Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

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. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. It’s a lot more fun to do it right the first time, making it easier for you, and tougher on your competition.

Tips

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. To help companies make informed business decisions, we are building statistical models that show information at higher-than-the-platform level.

Commerce

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Jovian's platform allows us to process and analyze campaigns in-flight, and also provide in-flight course corrections for marketers.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. Incorporate brand personality and voice. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. Incorporate brand personality and voice. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. The firm’s latest launch places management of the platform into the hands of publishers.

Metrics

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

It is a platform for talent discovery, and a platform for fellowships to manage their programs. It's also a platform for writers. Writers can submit their scripts into these programs, and the dashboards make it convenient to track, and it also allows them to track placement and their scores in these competitions.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. Incorporate brand personality and voice. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Competition and sustainable advantage. Financial forecast and metrics.

Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide. Develop new venture models for tougher ecosystems.

Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Competition and sustainable advantage. Financial forecast and metrics.

Competition

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

It is a communication platform. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. EcoMom’s metrics improved throughout this process and that’s when I decided to invest.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Outsource Development

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

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. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. It’s a lot more fun to do it right the first time, making it easier for you, and tougher on your competition.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide. Develop new venture models for tougher ecosystems.

Ideas

socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

With so many APIs, SaaS ecosystems, and cloud platforms to rely on, a digital product that may have taken five years to get off the ground in 2000 can now be brought to life in a matter of months. It means competition is more fierce because formidable new competitors can arrive overnight. Why has product management be so slow to adapt?

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Outsource Development

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. A platform is a business model and capability that can be accessed and customized by external users. Accept no excuses.

Commerce

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

Artificial Inteligence

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. Incorporate brand personality and voice. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Concentrate your efforts on two to three platforms to start. Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. Above all, don’t forget to observe your competition and their social media activity. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users). LinkedIn (300 million), Twitter (288 million) and Pinterest (70 million).

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Competition and sustainable advantage. Financial forecast and metrics.

Invest

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. Examples of milestones: traction as measured by user numbers and user engagement; financial metrics such as cash flow and revenue. According to Shayne, only 1 out of 1000 business plans might get VC funding.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

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. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Professional investors now look for startups through popular online platforms, including Gust and AngelList.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Ideas

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? What are your next goals?

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics. As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. Cost of customer acquisition.

Metrics

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We try to cap our A-funds at around $300 million so we retain the discipline to invest early and small while building our Growth Platform separately to do late stage deals (we now have > $300 million in Growth AUM). In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ?

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Determine your core business strategy and resolve to remain true to it.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them. Competition. Of course the hardest competitor for most of us is simply customer inertia.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Determine your core business strategy and resolve to remain true to it.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Determine your core business strategy and resolve to remain true to it.

Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Determine your core business strategy and resolve to remain true to it.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Include planned measurements and metrics. These range from basic search engine optimization (SEO) tracking, like Google Analytics , to a new generation of marketing platforms, like HubSpot. Start where the customer wants you to be and work backwards. There are multiple benefits to both you and your customer.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

Include planned measurements and metrics. These range from basic search engine optimization (SEO) tracking, like Google Analytics , to a new generation of marketing platforms, like HubSpot. Start where the customer wants you to be and work backwards. There are multiple benefits to both you and your customer.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Include planned measurements and metrics. These range from basic search engine optimization (SEO) tracking, like Google Analytics , to a new generation of marketing platforms, like HubSpot. Start where the customer wants you to be and work backwards. There are multiple benefits to both you and your customer.

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