Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

This same j2 Global Survey also offers the following tips how to improve your chances of success as an Gen-Y entrepreneur, or even as a young professional working for a larger organization: Don’t let student loans rain on your parade. Don’t let the lack of experience bring you down. Lighten your load with technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

From my own research, here is a collection of seven top tips on how a startup or any company can build and maintain real customer loyalty: Communicate more personally more often. Building customer loyalty means a first priority on keeping the customers you already have, rather than focusing always on getting new ones.

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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.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Do them all.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. This is my third company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Along with her insights, she offers 50 innovative new tips to grow your business. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive. Consider collaborating via shared marketing efforts, trade-show both space, co-branding promotional products, referral agreements, and cross-linking web sites.

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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. Mithril is struggling to compete against ferocious competition in the growth-stage equity market.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

And even better still, it offers a great deal for the publications who participate in the program, offering a competitive 8% conversion rate and an impressive 10% commission on each sale (more than double Amazon’s 4.5% Better still, it partners with indie bookstores to do so, taking those who click to a digital storefront of a local bookshop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Along with her insights, she offers 50 innovative new tips to grow your business. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive. Consider collaborating via shared marketing efforts, trade-show both space, co-branding promotional products, referral agreements, and cross-linking web sites.

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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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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. There is lots and lots of competition in the area, how is your firm different from the others? Albert Ko: It's just the tip of the iceberg, though hyper local has only began picking up virality in the last year. We want to target more specific verticals.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. Michael offers the follow general tips regarding how entrepreneurs can obtain meaningful engagement on social news sites: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

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. Here are some tips I’ve gleaned from experience: Make your blog your website. Many now skip the separate static website.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have published many of these PR Tips before. This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5 ’ ” Image Credits: Snipfeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? But there are other reasons people churn – low product quality, inability to understand the value of the product, costs, competitive products, etc. If you have any good tips for others feel free to leave them in the comments section. Happy measuring.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive. But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. But make it competitive. Good people and evil people.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Despite the growing competition, Philips Hue light bulbs are still the kings of all smart, Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs. Tip: A lot of these apps are quite device intensive. Put the power of the web to work. These color-changing wonders will literally transform your home, and all you need to do is screw in a light bulb.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

In all seriousness, though, an extra tip to the good work being done at Breathometer, in light of a hugely saddening and tragic drunk driving incident that marred the positive festival feel of SXSW Music Week. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. A hit with the SXSW party crowd).

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. There is no competition. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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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. In my opinion no amount of clever marketing or chest beating at conferences can create a market if you don’t have an amazing product to begin with. All totally free.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. This is probably due to their extreme focus on education and the lure and competition of their quickly growing tech economy. Now, there is so much competition that it is very, very difficult to keep people.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. My next five posts will be focused on 5 tips that I put together for dealing with the tech resource challenge: 1. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0:

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

- Both Sides of the Table , April 20, 2010 Turning on your Reality Distortion Field - Steve Blank , April 22, 2010 Social Networking vs Email - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , April 13, 2010 Twitter and third-party Twitter developers - Chris Dixon , April 10, 2010 Interview: How to close an angel round - Venture Hacks , April 6, 2010 Accounting (..)

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

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. 8 Really Cool Web-Based Tools for Bloggers - Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog , June 1, 2010 Looking for cool applications to help you make your blog or site all it can be? Twittering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2012

Slightly more said it’s okay to be “plugged in” during their honeymoon, and eight percent think it’s alright to surf the web during religious services. In fact, really listening to customers happens so rarely these days that you can actually gain a competitive edge just by doing it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Slightly more said it’s okay to be “plugged in” during their honeymoon, and eight percent think it’s alright to surf the web during religious services. In fact, really listening to customers happens so rarely these days that you can actually gain a competitive edge just by doing it.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

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 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

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.

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Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

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.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

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 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

10 Blogging Tips. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). 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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