socalTECH

JULY 30, 2012

Can you explain to us what your business looks like now, and what you offer to your customers? How are you acquiring customers, and why wouldn't they just have someone send them their bill by email? Email lis oppose of what our system is. Email doesn't solve that problem. John, thanks for the time today.

Zumbox 170

Zumbox Email Startup Services 170

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

But for today, and even with non-completes or even confidentiality agreements you do not sign… The obvious admonition To you and to everyone: do not take customer lists, design documents or any document considered a trade secret from any previous employer or previous consulting customer. Digital or analog!

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Deal rooms contain access to or copies of all significant contracts with suppliers, customers, consultants, and others. All corporate governance documents, from incorporation articles to minutes of all meetings of the board are maintained in the deal room. Email readers, continue here.]

Software Review 191

Software Review Patents Startup Email 191

Berkonomics

JANUARY 30, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] If you’re seeking investment from anyone other than friends and family, you’re probably going to have to navigate through the exercise of careful planning, documentation and execution. And who is right here? Investors are a fickle bunch in general. And the result?

Artificial Inteligence 189

Artificial Inteligence Startup Metrics Ideas 189

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Irvine-based Cirrus Insight , which develops software for helping aid in sales followups, email marketing, and customer relationship management, has acquired Attach.io , a developer of real time document tracking software. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. was based in Knoxville, Tennessee. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. Because email works!

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. What should not be in your deck? I would likely open up your deck, read it again and begin contemplating your company again.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). I didn’t have first-hand experience in document management systems other than as a user and nobody had SaaS experience – the market was too new. I’ll always point out when I am.).

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Entrepreneur Startup SaaS San Diego 267

Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2011

Email readers, continue here.] The rules for “pledging an invoice” as collateral for borrowing call for attaching signed shipping documents showing that the goods have been picked up by the carrier, at which point the title transfers to the customer and the invoice from the company is “good”. Or is it? .

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Course Entrepreneur Customer Custom 240

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. If you fold at the first un-returned email what hope to you have as an entrepreneur? Your customers don’t care that you went to Stanford, Harvard or MIT.

Entrepreneur 338

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs. If you are early in a platform (Zynga to Facebook, AngryBirds to iOS, Maker Studios to YouTube) you catch a major marketing wave where acquiring customers and growing revenue is exponential.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

Berkonomics

JUNE 14, 2018

The rules for “pledging an invoice” as collateral for borrowing call for attaching signed shipping documents showing that the goods have been picked up by the carrier, at which point the title transfers to the customer and the invoice from the company is “good”. Adding facts to the case. Decision changes?

Course 226

Course Entrepreneur Customer Custom 226

Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2020

Data rooms contain access to or copies of all significant contracts with suppliers, customers, consultants, and others. All corporate governance documents, from incorporation articles to minutes of all meetings of the board are maintained in the deal room. Who will use it and when? When to start a data room? The payoff.

Software Review 156

Software Review Startup Patents Email 156

socalTECH

JULY 30, 2012

In an email to supporters, Nazar said Monday that the company is looking to partner with experts, to shoot courses around such subjects as getting customers, learning online software, marketing, raising money, and other business topics.

Course 210

Course Santa Monica Content Resource 210

Berkonomics

APRIL 30, 2020

It is human nature for you and every entrepreneur to fall into a routine of taking care of day to day issues, meetings, communicating with customers and shareholders. Email readers, continue here…] So, how do you regain that enthusiasm for what is best for you and for the company? That daily routine. It is where the fun is.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] On the final day of our assignment, I was responsible for the “reporting out” to the assembled twenty or so executives in the large conference room of this major corporation. I started my presentation, which had been carefully documented in handouts and PowerPoint, with this story….

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Sample Report Course Conference 243

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Historically you are your email address. Think about your local news anchor saying, “if you want to get in touch email me at xxxx.” Nearly every day now I see public figures telling people their Twitter identity in stead of Facebook, email or other forms of identity. Who are you on the web? ” Sure.

News 324

News Web Email Startup 324

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If you’re seeking investment from anyone other than friends and family, you’re probably going to have to navigate through the exercise of careful planning, documentation and execution. On the other hand, if a new free app has bugs, they can be corrected in the next automatic update, and probably without much customer noise.

Artificial Inteligence 156

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Ideas Email 156

Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2013

These include ensuring the continued health of the organization, setting the moral compass for your stakeholders, providing for succession by training and documenting, leading the effort in compliance of regulations and safety needs, and … elimination of all possible bottlenecks that impede the efficiency of your organization.

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Organization Demand Satisfaction Training 222

Berkonomics

JANUARY 24, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] So, to you and to everyone: do not take customer lists, design documents or any document considered a trade secret from any previous employer or previous consulting customer. Further, there is no expiration date on these poisoned documents. The obvious admonition.

Companies 120

Companies Company News Startup 120

Berkonomics

JANUARY 24, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] So, to you and to everyone: do not take customer lists, design documents or any document considered a trade secret from any previous employer or previous consulting customer. Further, there is no expiration date on these poisoned documents. The obvious admonition.

Companies 120

Companies Company News Startup 120

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

I doubt they have a customer problem. Increasingly startups want access to our emails. They want us to store our documents. They want our customer records. Or Google employees have access to your email? Both push against regulatory boundaries. One of these companies has a press problem. Probably a bit.

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Press Journal Startup Training 418

Berkonomics

JUNE 6, 2013

It is human nature for you and every entrepreneur to fall into a routine of taking care of day to day issues, meetings, communicating with customers and shareholders. Email readers, continue here.] So, how do you regain that enthusiasm for what is best for you and for the company? direct lender cash advance. It is where the fun is.

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Email Report Sites Entrepreneur 166

Berkonomics

APRIL 27, 2023

Reasons your customer might hesitate. If a potential customer’s cash is tight, or if the relationship between the customer and sales rep is not close enough to move the customer to at least respond, then an offer can sit for months or longer with no acceptance. Will you enforce a deadline if you could lose the sale?

Sales 156

Sales Tool Customer Custom 156

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced this morning that it has acquired NetDocuments , a provider of cloud-based document management, email management, and collaboration software for law firms and corporate legal and compliance customers.

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Capital Santa Monica Equity Email 100

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. They will likely forward your email to their partners.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

If you're a business, what's the best way to send out phone calls and text, and communicate with your customers via phone? One way is to automate the process, which is what Los Angeles-based CallFire has been helping its business customers with. What is CallFire? How did you end up in this market? What's your next growth area?

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West Los Angeles Customer Custom Tool 176

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Another mistake many consultants make is to charge by the hour, and customers lose track and lose confidence as things change. Speak to people, rather than write a document every time you want a change. Have "customers", not "clients." This is a minor semantic point, but an important one to the customer.

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Startup Slides Email Customer 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. While customers will be willing to try your product, they think two steps ahead. Juno provided a free email service. Working at Juno.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

You may choose some where your customers aggregate, others where you hope to find biz dev partners & still others where you want to meet investors. Feel good in knowing that while they’re at the latest conference, you can be back home stealing all their customers ! We didn’t have any documents due that night.

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Conference Startup Technical Review Writing 289

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Originally, you had a lot of government customers, and were just starting out with a few commercial customers. Our strategy was twofold--one, was to go out and get brand name customers, and to translate their content to such a high quality, with no human oversight, that they'd be willing to post that on the internet.

USC 145

USC Software Review Content Tech Coast Angels 145

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Created by consultants to generate additional fees, such scores attempt to rate a company’s overall customer satisfaction. The higher your company’s NPS, allegedly the higher your customer satisfaction.

.Net 182

.Net Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2020

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. Always include the key document elements of an opening, main body, and a conclusion. Key points should be highlighted and positive. Use professional formatting.

Writing 125

Writing Entrepreneur Summary Email 125

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2023

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. Always include the key document elements of an opening, main body, and a conclusion. Key points should be highlighted and positive. Use professional formatting.

Tips 123

Tips Writing Startup Summary 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

If customers don’t know you exist, you can’t solve their problem, they won’t buy. Getting customer attention often takes more innovation today than solving the tough technical problems. Talk to real live customers in addition to marketers. Cold calls to strangers and email blasts are not so productive.

Technical Advisors 154

Technical Advisors Tips Marketing Case Study 154

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the developer of secure document sharing software led by Eric Jackson, said this morning that it has released a new set of Information Security (InfoSec) tools, aimed at helping companies to protect information they are sharing with external parties.

Product 100

Product Software Email Los Angeles 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Created by consultants to generate additional fees, such scores attempt to rate a company’s overall customer satisfaction. The higher your company’s NPS, allegedly the higher your customer satisfaction.

.Net 168

.Net Satisfaction Customer Custom 168