Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

If you aren’t yet adapting to the market and your customers, you are falling behind. I define business agility for my consulting clients as the ability to change your business rapidly to meet customer and environmental changes, with minimal organizational disruption and cost. Be proactive rather than reactive to market change.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site joint venture of Demand Media and Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has launched a new, iPhone application geared at helping users quick smoking. Livestrong said its new MyQuit Coach iPhone application--which costs $3.99

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2014

August Scott began her Zappos career in their customer support call center. Her positive attitude and willingness to take chances rapidly propelled her to the coveted and influential position of Coach. Several Zappos employees had mentioned "Coach" and the impact she has had on the corporation during our tour. and I loved it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

The business world doesn’t thrive with yet another social media or dating site – it’s begging for paradigm shifts in the technology or business model. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well. Venture where no business has gone before. Never give up in the face of adversity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

That means starting your search through contract services sites, rather than conventional career hiring sites. By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed. You can advertise your “greener” strategy, which today will get you greater customer loyalty and advocacy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Ownership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The business world doesn’t thrive with yet another social media or dating site – it’s begging for paradigm shifts in the technology or business model. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well. Venture where no business has gone before. Never give up in the face of adversity.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2009

eteamz specializes in designing custom Web sites for amateur athletic teams, which, in turn, use those sites to help collect money from players and parents for everyday team expenses. Financial impact of the win with eteamz was not disclosed; CircleUp launched its online payment service last week. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

A good way to start is to create and communicate bite-sized milestones toward your end objective, including product development stages, customer threshold targets, and funding achievements. These days, even customers look for businesses who create a social or environmental impact, and flock to support them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

These days, customers as well as team members, need to be able to relate to a higher purpose for your business, such as protecting the environment, or helping the disadvantaged. Be sure to tie changes back to the “why” – customer value, business objectives, and competition. Publicly reward risk taking and new ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Sometimes in my personal life, sometimes on a website I’m working on, sometimes it’s a customer service issue. I coached them through it over email and then fixed how the site operates to eliminate the issue for others. Creator of mind blowing customer experiences. I spend my day solving problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Treat a startup as a customer, not a client. A client relationship suggests that the consultant is in charge, whereas the customer designation recognizes the more modern model of the customer in control. It also highlights all aspects of required customer service, satisfaction, loyalty and referrals to peers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

After that a meme developed amongst many startups (and the advisors that coached them) that, “TechCrunch didn’t matter. If you’re an app for “normals” targeting middle America it might be good to target the USA Today or if you’re a B2B site you might target industrial rags.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Others schedule long and exhaustive practice and coaching sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone tells the most positive and consistent story. Update reference customers, partners, and vendors.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Sometimes in my personal life, sometimes on a website I’m working on, sometimes it’s a customer service issue. I coached them through it over email and then fixed how the site operates to eliminate the issue for others. I never achieve it and I never will, but I try. I spend my day solving problems.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Sometimes in my personal life, sometimes on a website I’m working on, sometimes it’s a customer service issue. I coached them through it over email and then fixed how the site operates to eliminate the issue for others. I never achieve it and I never will, but I try. I spend my day solving problems.

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Google Email Coach Entrepreneur 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The business world doesn’t thrive with yet another social media or dating site – it’s begging for paradigm shifts in the technology or business model. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well. Venture where no business has gone before. Never give up in the face of adversity.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Great benefits and a workplace that is fun and dedicated to making customers happy all fit in with the Zappos approach to company culture — when you get the company culture right, great customer service and a great brand will happen on its own. Portions of the budget are dedicated to employee team building and culture promotion.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Great benefits and a workplace that is fun and dedicated to making customers happy all fit in with the Zappos approach to company culture — when you get the company culture right, great customer service and a great brand will happen on its own. Portions of the budget are dedicated to employee team building and culture promotion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2010

Networking does not require unsavory schmoozing or pandering to get to know potential partners, investors, and customers. Utilize online support sites. These can also provide coaching, marketing, and other important resources. Women learn from women.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Once you’ve been around for a few years, attracted some great people, landed real, paying customers and raised venture capital you’ve likely got a talented team around you. In your case this might simply be a VP of Sales or Customer Support for multiple locations. You’re suddenly free to focus your energies elsewhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2011

That’s the reason every good parent should be coaching their child from birth to avoid posting all the naughty things on social networks that can come back to haunt them later. It doesn’t take much imagination to extend this example into your own business world, with potential customers and business associates checking you out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

For angel investors, early-stage means there is a good business plan and maybe a prototype, but no customer revenue. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. People can come to the site, pay you directly, and we provide them with access to your genie, and away they go. a month for two Genies, and unlimited users or customers.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. But longtime ICPC student coach Antonette Logar, Ph.D., With the help of Visit Rapid City, Logar’s presentation convinced the ICPC Executive Committee to do a site visit.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). Without their buy in, we don’t get the opportunity to interact with end customers. We’re positioned well to scale.”. We remind ourselves of that regularly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2010

That’s the reason every good parent should be coaching their child from birth to avoid posting all the naughty things on social networks that can come back to haunt them later. It doesn’t take much imagination to extend this example into your own business world, with potential customers and business associates checking you out.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

“Our executive director works with entrepreneurs [who] have been selected to pitch, coaching them to improve their presentations and helping them anticipate questions.” “Not only did we bring in more investors, but they became loyal customers and proud evangelists for our products,” says Shaw. million in 2010.

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Alon Schwartz

MARCH 30, 2012

With so many sites and blog posts dedicated to interview advice, you might think that there is no need for another one. There are many sites that advise on this topic, but I will only stress that the resume should be short and relevant to the job. But I don’t, because I want to give the interviewee a chance.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching. What started as a site for women has molded into a place for both genders. It’s going to change based on customer feedback and just be patient, grow it and iterate upon it.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue. Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A. Register Now! Learn more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2016

Teamwork inside the company and interacting with customers and partners outside the company are mandatory activities. Communicate job opening via your web site, craigslist and personal emails. Conduct on-site interviews for each of the top-five with you and at least two peers. Already possesses key skills required.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

Forms Augmenting the team can take various forms: Consulting – defining how to attack particular issues, possibly directly planning Coaching – advising on how to approach particular issues Manage – lead members Execute – take on specific activities Again, this is fairly fuzzy, but it comes down to having mutual expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

Don’t believe the old myth that with a few hours of work a day and a great web site, you can get rich while you sleep. In my experience, and from the thoughts of others who have “been there and done that,” here is my list of the top elements you should be looking for: Focused on customers and team, rather than “me, myself, and I.”

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