Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free.

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Marketing Social Media Framework Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free.

Media 101

Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Very few of them are started, in my experience, by sales people and very few early stage companies really understand sales. That’s why I started the Sales & Marketing Series and at one point I will do a bunch of posts on the sales methodology we developed at my first company called PUCCKA. They’re always on time.

Startup 350

Startup Sales Framework Organization 350

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

We did big, boring but necessary implementations for large companies. I next moved into system design where I designed computer systems to deal with large industrial natural gas customers and telecommunication companies. We can also begin to socialize our answers with people in the company to get their reactions. discuss.

Entrepreneur 372

Entrepreneur Startup Design Framework 372

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

How is it possible to ensure that every experience with your company is consistently great and where do you find these people? Through my life experience alone, if there is one thing I knew when starting my company is what types of experiences were spoilers and what types of experiences were enjoyable.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Services Framework 100

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

How is it possible to ensure that every experience with your company is consistently great and where do you find these people? Through my life experience alone, if there is one thing I knew when starting my company is what types of experiences were spoilers and what types of experiences were enjoyable.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Services Framework 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power. The advantage today has shifted to companies whose customer focus is superior.

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Customer Custom Startup Organization 104

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Many entrepreneurs are paranoid about the partnership approach, and think that M&A is only an alternative for large companies who are flush with cash. In every startup, as well as in mature companies, there is no substitute for constantly maintaining a pipeline of alternatives. Both of these qualms are wrong and shortsighted.

Acquisition 88

Acquisition CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development 88

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I have some educated guesses. Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing.

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Many entrepreneurs are paranoid about the partnership approach, and think that M&A is only an alternative for large companies who are flush with cash. In every startup, as well as in mature companies, there is no substitute for constantly maintaining a pipeline of alternatives. Both of these qualms are wrong and shortsighted.

CTO Hire 91

CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development Resource 91

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

Daryl is also an angel investor, and has invested in such companies as MindBody Software and YouMail. And, haven't some folks been trying to educate people about the market for awhile? That's a good thing for us, because of the legal issues--it's been a lot of education. Explain to me how your service works? and the E.U.,

Outsource Development 100

Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. And I feel that this skill is invaluable in both building a start-up company and in being a VC.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

What you’ll also find is that of the 25 companies, our founders represent an inclusive group with 40 percent female, 52 percent minority and 12 percent veteran founders from 14 states and 5 countries. Once uploaded, the company safeguards the data in their secure cloud. AdWallet (Albuquerque, NM). That’s the concept behind AdWallet.

Startup 79

Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. It can also give your brand real weight as it has a reason for being, so it’s worth spending time shaping and articulating this.

Startup 78

Startup Design Customer Custom 78

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

This always makes me chuckle because in my first company we had 5 investors in our first round and we picked up 5 more before we finally sold the company. In my second company I had only 1 investor. Most companies hit a bump in the road at some point. You are then a “stranded&# portfolio company. I love that.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Pricing 314

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2016

It exemplifies how difficult it is to build a company — even one that extraordinarily successful — and the perils of the trade-offs between growth and cash. The framework for the book is a letter to Coates’ son who is a teen ager. This is truly an inspirational read or listen for any entrepreneur and I can’t recommend it enough.

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Innocal Startup Course Framework 236