Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

He has written numerous books and articles for entrepreneurs and investors, and was the publisher and editor-in-chief of Venture Magazine. They financed their companies, to the extent possible, in a manner minimizing the cost of capital, planning for organic growth in the number of customers served and in associated revenues.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Equity Competition Pricing 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility. We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. Cost sharing and economies of scale.

Startup 90

Startup Examples Customer Custom 90

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post.

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Press Startup Writing Training 319

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013.

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

Startup 100

Startup Competition Patents Training 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

Startup 102

Startup Competition Patents Training 102

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Great benefits and a workplace that is fun and dedicated to making customers happy all fit in with the Zappos approach to company culture — when you get the company culture right, great customer service and a great brand will happen on its own. Portions of the budget are dedicated to employee team building and culture promotion.

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Great benefits and a workplace that is fun and dedicated to making customers happy all fit in with the Zappos approach to company culture — when you get the company culture right, great customer service and a great brand will happen on its own. Portions of the budget are dedicated to employee team building and culture promotion.

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. Who are your core customers?

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

Add in public company demands, lawsuit targets, & millions of customers to continually satisfy, and you have to have great respect for those doing it well. There’s Not Enough Focus on the Product – New companies are obsessive about product-market fit, because it’s their lifeblood. But those are paper & plastic symbols.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Company Companies Outsource Development 55

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. But it's also about operations and customer relationships." Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages.

Tips 247

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2010

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

Startup 89

Startup Competition Patents Entrepreneur 89

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

We see two markets. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves. Every day, let’s learn from our customers, and I did that in Iraq. However, our early employees loved the fact that we allowed them to bring their dogs to work.

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Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. Osmosis marketing. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Social mobile web.

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Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

PR isn’t something that can be delegated – The other thing that tech execs often want to do is to delegate the PR to their marketing person. You need somebody who REALLY understands your company, its customers and its competitors. It’s the best marketing ROI in my opinion.

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Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

1) Give Your Customers (And The Media) What They Want. When entering a new market, Richard has consistently changed the rules of the game in order to put his incumbent competitors at a disadvantage. Richard dropped out of school at the age of 16 to begin publishing a magazine targeted to young people, called Student.

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Tips Startup Guide Media 264

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

It took a while to do market research, but we ended up starting an app for law. As part of that, we started asking professors for recommendations on who we could talk to, and we found out they only knew one person, or told us to check out a magazine, or Google this and that. It turns out lawyers are pretty easy to find.

Help 240

Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

He did more for Apple’s shareholders, customers and employees than any other CEO has ever done for their shareholders, customers and employees. There are numerous reasons for Jobs’ success, not the least of which was his uncompromising pursuit of a delightful customer experience. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Tips Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 279

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

The online advertising world is full of ad networks, so we had Adam Wicks Walker, Chief Strategy Officer at Hydra, tell us where they fit into the market. That gives us the ability to monitor the result of campaigns, all the way to the creation of a customer. Adam Wicks Walker: It's an interesting market to play in.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

The online advertising world is full of ad networks, so we had Adam Wicks Walker, Chief Strategy Officer at Hydra, tell us where they fit into the market. That gives us the ability to monitor the result of campaigns, all the way to the creation of a customer. Adam Wicks Walker: It's an interesting market to play in.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. There are always flavors-of-the-month strategies or markets that are in favor in the tech startup world. The reality of most startups is about survival.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

In order to try your ideas in the real market place. I was, however, very competitive when I was young, and had played football in high school well enough to get scholarship offers from what would be called division 1 schools in today’s world. How involved did you get in marketing the products you were creating?

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Mentor Pacific Palisades Startup Class 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet accepted the fact that customer satisfaction and loyalty in this “always connected” age are about more than product and service quality. They are all about how customers broadcast their pleasure or unhappiness to others. Customer upsell: Sell more to existing customers.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Satisfaction Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet adapted to the fact that customer satisfaction in this “always connected” age is more than product and service quality. It’s more about which customers broadcast their pleasure or unhappiness to others. Here are four basics that always apply: Customer retention is priority number one.

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Customer Custom Satisfaction Social Media 97

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. It isn’t written by them or any marketing department – so please take it for what it is. He’s a natural leader, appropriately competitive, very customer focused and a pleasure to work with. Yeah, that’s me.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. But make no mistake about it, this is a tough and oversaturated market to enter at this stage. The trend is to more mobile and niche markets. So are customers.

Sites 134

Sites Social Network Competition Networking 134

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Offer customized products or services. Choose a large market in a growth industry. The points all still ring true today.

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Startup Study Journal Sample 170

Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our civic center actually had to upgrade their broadband because we needed a really good Wi-Fi with the competition being done on computers. On the final night of the competition, Visit Rapid City treated competitors, coaches, and parents to a reception at Crazy Horse Memorial. We were able to get all that accomplished.”.

Coach 75

Coach Technical Review Carson Networking 75

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Batch 15 is a group of scrappy start-ups that explores unusual markets, including postpartum care (Mahmee), underwater robots, airplane maintenance, and even crocheting. Fun Fact: Beeketing is named from Bi (beloved dog of Alice) and Marketing (our interest). Toys, treats, and training guides customized for your puppy.

Startup 40

Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Why cater to a market that makes you eat ramen when you can slap on a suit and get budget for sushi? Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . Post-Launch: Marketing Web Apps on a Budget.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Are you going to do all of this?

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2015

Like all startups you can’t be successful without a great product and Shep felt he had what the market wanted but he just needed to get noticed. But he didn’t have access to venture capital money, online marketing dollars, social media – this was the late 60’s / early 70’s. He was a marketing genius.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Course Social Media 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2013

In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Offer customized products or services. Choose a large market in a growth industry. The points all still ring true today.

Startup 102

Startup Study Journal Sample 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. But make no mistake about it, this is a tough and oversaturated market to enter at this stage. No longer a growth market. The trend is to more niche markets.

Sites 91

Sites Social Network Competition Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. But make no mistake about it, this is a tough and oversaturated market to enter at this stage. The trend is to more mobile and niche markets. So are customers.

Sites 86

Sites Social Network Networking Patents 86