Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

You must use self-promotion early and often through viral videos, blogging, and industry leadership, to establish credibility with your customers. Proactively use metrics and customer feedback before a crisis hits, to recognize when a pivot or product adjustment is required. Allocate resources to handle bumps along the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Determine your core business strategy and resolve to remain true to it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement.

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Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Determine your core business strategy and resolve to remain true to it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You get a lot of traffic — not always results. If you aren’t careful every PR team will measure inches over impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Determine your core business strategy and resolve to remain true to it.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Determine your core business strategy and resolve to remain true to it.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. Customers see what their peers are saying in blogs and product reviews, and how you respond to these, and this impacts their buy decision more than any advertisement. Only then can you determine your ROI.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Content is still king, so do the proper homework on what you blog, and the quality of the messages you deliver via social media. Implement metrics and analytics. Then set your goals. Understand the basic tools – the social media trinity.

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Social Media Media Startup Blogging 95

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth. Keep an archive of your old scorecards.

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.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

Make sure you website is mobile-friendly, totally user-friendly, includes a blog and provides for customers review and feedback. It may be small feature extensions, packaging and distribution that can make your solutions attractive and more competitive for new market segments. Update your technology to reach new customer segments.

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Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 55

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Cyber & nuclear threats, disruptive innovation, and increasing competition for market share will continue to reshape how members view their memberships. Developing Metrics to measure new product & service impact on Industry Business & Growth Challenges. Click here to receive future blog articles.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

blog here ). With perfect information and too much competition you pay up or they walk right down the street and get it from somebody else.” I’ve seen many a VC firm argue that “if we give them $10 million then they will massively pull away from competition and we crowd out the market.” Same as I felt.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

Subscribe to their blog. Based on your research from Step 1, you should be able to communicate meaningful and insightful comments regarding the partners’ tweets, blog content, etc. If you are deploying a freemium business model, test your upsell strategy on a portion of your users to establish concrete free-to-paid conversion metrics.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

Not just in measured results per second (several metric crap tonne), but in number of tests measured (~1830), number of framework permutations tested (~464), number of languages included (26), and total execution time of the test suite (67 hours, or 241 billion microseconds to make that sound properly enormous). More on that later.

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Framework TechEmpower Platform Metrics 377

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s). The team has stated it and has built metrics around key goals for future success. why did they buy?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Short-lived but an epic way to cap off our interview; Shaq showed his competitive side when he hilarious tried swatting away Chris’s game controller out of his hand. Hermoione Way – Vibease , world’s first wearable smart vibrator.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. We also spoke about technology systems in the perspective of global competition. I wrote about that before in a post about “ whether MBAs are necessary for entrepreneurs.

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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. We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. This is a slightly longer version and also has an update at the end. Somehow this is more honest.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Metrics availability.

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