Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. Make sure all business processes are documented and integrated. Status of the solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. They are tasked with “getting deals done” so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Mr. Everhart distills his leadership insights from many decades in one of the largest business-to-business marketing agencies, working with companies across the country. Here there is no substitute for independent analysis from experts outside the organizations involved. Multiple marketing tactics seek to share attribution.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Get this newsletter in your inbox every Thursday by subscribing on TechCrunch’s newsletter page. Few companies have to deal with the stressed of both crypto and public markets like Coinbase which laid off more than 1,100 people this week, but plenty of startups raised mega-rounds in 2021 to theoretically future-proof their companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Social proof is defined as “looking for others to guide our decisions&# and is also one of the most important techniques in acquiring customers in your company. Many of you have read or at least know the primary thesis of “ Crossing the Chasm &# the seminal book on marketing your products to mainstream consumers by Geoffrey Moore.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

It's been quite a few years since we spoke with the company. What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

If you head up marketing for an Internet company, you're undoubtedly used to having to work--or fight--with your IT department to help maintain your web site and manage all of the changes you need done. Why were investors interested in your company? First off, what is tag management? Right now, we've counted north of a thousand.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Productive offices get more done—their workers complete projects faster and bring in more revenue for their organizations. Below you will find several techniques managers can use to encourage office productivity: . Below you will find several techniques managers can use to encourage office productivity: .

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2014

XO (formerly Moonfrye), the e-commerce company founded by Soleil Moon Frye and Kara Nortman, announced a merger with toy and crafting brand Seedling (www.seedling.com), which was founded by Phoebe Hayman. Can you tell us a bit about the company and the merger? Phoebe Hayman: We are bringing two companies together with a great heritage.

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Commerce Mobile Startup Product 138

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? ,p>

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today. As a simple example, the Wal-Mart website now shows shoppers more products that they may like, based on previous purchases.

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Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. Make sure all business processes are documented and integrated. Status of the solution.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Only a few weeks ago, Google executives announced Google+ Pages for brands and companies were on the way. I managed to go through the interface for adding pages a few moments ago, and grabbed some screenshots: Primary Landing Page: Local Business or Place. Get started today and build your page.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2019

A quick scan of the Internet today will convince you that many sites are still product-centric, technology focused, and haven’t been updated for years. Customers are pulled to companies that are role models for saving the environment, fostering social change, and giving back to the less advantaged. The key is consistency.

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Marketing Social Media Technical Review Customer 94

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

.&# Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. I love that saying.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. ” By that we weren’t trying to demean companies building aps, games, photo sharing, etc., 6SensorLabs. 6SensorLabs.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

With more employees and network-intensive activities, businesses must stay ahead of their bandwidth needs or risk bottlenecking their employees and reducing staff productivity. . Companies leveraging DIA receive symmetrical upload and download speeds, which is ideal for videoconferencing and cloud upload and downloads. Dark Fiber.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. What is FamousBirthdays.com? What things have you been doing to grow?

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders, the CEO and co-founder, of the company is hoping to change that, by providing tools to consumers to help pay off their debt and achieve their life goals. I built up the company, the Walz Group, with partners. 500 company. The company is doing great, and now has more than $30 million in revenues.

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Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Only a few weeks ago, Google executives announced Google+ Pages for brands and companies were on the way. I managed to go through the interface for adding pages a few moments ago, and grabbed some screenshots: Primary Landing Page: Local Business or Place. Get started today and build your page.

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Google Entertainment Startup Organization 45

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

They must have the creativity to figure out unique ways of driving growth in addition to testing/evolving the techniques proven by other companies.” This is the most important role because this person graduates a company from startup to viable long-term business. It’s the whole conversion flow.

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Hulu Startup Social Media Organization 111

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. My experience has proven that even some well known companies are under-whelming in this department.

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. Every politician in the country knows this as well as every consumer brand, every retailer, every restaurant and every media company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. My blog was wiped out. Thus begins the venture capital dance.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2011

DueToDos is a web based business productivity platform that seeks to save you time and increase efficiency whether you’re solo or on a team. The support button link is currently disabled, however there is a feedback button located at the top of the page. It is definitely built for users who need information quickly and at a glance.

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Email Platform Web Summary 102

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

Lauren Buchman, a SMCLA board member and B2B marketing consultant who organized the event said, “We will be discussing how to promote your business to your customers when your customers are other businesses. Buchman said some the key takeaways from the panel will be: 1. How to build and maintain a great company page on LinkedIn.

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Social Media Media Case Study Study 107

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

The hardest thing about starting a company is that from day one you emerge as this completely vulnerable entity trying its hardest to project success, power, trajectory and inevitability while you secretly know that you’re one knock-out blow from extinction. In a word – you are truly vulnerable.

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Startup Google Software Review Snapchat 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

We spoke with John Mudge , CEO of iBN Sports (www.ibnsports.com), to learn more about the Lake Forest-based company's success in making content pay on the Internet, and how his company's relationship as one of YouTube's Premium Channels is helping with that effort. What is IBN Sports? How have you figured out how to make it profitable?

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Enter the person’s name and company domain. This tool is suitable for organizations that want to capture high-quality leads from among their website visitors — be it for capturing consulting inquiries, demo requests, or webinar signups. Sign up and start using this solution’s simple search interface. Bonus Tool: Promo bar.

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Tool Startup Help Template 79

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. What makes their story more remarkable, in the age of 20-something billionaires, is that both of the company’s founders are in their 50’s.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We spoke with Harry yesterday about the company. They went into full product phase over the summer, and unveiled the post-prototype, alpha, pre-beta, whatever you want to call it, at TechCrunch50. It's got a very simple function--helping you organize party invitations and RSVPs online. Harry, thanks for the interview.

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Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

They bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Tell us about the breakthrough they’ll have when they’re using your product. I’m gonna do this page over from the start.”

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2011

3) How has your role as the senior Tech Leader at the Rubicon Project and eHarmony influenced SteelHouse’s product roadmap and go-to-market strategy? One was (experiencing) an organization that really knew how to do marketing. I didn’t have that appreciation when I was with companies in Silicon Valley. Within 6-months, it was 1.2-billion

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product.

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Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 82

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

if you get some value out of the notes consider checking out his company or Twitter feed). Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. Thank you. (if

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