Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. A while back in a blog article , I pointed out that none of these justify a startup business plan with little or no budget for marketing. Long-term sales. Owned media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. A while back in a blog article , I pointed out that none of these justify a startup business plan with little or no budget for marketing. Long-term sales. Owned media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. A while back in a blog article , I pointed out that none of these justify a startup business plan with little or no budget for marketing. Long-term sales. Owned media.

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Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. We will be opening up a a round of funding soon, as soon as we have some metrics and have been live in the market, and hope to raise some money and capital in the next thirty days. We're also funding it out of pocket. You mention you're part of StartEngine.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

They are tasked with “getting deals done” so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

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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. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. it’s about measuring online influence and I’m big on metrics as a key element of business planning; 2.) You could just outspend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The remainder of this article will deal with this decision but it comes down to the different economics of DVD rentals due to “ the first sale doctrine ” which gives Netflix a complete library of films and the fact that the first-sale doctrine doesn’t apply to digital downloads. A blog post! No, probably not.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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Startup Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. This is the point where you must manage to metrics, work on the culture of the organization, and look for partner-based growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Rob does it. On steroids.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

It’s human nature to prioritize the metrics that get measured, so the simple act of keeping track is often enough to have a significant positive impact. You can also use this space to keep track of innovators (R&D personnel) and rainmakers (sales & marketing personnel). Keep an archive of your old scorecards.

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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. I’m talking about highly targeted efforts on specific demographics with pre-defined metrics, not the “spray and pray” -- spray your message broadly and hope it sticks somewhere -- approach.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. Clothes are very personal and its really a pain to find stuff thats going to look good on you. I really think MyShape has a great concept. in Computer Science.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

blog here ). We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). I see it in many young pups.

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CEO Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

By Connie Loizos, of peHUB (Thomson-Reuter’s private equity blog). They don’t take into account that the metrics involved in outbound sales (owing to customer acquisition costs) makes that data meaningless. “A New Support Group for CEOs Emerges&#.

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CEO Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

By Connie Loizos, of peHUB (Thomson-Reuter’s private equity blog). They don’t take into account that the metrics involved in outbound sales (owing to customer acquisition costs) makes that data meaningless. “A New Support Group for CEOs Emerges&#.

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Sales Metrics Organization Customer 40

CEO Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

By Connie Loizos, of peHUB (Thomson-Reuter’s private equity blog). They don’t take into account that the metrics involved in outbound sales (owing to customer acquisition costs) makes that data meaningless. “A New Support Group for CEOs Emerges&#.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? Especially with DVD sales declining, we offer an interesting way to help studios.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Unfortunately, your personal assessment that you have traction probably won’t be convincing to potential investors and partners, so it’s important that you create and track your progress against some metrics. Define metrics on customer feedback and user counts. Count connections with experts, media, and influencers.

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Tips Metrics Technical Review Customer 79

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). It’s why I never get too excited about sales unless I can scratch the surface of the elusive “why.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

Since I know not everybody reads Twitter I thought I’d collect them here in a blog post. " Revenue doesn't pay your bills, GM does  —  @msuster 2/ Founders obsess with revenue as a vanity metric. If you can any value please feel free to share this post or RT any individual Tweet.

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Software Review Technical Review Pricing Metrics 242

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. This blog is to address these questions. Aggregate metrics. Engagement.

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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. He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed).

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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

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. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. Somehow this is more honest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2019

Customers love to learn from leaders and innovators, and this pulls them in for sales. Implement marketing metrics based on inbound data. Companies that haven’t updated their website for years, or publish a new blog only sporadically, won’t be followed or pull in new customers. Take advantage of new automated tools in this area.

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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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