TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The serial entrepreneur behind the Dubai-based online fashion retailer, Elabelz and marketing studio Elephant Nation had always wanted to redesign the shopping experience for how customers actually shopped in stores and online. Fashion shopping has always been a social experience,” said Agha, co-founder and co-CEO of Flip, in a statement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

If customers don’t know you exist, you can’t solve their problem, they won’t buy. Getting customer attention often takes more innovation today than solving the tough technical problems. Talk to real live customers in addition to marketers. Avoid the use of jargon, big claims, and special promotions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Every new business I know dreams of building momentum in their business, where growth continues to increase, customers become your best advocates, and employee motivation is high. Unfortunately, with limited resources, this isn’t possible, and it frustrates customers and the team. Focus first on finding more of the right customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. Other companies keep the focus on their customers, and seem to thrive on disruption, much less survive. They make it their top business priority to understand, anticipate, and gratify customers’ needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2019

More and more customers these days are doing their own marketing research, scanning internet reviews and feedback from friends, rather than trusting messages that you push out through advertising. Update your website to make it totally customer-focused. Provide memorable total customer experience relationships.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2020

Customers are happy, clients are beaming, and the revenue just keeps rolling in. Point-of-Sale Systems. With in-person sales still accounting for more than $3 trillion per year , it's safe to say the original shopping methods are going to stick around. The new year is officially here and, hopefully, your business is thriving.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Prices begin to decline quickly.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. Search Meets Social = Commerce. The combination of Search and Social is redefining the way marketers are allocating their ad budgets. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Big data:” learning from the flood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

For too many small businesses, customer service is still seen as a “burden.” Entrepreneurs don’t realize that this burden is actually costing them over $200 billion in repeat sales, according to a recent study by the W. These days, relationships and online reviews are key drivers for over 80 percent of new customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Prices begin to decline quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. Maybe you should start with an online e-commerce site, based on your favorite hobby expertise.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

How did an email marketing provider turn into a provider of software which mashes up a combination of email marketing, wiki, customer service management, event and meeting management tool, project management software, and much more? That kind of data is very difficult to come by. We have an integrated system which ties it all together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Big data:” learning from the flood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Big data:” learning from the flood.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2015

Sometimes this is called a white label strategy, because your customers offer your product as their own product, writing in their brand name on the blank label in your underlying offering. But, more often, this is just the virtualization of what we used to call outsourcing. Forgive me, but I had no idea what that meant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Big data:” learning from the flood.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Prices begin to decline quickly.

Startup 116

Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Customer 116

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Prices begin to decline quickly.

Pricing 105

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 105

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Use local affiliate networks Online affiliate marketing is a well-established sales channel for many businesses. If you're planning to launch an e-commerce website in a foreign market, local affiliate networks could prove useful in your online marketing mix. And, of course, you'll need premises for them to work in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Prices begin to decline quickly.

Pricing 52

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 52

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

However, international customers have found you through social media, US trade shows and technical papers. A successful head of international will spend time keeping updated on local conditions through participation in industry meetings, chamber of commerce memberships, as well as developing and maintaining corporate contacts.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. Our mission is to create that kind of experience for our customers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The Dollars and Sense of Apps as Commerce Build vs. Buy: The Biggest Question Customer Conversations: Are Apps A Shout Out or a Deep Discussion Survival of the Fittest: Darwin's Law of Apps and packed with case studies!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

When I published This Remote Working Experiment Failed And Succeeded on the Wall Street Journal last year, I had no idea it would generate so much social media attention. In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company. FastSpring.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

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. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan. Watch this space.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Create and manage your social media presence. Choose an email system to connect with customers ( Constant Contact , MailChimp , Sendgrid ). Execute the 5 Step Sales Process.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. Snipfeed is free to set up, but if you make sales, the company takes 15% — this percentage is inclusive of any transaction fees.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Bootstrapping Marketing Strategy, social media marketing, web applications. . Stop Listening to Your Customers. A common assumption among startup entrepreneurs is that listening to potential customers is the best. jim spencer, media convergence group.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2015

On July 15, Amazon’s Prime Day , an ostensible celebration of the online retailer’s 20th birthday, will offer members “more deals than Black Friday,” including seven Deals of the Day, thousands of lightning offers, and flash sales every 10 minutes. billion in 2014 Singles’ Day sales, spurred by more than $2 billion in the first hour.)

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A” round investors or late-stage seed investors will take a market risk (they want to see the product, vision and maybe even the first customers, and they bet on there being a big enough market). “B” Entrepreneurs should also use social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) A simple idea also allows for clarity.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

If the user shares the add on social media, they earn an extra $.25. That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content. That’s the concept behind AdWallet.

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