Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Case Study Mentor Software Review 131

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 -- Launching a Startup in your spare time: Case Study from Manvite.com. Two friends, a marketing executive and a software engineer, had an idea to challenge a large web incumbent without leaving their day jobs. How can you get a web startup going without leaving your day job?

Case Study 100

Case Study Startup Software Engineering Study 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Adopting Lean-Agile software philosophies and development methodologies involves requires that internal organizations and roles change. Find out what drove these organizations to change the way they organized around defining, developing and delivering software and what they learned along the way. See [link] (more).

Organization 100

Organization Case Study Study Software 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials. Automate to the max.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials. Automate to the max.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

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. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. You get a lot of traffic – not always results.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Custom Customer 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials. Automate to the max.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2016

We have many artificial intelligence software algorithms we had to develop, but there have been other automation solutions that have been able to do similar things. So, we started with a simple robotic platform, and developed software to make up for the lack of precision hardware. So where are you now in deployment?

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Commerce Startup USC 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials. Automate to the max.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

For example, if your new software adds innovative new features and mobile access to a classic offering, you could name and degrade current vendors for their lack of support, or you could highlight your innovative additions over the current market leaders. Use real case studies and customer feedback.

Capital 63

Capital Competition Case Study Patents 63

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Jim Armstrong: It's broadly technology, from consumer Internet, to marketplaces, from Internet infrastructure to enterprise software. You'll see we have several enterprise software companies already in the March portfolio. What is the investment focus for this fund? Related to what I said earlier, is you need to think big and broadly.

Southern California 113

Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Let’s assume you run a Customer Support software company. You have no choice but to jump into solution mode for a bit to see if your case studies on a successful implementation at other customers opens up the person you’re meeting a bit. But how to apply “listening&# in a sales meeting?

Sales 314

Sales Startup Venture Capital Customer 314

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

Ellis points out a case study where they discovered viewers of a particular movie poster were the common thread among purchases of a particular turntable. Amazon can recommend, but it has no understanding of what drives the users to buy. We can connect the dots,” said Ellis.

Seed Funding 40

Seed Funding Funding Commerce Social Media 40

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. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration). You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Up until a few years ago most software companies used the ‘waterfall’ method of development that required lots of documentation (detailed marketing requirements specifications, functional and design specifications, etc.) There’s lots more info including videos, case studies and more at www.ringrevenue.com.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

has done is give you easy access to a domain, for free, and given you enormously valuable software that you can use for free, and which allow you to use the services you've been part of, invested in developing identities on, and allows you to create and promote that identity in a.mp Rob Farrow: The average user is a great case study for us.

Social Network 147

Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Cost Per Click (CPC) or Download (CPD) – As the name implies, advertisers pay only for clicks on its advertisements or when a user downloads its software, case study or whitepaper. In many cases, editorial content in an email newsletter is an effective manner of acquiring customers.

Custom 164

Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Software Labs: Petri Dishes for Tech Innovation. Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine. How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software. If you’re an entrepreneur or software ninjette who wants to make a full-time income from your web. Entrepreneurism / Monetization design, Recruiting, Software development. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378