Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

After working in business at all levels, and consulting to entrepreneurs for years, I’m still surprised to see so many situations where things that should be easy are painful to customers, and lead to customers hating your business. Get out and meet your customers to learn what turns them on these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. I look for evidence of the nine major elements of the model canvas, as paraphrased here from the author’s key points and how they apply to teams: Customer segments.

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Funding Activity Customer Custom 133

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Every business owner and entrepreneur like you I work with wishes they could better predict product demand and sales, for managing inventory and long-term business planning. I was impressed with the analysis and recommendation offered in a recent book, “ Trust the Plan: Demand Management For Business Leaders, ” by Greg Spira.

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Metrics Demand Statistics Sample 81

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

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Organization Social Media Examples Customer 126

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

did his first live stream with the gaming superstar Dr. Disrespect , he turned to Mojichat to create the pop-up onscreen emote that danced above a logo from Scuf Gaming , a retailer of customized controllers. show just how much demand there is for these types of offerings. As Odell Beckham Jr. and the work with Dr. .”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

His title “ The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World ” characterizes the challenge of demanding attention from a new generation of consumers who want what they want, when they want it, and where they want it. Ask why it should be, and why customers should care.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2020

Obviously, it’s not that simple, but making the right first impression is critical for an entrepreneur, not just with investors, but also with partners, customers, and even yourself. Able to balance right-brain and left-brain activities. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There are already more than 1500 active hackerspaces worldwide, with info on Hackerspaces. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them. Network with potential cofounders and strategic partners.

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Startup Tool Design Demand 159

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions.

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Product Summary Activity Entrepreneur 112

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity. If your investor is unknown, or peers offer no positive attributes, take it as a red flag.

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Technical Review Startup Innocal Offshore 138

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2023

Diagnosing and understanding the customer problem. This means all business people, especially entrepreneurs, need to get beyond the presentations and the experts, to actively listen to real customers. They demand interactive relationships with you, and depend on the relationships you have with their friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2023

Obviously, it’s not that simple, but making the right first impression is critical for an entrepreneur, not just with investors, but also with partners, customers, and even yourself. Able to balance right-brain and left-brain activities. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification.

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Entrepreneur Startup Activity Ideas 70

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

GrubMarket , which provides software and services that help link up and manage relationships between food suppliers and their customers — which can include wholesalers and other distributors, markets and supermarkets, delivery startups, restaurants, and consumers — has picked up $120 million in a Series E round of funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to set the culture you need for a thriving business, as well as thriving employees, customers, partners, and vendors. Start with only the very best people, demand excellence, and train them to stay ahead of the pack. Reframe selling as an activity that improves customer’s lives.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2018

Postie uses a combination of online data collection and an on-demand print and mail technology to give its customers turnaround times on print orders in as little as 24 hours and what the company boasts is the equivalent of online ad-targeting. Unilever buys Dollar Shave Club for reported $1B value.

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Dollar Shave Club Chief Technology Officer Advertising Los Angeles 232

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2012

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. If your business doesn’t connect with your customers, individually and as a community, demanding customers will not only ignore you, but will actively keep other customers away.

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Customer Custom Networking Entrepreneur 93

Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2022

should not be positioned as “cheap,” or your potential customers will question your message from the start and will be more critical of the delivered product than if offered as one or the other, but not both. This one is attributed to Rod Adair, the famous oil and gas fire suppressing expert. Quality” products and services…. Pick any two.

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Resource Sales Pricing Startup 156

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. How many customers will have any idea what this means to them? You need to clearly convey what makes your startup the only choice for your customers.

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Marketing Startup Social Media Technical Review 141

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Balance of passion with reality and customer feedback. A strong vision and deep insight may get your business off the ground, but long-term success requires constant data analysis, metrics, and attention to your customer feedback. The competition will improve, the market will change, and your customers will demand more.

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Mentor Startup Customer Custom 133

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket has built itself as a profitable but quiet giant that underpins the fuel that helps companies in all of these categories by becoming one of the critical companies building bridges between food producers and those that interact with customers. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. As an active angel investor, I look for this level of alignment and understanding in every funding presentation I hear. Value propositions. Key resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2014

There is more and more evidence that a more human-centered or heart-centered leadership yields the best results with your team and with customers in the long run. Great leaders learn to listen actively to conversations, so people don’t hold up progress just to be understood. Customer relationships culture is slipping.

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Demand Entrepreneur Startup Training 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

While these investors, and early customers, will always argue that they found you, I’m convinced that there is no substitute for aggressive networking on your part. Ability to relate aspirations to customer needs. You need to show insights to real customers and their needs, that get beyond your passions and projections.

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Startup Customer Custom Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

It’s what every customer looks for in every transaction. 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. Again, you get what you demand and reward.

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Startup Training Sales Entrepreneur 134

socalTECH

MAY 1, 2014

On-demand grocery delivery service Instacart has expanded in Los Angeles, saying recently that it is now covering downtown Los Angeles and Culver City, and will deliver groceries from Ralphs and Costco. The company has been active in Los Angeles since April 3rd.

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Marina Del Rey Los Angeles Culver City West Hollywood 193

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Another on-demand transport app is making a move into payments to expand the existing relationship with its customers (and subsequent margins that it makes from serving them). This phenomenon paired with our commitment to community resulted in Bird Pay which helps drive even more customers to local businesses.”.

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Santa Monica Startup Demand Los Angeles 158

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The company used its overdraft protection service and money management display to shift customers’ focus away from the total balance that their account would show by giving them a sense of how much was actually left in their accounts once debits were included in their statements.

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Company Companies Startup Tips 262

Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2022

million in revenue and added 10 million active buyers. And, in addition to the sellers themselves suspending sales, the strikers are urging Etsy customers to boycott this week as well, by avoiding any purchases through the platform. “Every demand that we have made is very reasonable. .” on each sale. Selling Online.

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Platform Startup Sales Pricing 136

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2022

As an active angel investor, I still hear entrepreneurs asserting large opportunities with minimal risk and no competition. Proactive marketing is a marketing strategy that focuses on one objective – to generate customers now. Outside of dreams, there is no real business opportunity without risk.

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Entrepreneur Marketing Customer Custom 153

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? This is the ability to appropriately analyze problems, assess risks, and take responsibility for problem-dictated and market-dictated changes, while still sustaining the day-to-day business activities.

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Startup Training Statistics Summary 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. If your business doesn’t connect with your customers, individually and as a community, demanding customers will not only ignore you, but will actively keep other customers away.

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Customer Custom Startup Networking 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Cloud Computing. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

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Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers.

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Competition Organization Customer Custom 116

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Startup Summary Product 124

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

The two-ounce bottles will be donated to local restaurants and bars that remain open for delivery, so that employees can use them and distribute them to customers. After that, we’re going to meet the demands of Canada,” INKSmith CEO Jeremy Hedges told the Canadian news outlet Global News.

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Company Companies Mobile Organization 281

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2023

Leading change is even harder, trying to balance the demands of the customers against the needs and expectations of employees. In parallel with fulfilling your own needs, always use your power to fulfill the needs of customers and team members. But you have to change to survive and thrive.

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Satisfaction IBM IBM Summary 130

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Lots of firms are now talking about this pretty actively.”. Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly. We see more activity there from the traditional East Coast and West Coast firms.”. “People who were investors thought, ‘Why would you do this?

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Venture Capital Funding Seed Funding Activity 211