InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Journal or Blog – Writing about your experiences will force you to be contemplative and thoughtful. It will also allow you to refer back to past experiences without risking an erroneous decision based on a false memory. Journal or Blog – Writing about your experiences will force you to be contemplative and thoughtful.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. A positive news story means NOTHING about the core performance of your business. Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. Is that why you called?

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Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

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. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Think about the future. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition.

Startup 59

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Rather than obsessing about an indirect gauge of customer satisfaction, entrepreneurs should focus on improving their Net Profit Score. Yes” responses are prime candidates for future references. The score is calculated by asking customers, "How likely is it that you would recommend our company to a friend or colleague?"

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Rather than obsessing about an indirect gauge of customer satisfaction, entrepreneurs should focus on improving their Net Profit Score. Yes” responses are prime candidates for future references. The score is calculated by asking customers, "How likely is it that you would recommend our company to a friend or colleague?"

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.Net Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer 182

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Get Physical!

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you are looking for a long term lease, you also have to be extremely strategic about the partners you are signing up with. During the past 15-years, Citrix grew via acquisition, which resulted in the company having lease obligations all over the world. It’s a long term relationship. Greathouse: Agreed. Brilliant. .

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Entrepreneur Design Acquisition Sales 113

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

According to the latest news from the company, ResearchGate has acquired Germany based Scholarz.net , an academic and reference management, knowledge management network founded in 2008 by economist and political scientist Dr. Daniel Koch and media technologist Marc Willwacher. And they have news that they are expanding. ” Dr. .

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Social Network Networking Research News 78

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. million in savings in less than five months while spending about $50,000. I like his outline of five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

We sat down and spoke with Patrick about the business and its pivot. Tell us about what your business is nowadays? However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. Talk about those operations in Guatemala?

Media 162

Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

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. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Think about the future. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition.

Startup 97

Startup Entrepreneur Outsource Competition 97

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In reality, you need the numbers—and the hard truths they tell—to make essential business decisions about expenses, hiring, product development and every other important determination. If you create your financial model right out of the gate, you have a financial trail that you can refer back to—where were you and where are you now?

Startup 85

Startup Acquisition Invest Framework 85

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. 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.

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Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur Framework 279

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. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Think about the future. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition.

Startup 55

Startup Outsource Competition Entrepreneur 55

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. We spoke with CEO and founder--and longtime startup veteran-- Richard Wolpert about the company. How is this different from other services?

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Demand Technical Support Startup Seed Funding 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. It’s the same story. We covered the Gaga breakout story but also.

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Mentor Venture Capital Marketing Product 150

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

We caught up with co-founder Dave Terry , who co-founded Chrome River with Alan Rich, to learn more about how the company has build one of the fastest growing enterprise software makers in the area, why the company raised such a big round, and why the company is seeing a big opportunity in its market. Dave Terry: We've been very fortune.

Software 100

Software Report Startup IBM 100

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. million in savings in less than five months while spending about $50,000. I like his outline of five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

So far, the story of IBM Watson Health has been mostly about growth and potential. Today, it’s more about action. She’s referring to how much Watson Health has spent on growth , including acquisitions like Merge and Truven Health Analytics. The first commercial product to come out of the effort is likely to hit in 2017.

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IBM IBM Artificial Inteligence San Diego 61

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. million in savings in less than five months while spending about $50,000. I like his outline of five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2017

We caught up with CEO Joe Nigro , the former VP of Growth at HomeHero and General Manager of Handy, and talk about why he started Work Today and how the service works. 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.

Startup 100

Startup Orange County Platform Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. So why would I have talked so much about the deck in my post? I funded them 8 weeks later.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

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. million in savings in less than five months while spending about $50,000. He outlines five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Jason Nazar

JUNE 1, 2016

Have your slides there, reference the key points as needed, but keep the focus on each other — not a slideshow. Read what other startup mentors have to say about attracting investor attention. Investors will give you all sorts of reasons why the business you’re so passionate about, and have worked so hard on, won’t work.

Slides 49

Slides Startup Entrepreneur Metrics 49

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2014

As we recall, this year has kicked off with some fierce acquisitions in the connected home and internet of things (IOT) space, namely with Google’s high profile $3.2 Billion acquisition of smart home device company, Nest. – as long as the devices can talk to each other, that’s all consumers care about.

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Belkin Startup Acquisition Entertainment 87

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Yet if you think about it, it’s not always clear how they do it, or what it takes to be like them. In the enterprise environment, Jack Welch led GE through 600 acquisitions in emerging markets, to a market value of $280 billion. In all business organizations, superstars are recognized as the ones who get things done.

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Resource Entrepreneur Examples Satisfaction 62

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Tell me a bit about your background. You are writing about the essentials of business. And how it relates to what you are talking about in [link] ? I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. Networking is about meeting people and getting to know them. That's great.

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. These purchases are more complex in nature.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

He was also often referred to as a “hotdog” for his self-promotional antics and lackadaisical on-field play. When teammate Darold Knowles was asked about Reggie’s hotdog status, he replied, "There isn’t enough mustard in the world to cover Reggie Jackson.”. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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Statistics Press Product Startup 212

Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2016

Maybe you’ve heard it referred to as an MOU, or memorandum of understanding. Whatever you call it, this document of about five pages is a summary of the terms of a deal the parties hope to close down the line. You might know it as a letter of intent or a term sheet.

Startup 57

Startup Pricing Sales Summary 57

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

billion dollar acquisition by LinkedIn to Bessemer’s substantial investment in ProCore , AppFolio ’s recent IPO filing and Sonos ’ $130 million secondary, the Santa Barbara tech scene is unquestionably on fire. According to Rob, "The thing about creating a lifestyle business in Santa Barbara, is that the lifestyle here isn't cheap.

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Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels. Thus, include these unattributed customers in your overall calculation of customer acquisition costs. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

It was a second-wave dot-com boom that lasted five to six years, when money was so readily available ( many have referred to it as the Age of the Unicorns ) that it felt like anybody could get in on the “become-an-entrepreneur” game. It is branded as an acquisition, but the reality is very different. It’s an acqui-hire.

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Startup Snapchat Product 40

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. spoke with Jeff for about 40-minutes. Subject: Reference for Twilio. Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. However, they seldom acknowledge their mistakes.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Driven by my geeky desire to understand innovative business models, I reached out to Surf Air CEO, Jeff Potter, to learn more about his airline’s atypical business model. Back then, it was an incredibly small, one year-old company that ended up growing to reach about 80 destinations throughout the U.S. John Greathouse: Hello Jeff.

Startup 100

Startup Santa Barbara Networking Services 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2014

If you’re like me, I’m sure you have a set of speakers that you feel the same way about: 5+ years old, hard working mules that you just won’t let you down. That, with its pocketable size and quirky form factor (looks like a colored crystal from afar) had plenty of people begging to ask about its origins.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Chance was recently featured on Fox News for comments on Facebook’s high profile acquisition of wearable VR company, Oculus, for an impressive $2B – and what that meant for early adopters who initially helped the company get off the ground by funding through Kickstarter. To date, we’ve done 11 of these in and outside the US.

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