Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Status of the solution.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

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. Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry. Algorithms and data are required to compete. These tolerate negative cash flows for growth.

Competition 142

Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

Web 76

Web Startup Sites Design 76

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, In all of these new product and cost-focused new trends, a big problem has emerged that all of these movements have not addressed.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. They have high-priced property and zero innovation. And it’s easy to run circles around them as our product differentiation shows.

Startup 150

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Founded over a year ago, Stacksocial’s CEO Josh Payne , found the task of sifting through page after page in the hunt for software daunting and decided something had to be done. Not only do they get their intended program at a reduced price, they also get a chance to try out some new stuff for almost no additional cost.

Software 84

Software Web Design Pricing Course 84

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Few investors these days have the time or patience to read a full business plan, so a better way to catch their eye is with a tightly written and well formatted two-page executive summary. I see too many executive summaries that are simply heavy-duty customer pitches, or lightweight visions of the future.

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Summary Patents Technical Review Competition 101

Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. Enter the person’s name and company domain. Pricing: Valet – up to 1000 leads/month, $49. Pricing: Essential – for growing startups, $37/month.

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Tool Startup Help Template 79

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. he's taken an built a company, literally single handedly, to multiple millions in revenue, by enabling artists and.

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Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Sales is simply defined as income from customer purchases of goods and services, minus the cost associated with things like returned or undeliverable merchandise.

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Metrics Technical Review Sales Customer 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

After weeks of StartupDemo submissions we are now ready to announce the participating startup companies for the StartupDemo event being held at Wokano Sept. We took great consideration for every startup company that applied. Congratulations to all the selected startup companies! Price: FREE. 22, 2010. Want to Sponsor?

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Company Companies Web Evite 106

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling. businesses and points of interests; products; and much more, plus an extensive set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to. Retention Science.

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Southern California Software Artificial Inteligence Company 66

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s hard to be successful in any business when your customers can’t find you, or they find you and still can’t figure out whether your solution works for them. Use plain language (no acronyms) on the first page and every page, to emphasize customer benefits, as well as product features. Skip the hyperbole.

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SEO Tips Newsletter Statistics 53

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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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Having paying “Customers” is what makes the cash register roar. An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have.

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Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. You’re a small fish. You’re a small fish.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

socalTECH

MAY 26, 2011

Donnelly, and he also was behind eCompanies, which invested in such companies as JAMDAT Mobile, Boingo Wireless, and USBX. The way brighter makes that dental care more affordable, is it empowers consumers to find dental benefits, and allows them to compare that by price and reputation. As you know, we sold Business.com to R.H.

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Startup Pricing Southern California Networking 249

Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

In no particular order, here are seven tech companies to watch out for in 2022. For example, a smaller business with $10-20,000 in monthly revenue will only need to spend a monthly $25 on FinMark's product, while a business that makes over $1 million will be spending $2,500 a month on FinMark. SoLo Funds. If they spend $23.95

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Startup Invest FAQ Examples 200

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Plus, we provide all of the back end fulfillment--it's soup to nuts--from manufacturing, to fulfillment, to customer service. We have some minimum price points for every product they might want to sell.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The firm is one of the companies which has recently emerged from Science, Inc., Jonathan Shokrian: MeUndies is an apparel basics company, which manufactures our own underwear, currently for men and women. But, if you look online, they charge the same, retail store prices because you can't undercut retailers if you're Calvin Klein.

Commerce 201

Commerce Startup Design Los Angeles 201

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? I didn’t have that appreciation when I was with companies in Silicon Valley. How does SteelHouse enable its customers to leverage the existence of these various consumers?

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eHarmony Media Oracle Commerce 204

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

In short the board is there to represent the interest of all shareholders (big & small) of the company and all other stakeholders (debt, creditors, employees, etc.). The board’s job is to review the company’s financial performance and strategy and help provide counsel to the executive team.

Tips 212

Tips Slides Startup Technical Review 212

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. Curation, the most efficient content.

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Blogging eBook Content Web 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

Web 62

Web Startup Sites Design 62

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. We talked with Dubin earlier about the company. What's the opportunity here?

Dollar Shave Club 210

Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Morris did go on to co-found an aerial imagery company for agriculture in 2013, but he scrapped the idea of using drones. It’s the same performance at one-twentieth the price,” Morris says. The company is now pitching its services to cattle ranchers, whose rangeland can be much more vast than a grower’s irrigated fields.

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San Diego Outsource Development Startup Resource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Websites are a big job and take time.

Web 99

Web Startup Sites Design 99

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked also netted in new customers such as Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and Equity Partners, NextView Ventures and crowd-funding service AI Verified which will take advantage of its iPad compatibility, bulk uploading, and reporting tools. According to Eric M. Challenge the status quo.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 51 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. Win with engaging contests.

Content 114

Content Marketing Startup eBook 114

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

As a startup advisor and investor, I recommend a pitch deck with about 10 slides backed up with a written business plan of approximately 20 pages, both containing quantified answers to the following key questions. Investors want to hear about customers with money who have a painful problem that you can solve now.

Invest 108

Invest Startup Slides Equity 108

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Wondering how, as a small business, you can reach customers in the YouTube age? Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. What is Near Networks?

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Yes, there is the mythical company you all heard about that walked into Sequoia and had a term sheet 24 hours later. But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you.

Entrepreneur 291

Entrepreneur Startup Google Yammer 291

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2012

Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.” You can innovate in technology, markets, and customers, but inventing a new business model is a bad bet. This model only works once you have exceeded about one million page-views per month, and spent maybe $50 million to get there. eCommerce model.

Startup 95

Startup Customer Custom Summary 95

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Bezalel , the company devoted to empowering mobile device users to discard the power cord, has launched a Kickstarter campaign November 10 – December 15 to fund production of the first universal wireless charging case for the iPhone. Campaign Page: [link]. Latitude Product Info: Available for iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s and 6s Plus.

LAMP 40

LAMP Startup Pricing Product 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Status of the solution.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 300 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. Win with engaging contests.

Examples 93

Examples Content Marketing Entrepreneur 93