Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. Identify customer executives who need your solution. Reach out to your biggest fans for investor leads.

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Statistics Entrepreneur Funding Social Media 98

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based cloud telephony provider Callfire , which develops cloud-based telephony services used to automate phone calls and voice applications, reported today that it had record growth in 2012. The company said it saw revenue growth of 58 percent for the company. Actual financials were not disclosed by the company. cents per minute.

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Santa Monica Statistics Startup Report 173

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. Identify customer executives who need your solution. Reach out to your biggest fans for investor leads.

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Funding Tips Startup Statistics 173

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Instead, expeditiously pick a reasonable moniker and then get back to work delivering value to your customers. In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other hindrances to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Software Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Use your favorite search engine and keywords describing your solution to find online sales reports, trade association statistics, and online newsletters with the latest statistics. Explore municipal development resources. Conduct your own customized market research. Modern libraries are still worth a visit.

Research 87

Research Marketing Statistics Report 87

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

Irvine-based Quantitative Micro Software , a developer of software used for economic forecasting, has been acquired by information provider IHS Inc. According to IHS, it will use the acquisition of Quantitative Micro Software (QMS) to give its customers access to a more comprehensive set of solutions. in a deal worth $40M.

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Software Statistics Acquisition Research 153

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

For example, Lyft and Uber were able to capitalize on the current ride-sharing trend worldwide by tracking statistics that indicated reduced interest in car ownership by millennials, lack of parking spaces, and auto ownership costs moving up rapidly. You need to build a vision of the future that can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Startup Customer Custom Statistics 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

For a hands-on guide in developing data-driven people strategies, I found some practical techniques in the classic book, “ The Data Driven Leader ,” by Jenny Dearborn and David Swanson. It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools.

Tool 121

Tool Statistics Entrepreneur Metrics 121

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 147

Startup Pricing Sales Statistics 147

socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2010

San Diego-based IntraStage , a developer of quality management software for companies who design and manufacture electronic products, including statistical process control (SPC) and other testing and data analytics tools, has raised a round of angel funding. IntraStage's customers include Motorola, Panasonic and Northrop Grumman.

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Angel Tech Coast Angels Funding CIO 140

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

Use your favorite search engine and keywords describing your solution to find online sales reports, trade association statistics and online newsletters with the latest statistics. Explore municipal-development resources. Conduct your own customized market research. Modern libraries are still worth a visit.

Marketing 97

Marketing Entrepreneur Statistics Research 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. Cost per action (CPA).

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PPC SEO Paid Search Search Engine Optimization 154

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive.

Startup 94

Startup Training Statistics Summary 94

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2016

Use your favorite search engine and keywords describing your solution to find online sales reports, trade association statistics, and online newsletters with the latest statistics. Explore municipal development resources. Conduct your own customized market research. Modern libraries are still worth a visit.

Marketing 59

Marketing Startup Statistics Research 59

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

Brenton Sullivan: We really put the customer at the center of our business, something that many entrepreneurs miss out on. We took that feedback, and developed it into a really streamlined, minimal viable product. That''s the quantitative analysis of statistics to find players. How''d you get over that hurdle? It''s a big topic.

Coach 252

Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

But like the company Kyriba, where we recently sold our position at above $1 billion, it took time until the revenue exceeded $100 million recurring and then the industry really competed to back this amazing company since it had scale, defensible technology and long-term, committed customers. Over the past 2.5 Why does that matter?

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

For a hands-on guide in developing data-driven people strategies, I found some practical techniques in the classic book, “ The Data Driven Leader ,” by Jenny Dearborn and David Swanson. It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools.

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Metrics Tool Statistics Entrepreneur 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Historical and current statistics still show the chances of failure on any given idea are better than even. It pays to be able to fall back into a familiar mental role to recover, when the pressures of fund raising, new product development, and satisfying initial customers wears you down.

Startup 153

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Statistics 153

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In the first part of this post I talked about how sales in a startup is often evangelical , requires as consultative sale and needs constant adjustments based on customer feedback. Or the sales decks will all be customized by your “feet on the street&# and won’t resemble the way you THINK your company is being positioned.

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Sales Newsletter Technical Review Activity 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Startup Training Statistics 110

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2017

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive.

Startup 56

Startup Training Statistics Summary 56

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding 104

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Companies can now customize complex algorithms to find the exact candidate through the power of cutting edge software. It is understandable how and why HR managers would experience burn out and rely on subjective opinions instead of statistical data. Here are four ways that big data is affecting the hiring process. Increased Security.

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Software Review Statistics Technical Review Screening 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2019

As an advisor to entrepreneurs for many years, I strongly disagree, and still see the value of at least combining intuition with logical analysis, as we face customers and markets driven by relationships, emotions, and unpredictable social trends. The venerable Steve Jobs was reportedly in the same category.

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Examples Tool Statistics Tips 81

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

In 1952, 100 years after Lovelace’s death, Dr. Grace Hopper developed the first compiler. It wasn't until the early 1960's, when men realized the power and prestige associated with software development, that women were not so subtly pushed out of the profession.

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Company Companies Santa Barbara Education 100

SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Why Software Development Goes Bad So Often and What You Can Do About It Most likely you've heard the staggering statistics on failure of software projects with different reports showing 28% success rates. Development dollars have been spent and the system is not going to be able to be used for the business.

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CTO Hire Startup Metrics eHarmony 175

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Obviously we can find many critical success factors, like finding and retaining high-value customers, which apply to companies that are product centric or services centric. Customers don’t like people who don’t show their passion and love for the job. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing.

Satisfaction 91

Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive.

Startup 93

Startup Training Statistics Summary 93

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA. The minute a customer hired us to deal with their transitioning employees, the first thing we could do is sayhey, it's not all bad, there are over 150 companies looking for someone just like you in your area.

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Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Pricing Sales 102

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t succeed.

Startup 94

Startup Marketing Training Statistics 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. Identify customer executives who need your solution. Reach out to your biggest fans for investor leads.

Startup 61

Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Funding 61

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Obviously we can find many critical success factors, like finding and retaining high-value customers, which apply to companies that are product centric or services centric. Customers don’t like people who don’t show their passion and love for the job. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing.

Product 91

Product Services Satisfaction Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

I’m talking about volunteering to be on industry panels for visibility, participating in startup weekends for education, and talking to groups of distributors or potential customers on technology trends. It’s amazing how much more you can learn face-to-face, compared to an analysis of aging statistics alone. Face-to-face time is key.

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Startup Tips Mentor Conference 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

For a hands-on guide in developing data-driven people strategies, I found some practical techniques in a new book, “ The Data Driven Leader ,” by Jenny Dearborn and David Swanson. It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools.

Tool 53

Tool Entrepreneur Statistics Metrics 53

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Interact with real customers to validate passion in their feedback. Use social media and live customers to eliminate any reality distortion in your internal perception of value. Develop marketing content and communicate with trusted advisors and employees to make sure the right message can be delivered with clarity and integrity.

Startup 62

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Statistics 62