Eric Greenspan

APRIL 11, 2013

If you knew what your customers were thinking (and saying) about your product, service, or staff, imagine what you could do with this data. Companies have taken advantage of this and have built strong followings on Facebook pages and Twitter streams. If they are unhappy, you can find out why and fix it. Virgin is the master.

Customer 117

Customer Custom Class Services 117

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. Maximizing Business Productivity.

Course 96

Course Email Social Network Ideas 96

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. They are changing all the time, and we constantly have new products and partners, as our inventory churns and things are no longer available, or if they are seasonal in nature.

Mobile 100

Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.".

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Focused and confident.

Resource 97

Resource Entrepreneur Social Network SpaceX 97

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In school, you''re taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. Maximizing Business Productivity.

Course 104

Course Email Social Network Ideas 104

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

Add on top of this the general lack of financial understanding amongst the US population (only 57% of us are classed as financially literate), and you've got quite a cocktail for a cycle of poverty. Their main product, the Gigabot printer, claims to rival the printing quality of other industrial printers at 1/10 the cost.

Startup 203

Startup Invest FAQ Examples 203

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

Jay Budzik: You might have seen in our coverage, that Discover Financial, a pretty famous card issuer, is using us for an installment loan product, which helps them leverage machine learning to a specific business problem around losses related to their personal loans portfolio. What kind of lenders are using your tool?

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Tool CIO Customer 113

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

Startup 333

Startup Class Conference Product 333

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. Maximizing Business Productivity.

Training 57

Training Course Email Social Network 57

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. And it’s easy to run circles around them as our product differentiation shows. Growing our Product Lines. It worked perfectly. This was painful.

Startup 150

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2012

Avoid whatever business jargon is currently hip, like strategic, mission-critical, world-class, synergistic, first-mover, or scalable. Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.” This model only works once you have exceeded about one million page-views per month, and spent maybe $50 million to get there.

Startup 95

Startup Customer Custom Summary 95

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there. An example, is they took four of our pieces, put them on the front page of YouTube for 24 hours, and -- despite being pushed off the page by breaking news -- we approached a million streams for that content.

Content 212

Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Focused and confident.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Focused and confident.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

If you are certain that you are building a large national corporation with more than 100 investors, and multiple classes of stock, then you might as well start with a Delaware or Nevada C-Corp. Incorporate your startup after the business plan, but before you spend a dollar on product development.

Startup 93

Startup Tips Examples Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. They bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. I’m gonna do this page over from the start.”

Slides 399

Slides Startup Conference Writing 399

Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

The mission of The Rise and Fall of American Growth —an unlikely New York Times bestseller, at a dense 779 pages—is to reveal the full depth of the standard-of-living improvements that characterized what Gordon calls the “special century” beginning in 1870. It’s time to merge two disconnected conversations into one.

Class 40

Class Invest Technology Mobile 40

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Focused and confident.

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 56

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Avoid whatever business jargon is currently hip, like strategic, mission-critical, world-class, synergistic, first-mover, or scalable. Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.” This model only works once you have exceeded about one million page-views per month, and spent maybe $50 million to get there.

Ideas 92

Ideas Startup Customer Custom 92

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues. The leadership group is currently looking at options to tie in relevant coursework in entrepreneurship, business, and engineering, while also contemplating an alumni-only, mid-year class of startups. Skip to primary content.

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. Leverage: with teachers not having to have in-person classes you can build a more cost-effective model and teaching can be targeted more to your individual needs. I know the product intimately and it rocks. What I like? Big market.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

And if you’re lucky and hit product/market fit straight out of the gate – awesome. Money when you find product / market fit is an extreme differentiator. Overfunding after product / market fit is essential to competing and winning. Now the AP class. You grow from 8 to 45 people over night. Your CAC stinks.

Funding 150

Funding Venture Capital Startup Marketing 150

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

Play it in the background while you otherwise remain productive (or listen to it while you update your FB page, your call). We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class. He offers a number of worthwhile tips and tricks that I was not able to capture in the textual summary, so the 14-minute audio file is well worth your time.

Summary 246

Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. That’s why productivity wasn’t tough for me as a CEO. I’m not. I visualized.

Slides 374

Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

They are at the tops of their classes and want to get into private equity or venture capital some day. So this summer we sent him to work in one of our portfolio companies in product management on our dime. Check the management / team page of the VC to check the level of the person approaching you. Kelly is younger.

Venture Capital 294

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Email Equity 294

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

The exciting this, and the biggest benefit from bootstrapping this from recruiting, is I've been able to develop, and hand-pick a world class technology team. We also blend in ads with our job results page. The good news, is a product like ResumeBucket actually grows in this economy. We're almost like PlentyOfFish for resumes.

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

More information is located on their “attend” page. SMWLA has posted a tentative schedule of events on their “Schedule At A Glance” page. I’d Like To Thank The Academy…On Twitter: A Conversation with the Emmys, Oscars, Grammys, Streamys, and Dick Clark Productions. WHAT EVENTS ARE HAPPENING? 3:00-4:00pm.

Social Media 92

Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. Could you walk through what a Genie looks like? We've seen a full range of applications.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Avoid whatever business jargon is currently hip, like strategic, mission-critical, world-class, synergistic, first-mover, or scalable. Try something like, “the product costs X dollars, and we sell it for Y dollars.” It’s the electronic version of a catalog and shopping cart, and today rarely involves any stock of product.

Startup 48

Startup Customer Custom Summary 48

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product? What about strategy?

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Solution and benefits. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole.

Competition 113

Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. Their distribution footprint consists of: Over 400 million Page Likes on Facebook.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

On opposite pages were two ads for two very large companies. The irony is that currently both these onetime best in class companies are now in deep trouble. In fact, Customer Experience (CX) turns the product development chart upside down. We are living in an age where we are surrounded with fantastic new products and services.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Blogging Startup 72