Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

It refers to multiplication factors that occur when complementary actions or approaches are used together for greater impact. This allows you to make earlier and more informed decisions to grow your business before a crisis. In some cases, the best mentor is one of your best customers.

Marketing 119

Marketing Social Media Mentor Conference 119

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. I made some reference calls. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Benchmark your practices against a true peer.

Startup 59

Startup Outsource Competition Acquisition 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Where your competitor isn''t really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Benchmark your practices against a true peer.

Startup 97

Startup Entrepreneur Outsource Competition 97

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Yes” responses are prime candidates for future references. For instance, you can facilitate your customers’ ability to provide you with references by giving them an email template they can readily forward. A quick “No” is far more valuable to a busy entrepreneur than a nebulous NPS response of “five.”. Going Beyond The Question.

.Net 182

.Net Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer 182

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Benchmark your practices against a true peer.

Startup 55

Startup Outsource Competition Entrepreneur 55

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Yes” responses are prime candidates for future references. For instance, you can facilitate your customers’ ability to provide you with references by giving them an email template they can readily forward. A quick “No” is far more valuable to a busy entrepreneur than a nebulous NPS response of “five.”. Going Beyond The Question.

.Net 168

.Net Satisfaction Customer Custom 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products. I wouldn’t want to do the ROI on that one.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

What we really want to do is augment what physicians can do, how they can look at copious quantities of information that are relevant to a patient,” says Anne LeGrand, vice president of imaging at Watson Health, in an interview. Watson will learn from that, and be a better partner to physicians.”.

IBM 61

IBM IBM Artificial Inteligence San Diego 61

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This insight gives you valuable information that you can use to improve your business model. The KPIs that you monitor will depend somewhat upon your business, but should include such things as revenue, Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), and Life Time Value (LTV) of a customer. Making decisions on gut is only going to get you so far.

Startup 85

Startup Acquisition Invest Framework 85

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products. I wouldn’t want to do the ROI on that one.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products. I wouldn’t want to do the ROI on that one.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products. I wouldn’t want to do the ROI on that one.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2017

Joe Nigro: The amazing thing, is the workforce, the workers who use our platform, love using our service so much, that they are the ones referring businesses and workers to us. The other channel we have is online acquisition, but I must say that organic referrals really are the main driver on both sides of balancing the market.

Startup 100

Startup Orange County Platform Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor. Make sure to reference check with other portfolio companies. How have they behaved in good times and bad? Remember, they’re not venture investors.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur Framework 279

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation. When consumers expressed interest in a product, companies would buy their contact information to make outbound phone calls. After the acquisition, we have been investing dramatically in that team.

Media 162

Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Even though I have raised significant venture capital as an entrepreneur and have participated in dozens of transactions as an investor, I still found the book to be informative, especially with regard to the dilutive impact of some of the more onerous deal terms that we avoid at Rincon Ventures. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

Venture Capital 205

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Writing Guide 205

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

After we left the company we were working for, Elite Information Systems--which was later acquired by Thompson, Alan and I formed Chrome River. With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP. All of those are equally important to our large customers, to keep them satisfied and reference-able.

Software 100

Software Report Startup IBM 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2014

From huge acquisitions to fast moving VC deals and product development (hardware + software), it appears as if we’re at the starting line of a connected home future. It also keeps track of your play history so you can always refer back to what you and your friends were playing. Music, Anywhere in Your Home.

Startup 96

Startup Software Product Venture Capital 96

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Holocognics would break it down even further and discuss why, for instance, SEO works in one industry and not another – both in the sense of why a certain business has a higher chance of succeeding in showing up higher in a search, but also why SEO in a certain business has a higher “acquisition” rate (to use the Startup Metrics term).

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. In Bijan’s post he references Bryce Roberts who recommends getting up and white-boarding. It can orient you like a map so that when you look at product it is framed. Mobile app?

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

We used this information to provide a better working environment and experience for our pilots, as we are continuing to grow and bring on more crew members. If so, it seems there might eventually be consolidation – either a rollup or a series of acquisitions by a commercial carrier. Greathouse: Great.

Startup 100

Startup Santa Barbara Networking Services 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Subject: Reference for Twilio. Although larger VC firms routinely invest in competitive offerings, it is less prudent for a small firm to do so, as it can be difficult to avoid inadvertent information transfers within an intimate partnership. Forwarded message -. To: < *@gmail.com > Hi , Greetings from Twilio!

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

The reference may be well-intentioned, but the lawyer’s allegiance may be divided between the investor and you. You cannot rely on the IP lawyer to coax such vital information from you. speak with at least one person who knows the applicant but was not included among the applicant’s references). John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. this is classic community management.

Software 234

Software Startup Tool Platform 234

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Don’t assume titles will convey this information. The best way to do this is to reference actual data from a recent similar startup success. The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors. Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Real-time information drives commerce.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307