Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site.

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Startup IBM IBM Social Media 169

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Lack of follow-up after a sale can cost you more customers than poor service or poor quality. All the great ideas in the world won’t make a business, if the ideas never get implemented. Maintaining professional relationships.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Startup IBM 122

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality. Customer retention.

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Activity Startup Ideas Technical Review 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

On the other hand, stealth mode does make sense for large companies, like Apple and IBM, who will likely be sued for pre-announcing a future product, since other companies have used this ploy in the past to freeze the market and lock out new competitors. Who are you fooling by not allowing your startup to be found?

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Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

On the other hand, stealth mode does make sense for large companies, like Apple and IBM, who will likely be sued for pre-announcing a future product, since other companies have used this ploy in the past to freeze the market and lock out new competitors. Who are you fooling by not allowing your startup to be found?

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Search Engine Optimization Ideas Startup Customer 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

Of course, it’s smart not to stray too far from your core competency for credibility and risk reduction. By drawing on the current network of drivers and the app technology it already has in place, UberEATS could be a major competitor for food delivery services such as DoorDash. Expand into key new sales and delivery channels.

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Customer Custom Examples IBM 143

Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

Degreed , which helps businesses upgrade the skills of their staffers through an online gateway to learning resources, announced Thursday it has raised $75 million to grow the service and expand internationally. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Lack of follow-up after a sale can cost you more customers than poor service or poor quality. All the great ideas in the world won’t make a business, if the ideas never get implemented. Maintaining professional relationships.

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Ideas Startup IBM IBM 115

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2015

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. The pivot can be as simple as changing the pricing model, or as complex as moving from a product business to a services business.

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Startup Course IBM IBM 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. The pivot can be as simple as changing the pricing model, or as complex as moving from a product business to a services business.

Course 59

Course IBM IBM Social Media 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

To get first-time buyers today, you need push for coupons and business cards, and you need relationship pull through social media for customer service. Of course, more resources are “better” for marketing, but re-allocating existing resources can be equally effective. Assimilate available resources to determine the level of rollout.

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Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2014

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. The pivot can be as simple as changing the pricing model, or as complex as moving from a product business to a services business.

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Entrepreneur Course IBM IBM 98

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

That was in the support space, where we were doing outsourced technical services. My initiative at Support.com was to introduce new products into the support space, as a Software-as-a-Service product. We sell directly to big enterprises, like IBM and Cisco. So what's your plan to ramp things up at HG Data?

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Santa Barbara High Tech Outsource Development Startup 113

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

In the summer of 1999, Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix) released a free service called BuddyHelp. Other than the access fees charged by Internet Service Providers, the era of paid Internet services was nascent. The first step was to identify who was using the service.

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Customer Custom Technical Support Startup 162

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site.

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Startup Entrepreneur IBM IBM 105

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. True that Salesforce.com in particular has made interesting moves toward open-cloud services by purchasing Heroku and also launching Database.com. Not IBM, HP, Accenture, Cisco, Salesforce.com or anybody else.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Lack of follow-up after a sale can cost you more customers than poor service or poor quality. All the great ideas in the world won’t make a business, if the ideas never get implemented. Maintaining professional relationships.

Ideas 53

Ideas Startup IBM IBM 53

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2014

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality. Customer retention.

Ideas 108

Ideas Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

To get first-time buyers today, you need push for coupons and business cards, and you need relationship pull through social media for customer service. Of course, more resources are “better” for marketing, but re-allocating existing resources can be equally effective. Assimilate available resources to determine the level of rollout.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

To get first-time buyers today, you need push for coupons and business cards, and you need relationship pull through social media for customer service. Of course, more resources are “better” for marketing, but re-allocating existing resources can be equally effective. Assimilate available resources to determine the level of rollout.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality. Customer retention.

Ideas 110

Ideas Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 110

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site.

Startup 62

Startup IBM IBM Social Media 62

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Now, of course, they all do much more, but those things came later. Keep these balanced and aligned between people (customers, employees) and process (quality, service), and keep the scope limited. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you have a big challenge that you can’t afford to meet.

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Entrepreneur Competition Customer Custom 63

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

On the other hand, stealth mode does make sense for large companies, like Apple and IBM, who will likely be sued for pre-announcing a future product, since other companies have used this ploy in the past to freeze the market and lock out new competitors. Who are you fooling by not allowing your startup to be found?

Startup 101

Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

To get first-time buyers today, you need push for coupons and business cards, and you need relationship pull through social media for customer service. Of course, more resources are “better” for marketing, but re-allocating existing resources can be equally effective. Assimilate available resources to determine the level of rollout.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

On the other hand, stealth mode does make sense for large companies, like Apple and IBM, who will likely be sued for pre-announcing a future product, since other companies have used this ploy in the past to freeze the market and lock out new competitors. Who are you fooling by not allowing your startup to be found?

Startup 60

Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas Customer 60

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality. Customer retention.

Ideas 95

Ideas Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 95

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

Gym members could get discounts on chiropractic services and chiropractic patients might get free on-site body fat analyses from the gym. For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may in fact be competitive with their own.

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Company Companies Startup Examples 96

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The trademark verification itself is performed by Deloitte and the data is managed by IBM , who are partnered with the TMCH to provide mark vetting services. Keep an eye on what other companies in your space are doing about these new domains first, then see if a similar course of action makes sense for your business.”

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Conference SEO Software Review IP 77

Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

And I was very disappointed because, with the exception of one or two courses, the Sloan School was primarily oriented to Fortune 500 companies and to Wall Street—finance theory, that sort of thing. Just about nothing, one or two courses— Ed Roberts had one—on entrepreneurship.

Startup 67

Startup Compton Research Technology 67

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

Gym members could get discounts on chiropractic services and chiropractic patients might get free on-site body fat analyses from the gym. For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may in fact be competitive with their own.

Startup 90

Startup Examples Customer Custom 90

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. It was an IBM XT. It was the first ever IBM to ship with a hard drive. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. Which of course it won’t, right? ” “Of course you can.”

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. But some events you dont get quality attendees and then its a drag to drive that far.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It may sound counterintuitive, but the greater constraint investors place on their financial resources during a downturn, the better your chances of success, given (of course) that your adVenture is able to either secure funding or generate adequate revenue from customers, as described below in reason #7 – Customer Dollars Taste Great.

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Company Companies Startup Study 257

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

Up until now linking, syndication, and shared comment services have been used to connect the dots on distributed conversations but the practical usefulness of these approaches has been reached in many cases. Poor integration between social media and location services. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. In no expert in Seattle but when I look around I see: enterprise software (Microsoft), the market leader in cloud services (Amazon AWS), games (Xbox), some of the most innovative retailers in the country (CostCo, Starbucks, REI) and what is left of Boeing (HQ moved to Chicago). I’m in Seattle this week.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317