming no other costs of sales). The example chart is not actually atypical. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2015

It's an on-demand, name your own price service. I had seen positive results with our on-demand tests to justify the next step in expanding the platform, which is essentially what we've done. An example, personally, is we just had a baby six months ago. We're looking to expand our developer team, ass well as our acquisition team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2019

The entrepreneurial mindset is a function of motivation, priorities, and risk versus reward, all of which you set or enable by your leadership and example. Again, you get what you demand and reward. The reality is that all entrepreneurial skills are learnable skills. Employees will care only about work they create.” Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

The classic example from several years ago was United Airlines not staying tuned in to social media, resulting in a unrecoverable customer problem causing great damage to their reputation, escalating to countless articles , and even a book, “ United Breaks Guitars.” Demand professional business skills and customer advocacy.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. For example, my dad used to work for the Space Program in Cape Canaveral. The other piece, is user acquisition. It''s the same here in the job space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company. He was a great leader, and one of very few who have even been able to dent the barriers to real change in a large corporation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Financial institutions, for example, count on pure capital plays without innovation that can disappear quickly. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review Outsource 87

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2015

Here are some examples from their book and my experience of the many indicators, challenges that entrepreneurs will probably recognize, which highlight the value and need for increased focus on the human element: Collaborative team sessions seem to drag on. Investments and acquisitions fail.

Startup 103

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” For example, look at the following graph. The example chart is not actually atypical. ” Quick examples: 1.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

For example, they can''t monetize the accelerated depreciation available to businesses in the U.S. There''s always more demand than capital. Let me give you an example. On the buy side, for the consumer, there''s an average of a seven year payback on a system. David Field: It''s always an issue. That''s very significant.

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