Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Utilize mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

These steps are the new keys to driving business innovation, controlling costs, staying nimble, and getting better results: Build teams to meet goals rather than organization charts. Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. Focus on deliverables and skills required right now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Every business team becomes inwardly- focused by default, comparing themselves only emotionally to others they know within the organization. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders. You need to be constantly assessing mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures. Proactively prepare for downturns and recoveries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Follow-up is required for every sales lead, a pipeline built, and a sales process documented, with training for new reps. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Most experts agree that acquisition of a new customer costs six times retaining existing customers. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2016

These steps are the new keys to driving business innovation, controlling costs, staying nimble, and getting better results: Build teams to meet goals rather than organization charts. Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. Focus on deliverables and skills required right now.

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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. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.” Again, you get what you demand and reward. You become the bottleneck. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Happy customers quickly become your biggest advocates, today reaching far beyond friends and family, and they make traditional marketing efforts pale in comparison for growth, loyalty, and new customer acquisition costs. Really listen to feedback from the team, and empower them with the ability to make customers happy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

We're about improving people's lives as it comes to technology, and that's why it's such a beautiful in our acquisition by FIT, Foxconn Interconnect Technologies. It's been an outstanding marriage/partners/acquisition, whatever you want to call it. I'm fortunate to be surrounded by a lot of great people in our organization to help me.

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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. Organic growth takes time, and can only take you so far.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Thinking and analysis without execution feels like zero cost to existing organizations, but it actually ignores the opportunity cost lost. People are trained to avoid change, and stick with the safer status quo. Real change comes from people who are obsessed with action, not ideas. Focused on progress rather than process.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Over the next few months we will work closely with the team at MVF to ensure a successful transition as the organization continues to build Tech.Co to MVF, while we continue our work advising, investing, speaking, and consulting with some of the most innovative organizations in tech and media. into a global brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? The best CEOs realize that they need to build organizations and hierarchy and delegate decision making while still holding their teams accountable. We built a strong brand in the city and acquired a ton of organic traffic.

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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. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.” Again, you get what you demand and reward. You become the bottleneck. Marty Zwilling.

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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. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.” Again, you get what you demand and reward. You become the bottleneck. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. When SimpleLegal follows its users into a new organization, there are generally no alternative solutions being used. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Businesses typically use LinkedIn to recruit employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Follow-up is required for every sales lead, a pipeline built, and a sales process documented, with training for new reps. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Most experts agree that acquisition of a new customer costs six times retaining existing customers. Marty Zwilling.

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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. As the business grows, you must learn to hire and train employees, and utilize outsourcing in non-core areas to keep up with the volume and detailed expertise required. It’s a big change.

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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. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.” Again, you get what you demand and reward. You become the bottleneck. Marty Zwilling.

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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? That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. Lee Essner: That''s a great question.

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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. Sales will be the organization’s sole focus. Again, you get what you demand and reward. We don’t need to reward lead generation.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

That's appealing to them, and that distribution and acquisition model has worked very well for us. The fact is, it's hard to book group transportation still, in a world where you can book anything else easily, whether that's a train ticket, a flight, a Lyft, really anything. Ruben Schultz: Right in the middle of it.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

We caught up with CEO Serge Gojkovich to learn more about what the company is up to, and to hear more about the company''s acquisition of Curby this week. So how did this acquisition come about? What is Curbstand up to right now? Serge Gojkovich: I came aboard in April of this last year, and we did a $3M raise shortly thereafter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

Follow-up is required for every sales lead, a pipeline built, and a sales process documented, with training for new reps. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Most experts agree that acquisition of a new customer costs six times retaining existing customers. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

“It was absolutely the biggest deal,” says Durhane Wong-Rieger, a longtime hepatitis C patient advocate who now runs the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders. “It Vertex went public in 1991 and used its discovery tools on one project after another, from immunosuppressive drugs for organ transplants, to HIV drugs, to HCV medicines.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2016

The result is an under-funded and under-staffed clone of the parent organization. In enterprise environments, performance objectives and bonuses are often tied to internal processes and targets, rather than product revenue, customer acquisition and market penetration. Incentives based on internal objectives, rather than market-driven.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods this year is just another very visible step in their expansion. MIT-trained engineer, tech entrepreneur and adventurer, Krisztina "Z" Holly is the host of The Art of Manufacturing podcast and Founder & Chief Instigator of MAKE IT IN LA, a non-profit launched out of LA Mayor Garcettis office.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Greathouse: I know it’s difficult to estimate, but how much further along do you think you would be from a customer acquisition and revenue generating standpoint if you had taken in a few million in investment dollars? Another risk with taking capital is that we would grow the organization quickly and sales might lag behind expenses.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This absurd statement caused me to realize that I had done a poor job of instilling a sense of frugality into our organization. Once he proved his negotiating skills, people from all over the company brought him significant acquisitions for him to negotiate. the lobby, customer training rooms, etc.). Enter Liquidator Larry.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. The partnership is not set up as a lobbying organization. That’s part of the impetus for the Partnership on AI, Horvitz says. What are the ethics, the encoded tradeoffs, in the system?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

If so, it seems there might eventually be consolidation – either a rollup or a series of acquisitions by a commercial carrier. While I have taken ground alternatives in the past, such as trains and cars, spotty wifi and lengthy commute times start to wear. Greathouse: As you noted, relationships get established on Surf Air flights.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Powerful way for student organizations to promote and manage events on campus. A social learning solution for enterprises to help their employees discover, connect and learn from experts inside their own organization. Toys, treats, and training guides customized for your puppy. Gamify your training. From: Walnut, CA.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Jake Wood serves as President of Team Rubicon , the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Jameson Morris – Founder of Organic Soul and Conscious Box. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. Zondigo, Inc.

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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. It’s why before every speech I call the organizer and drill them about who will be in the audience. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design.

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