Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Never shoot the messenger of bad news.

Competition 116

Competition Organization Custom Customer 116

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. . - To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”. He told them it was now or never.

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Acquisition Startup Custom Customer 304

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2021

For example, I believe that Starbucks surprised most people by proving that they could take a commodity business, a coffee shop, and make it a worldwide profit winner, just by justifying premium pricing with a quality product, the right locations, personalized service, and appealing to the professional customer personas.

Pricing 145

Pricing Startup Competition Examples 145

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

A common initiative I hear from business owners today is their effort to improve the customer experience. To achieve real growth, business leaders need to improve both employee as well as customer experiences. Communicate both good and bad news to provide transparency to team members.

Custom 113

Custom Customer Training Tool 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. They expect you to be there, to know their history as a customer, and to treat them with priority and respect.

Custom 57

Custom Customer Services Social Media 57

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Marty Zwilling.

Tips 161

Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

If you’re a very early stage startup that just raised your first angel money it is very possible that the funding announcement will be your first big tech news. So while you get the benefits of recruiting, being on VC radars and customer legitimacy there are also downsides. Should I Bundle it With More Juicy News?

Startup 355

Startup Funding News Press 355

Berkonomics

APRIL 16, 2020

But that good news will not help you if you run out of money during the time it takes for these to happen. Do you still need marketing costs when there is no-one out there buying new product? Are you salespeople making few if any sales because your prospective customers are distracted by their own problems?

Layoffs 218

Layoffs Sales News Marketing 218

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

The good news is that a recent Kauffman Early-Stage Entrepreneurship (KESE) Index shows the highest level of new business activity recorded in the last two decades, and the cost of entry at an all-time low. Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. If you want to be feared.

Startup 112

Startup News Framework Outsource 112

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

But the bigger truth is the competition is important. market share today and are stuck with high real-estate costs, shitty customer service, bad value propositions and no ability to respond to competition because they have effectively become real-estate holding companies that store stuff for cashflow.

Funding 150

Funding Competition Marketing Summary 150

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.

News 120

News Statistics Resource Sales 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2020

The result is that you often take a big financial hit, and lose key customers, before you realize that the change didn’t work. For example, several years ago Apple was so convinced that their new Apple III model would be a winner that they rolled it out broadly, rather than do a controlled release first with some key customers.

Sample 124

Sample Custom Customer Tool 124

TechEmpower

MAY 28, 2015

As a managed hosting provider, we were able to provide the project with the same types of machines that our customers use to run their production environments. We're delighted that 1M is already old news. The best results were derived from a real-world environment running physical hardware. versus 1.05M). versus 1.05M).

Framework 200

Framework TechEmpower Blogging News 200

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? However, its unique-for-the-industry monthly subscription model has helped it maintain healthy profits from its loyal customer base in 2023. Organic milk formula product Bobbie.

Startup 210

Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Startup Innocal Offshore 138

Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

And even better still, it offers a great deal for the publications who participate in the program, offering a competitive 8% conversion rate and an impressive 10% commission on each sale (more than double Amazon’s 4.5% Top Publications: BuzzFeed News, Vox, New York Magazine. Best for: Bloggers, news publishers.

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Buzzfeed News Networking 129

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2019

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Never shoot the messenger of bad news.

Competition 73

Competition Organization Custom Customer 73

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2019

People relationships are the key to career growth, more than results, and customer relationships build brands, rather than the other way around. That’s more than enough to put you ahead of your competition. If you are a business professional or owner today, success is more and more about relationships. Make the investment today.

Social Media 96

Social Media News Tool Email 96

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Public relations sets you apart from the competition. Coverage in important publications or on TV can ensure your organization stands out from the competition as a clear market leader. Once potential customers see you as an established authority in your field, they will begin to seek your industry expertise.

Organization 100

Organization Social Media Competition News 100

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Public relations sets you apart from the competition. Coverage in important publications or on TV can ensure your organization stands out from the competition as a clear market leader. Once potential customers see you as an established authority in your field, they will begin to seek your industry expertise.

Organization 100

Organization Social Media Competition News 100

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.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

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.

News 166

News Statistics Resource Sales 166

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

The good news is that the latest Kauffman Early-Stage Entrepreneurship (KESE) Index shows the highest level of new business activity recorded in the last two decades, and the cost of entry at an all-time low. Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. If you want to be feared.

Startup 94

Startup News Framework Outsource 94

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The challenge is that too many are confused on what that means for them, and what it takes to make their business competitively agile. These authors, and I agree, define agility in business as the ability to detect and assess changes in the competitive world in real time, and then take decisive and effective action.

Competition 102

Competition Examples Startup Resource 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Every entrepreneur and business leader believes that he or she has the full trust of their team and their customers, and in fact most do in the beginning. I find that visions that includes a higher purpose, such as improving the environment, are particularly powerful in increasing trust with employees and customers alike.

Mentor 98

Mentor News Summary Coach 98

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). You need to take months & years to build relationships with journalists.

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. pushing CEOs and business owners to innovate to outperform the competition. PRTechConnect (www.prtechconnect.com)  You've Got News, Now Get Heard. your business on the map with national news coverage and blog buzz for only $999 a. Need office or Tech Space?

SoCalTech 127

SoCalTech Advertising Rustic Canyon Glendale 127

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? If you start with a POV rather than product features / functions or your own internal news story you’re already a long way down the track of answering the above questions. So how exactly do you break out then? I am a VC.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Funding Innocal Offshore 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2017

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Never shoot the messenger of bad news.

Competition 50

Competition Organization Custom Customer 50

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

Startup 108

Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media Outsource Development 108

Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Being one small company amongst the sea of thousands of startups vying for customers, capital, and talent, the way to get noticed above the crowd, connect with that next big partner, and raise some capital is to throw your hat in the ring to compete at Startup of the Year. A Strong Alumni Network.

Startup 70

Startup Competition Google Capital 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

To me, that means treating your career more like a business than a job – with a continual and global focus on keeping up with competition, finding customers, preparing for changes ahead, and taking responsibility for your own finances. Assess your intellectual capital and how to increase it.

Artificial Inteligence 96

Artificial Inteligence Startup Social Media Training 96

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition. Our go-to-market strategy is closer to Facebook. READ MORE>>.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Does it mean the right thing from a customer perspective, societal impact, maximizing business returns or personal benefit? The good news is that none of these need be mutually exclusive, according to recent studies of market trends. Personally collect and accept customer and employee feedback.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Training Demand Custom 102

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. You need somebody who REALLY understands your company, its customers and its competitors. In my opinion it’s worth its weight in gold. Talk like a human.

Startup 349

Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Over 500,000 new businesses were created last year, or about one per minute of every day. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61