Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Indeed, there are some success factors that are common to both environments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Indeed, there are some success factors that are common to both environments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. PHONE CALLS.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had called on Chamillionaire from the audience and asked him to provide some views on how artists view social media, why they use it and where it’s heading. As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. A technology that will surely revolutionize how viewers interact with content and television in the very near future.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

As you may know I outlined my rules for maximum impact at events / conferences before SXSW began. I had come off of a Hashable party and dinner with Naval Ravikant , Farb Nivi (Grockit) & John Price (Vast). It’s a topic I’ve not only been thinking a lot about over the past year but had been planning to write about.

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MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. The best VCs I know take 11pm conference calls. So I prefer to watch what works first and pay a higher price to get in when it’s proven.” I use social media. They see how hard she does her job. Not in my experience, Andy. ” This wrung true with me.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Valu e and Exp erience versus Price and Product. On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I needed to have a plan to be efficient with my time during the 3 day conference. With booth prices up to $9,500 , it blew my mind how vague the taglines were. The best way to get a journalist’s attention is to know who you are writing to and what interests them. 2 Stick to the list.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. But what Groupon (and Living Social’s) platforms have revealed is the social nature of contemporary couponing. Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating. It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. So how does this all relate to the upcoming Twitter Chirp conference next week?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. Third, startups are social. but: Something is Still Missing. call to arms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Every developer who builds on the Apple ecosystem bites their nails waiting for the annual WWDC conference to see whether their company is on the “kill list.” Most wont write stuff publicly because they fear retribution.

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