Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today. These begin with the following Cialdini’s Six Principles of Influence , which consumers use to make decisions, buttressed by results from various social media surveys he references in the book: Social proof – follow the crowd.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Social Media Technical Review 85

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2020

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey.

Marketing 157

Marketing Statistics Research Report 157

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Funding Innocal Offshore 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

Assess your intellectual capital and how to increase it. More intellectual capital means that you are worth more today in the marketplace. Take advantage of any and all current opportunities, such as industry conferences and special projects, to increase your intellectual capital for current roles and gigs in the future.

Artificial Inteligence 96

Artificial Inteligence Startup Social Media Training 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality. When you don't accept capital from someone else, you aren't beholden to anyone else's input. But when your only capital is your hard-earned seed money, every penny that goes out will be scrutinized painfully. You can keep overhead low.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2014

Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today. These begin with the following Cialdini’s Six Principles of Influence, that consumers use to make decisions, buttressed by results from various social media surveys he references in the book: Social proof – follow the crowd.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2017

Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today. These begin with the following Cialdini’s Six Principles of Influence , which consumers use to make decisions, buttressed by results from various social media surveys he references in the book: Social proof – follow the crowd.

Technical Review 55

Technical Review Technology Social Media Social Network 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2013

Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today. These begin with the following Cialdini’s Six Principles of Influence , that consumers use to make decisions, buttressed by results from various social media surveys he references in the book: Social proof – follow the crowd.

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Customer Custom Startup Social Media 100

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2011

Los Angeles-based Scopely , the stealth-mode startup which announced a funding round this week, has a unique pitch to potential employees: the firm is offering up $11,000 wrapped in Bacon, an oil painting of the new employee, Cuban cigars, a year's supply of beer, and more prizes to new employees or people who refer friends to work at the startup.

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Google Advertising Competition Los Angeles 227

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey.

Research 87

Research Marketing Statistics Report 87

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

For example, think of all the specialized social-media sites that allow the use of your Facebook or Twitter credentials, instead of forcing a new one. Both then capitalize on new strengths and bundling for growth. Why not improve your customer satisfaction by referring customers you can’t satisfy to someone who can?

Startup 102

Startup Customer Custom IBM 102

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. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Stick with people you meet through warm introductions, or count on the integrity of professionals who have a visible reputation and references, instead of a legal document. If you are approaching a recognized venture capital group, or even an accredited angel investor, a non-disclosure agreement is counter-productive.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review Patents Ideas Social Media 61

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 103

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. What's the idea behind FavRav?

Startup 193

Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

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. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

If 10 percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group or opinion survey.

Marketing 97

Marketing Entrepreneur Statistics Research 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. These terms refer to a class of professional investors who invest their own money, like angels, but have the larger resources and scope of venture capitalists with other people’s money. Seed-round investment.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

We discovered that the model didn''t really scale, because the frame of reference of an individual is so unique, and also because business professionals don''t have all that much money to spend. So, we wondered what we could do at a low price point, things like transcribing voicemail, things like social media sentiment analysis.

Startup 231

Startup Technology Outsource Santa Monica 231

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. Make sure that every interaction with every customer is positive, the service delivered is exemplary, and always follow-up for reference and repeat business.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2016

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from Angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey.

Marketing 59

Marketing Startup Statistics Research 59

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

WEMO Media is an interesting combination of Hollywood, computer games, and deep technical experience, one of the few companies we have seen which seems to combine both the worlds of high tech and software with content, interactive, and Hollywood. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media.

Cloud Computing 208

Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. It’s the same story.

Mentor 150

Mentor Venture Capital Marketing Product 150

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Most notably you need to understand Earned Media and how blogging, public speaking and social media play an important role in the new PR landscape. Most notably we loved that ReadWriteWeb referred to us as ‘a next generation TripAdvisor&# because that’s exactly how we want to be positioned.

Venture Capital 291

Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

It's actually nice that there is a shortage of capital for sports startups. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work. Another part of this, is we do some interesting data mining on social media.

Media 100

Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

It's actually nice that there is a shortage of capital for sports startups. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work. Another part of this, is we do some interesting data mining on social media.

Media 100

Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow.

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

They often identify expeditious ways to make money in the early days of their adVentures, which allow them to reduce the amount of capital they must raise from outside investors. Many entrepreneurs encounter a similar dilemma. Unfortunately, such initially alluring business models can ultimately result in their ruin. 9 Women And A Baby.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

“Recycled Bride” refers to the “recycling” of wedding items when they’re sold and passed from one bride to another, turning a one-time-use item into something with an extended product lifecycle. Entrepreneurial Background? Why the name? Do you recycle?

Design 84

Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Leave it to me to spend 14 hours in Dallas on the very day that three of my favorite industries crush capital… * Social marketing, with $14M through Bessemer Venture Partners and Harrison Metal Capital to Main Street Hub. It’s as subtle, yet important, as the distinction between “social marketing” and “social media.”

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. Those guidelines include creative information, such as what shades and colors to use and colors to avoid, creative references, and similar, which we prepackage to create a brand profile. in a seed funding round.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2010

When we started ramping up the business, and needed capital, they were great following on, as was Will Hearst, who came on board personally. This was kind of the pre-days of the Internet, back when Mosaic was the browser of choice, and it wasn't even referred to as the Internet--people just knew it as Mosaic.

Innocal 150

Innocal Glendale Entertainment Sites 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I connected with Andrea Gouw , the founder of ShopperSeeks.com , on Twitter (thank you social media), when reaching out for women CEOs and founders around the country. Andrea: At May Company, they sold me on the buying career path by saying it was like owning your own business without having to raise start-up capital.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Media Sites 99

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2016

Kobie Fuller, Partner at Upfront Ventures We set out to build a venture capital firm that would not only be a beacon for the rapidly growing LA tech ecosystem but also one that would compete and collaborate nationally with the best firms in the country.

Venture Capital 260

Venture Capital Startup SaaS Social Media 260

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

While attracting capital may have been important, Rob & Lance believe it is the right capital that will enable the ZunguZ platform to grow into the defacto social payment platform that will disrupt the disconnected closed loop providers. Are you competing with banks or are you working with them?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

A lot of them were from social media and personal connections and the technical people immediately started building plug-ins that we’d incorporate as site features. Building the development team came once they were ready to raise capital. It really gave the community a sense of ownership and connected them emotionally.”

Startup 107

Startup Product Sites Tool 107