Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. Record live data in full for all internal business elements.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

Over fifty percent of our founders are already revenue generating when they apply and pitch, and one of the factors that seems to make a company stand out and indicate they are bound for success, is their understanding of the metrics of their particular market, and what they need to compete versus competitors.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

The afternoon, with Tech Wildcatters ‘ Gabriella Draney and a handful of still-stealth eCommerce ventures, solidified that the industry of commerce is in Texas. Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics. Offline engagement platform EyeQ. One of Austin’s fastest growing companies, product video producer Invodo.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. Are people really willing to sell their stuff to benefit charities?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Define relevant metrics and measure.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

On December 10th, 1993, a small group of software developers in Shreveport, Louisiana changed the software world. Keep your organization nimble by monitoring return-driven metrics, such as profit per employee, cost per customer, life time value per customer, profit per location, profit per square foot leased, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Define relevant metrics and measure.

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Social Media Media Startup Social Network 115

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. The cost of social media done well is low.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. What we set out to do was develop something that we could use to solve that problem for ourselves, using personalized recommendation technology for food. Food is the perfect example.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

In seed stage funding, we’re often told that the investments are ultimately about the people/teams, and not necessarily the metrics. Shippo is changing the game for e-commerce shipping. They’re going to be huge for private e-commerce retailers. Rapt.FM – Rap battles over live chat. Look out for this company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Define relevant metrics and measure.

Social Media 104

Social Media Media Marketing Social Network 104

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

We also make some e-commerce revenue, because some people are ranking products, so we can make affiliate revenue or lead revenue on clicks on things like cars. Our traffic metrics have been growing, and we're now up to over 2 million monthly uniques, and 7 million monthly page views. How long has the site been up and running?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

And then fast forward to the 1990s-2013, we enter into the digital culture or e-commerce frontier. For an online retailer to create a retail website, starting your retail web development is just easy as clicking the mouse. This move drove a lot of smaller local merchants away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Define relevant metrics and measure.

Social Media 88

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 88

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The term a gile development is defined, and the panel agreed unanimously that maintaining this mindset is necessary. You need to research what they do, and on the development/API side, that’s something that you’ll have to go in and fix too. Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads?

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! Customers have long included some of the biggest names in social commerce and online gaming plus startups like TopSpin, Local Response, Maker Studios, StockTwits and the like. End of story. Or Likes – LIKES!

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Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Social network app developer and ad network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2019

Develop and learn from shared marketing efforts, trade-show booths, co-branding promotional products, and referral agreements. Implement marketing metrics based on inbound data. Pursue collaborations with local and national organizations and businesses who are good at inbound marketing, to pull in their customers and followers.

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Marketing Social Media Technical Review Customer 94