Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The market is changing so fast these days, and if you are not planning a solution today for tomorrow’s customers, you may be setting yourself up for failure and don’t even realize it. Regularly follow reviews and influencers in your industry. Ask the right questions, and listen to your customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

That’s the right place to start, but real growth and scale requires attracting customers who are not like you. For example, Starbucks found initial success with professionals aged 25 to 40 in urban areas and with moderately high income but later looked to a new market of millennials who wanted a place to sit and chat, study or work.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Want to be an entrepreneur? Techpreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. We go through case studies like how Mint.com & Magento drove large audiences through great content marketing strategies. they’ll flock to your channel with marketing budgets and tech prowess.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2019

He outlines six dimensions of a winning business strategy, with some practical, research-based steps that I like, to focus on in achieving extraordinary results: Above all, deliver an exceptional total customer experience. Highlight your competitive value, not your technology. Strategy can’t be a one-time effort.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning.

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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. So they’ll have to look for other competitive advantages for distribution. My argument is pretty simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2016

According to many studies, entrepreneurs tend to be happier , and 80 percent of self-made millionaires are entrepreneurs. He lays out seven thinking strategies for both entrepreneurs and employees that will make them business winners: Focus on the customers at all times. Think like your ideal customer seeking value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees. Sometime employees on your front lines have a better handle on what customers need next than external entrepreneurs.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

Their slideshow presentations addressed a number of questions about their products including target demographics, customer needs, marketing avenues, financial/revenue streams, leading competitors, and etc. Tech Nerds, with Tab Attack, a game-based learning system to help teenagers play drums & guitar with the use of tablatures.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Due to Rapid City’s off-the-beaten-path location and small size — it’s tucked among the Great Plains, about 25 miles from Mount Rushmore, with a population of approximately 74,000 — the destination doesn’t typically enter the conversation for ICPC, which draws about 1,400 attendees. “The The last couple of years, it was in Warsaw, St.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A recent study by Nielsen showed that an average American adult spend some 34 hours per month using mobile internet on smartphones compared to 27 hours via personal computer. So what do people like about the mobile app technology? The growth of the mobile app technology is something that companies, big or small, are riding on.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Therese Tucker: My background is technology. It's unusual to have a CEO from the technology side, they're usually from sales. It's a very interesting process, and although we can't use lots of names, our customers will talk to other companies and tell them they have to have this, which is pretty neat. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

It’s a term most of you know as being somebody who is backward or uninterested in learning new technology. They thought factories were a threat to custom assembly of products and ultimately to the agrarian way of life (as more people were moving to urban environments). Actually, the Luddites were worse than this.

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