socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2010

According to the firms, the two will provide an integrated search and display marketing product. Acquisio said it manages more than $450M in ad spending for such firms as Yellow Pages Group, SEO Inc. Tags: exchange advertising acquisition desk trade. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

PPC 165

PPC Ventura SEO Advertising 165

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. portfolios. Here’s why.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution. In addition, manufacturing and inventory levels will be reviewed.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. Customer Acquisition. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? Only one guy in the room knew – their tech lead.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

For about 50 years, (…cough M) Ad Men, or marketing and sales individuals, have been the kings of organizational hierarchy … and then came the Internet of things and engineers took over the throne. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it.

Hulu 111

Hulu Startup Social Media Organization 111

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. million local listings, a record number.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Software Review Organic Search Startup 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Few investors these days have the time or patience to read a full business plan, so a better way to catch their eye is with a tightly written and well formatted two-page executive summary. Skip the fuzzy marketing terms, such as "easier to use," "lower cost" and "disruptive technology."

Summary 101

Summary Patents Technical Review Competition 101

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. Free and freemium products need a solid base. Market penetration. Market penetration. Customer acquisition cost.

Startup 106

Startup Metrics Customer Custom 106

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. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Cost of customer acquisition. This metric is a measure of the total cost associated with acquiring a new customer, including all aspects of marketing and sales. Operating productivity.

Metrics 100

Metrics Technical Review Sales Customer 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. And of course they are also focused on the US Hispanic market. We will obviously take a page out of their successful playbook.

Invest 291

Invest Content Media Networking 291

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

As a startup advisor and investor, I recommend a pitch deck with about 10 slides backed up with a written business plan of approximately 20 pages, both containing quantified answers to the following key questions. How big and growing is the total market and your target segment? What are your specific marketing and sales plans?

Invest 108

Invest Startup Slides Equity 108

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? 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. How did you two meet?

Design 174

Design Sites Cornerstone OnDemand Startup 174

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Early evidence is good.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

At the time, when we were an agency, it was quite a crowded market. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation.

Media 162

Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

market has been different, is that the adoption of mobile internet has not been nearly as prevalent. The reason for music, is it's a really aspirational market. Matthias Galica: My last role was as a product manager for another local startup, Woome.com, an online dating site. In that market, there are literally no ROI metrics.

Startup 220

Startup West Hollywood Metrics Entertainment 220

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

My initial conversations normally focus on the core of the business, important Startup Metrics , probably marketing strategy (ex. SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site. What do I mean by the other interface?

Web 150

Web Sites Email HTML 150

Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

Qualcomm had worked to develop its Vuforia technology for at least five years before a maturing smartphone market and new economic realities led to the sale. As mobile marketing executive Eric Mugnier recently observed in VentureBeat, “Pokémon Go has amassed more downloads, headlines, revenue, and memes than anyone could have predicted.”.

San Diego 40

San Diego Mobile Examples .Net 40

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. In the online world, you need a solid connection between your domain name and your product, brand, or business. Beware of no-cost and low-cost marketing. Marketing requires content, and nothing is “free.”

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

Joey Flores: Effectively, what we're trying to do at Earbits is build a marketing platform for record labels and brands, We're doing that by building a very engaging, streaming music service, with lots of direct-to-fan tools built on top of it. Can you talk about what the new product is about? What is Earbits?

Demand 166

Demand Startup Platform Sites 166

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

It came about, because we saw a gap in the market around entertainment news written for the 18-34 consumer segment. collapsed and the stock market was crashing, when I chose to leave a steady, paying full time job to go to HitFix. We didn't see anyone else in the market doing what we wanted to do on the entertainment side.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

I think it was Sean Pervical who first signed up for our coming soon page, and we reached out to him, had some coffee, had a few followup meetings, and met Mike. I understood acquisitions, business, fashion, and how to unite business with passion. It was love at first sight. What's your background and how'd you two get into this?

Commerce 201

Commerce Startup Design Los Angeles 201

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. This is the market that Wonga serves and they are killing it! Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Big market. LendingClub.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2010

The reason we decided to move into this market was I used to work at DoubleClick. After the Google acquisition of DoubleClick, I decided to build my own company. We've created lots of features that help customers troubleshoot and optimize their web pages. How long has your product been out? We'll also keep building sales.

Tool 232

Tool Web Startup Sites 232

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution. In addition, manufacturing and inventory levels will be reviewed.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 1, 2009

In the VentureHacks post Naval Ravikant argues in “the power of two&# – that you should have two co-founders as in Bill Gates / Paul Allen, Larry / Sergei, Jerry Yang / Larry Page. I think ADD is totally misunderstood – it’s a very PRODUCTIVE condition but it has downsides. For me 3+ is usually a non starter.

Startup 289

Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur Sales 289

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). Sure, there are examples of Founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. After a record low of 39 U.S.

Startup 89

Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 89

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. We talked about Facebook.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

According to most experts , business traction is evidence that somebody really wants your product. It’s business momentum, independent of whether you have a product delivered, proven the business model, or significantly penetrated the opportunity. Visibility increases over time are traction.

Metrics 57

Metrics Funding Startup Customer 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. Sure, there are examples of founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. With the more popular Merger & Acquisition (M&A) exit strategy, the control stays with the new entity.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

We had more than 700 resumes, short-listed 65, interviewed 16 in one-hour meetings had 6 full-day interviews including a presentation by the candidate on a selected market opportunity and we did 3 finalist dinners to test cultural fit. Ask if you could shadow different functions like marketing, finance or product management.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

“We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. Unfortunately, there is so much marketing “noise” and outright scams on the Internet it is difficult to know what to trust.”. How do you stand out?”.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

Thus, we became one of the first ASP (aka SaaS) companies, by selling subscriptions of our screen sharing technology to customer service departments – the same market segment which had adopted BuddyHelp. Most users are ethical and willing to pay once they begin using the product in a manner which they know qualifies as “commercial use.”.

Customer 162

Customer Custom Technical Support Startup 162

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

Play it in the background while you otherwise remain productive (or listen to it while you update your FB page, your call). We see two markets. We quintupled our sales per sales person and reduced our acquisition costs by 80% during that (boot camp) period.”. Click here to listen to the Audio File.

Summary 246

Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

“We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. Unfortunately, there is so much marketing “noise” and outright scams on the Internet it is difficult to know what to trust.”. How do you stand out?”.

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

To learn more about all the companies, be sure to visit 500 Startups’ official demo day page. They’ve captured their market quickly by being the first providers of affordable luxury bookings with a business model to fill in a large amount of unused travel inventory. Pijon - think Birchbox for care packages.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. Their distribution footprint consists of: Over 400 million Page Likes on Facebook.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40