Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

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. The report also indicates that customer problem experiences continue to increase, up four percent to 54 percent since the last study. Carey School of Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don''t attract investors failing within the first three years. My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

According to my experience and a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with 90% of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Start with sites like Elance.com and Guru.com for specialized tasks you can’t do yourself.

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Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Start with sites like Elance.com and Guru.com for specialized tasks you can’t do yourself.

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Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Moderator: Vince Thompson, Managing Partner, Middleshift LLC Speakers: Carrie Coffee, Mobile Sales Specialist, Mobile Advertising, Microsoft Evan Neufeld, VP Marketing, GROUNDTRUTH. Dave Gwozdz, CEO of Mojiva will highlight some findings of this recent study called "State of the Industry in Mobile." But does every brand need an app?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Everybody is Selling Something: The Arrival of "Me-Commerce". A powerful revolution—Citizen Commerce—is forming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study , Gartner , and other sources : Targeted marketing. By transforming a single shopper''s path into data points, companies can see how you move through a store, and how that tracks with sales. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study and other sources : Targeted marketing. By transforming a single shopper''s path into data points, companies can see how you move through a store, and how that tracks with sales. Big data can mean big profits.

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