Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

The classic example from several years ago was United Airlines not staying tuned in to social media, resulting in a unrecoverable customer problem causing great damage to their reputation, escalating to countless articles , and even a book, “ United Breaks Guitars.” Use business metrics and tools to tune your efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In August 2004, FastCompany published an article titled, Inside The Mind Of Jeff Bezos , written by Alan Deutschman. Although the article is informative, it is the accompanying sidebar that has remained with me over the succeeding years. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! This onerous, time consuming burden hardly "levels the playing field.". That may sound like a lot, until you consider that the metric is gross revenue, not profit.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics. This foundation, eCommerce, which is not eTail if you will (the likes on which Dell was established – truly transacting online rather than the infrastructure, technology, and webs services to drive such commerce), but eCommerce, will drive the entirety of the consumer web to follow.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 30, 2012

If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! A/B testing requires marketers to leave their egos and emotions at the door and allow quantifiable metrics to drive their decisions. Characteristics Of An Effective Direct Response Trial Offer. Guy’s Recommendations In Action.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The use of biological metrics and neuroscience in marketing is starting to expand to political research and campaign strategy-making. Menlo Park, CA-based Aleya Labs timed the launch this month of its first consumer app, political news and commentary site Contempo, so it would debut in the final weeks before the presidential election.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time). MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point Map of VC Investments Open Source Business Model Entreprenuer Network ► February (10) Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. But creating better visibility for investors of the profitability of each unit and accountability for bosses of each to perform well according to differnet metrics is a good & important idea. So how will consumers react? A 20% savings for a cost conscious consumer.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Robb MacKie, President & CEO sees the Baking Industry experiencing unprecedented disruption and evolving consumer attitudes. Developing Metrics to measure new product & service impact on Industry Business & Growth Challenges. Click here to receive future blog articles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Maxwell Wessel, in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! According to Don, “Even though we had high-profile clients such as Tumblr, Pintrest, Klout, Bit.ly, Mashable and Evernote, I knew that raising our B round was going to be time consuming. Prep Steps. Subscribe to their blog.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

From social media marketing that enables you to give out offers in Facebook to conducting content marketing strategies in the form of articles, photos and videos to generate traffic in your website and making use of social media metrics to effectively engage and connect with your customers. The Debate: Mainstream or Online?

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

We consume most of our media digitally—whether it’s music, text or video. Today, the Puget Sound region is home to intense, interconnected innovation clusters that are continuing to pioneer in information technology, the cloud, e-commerce, gaming, data science, sensors, global health (including health metrics), neuroscience, and more.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

CircleUp is an online social marketplace that supports direct equity investments from individual investors to small private consumer and retail companies. There are a sea of writeboard walls with rainbow scribbles of metrics and brainstorms. image EPA/Andrew Gombert. It’s spectacular and I want one here in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Like I said in the beginning of this articles, these geofilters are currently an amazing branding deal. After your filter stops running, you’ll be able to see the results in the “metrics” tab of your account. These are deep impressions: people are actually consuming them unlike banner ads and other digital assets.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This article originally ran on PEHub. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. There are 20x more consumers online. THAT is disruption.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Startup Grind was a truly awesome conference and Derek the consumate host. He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. I hope to be asked back for next year’s event. Clayton Christensen certainly didn’t disappoint.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. Dinners were consumed with customers or in hotels and often past 10pm. This is a slightly longer version and also has an update at the end. Somehow this is more honest.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. TechCrunch article. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

This article discusses java.util.EnumSet. In contrast to HashSet , EnumSet : Consumes less memory, usually. In contrast to HashMap , EnumMap : Consumes less memory, usually. public void forEach ( Consumer action ) {. It beats RegularEnumSet in all important metrics: Query speed ( contains(element) , etc.)

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Think Different: How To Make Your Tagline Stand Out From The Crowd - crowdSPRING Blog , July 2, 2010 As I wrote last week in 10 Tips for Startups and Small Businesses on Naming Your Company , coming up with a great company name for your new small business or startup can be challenging and time consuming. Metrics availability.

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