Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

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. Sales data needs to be correlated to advertising campaigns, price changes, seasonal forces, competitive actions, and other costs of sales. Operating productivity. Inventory size.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Article first published as Eleven Startup Tips From Mark Cuban on Technorati. Mark’s Startup Tips. Through diligent preparation and dogged perseverance, entrepreneurs avoid foolhardy risks. Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs and Richard Branson.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2023

The world of marketing is changing faster than technology these days. Along with her insights, she offers 50 innovative new tips to grow your business. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive. Understand the power of online reviews to your advantage. Build word-of-mouth into your product or service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Marketing is everything these days. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

" When asked about the competition he feared most, Bill Gates is alleged to have said, "the two guys inventing away in a garage somewhere." " I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. " Even if this quote is apocryphal, it remains instructive. ."

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

Accomplished entrepreneurs are curious about their customers' desires, competitors' future strategic directions and their industry's technological trends. " Understand your brand's promise and work diligently to deliver on it with every new sale. They relish learning. " Entrepreneurs are life-long students.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Marketing is everything these days. Marty Zwilling.

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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. some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.)

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California. Those are fundamentals that don't change.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Amazon used its popular affiliate program to spur additional growth, getting reviewers and publishing sites – including us here at Tech.co – to link to Amazon in exchange for a small payout whenever a reader bought something by following that link. Best for: Authors, book reviewers, booktubers. The impact? commission).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Marketing is everything these days. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2018

Often, beneficial changes will have a short-term cost to achieve market growth or competitive advantage. Contingency plans make sense in every case these days, since technology and market factors are moving fast. The “ 5 Whys ” is another iterative technique used to determine the root cause of issues and stimulate in-depth thinking.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. Quality tech news from around the web. When should you start a company?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It is often the fortuitous mixture of new technologies, customer awareness and then acceptance of the technology and then the slow adoption into our daily lives that leads to markets exploding. This is the so-called “tipping point.&# It is at this point that your startup needs to consider “ going fat.&#

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. Every business needs to take advantage of the new tools and technologies which can assist you in making this shift in strategy and measuring effectiveness. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The world of marketing is changing faster than technology these days. Along with her insights, she offers 50 innovative new tips to grow your business. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive. Understand the power of online reviews to your advantage. Build word-of-mouth into your product or service.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

It performs "due diligence" before it makes "investments" and it measures results as a "return on its investment.". It’s an open competition that awards $100,000 and a year of management support to the most promising early stage nonprofit that is helping low-income Chicagoans to rise out of poverty.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

For more information on pricing, see my previous post 6 Pricing Tips for Your product/Service. Do your due diligence to perform competitive analysis. Pricing is an art, a challenging art.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The world of marketing is changing faster than technology these days. Along with her insights, she offers 50 innovative new tips to grow your business. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive. Understand the power of online reviews to your advantage. Build word-of-mouth into your product or service.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 15, 2015

These tips require a lot of hard work and effort on your part. But if you follow these eight tips, you will certainly make your business leaner and meaner. The customers will continue returning to your business due to the personal connections you make with them. New Technology. Simple doesn’t mean easy.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

6 Tips to Gain the Edge & Meet Your Goals. A sparring or running partner is a great way to refresh physical competition. Business Culture Entrepreneurship book review Dan Waldschmidt Edgy Conversations procrastination' Living in the moment requires you to live at peak performance.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 23, 2012

Once you’ve decided on an idea to move forward with, you’re ready to start deciphering the data you’ve compiled on the existing competition and choosing what to do with your own app. If all of the competition is boring to look at, then your hook could be that you’re the “beautiful” alternative. The Hook Brings You back.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Only one guy in the room knew – their tech lead. Once you churn a user due to stability or performance problems it can be hard to get them back. Most people under estimate the challenge of winning “share of mind” the least understood concept with tech entrepreneurs. The biggest limitation we tech consumers have is our time.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. You must stand out from other companies vying for attention.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. You must stand out from other companies vying for attention.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. pitch and technology competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

But more broadly it got me thinking to one of the biggest mistakes tech executives get into in the first place. But you’d be surprised how much tech folks either hold journalists too much on a pedestal or disdain them. Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.” We worked out our pricing, our tipping policies, insurance, logistics, package management – the works.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Yet, despite his exceptional courtroom theatrics, you would be foolhardy to hire good old Johnnie to review your software cross-licensing agreement. Once you draft the straightforward text, sans the legal mumbo-jumbo, ask your lawyer to review the text to ensure your layman descriptions do not result in an unintended interpretation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

My most read post on marketing tips highlights this – please pay attention to tip #4 – you can’t have great marketing for bad or mediocre products. And finally there is the most modern spin on these concepts by two individuals who have built tech startups and have done an excellent job at describing the process.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

In the startup world there’s been a culture of solution or technology first, whereas I believe we should be taking a more people-centred approach to building products and services. Unless the thing you’re building has real value to someone, it’s just a vanity project, no matter the technology. Startups are next.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Here are some tips to keep in mind for the big day. Other times the partner wants to test whether there is support before sinking in tons of due diligence time.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market.

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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. 10 Blogging Tips. Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast.

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