Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2020

If you are a technical entrepreneur, you can count on early adopters to be first in line for your product, and they are quick to provide feedback on quality, and suggest even more features. The solution is to actively engage people outside your perspective to design usability in from the beginning. Usability is often an afterthought.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Yet I still hear stories of companies being well down the road on products and collateral with a given name, only to find out that everything has to be changed because of a domain name conflict or availability problem. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites do take time to get done right.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Founded over a year ago, Stacksocial’s CEO Josh Payne , found the task of sifting through page after page in the hunt for software daunting and decided something had to be done. Their Bundle categories consist of Music apps, Mac Productivity, Web Design and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Yet I still hear stories of companies being well down the road on products and collateral with a given name, only to find out that everything has to be changed because of a domain name conflict or availability problem. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites do take time to get done right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2018

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). He also defines the five floors of relationships as follows: Meet and greet relationships (first floor). This is where most business relationships start and remain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

Yet I still hear stories of companies being well down the road on products and collateral with a given name, only to find out that everything has to be changed because of a domain name conflict or availability problem. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites are a big job and take time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online. Michael Kleist: Oh gosh, that could be pages. How long has company been around? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Ask yourself where are the influencers in your market, the majority of your target customers, and what type of interaction will be most productive to your business? Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Assess your target customer demographics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). He also defines the five floors of relationships as follows: Meet and greet relationships (first floor). This is where most business relationships start and remain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

I kept thinking that someone would eventually come up with a hub or place you could do everything--a home page, for example, where if you were going on a trip, and you could easily load your iPad full of stuff automatically. We''ve already integrated Twitter and Facebook, and our product is in its earliest MVP, and it''s now out there.

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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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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

In terms of the problem, is the majority of tools available today to help people with their money have been designed by financial times, for people more like them. When I shoed up with a few pages of conceptual, early stage ideas around consumer finance, it was immediately captivating, and it really lined up with what he wanted to do.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 30, 2012

One of the immersion techniques Guy promotes is to offer a hands-on trial, in which the prospective customer can touch, feel and experience your product before purchasing it. This muted call to action might reflect that the ad was intended to also be used as a component of a landing page that would display a more visible call to action.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The reason the firm says inspired it to design Mimiboards ; adding to its passion for Africa, love of technology and being into local content. For example, goods for sale – people add items that are for sale, their contact details, images of the product. There are also a few influencers in the Product lifecycle. Do users pay?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. 40:30 –41:30).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

As eBay, we have the ability to really focus on a more, family friendly experience, and put more customer service behind our product. That''s a major differentiator in the way we''ve designed this. We want to make sure the product is right, and market to the right audience in each city individually. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

In-picture advertisements? ” Online advertising is changing. He explains with online marketing in general, there’s the huge shift into native advertising (inputting marketing messaging in line with content users are actively engaging with) – Largely due to a shift away from traditional in banner advertising.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

million new users and 22 million unique page views to its clients’ sites as a result of its effective campaign execution. Our goal is to design effective marketing campaigns that are a natural fit with the Pinterest community and actually enhance the user experience of organic discovery,” Brennan added.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. There was an opportunity to capture htose advertiser dollars, and do it by serving up a product that was compelling to both advertisers and consumers. I ended up exploring other things.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. That's the one we'll mass product. We talked with Dubin earlier about the company. It's David vs. Goliath.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. But I made it for a reason.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2013

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). He also defines the five floors of relationships as follows: Meet and greet relationships (first floor). This is where most business relationships start and remain. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and. In addition, we outsource the actual production of prints to companies around the U.S. If you want to participate in.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2013

The really neat thing about how we''ve designed this, is it''s a co-creative process for each video project. My background is at Paramount, in the film department, and I also ran my own production company. We were able to double their traffic on YouTube, and add half a million people to their Facebok page. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I've been President of my marketing, branding, creative and advertising firm for, yikes, 30 years. I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. landing pages, etc. It has been fun to get to know her again.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. We designed our code and tested it in a Firefox browser and once we had working code we then had to figure out how to make the clunky Internet Explorer work.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

View Staff Page. Advertise Here. Advertise Here. Software Engineer, Front End Games.com Mid-Senior Full Stack / Front-End Engineer (HTML5, CSS3, JS, Ruby) John McNeil Studio Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer Universum USA Product Manager - Local Business Products Yelp. Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

From there most websites unfortunately don’t know what to really do with it so it basically just becomes a way to log you in and potentially allow advertisers to serve up more targeted (and therefore higher CPM) ads. Unlike those IM clients with a small (ineffective) footprint, Meebo experience is a website and a full page screen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Fourth floor - real, same-page connection. He also defines the five floors of relationships as follows: First floor – meet and greet. This is where most business relationships start and remain. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

On opposite pages were two ads for two very large companies. Both companies were spending big bucks to advertise yet the offer left me cold and I must not be alone in this as both companies have slumping sales. In fact, Customer Experience (CX) turns the product development chart upside down. There is no lack of newness.

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