Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Start by reviewing current statistics, like the recent Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 , to learn which social media sites are most popular, which features drive the most impact today, and how other social media marketers have maximized their efforts and seen the greatest ROI. Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2021

You will be controlled by your customers, investors, lenders – and you are personally responsible for answering to all of them, all of the time. Examine the marketplace and your competition. Statistics say that the failure rate for new businesses within the first 5 years is as high as 90 percent. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Startup Statistics Guide 169

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

If so, is it one critical customer or a trend? Is it time to focus more resources upon collections, credit research, or even time to “fire some customers” who continually break your rules or take up too much of your resources? A missed cash discount by your accounting department probably means that cash flow is getting tighter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. Cost per action (CPA).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 25, 2012

If so, is it one critical customer or a trend? Is it time to focus more resources upon collections, credit research, or even time to “fire some customers” who continually break your rules or take up too much of your resources? A missed cash discount by your accounting department probably means that cash flow is getting tighter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors.

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Technical Review Statistics Startup Social Media 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools. It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value. Efficiency in the workplace is the time it takes to do something, but it can ignore work quality and customer impact. Working on the wrong problem or assumption.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

From my perspective, projecting financial returns is part of the homework every business person needs to do in sizing customer opportunity, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value, before expending their own resources in a highly risky venture. Calculate cash-burn rate and investment timing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. One of these experts, David T. Display advertising. Email marketing. Cold calling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

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. Cost of customer acquisition.

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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. Cost of customer acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2019

As an advisor to entrepreneurs for many years, I strongly disagree, and still see the value of at least combining intuition with logical analysis, as we face customers and markets driven by relationships, emotions, and unpredictable social trends. The venerable Steve Jobs was reportedly in the same category.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Despite that apparent hunger, two scooter operators – Lyft and Spin – recently exited the Los Angeles area, blaming a lack of favorable regulations and too much competition, which apparently made it difficult to turn a profit. It’s so car dominated and hungry for alternatives to the automobile.”. So what if there are accidents?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. Key measurements should always include return on investment, and visibility to the targeted audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In the first part of this post I talked about how sales in a startup is often evangelical , requires as consultative sale and needs constant adjustments based on customer feedback. Or the sales decks will all be customized by your “feet on the street&# and won’t resemble the way you THINK your company is being positioned.

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Sales Newsletter Technical Review Activity 286

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. Flexible business models, including value-based pricing, bundling, and custom proposals are the places to begin.

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Social Media Pricing Technical Review Demand 56

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Statistics 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. Key measurements should always include return on investment, and visibility to the targeted audience.

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Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools. It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value. Efficiency in the workplace is the time it takes to do something, but it can ignore work quality and customer impact. Working on the wrong problem or assumption.

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Tool Entrepreneur Statistics Metrics 53

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Statistics Startup 119

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

According to recent statistics from the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are about 7,000 business incubators and accelerators worldwide, with over 90 percent being non-profit and focused on incubator programs for community economic development. The process is often competitive and very difficult.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors.

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Funding Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup 62

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

You will be controlled by your customers, investors, lenders – and you are personally responsible for answering to all of them, all of the time. Examine the marketplace and your competition. Statistics say that the failure rate for new businesses within the first 5 years is as high as 90 percent.

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Startup Statistics Guide Entrepreneur 71

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2013

You will be controlled by your customers, investors, lenders – and you are personally responsible for answering to all of them, all of the time. Examine the marketplace and your competition. Statistics say that the failure rate for new businesses within the first 5 years is as high as 90 percent. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Startup Statistics Guide 114

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2018

Unfortunately, most of the entrepreneurs who contact me for guidance only seem to work on strategic issues when they are in a crisis, such as losing a major distributor or being swamped with customer complaints. Often, beneficial changes will have a short-term cost to achieve market growth or competitive advantage.

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Tips Metrics Sample Statistics 51

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The term “Articles” can be misleading, as articles on exploreB2B can take many forms: industry insights, expert experience, customer stories or questions and business needs – even a detailed product description. This includes statistics on articles and profiles. Competition? How unique are you from the competition?

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. We''re looking for lighting bolts in time which are important.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. That’s healthy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2012

You will be controlled by your customers, investors, lenders – and you are personally responsible for answering to all of them, all of the time. Examine the marketplace and your competition. Statistics say that the failure rate for new businesses within the first 5 years is as high as 90 percent. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2012

Statistically, the costs to the first inventor of a new technology are at least a third higher than to follow-on innovators in the same technology. Market research is more meaningful if there is already a market and real customers. Of course, the first one gets the patent. Learn from competitors and early adopters.

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Patents Startup Statistics Course 84

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Statistically, the costs to the first inventor of a new technology are at least a third higher than to follow-on innovators in the same technology. Market research is more meaningful if there is already a market and real customers. Of course, the first one gets the patent. Learn from competitors and early adopters.

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Startup Patents Statistics Course 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2011

You will be controlled by your customers, investors, lenders – and you are personally responsible for answering to all of them, all of the time. Examine the marketplace and your competition. Statistics say that the failure rate for new businesses within the first 5 years is as high as 90 percent. Marty Zwilling.

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Screening Startup Statistics Guide 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

In my experience, and from the thoughts of others who have “been there and done that,” here is my list of the top elements you should be looking for: Focused on customers and team, rather than “me, myself, and I.” These will provide the competitive edge you need with customers and less-focused team members. Never makes excuses.

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