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.

Demand

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The technologal demands of the fire department extend beyond the drone itself, Fields said. Training to become a drone pilot for the LAFD is particularly intense, Fields says. The typical pilot will get up to 80 hours of training. “Our training is nation-leading. The LAFD Swift Water Rescue Team.

Los Angeles

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Investments and acquisitions fail. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members.

Training

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. Start planning now for new operational costs, including people turnover, benefits, and training.

Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

I like how she was able to motivate, train, and reward employees, including the implementation of an incentive program to get every member of the team actively involved in generating new business. Again, you get what you demand and reward. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.” You become the bottleneck. Marty Zwilling.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Investments and acquisitions fail. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members.

Training

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

The simple answer is to balance supply and demand, but here are some specific considerations that she and I both proclaim as key factors: Use project pricing rather than hourly rates. These include office space and supplies, travel, training, bookkeeping, advertising, and many others. Simple rates-per-hour are very misleading.

Pricing

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. An expanding customer base demands better support.

Pricing

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

That's the story at Altadena-based Unified Dispatch , which was recently sold to the On-Demand Division of Veolia. How did acquisition come about? There was some perception we were bought by some vehicle operator for $50, but they're really a large corporation which has been growing by acquisitions since 2001.

Outsource Development

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

And, even more, how to do you manage the jump on the viral video train again, and keep those viral hits coming? When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested. We''ll do publishing on Youtube, licensing, turnkey, acquisition deals, and also do original programming.

Media

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. An expanding customer base demands better support.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. The training becomes “adaptive.&#. And of course the big question is whether Salesforce.com can out innovate these startups (especially after their acquisition of InStranet ). Expect great things from Assistly. Enter P2P lending. 12.5mm in Series C. 2.2mm in Series A.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I like how she was able to motivate, train, and reward employees, including the implementation of an incentive program to get every member of the team actively involved in generating new business. Again, you get what you demand and reward. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.” You become the bottleneck. Marty Zwilling.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2015

Investments and acquisitions fail. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I like how she was able to motivate, train, and reward employees, including the implementation of an incentive program to get every member of the team actively involved in generating new business. Again, you get what you demand and reward. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus. You become the bottleneck. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. An expanding customer base demands better support.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

I like how she was able to motivate, train, and reward employees, including the implementation of an incentive program to get every member of the team actively involved in generating new business. Again, you get what you demand and reward. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.” You become the bottleneck. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. An expanding customer base demands better support.

Pricing

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. The other piece, is user acquisition. After that, you''ll see us expand the scope of our product, and help with things like onboarding, training, and deployment.

Design

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.

Acquisition

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

With the real data from that surge, you need to take a hard look at business model realities, cost of customer acquisition, inventory costs, and other key metrics. As your business grows, you need employees who can execute quickly and consistently, with minimal training. Convert to working “on the business” vs “in the business.”

Metrics

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders. You need to be constantly assessing mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2019

I like how she was able to motivate, train, and reward employees, including the implementation of an incentive program to get every member of the team actively involved in generating new business. Again, you get what you demand and reward. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.” You become the bottleneck. Marty Zwilling.

Training

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. Investment banking was a great training ground. It was the late 90's, and everything was exploding, there were lots of IPOs and acquisitions, and it was a very exciting time to work in that space.

News

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

Startup

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Performance marketing also demands accountability. In reality, they want to buy customers, not ads.

Marketing

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.

Networking

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2017

I like how she was able to motivate, train, and reward employees, including the implementation of an incentive program to get every member of the team actively involved in generating new business. Again, you get what you demand and reward. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.” You become the bottleneck. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

When the business starts to scale, you need documented processes and people with the right skills and training who can do the right work without you. You can’t demand total loyalty from all, so you have to learn to accept criticism without being defensive. Trust your gut, and ignore naysayers. Happy to work and live on your own terms.

Social Network

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Despite the importance of creativity, there seems to be almost no focus on teaching it, encouraging it, training at it & incorporating it into our daily routines. This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Many people are visual thinkers.

Writing

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

On-Demand Lawn Care and Snow Plowing. B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects. Toys, treats, and training guides customized for your puppy. Attorney On Demand – Via Video Chat – New App. AngelList: [link].

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. reinvented, with more people online and trained. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc.

Social Network

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2015

If you recall, I was originally a doctor by training, though I haven't practiced in awhile. MCNs are just the first wave of big acquisitions, I see lots of innovation there over the next five to 10 years, which is really cool. How exactly did you end up--after EQAL--creating a healthcare related startup? What's next on your plate?

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Investments and acquisitions fail. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members.

Training

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Large technology firms who are training sums of talent, check; one box filled on the startup ecosystem checklist. We had so much demand that we had to shut down the office for a week and draw shitty avatars. Most of the startup checklist boxes were hit, including startup acquisitions and talented entrepreneurs and engineers.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

The simple answer is to balance supply and demand, but here are some specific considerations that she and I both proclaim as key factors: Use project pricing rather than hourly rates. These include office space and supplies, travel, training, bookkeeping, advertising, and many others. Simple rates-per-hour are very misleading.

Pricing

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. An expanding customer base demands better support.

Pricing