Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

As the Global Customer Growth Evangelist at Salesforce, with implementation roles at many other companies, she makes a host of relevant observations for every business owner. These days, customers remember the total experience with a company longer than they remember the price they paid. Pursue strategic alliances and partnerships.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

As we move forward, we are hoping to personalize that relationship as much as possible, based on life events, and provide a customized experience. We curate the best products within each category of finance. We also work with high yield savings and investment, and also have an investment partnership.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

Wearables are in fact much more than that, and the category is rapidly expanding thanks to the likes of big Fortune 500 companies, as well as small time startups and crowdfunded projects on Indiegogo. Custom ad deals and partnerships. What is a wearable? Checkout some of our past events: REACH Connected Future: Home Recap.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Now category is rapidly expanding thanks to the likes of big Fortune 500 companies, as well as small time startups and crowdfunded projects on Indiegogo. Custom ad deals and partnerships. ” We live in a world of immediacy, getting everything we want at the precise moment we want it. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2013

The deal will see Yelp connect more restaurants and bars to customers through online bookings. According to Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp co-founder and chief executive officer,”I am excited to welcome SeatMe’s employees and customers to Yelp. businesses listed under its restaurant and nightlife categories.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

The board decided this category was exploding, and consumers were turning more and more towards their phones to make decisions, they felt MomentFeed had huge potential, and was doing well, but it had the potential to grow even faster, which is why they hired me to take it to IPO scale. Nick Hedges: It was almost exactly a year ago.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

. “We launched a telehealth product in 48 hours, we converted the majority of our visits for the next month in person online and we had really, really great feedback and customer response — both in terms of adoption but repeat visits as well. though Carmy notes it’s only “in network” (i.e.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Having the right domain name can make a big difference when it comes to attracting new customers. With top level domains (TLDs) the ability to personalize brands and distinguish themselves from the black hole of the.com world can make it easier for a customer to find your business. Individuals to startups are looking to.ME,IO

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

After that, I spent ten years at Skype, managing their consumer electronics partnerships and products. There are lots of established players in this market, who pretty much own all of the shelf space in this category. After that I worked for five years in at Cisco working on consumer networking and enterprise networking.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons. You fish where your customers are. I know this category has gotten a lot of press. My entire partnership took their leadership team to dinner. But the product is called textPlus, not textFree.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

If you are already running a business in this category, or thinking about one, I recommend a new book, “ The Profitable Professional ,” by Kelly Clifford. Use your knowledge of evolving needs and technology to add more value than competitors, and introduce clients to each other to build partnerships.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. If you were a new developer in this category you often had to sub-contract in a fees-for-service arrangement to build for the big guys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Now you have real customers who can quickly turn off hundreds of potential customers if you ignore their feedback. Now it’s time to make decisions from analytics, customer reviews, and financial results, rather than letting your passion and perseverance convince you that customers will soon see it your way.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

We've put that all into a simple, easy to use tool online, which allows customers to come to our site, select the lenses they want, input a prescription, and get those directly sent to their door for 50-70 percent less than they are used to paying. There has not been a lot of industry innovation here, and prices area always super high.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars-Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. Those might be in categories that may not exist today. Omkar Kulkarni: We're deliberately casting a wide net. Omkar Kulkarni: Good question.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. Those might be in categories that may not exist today. Omkar Kulkarni: We're deliberately casting a wide net. Omkar Kulkarni: Good question.

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Mentor Startup Coach Ideas 100

InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Such playground friends serve to ensure the startup’s ongoing viability by providing resources, access to customers and technology and market validation. This manifested itself in a number of ways, including prospect lead sharing, joint marketing, sharing space at tradeshows and warm referrals to alliance members’ customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Customers: A company’s only sustainable source of cash is sales, so you need to keep track of your business development efforts. Partnerships: Relationships with larger firms not only confer legitimacy to your business; they can be an important source of intellectual property, distribution channels, and marketing clout.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The term “Articles” can be misleading, as articles on exploreB2B can take many forms: industry insights, expert experience, customer stories or questions and business needs – even a detailed product description. These articles are sorted into industries and categories. Any strategic partnerships? Any funding yet?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category. Success often comes from doing a few things extraordinarily well and noticeably better than the competition and is measured in customer feedback, product engagement, growth in usage and ultimately in revenue growth. Easier said than done.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Online Partnerships / Distribution Deals. Social Media – Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter.This is a separate segment of referring traffic that warrants its own category. To make sure you maximize the potential for traffic from partnership/distribution deals: 1.) Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

The organizer might have a friend's birthday, and have five or six people who might want to go in on a gift like a Wii or and iPod, and you can custom pick a card--just like an Evite--custom card invitations which you can make look realy cool and where you can pick a theme--and you put in the information. How does the payment work?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

From our customer research, people would like to record their dreams once they wake up, as well as to share their dreams with their families & friends, but there are no simple tools to do so. Dream Diary is the app that people can category and color their dreams but cannot share. Any partnerships? What problem do you solve?

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Template Social Media Media Research 82

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Online Partnerships / Distribution Deals. You can search Technorati to find the most popular blogs on the web across various categories. This is a separate segment of referring traffic that warrants its own category. Online Partnerships/Distribution Deals – These are harder to come by, but can pay off big dividends.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Developing their business directly through partnerships with sports teams, Crowd Seats has the ability to get larger discounts on potentially unused ticket sales to provide value for the fans, teams, and venues. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

Pretty much anything that goes into a business plan falls into one of these four categories: Opportunity : Every successful business exploits an opportunity. What types of business partnerships will you need to forge? What kind of management team will your company require? What does the product cost to manufacture?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Wondering how, as a small business, you can reach customers in the YouTube age? Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Without their buy in, we don’t get the opportunity to interact with end customers. My brand marketing experience is making a big difference with our audiences since hospitality is all about a ‘brand experience’ and they want their stuff to look great, be a reflection of their brand and get customers excited. Write it down….

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

As one of our most fully stacked events to date, we thought it wouldn’t quite each of our five categories justice by recapping the entire event and skimming only for highlights. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Back to Top « Customer Service. Customer Center. Content Partnerships. Developments Blog. See a sample reprint in PDF format. FourSquare.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

It is generally a soft touch at the beginning of the development process, perhaps identifying 1-2 early alpha/beta customers to help flesh out use cases to be built upon over time. And if this business partnership doesn't work out, the CTO / Founder, the engine of value for the company, is stuck in a bad, bad place. Camaraderie?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

Know the firm but also know the partnership So by now you have 50 names on a spreadsheet with 8–10 A’s, 8–10 B’s, 10–20 C’s and 10 D’s. Investment professionals tend to fall into the following categories: Not an investment partner. The investor is a customer and they have money to spend but only for a limited number of companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

They mostly understand your company, your customers, your competitors and your market but never as precisely as you do. Here’s what I recommend: Create a Google spreadsheet listing your top customer prospects, biz dev prospects and other companies you would like to meet. Most partnerships are exactly that – partnerships.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Since founding his firm in 1997, Jeff has become best known as an expert on business organizations, including corporations, LLCs, and partnerships. With access to billions of mobile impressions and cutting-edge location technology we make sure that your message reaches customers ready to buy what you sell. By Category Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? The ingredients are all here. Are you going to do all of this?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

But there’s a reason why Bravo dominates the unscripted category in the cable / satellite world. It turns out that once you attract an audience to your channel and your brand becomes known for producing a genre of content you have an unfair advantage in acquiring customers for other shows who naturally migrate from one show to the next.

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