Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2022

What if we could do it better, do it in a new way, do it to attract new customers, do it to distance ourselves form the competition? Email readers, continue here…] Let’s refer to this as managerial ideation. What is the urgent need, the reason people will pay, the positive effect upon the enterprise by making this happen?

Design 156

Design Framework Ideas Customer 156

Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2024

If you are lucky enough to create competition among investors for your company, you can select the investor or group with an individual who has experience in your niche and identifies with your vision. The post Do you even need a business coach? first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

Coach 156

Coach Organization Resource Equity 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. For reference, here is a quick summary of key elements which most investors include in their due diligence process: Key personnel review.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Benchmark your practices against a true peer.

Startup 105

Startup Outsource Competition Entrepreneur 105

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

Startup 111

Startup Training Services Writing 111

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Workships, according to workplace expert Dr. Jan Yager, refers to those workplace relationships that haven’t yet developed into full-blown friendships, but are closer than mere acquaintances. In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders.

Mentor 91

Mentor Competition Summary Coach 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. Make sure the Business Plan and all related documents are current, synchronized, and in the hands of every key employee.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Satisfaction Startup Summary 152

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and The fact that Kara doesn’t have what my wife likes to refer jokingly as my “Y chromosome problem” is beside the fact. As with all promotions, the reality is that Kara was already acting as a senior leader at our firm and also in the industry at large.

Venture Capital 361

Venture Capital Startup Invest CitySearch 361

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Focus on collecting customer references. Your business model can be a better sustainable competitive advantage than your product features, or it can be your biggest risk exposure. Too many of the business plans I see are heavy on competitive product features, but light on business model details and innovations.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Pricing Software Review Startup 88

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2011

Los Angeles-based Scopely , the stealth-mode startup which announced a funding round this week, has a unique pitch to potential employees: the firm is offering up $11,000 wrapped in Bacon, an oil painting of the new employee, Cuban cigars, a year's supply of beer, and more prizes to new employees or people who refer friends to work at the startup.

Google 227

Google Advertising Competition Los Angeles 227

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As they rack up – with your leadership – yet more and more positive reference points, they internalize the causes and consequences. Perhaps it’s time to take a hard look at the business culture in your organization, and what has transpired or not been done to set or transform it to a higher competitive level. Marty Zwilling

Organization 108

Organization Startup Satisfaction Customer 108

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Startup Innocal Offshore 138

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

Startup 174

Startup Training Services Writing 174

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

A satisfied customer is necessary, but not sufficient, to be a loyal customer who will come back repeatedly, refer their friends and family to you, and be faithful even when your price is not the lowest. You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win.

Customer 104

Customer Custom Startup Competition 104

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Costume Categories: - Owner/Pet best look alike - Best company mascot costume - Best celebrity impression - Funniest/most creative One winner will be chosen per category at the event in a high stakes judging competition. If you're unable to join us in person, have no fear!

Social Media 100

Social Media Education Media Competition 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Focus on collecting customer references. Your business model can be a better sustainable competitive advantage than your product features, or it can be your biggest risk exposure. Too many of the business plans I see are heavy on competitive product features, but light on business model details and innovations.

Product 159

Product Technical Review Pricing Software Review 159

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Benchmark your practices against a true peer.

Startup 126

Startup Outsource Competition Acquisition 126

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Workships, according to workplace expert Dr. Jan Yager, refers to those workplace relationships that haven’t yet developed into full-blown friendships, but are closer than mere acquaintances. In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders.

Mentor 135

Mentor Competition Summary Activity 135

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I like to refer back to them when you come by 9–12 months later for your next meeting and I like to see how your strategy, your narrative and your numbers have changed. Competition isn’t won or lost by your marketing decks?—?it’s VCs like to measure your strategy & progress over time I like to download the decks I receive.

Funding 239

Funding Venture Capital IP Competition 239

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I refer back to the classic book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run several successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised many millions of dollars. billion globally by 2030, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

Startup 100

Startup Equity Entrepreneur Demand 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2010

The foundtaion is claiing trademarke infringement, unfair competition and false advertising, and is seeking an injunction against use, deletion of references on its web site and materials, and damages for the use. Fashion Rocks is used by Conde Nast to promote New York's Fashion Week, under license from the Gross Family Foundation.

Advertising 182

Advertising Entertainment Media Competition 182

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. With Meredith I did every on-reference-sheet call I could make and many off-reference-list calls. Would they build a world class team.

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Your gut-feelings are important, but need to be validated by normal background and reference checks. You need the very best to maintain a competitive edge, and get the satisfaction you want for you and your team members. Some candidates can talk a great story, but have trouble delivering, or may have team relationship challenges.

Organization 104

Organization Entrepreneur Satisfaction Screening 104

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below.

Blogging 135

Blogging Services Search Engine Optimization Web 135

Berkonomics

JUNE 27, 2019

[Email readers, continue here…] We all remember the story of FedEx, where future customers didn’t know they wanted “absolutely, positively overnight” until they saw what that could do to make their businesses more competitive. Find the pain. Do customers know what they want from their suppliers for future products?

Customer 120

Customer Custom Course Email 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As they rack up – with your leadership – yet more and more positive reference points, they internalize the causes and consequences. Perhaps it’s time to take a hard look at the business culture in your organization, and what has transpired or not been done to set or transform it to a higher competitive level. Marty Zwilling.

Organization 160

Organization Startup Entrepreneur Satisfaction 160

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

A qualified career coach can help you get totally clear on your objectives, differentiate you from the competition, market you effectively, get the offer, and negotiate the best compensation. Identify new goals based on your own definition of career success and then take action. Invest in career coaching. Actively work the network.

Startup 168

Startup Tips Coach Networking 168

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2016

During this period Kobie worked closely with many SaaS companies including ExactTarget from its early days and the Founder & CEO, Scott Dorsey, served as a strong reference for Kobie. With one single arc he had the chance to experience two great firms with distinct cultures and working practices and did all of this in his 20s.

Venture Capital 260

Venture Capital Startup SaaS Social Media 260

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

Software Review 154

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 154

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

million for the typical Fortune 1000 company, making big data analytics an essential step for a competitive enterprise. Volume refers to the enormous amount of data that is being analyzed. Gain a Competitive Advantage with Big Data. Baseline researchers found that a 10% increase in data accessibility translates to $65.7

Organization 59

Organization Competition Networking Custom 59

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

If you are lucky enough to create competition among investors for your company, you can select the investor or group with an individual who has experience in your niche and identifies with your vision. Email readers, continue here…] How do you pay a coach?

Coach 243

Coach Organization Resource IBM 243

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

Ethical behavior refers to actions consistent with personal principles and commonly held values in your business community. Yet every business still requires leadership, since competition and the pace of change dictate innovative actions on a regular basis to get results. Values are your most valuable assets.

Capital 114

Capital Coach Satisfaction Ideas 114

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

The reason for this is that the executives who founded the company have so much tacit knowledge of how to position their product relative to the competition that they can easily win campaigns when they’re involved. So I often work with teams to get them to codify the key things they do well that the competition does not.

Sales 336

Sales Startup Competition Custom 336

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. We're really latching onto the growing trend of building products that detect product references in social messaging. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants. They're doing that billions of times a day.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

I refer back to the classic book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run several successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised many millions of dollars.

Startup 151

Startup Equity Funding Demand 151

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

It refers to multiplication factors that occur when complementary actions or approaches are used together for greater impact. In today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive business world, I encourage each of you to utilize every force at your disposal. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 7/19/2022.

Marketing 119

Marketing Social Media Mentor Conference 119

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Your gut-feelings are important, but need to be validated by normal background and reference checks. You need the very best to maintain a competitive edge, and get the satisfaction you want for you and your team members. Some candidates can talk a great story, but have trouble delivering, or may have team relationship challenges.

Organization 135

Organization Entrepreneur Satisfaction Screening 135