Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. How they see you deal with and talk about peers, partners, team members, and customers tells them what the real rules of conduct are for customer service. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Competition Services Startup Training 99

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

We talked to Deena about her startup and where she's trying to take it. Deena Varshavskaya: I was thinking about alternatives to advertising, because I think advertising just fails to deliver relevance. So, Wanelo is all about creating relevance in shopping. What is Wanelo? Women, really.

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Technical Review Sites Advertising Design 200

socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2013

William Belk and Dirk McGregor were both early employees at Beachmint, who saw how difficult it was to track the lifetime value and marketing attribution of their advertising spend. To figure that out, they started building tools to help them sort out Beachmint''s advertising efforts. What''s the story behind CampaignEQ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). In my experience, both are always required in heavy doses. There are no “can’t fail” shortcuts or “get rich quick” scenarios.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

More importantly, he talks about the actions required to build a network of contacts at the highest level. Friends to the end talk about what’s important to them and aren’t afraid to discuss private matters. I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships.

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Startup Guide Help Course 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It's like a water cooler conversation, where you're talking about what you are binging next, next week's episodes, and an app to basically capture all of the conversations and recommendations with your friends in one spot. It's all about sharing recommendations, getting into a debate with your friends on the best things to watch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. How they see you deal with and talk about peers, partners, team members, and customers tells them what the real rules of conduct are for customer service. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Success is the right balance of both for fun and profit.

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Startup Patents Competition Social Network 160

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

According to Julie Ask, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester in this CNBC article , developing a retail app costs about $2 million, plus 80 percent on top of that each year to maintain it. Women’s beachwear store Lilly Pulitzer’s app integrates inspiration into its functionality and design. Developing an app is costly.

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Mobile Sites Customer Custom 40

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For technical designers building innovative features, how to use them is obvious, and it’s very hard to see things as a first-time not-so-technical customer. The solution is to actively engage people outside your perspective to design usability in from the beginning. All customer interfaces must be designed by Marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). In my experience, both are always required in heavy doses. There are no “can’t fail” shortcuts or “get rich quick” scenarios.

Satisfaction 174

Satisfaction Customer Custom Outsource 174

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 2, 2010

Comedic startup site Funny or Die has announced a new design that adds new content and features to the site. The updated design gives fans more comedy, and more kinds of content including themed photo galleries, top 10 lists, and special guest blogs. Creating campaigns that combine brand advertising and viral video.

Design 49

Design Paramount Advertising Content 49

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

We will design and manufacture an apparel brand based on the inspiration of collective editors. We then take that information and find trends and metadata, and all that content and sharing, and use it to drive e-commerce, and to design and manufacture apparel products. The two sat down with us to explain the idea behind the company.

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Startup Commerce Design Media 182

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The event features an interactive networking roundtable at which more than 30 venture capitalists from California, who will talk with local entrepreneurs about deal flow and the types of investments they're looking to fund. This event series is designed to help investors and entrepreneurs engage with one another.

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LAVA Southern California SoCalTech Education 133

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Jimmy Hendricks about where Deal Current fits into the industry, and how the company grew out of a need of a client. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. We were crowd sourcing artists and design. What is Deal Current?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

Here were some of his particular issues: Most of the firms that come up are actually website design firms not website development firms. Web design typically refers to the process of interface design and graphic design. The result of web design are static pages as graphics or HTML. In fact, after a bit he gave up.

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Web Development Los Angeles Web Develop 167

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

We thought we'd talk with Chris about what Jetpack is up to. We also have a managed serviecs business, where we have campaign managers and designers working on RFPs and mocks, and when a campaign is sold, will design the ad units all the way through to ad approval. Can you explain exactly what is different about your ads?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2022

If you're worried about threats to the survival of your company, don't look for them in the news. Check your business network for a great co-founder or a great designer. Need less expensive advertising? They have higher overhead, long-standing bills, yearly advertising contracts and high office leases signed years ago.

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Startup Advertising Social Network Ideas 103

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Farb talks about how he did that. But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

First of all, the glory days of “dot.coms” are gone, when investors “didn’t care” about profitability, and all the big money was focused on user count growth. Design a product or service that you can sell. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?”

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Platform Snapchat Startup Course 118

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Develop viral content. That’s a double death wish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Online sites now advertise customized designs and personal fits. Thus I continue to tell entrepreneurs that business success is more about the execution, and the quality of the team, rather than the idea. Think about it before you send me your next business plan to change the world. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 112

Startup Ideas Examples Entrepreneur 112

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Advertise on VentureBeat.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We caught up with co-founder Michael Kleist , to learn more about the startup, its roots in China and international trade, as well as learn more about the startup experience in China--and why having a presence in Southern California is important to the company. Tell us about your backers? What is Tradesparq?

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Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2012

We spoke with Elliot Darvick , one of the firm's co-founders, on what the Los Angeles startup is all about. How did the whole idea for Unbucket come about? I wanted to figure out how to enable that gift of intention between other people, and the people they care about most, which is why we started Unbucket. What is Unbucket?

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Startup Advertising Los Angeles Mobile 153

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Many companies try to recover with more advertising and rebranding, and discover that these strategies don’t work well in today’s market. Speed up both the new design and the supply chain. Most companies take too long designing new products and services. Customers don’t wait today. Develop higher quality than just good enough.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Design 54

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 19, 2009

Online Video, Virtual Worlds, 3D TV, Online Games, HD, VOD, Mobile, Advertising Free Fall, SAG Strike? The event is designed to be interactive like the world we live in giving delegates the opportunity to share their ideas live at the event via text message and in moderated roundtable meetings. See [link] (more).

Advertising 100

Advertising Ideas Design Content 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 18, 2009

Online Video, Virtual Worlds, 3D TV, Online Games, HD, VOD, Mobile, Advertising Free Fall, SAG Strike? The event is designed to be interactive like the world we live in giving delegates the opportunity to share their ideas live at the event via text message and in moderated roundtable meetings. See [link] (more).

Advertising 100

Advertising Ideas Design Content 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

About Talenthouse: Talenthouse is the world’s platform for creative collaboration, connecting aspiring talent, established artists and brand advertisers. Apps & Software Business Dev & Design Entrepreneurship Events Startups TechZulu Art Creative Designers Developers hackathon Talenthouse'

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West Hollywood Hollywood Design Entertainment 104

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2018

More importantly, he talks about the actions required to build a network of contacts at the highest level. Friends to the end talk about what’s important to them and aren’t afraid to discuss private matters. I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships.

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Startup Guide Help Course 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2016

I just finished a new book, “ Play Bigger ,” by Al Ramadan, et al , that outlines the how and why of new category design to create new demand where none exists, and be the king of that market. Overtly design the ecosystem as well as product. It’s about changing people’s consumption, usage, and buying decisions.

Entrepreneur 61

Entrepreneur Marketing Design SpaceX 61

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With all the buzz concerning these smartwatches, one might think about the future of wearables and where it is heading. The NYFW has seen several brands and leading designers collaborating on creating these wearable smartwatch accessories that definitely stood out and hit the catwalk. Photo courtesy of CNET via Pinterest.

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Design Technology Mobile Google 86

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Their relationship with fans is 24/7 and, regardless of how you feel about the family, their popularity is a clear indicator of this new always-on connection between public figures and their fans. They dominate the media, have accrued millions of fans on social networks and have branched into retail, fashion, production and more.

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Help Startup Activision Media 115

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In this #StartupsEverywhere , interview, we talked with Joe Poeschl, Program Director and Cofounder, The Commons about community engagement, the latest startups and expandable growth. I’ve been working in the startup space for about seven years now. Can you tell us more about what The Commons does? Absolutely!

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Startup Mentor Design Web Development 70

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

We sat down with Forsblom to learn more about what he learned from his experience in Finland, and what he's hoping to do here. PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. That's what we're all about.

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Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2019

As we started to look at labeling and packaging design, and to differentiate the product, we thought it would fun to finally do a green label. There's a great animated video which references the classic Soylent Green movie ending, how did that come about? We get lots of comments about our name on social media.

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Marketing Startup Social Media Product 100