Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. Constant search for ways to increase sales and profitability. More sales are the only way to reach real business success. Maintain a meaningful competitive advantage.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Sales Customer Custom 117

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

Startup 174

Startup Training Services Writing 174

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. Validation of product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Summary 152

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The most memorable businesses, like Starbucks and Apple, no longer sell products, they sell ‘experiences’ with a product at the center. The challenge is to transform and hardwire your entire team to think in these terms, rather than the default focus on distinct towers of product quality, closing the sale, or fixing a complaint.

Customer 168

Customer Custom Services Startup 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Solution development and delivery.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction. These start with your brand image, search visibility and process, and extend to the actual sales transaction. Seek to dominate your market over competitors.

Customer 91

Customer Custom Marketing Startup 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The result is fewer and fewer new ideas are volunteered by prospective leaders and key team members, and the business suffers from poor customer satisfaction or loss of market share. Find other situations that led to success, or explain why the environment, competition, or opportunity has changed to reduce the risk of failure.

Ideas 116

Ideas Netflix Resource Customer 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. Relationships also build loyalty, get referrals, and drive more sales. Under-promise and over-deliver on customer requests.

Customer 147

Customer Custom Technical Review Metrics 147

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. The right investors and right time dilemma. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, angels, and VCs.

Startup 130

Startup USC Entrepreneur Statistics 130

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2021

You get great satisfaction from overcoming all obstacles, and you have no problem with living or dying by your own decisions. The recent pandemic has definitely opened up opportunities for new products, and skilled people at lower costs are abundant. It means you'll be facing a lot less competition. What are you waiting for?

Startup 168

Startup Ideas Satisfaction Entrepreneur 168

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Your goal must be to make every aspect of a customer interaction a joy to both you and them, starting from the shopping experience, to the sales close, to delivery and service. Business and customer satisfaction data measurements are required, in addition to subjective assessments of team progress, tradeoffs, and investment decisions.

Customer 114

Customer Custom Satisfaction Metrics 114

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

These events are also opportunities to get a better handle on customer requirements, as well as measure your customer satisfaction and market trends. Any increase in brand recognition, as well as personal connections, is a multiplier to your existing marketing and sales efforts. Establish a partnership with a complementary business.

Marketing 119

Marketing Social Media Mentor Conference 119

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Solution development and delivery.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In today’s world of growing competition and customer evolution , holding your own, and growing to the next level is a constant challenge that can never be ignored. A great business purpose is better than a great product. Balance the act of competition with the art of collaboration. You have to excite them with new alternatives.

Ideas 77

Ideas Customer Custom Competition 77

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Solution development and delivery.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2016

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. Constant search for ways to increase sales and profitability. More sales are the only way to reach real business success. Maintain a meaningful competitive advantage.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Sales Customer Custom 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. The right investors and right time dilemma. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, angels, and VCs.

Startup 97

Startup USC Entrepreneur Statistics 97

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

Business intelligence analyst IBIS World estimates that VDR industry sales will grow by 16% this year to nearly $730 million. But a lack of competition has also lead to a lack of innovation, resulting in low customer satisfaction and frequent complaints of difficult-to-use products.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

Once this product-first, customer-second, and employee-last culture is set, it is extremely hard to change. It’s easy to see how cultures go astray, for example, when you pay only for sales volume, but expect a high focus on customer satisfaction. Establish metrics on the culture, as well as the product. Start today.

Metrics 57

Metrics Startup Netflix Customer 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2013

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. Validation of product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Summary 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Cho, a former sales manager for Nikon Instruments and Vala Sciences, founded Echo Labs in 2014.

Tech Coast Angels 40

Tech Coast Angels Technical Review San Diego Software Review 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2012

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. Validation of product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Training 98

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn’t necessarily translate to your business, and measuring business value is quite different from measuring personal satisfaction. Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. Assess your target customer demographics.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. Tim started to change our processes.

Organization 280

Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. The right investors and right time dilemma. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, Angels, and VCs.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Statistics Equity Satisfaction 107

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. Validation of product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed.

Technical Review 91

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Summary 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

Mission statements tend to be narrow, business oriented statements such as “Be the leader in customer satisfaction.” This includes the specific work your startup must do, the capabilities you need to build for a competitive advantage, and the career path for team members to bring this to life. Get your team right and do it quickly.

Startup 101

Startup Training Study Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. The right investors and right time dilemma. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, angels, and VCs.

Entrepreneur 57

Entrepreneur USC Statistics Equity 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2012

Mission statements tend to be narrow, business oriented statements such as “Be the leader in customer satisfaction.” This includes the specific work your startup must do, the capabilities you need to build for a competitive advantage, and the career path for team members to bring this to life. Get your team right and do it quickly.

Training 109

Training Startup Study Customer 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Startups are usually founded by product or service experts who don’t enjoy the various growth phases. The right investors and right time dilemma. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, Angels, and VCs.

Startup 98

Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Equity 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2013

You get great satisfaction from overcoming all obstacles, and you have no problem with living or dying by your own decisions. The recent recession has definitely opened up opportunities for new products, and skilled people at lower costs are abundant. It means you'll be facing a lot less competition. What are you waiting for?

Startup 103

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Satisfaction 103