SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. What are your key Startup Metrics ? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Content access controls? Are regular users contributing content or only system administrators?

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. What are your key Startup Metrics ? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Content access controls? Are regular users contributing content or only system administrators?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

Of course, experiences and failures are the best teachers, but I find that learning from other people’s experiences is a much faster and less painful approach. You have tried all the popular initiatives and quick-fix remedies, including social media, search engine optimization, and content marketing.

Entrepreneur 174

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Social Media 174

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

The current term for all these activities and results online is “ content marketing.” You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results. Your priority must always be to offer the right content with the right contacts along the way.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Acquisition Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 96

Social Media Media Marketing Metrics 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall.

Search Engine Optimization 103

Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media Equity 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change. Communication to the team suffers, and productivity is low.

Ideas 122

Ideas Entrepreneur Startup IBM 122

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet. Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

Venture Capital 403

Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. Sometimes, it's just content presented online. That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. Where is the company now?

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall.

Search Engine Optimization 124

Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media Equity 124

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

What are your key Startup Metrics ? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Of course, we’ll also discuss the details of the product itself. Of course, that’s the really fun, interesting, challenging work. How will you be taking this to market? What channels will you use (e.g., SEO for Startups )? What does the system do?

Software Development 292

Software Development Develop Development Startup 292

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Of course, nothing is totally free, and I have heard the horror stories of relatively small companies finding thirty or more employees spending most of their time scanning and using social media for promotions, or engaging high-priced consultants who never seem to be able to show any real return for all of their efforts.

Social Media 99

Social Media Media Tool Startup 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change. Communication to the team suffers, and productivity is low.

Ideas 115

Ideas Startup IBM IBM 115

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 91

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

My initial conversations normally focus on the core of the business, important Startup Metrics , probably marketing strategy (ex. SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. It does NOT contain the contents of that update. Ning could easily send the contents of the message.

Web 150

Web Sites Email HTML 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall.

Startup 89

Startup Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2013

Of course, for a price, there are many marketing organizations and gurus willing to come to your aid. Make your startup valuable and visible, with great content that can not be missed by online search, influencers, and offline events. entrepreneur startup metrics marketing sales business' Are your customers coming fast enough?

Sales 105

Sales Startup Metrics Customer 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall.

Startup 108

Startup Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

Of course, experiences and failures are the best teachers, but I find that learning from other people’s experiences is a much faster and less painful approach. You have tried all the popular initiatives and quick-fix remedies, including social media, search engine optimization, and content marketing.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Social Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change. Communication to the team suffers, and productivity is low.

Ideas 53

Ideas Startup IBM IBM 53

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 105

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

He met with the editors of the three Mac magazines that his customers read and showed them metrics that confirmed that SuperMac's boards were the fastest on the market. "I I highly recommend Steve's How To Build A Startup online courses. At no charge, you can ingest the same content used by Steve's university students.

Marketing 271

Marketing Startup Sales Customer 271

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2016

Of course, experiences and failures are the best teachers, but I find that learning from other people’s experiences is a much faster and less painful approach. You have tried all the popular initiatives and quick-fix remedies, including social media, search engine optimization, and content marketing.

Search Engine Optimization 55

Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Social Media 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

Of course, I understand and don’t condone bad actors who get greedy, and exploit ways to unjustly squeeze customers and employees. The smart ones identify and budget innovative approaches, and use metrics to tools to monitor effectiveness. Every business requires spending money to make money.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Ideas Pricing Customer 58

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators. Lucky for Rapt FM, they appear to have both with a fast growing community of passionate content creators and viewers.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. If you’re not successful then who cares.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Each with its own head, its own financial reporting and its own content strategy, pricing strategy and marketing strategy. But creating better visibility for investors of the profitability of each unit and accountability for bosses of each to perform well according to differnet metrics is a good & important idea. No, probably not.

Netflix 287

Netflix Customer Custom Pricing 287

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

You're also seeing of course, the PC makers, people like Alienware, Dell, and Nvidia, supporting these. Medium and long term, I am excited to see how this involves into a true sport, bigger on every scale and metric than the NBA or NFL. You can see that with Intel and AMD. AMD is one of our launch sponsors. READ MORE>>.

Riot Games 100

Riot Games Southern California Invest Mobile 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Of course, when you’re talking about enabling/emerging technologies, as Brock Pierce puts it, “Market timing is critical to success.” Peter Csathy jumps in to answer questions about content. To him, the right technology has the ability to make content creation and storytelling by providing the right context.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

And of course, product managers relay the abstract to the engineering teams to ensure the delivered product is, what it was planned to be. Jen’s list of responsibilities continues: Executive meetings, weekly sprints, bug fixes, and of course ensuring feedback is collected. They fill the roles of moraler and supervisor.

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My guess is that will be the case with a lot of different kinds of content and applications. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics. And how can an early stage company think about social media relative to important startup metrics (see [link] )?

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

In the early 1960s, conventional wisdom in the music industry did not lend itself to a systematic manner of evaluating creative content. Evaluate each of the following metrics on a scale of 1 – 10. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _. —

Ideas 187

Ideas Resource Technical Review Startup 187

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

To cap off our 6th year at SXSW and follow up on last year’s amazingly successful Trend Lounge , we knew this year had to be bigger, better, more engaging, and of course, even more fun. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Setting the Stage : The Indiegogo/TechZulu Tech Cafe.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99