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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

socalTECH

In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? ,p> Are you a founder, CEO, or investor who would like to participate? Contact our editors for details.

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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

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How The IBM PC Made Me Appreciate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In enterprises, performance objectives are usually tied to internal processes, rather than beating competitors, customer acquisition, and revenue growth. Internal legal reviews and required new processes were slow to finalize. Measurements set on internal objectives, rather than market traction.

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Want to Get Rich? Listen to Your Customers Like These Founders……

Steve Reich

MindBodyOnline is a terrifically succesful SaaS company, based in San Luis Obispo, that provides scheduling and transactional software for Yoga studios, hair salons, and spas. They read product reviews obsessively. The user base revolted, and their glowing reviews on the App Store suddenly turned negative.

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Pivot Now is Less Painful Than Turnaround Later

Startup Professionals Musings

Gemassmer Startups struggling for survival are not uncommon, due to economic changes, management problems, or product issues. In this case, a private equity firm engaged me to assist in the purchase of a German software supplier. Determine key customer satisfaction levels and requirements. By Ernst H.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. This Thanksgiving it might seem that there’s a lot less to be thankful for.

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Use Course Corrections to Avoid Turnaround

Startup Professionals Musings

Gemassmer Startups struggling for survival are not uncommon, due to economic changes, management problems, or product issues. In this case, a private equity firm engaged me to assist in the purchase of a German software supplier. Determine key customer satisfaction levels and requirements. By Ernst H.

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