Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain. The more you use your new-found leadership ability, the greater will be your satisfaction and confidence. The more you know, the more self-confident you will be to make your own leadership decisions.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Businesses use the company’s software tools to help monitor customer satisfaction. The Medallia (NYSE: MDLA ) IPO earlier this year was one of a number of successful public market debuts by companies offering cloud-based software, often dubbed software-as-a-service. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Business financial aid alternatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

Most consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance. The result is that over 60% of online shoppers are brand loyal due to other online satisfaction data. Perhaps the greatest asset in social capital is that of benevolence. Scarcity – less is more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn’t necessarily translate to your business, and measuring business value is quite different from measuring personal satisfaction. Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. Identify your target customer and create customer profiles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Business financial aid alternatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” He gets to return his focus and energy back to what got him so passionate in the first place – product – while now having a seasoned leader and enough capital to fulfill his vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Product companies sometimes equate customer satisfaction with customer service, but it’s more than that, especially with services. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Business financial aid alternatives.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. In the 2-1/2 years since it was founded, Nervana raised roughly $25 million. (In

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

High on my list is the joy and satisfaction of having helped many entrepreneurs face-to-face this year, and hopefully many more by my blog reaching out over the Internet. Venture capital investments are returning to startups. Startups are springing up all over to capitalize on these opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2014

77% of consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance. The result is that 62% of online shoppers are brand loyal due to other online satisfaction data. Perhaps the greatest asset in social capital is that of benevolence. Scarcity – less is more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Product companies sometimes equate customer satisfaction with customer service, but it’s more than that, especially with services. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2017

Most consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance. The result is that over 60% of online shoppers are brand loyal due to other online satisfaction data. Perhaps the greatest asset in social capital is that of benevolence. Scarcity – less is more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2013

77% of consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance. The result is that 62% of online shoppers are brand loyal due to other online satisfaction data. Perhaps the greatest asset in social capital is that of benevolence. Scarcity – less is more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

Actively participating in social media is the place to start, including blogging and positively responding to customer feedback, to build a growing crowd of followers. As an example, early businesses that were willing to publish their commitment to “customer satisfaction or your money back” became influencers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Product companies sometimes equate customer satisfaction with customer service, but it’s more than that, especially with services. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice. Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck. Then iterate and improve based on feedback.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

According to most studies, getting into angel investing without being prepared to make a total of between 20 and 80 investments is a good way to lose ALL your invested capital. My first Internet venture in the early 1990s took about $20 million in venture capital to get to our product launch.

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