Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Because if you’re truly that early / novel there’s a good chance that you’re too early and will spend lots of time / money educating the market. which features do you believe your customers care about and where you’re try to differentiate? Remember: being too early is the same as being wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Therefore, it takes time, sometimes whole generations, of education, communication, and incremental proof to get momentum going and overcome old fears. People are slow to accept change. Change is hard for most people.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator? 50:30 Will Udacity change the education system in this country? 55:45 It seems obvious that technology is the natural choice to solve the pain points in education.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

So instead, we fill it with a completely custom blurb, written just for him: Hello! My time with TFA instilled in me a deep commitment to education, inspiring me to dedicate my life to guiding young minds through the world of mathematics. Which means better conversions and happier customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. A few companies are leading the way, including Apple with their iPad and iPhone, offering irresistible stores with friendly experts, elegant packaging, and customer service that never ends. Experience using the product is only one stage.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

“Today’s startup economy depends on the expertise of industry specialists as much or more than full-time generalists,” said Nick Green, co-founder and CEO Thrive Market, MarketerHire customer and investor, in a statement. Brands can typically fill their open positions in as little as 48 hours, the company said.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2018

Playa Vista-based Appetize , which develops modern, tablet- and handheld-based point of sale (POS) systems, has added a number of high profile customers, and says it has seen record growth this year. The company's point-of-sale terminals and software are a significant upgrade from legacy point-of-sale terminals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

In billing we literally started thinking about all of the types of bills that would be generated for customers: full payment, partial payment, split payment, senior discount, student discount, level pay plan, etc. We did big, boring but necessary implementations for large companies. I started by doing billing systems.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Once we get that strength profile, we match them to a whole world of extracurricular and educational opportunities for them. We take those strengths, as determined by our Neuropsychologists, to develop strength profiles and apply them to describing all of ht extracurricular and educational opportunities that we can curate. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

As part of the lead in to the conference, and as a part of our sponsor relationship with the conference, we're running a series of interviews with speakers from the conference about their experience in the area of recurring revenues, customer service, and similar topics. We respond very quickly to all of our customers. Kevin Anderson.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

According to the company, it will provide those $2M in ride credits to existing education partners in CA, CO, WI, and WA as part of its Opportunity for All Community Fund. Los Angeles-based youth transportatoin service HopSkipDrive announced this morning that it will invest $2M in free ride credits, to help solve a school bus driver shortage.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 4, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] These and other efforts to be first over the years have led me to ask my current crop of CEOs as I serve on various boards, “Do you have the resources to evangelize the market, educate your potential customers, AND sell your product?”

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Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. Then there’s the compass or cardinal definitions model for marketers : N=needs, W=wants, S=security, and E=education. And finally: C=Customers, and more customers. Existing customers have low acquisition costs, addressing the “D” in the equation.

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socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2013

I don''t know if you''ve heard, but it''s actually tough for music teachers, tutors, and others to truly find enough customers to pay their bills and keep them involved in their passions. Who''s your ideal customer for this? Steven Cox: We consider the teacher our customer, and that''s who the software is built for.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

Those representatives help educate providers on products, and deliver value to those offices. The size of the market and the spending there was appealing, and also the fact that we already had customers. Dan Gilman: The value we add for them, is talking with representatives is education for them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2019

Image via Flickr by jardenberg Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. To get to the core of what’s relevant to customers, you need to know them well. Educational. Visually appealing. Make sure your paragraphs are short.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2014

According to NRG, it will use the acquisition to help cross sell products between system power, residential solar and personal power, helping to educate Goal Zero''s customers about rooftop solar, and also offering up Goal Zero''s solar products with NRG''s retail electricity offers.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

Ksenia Yudina initially founded the company to provide financial planning and services to lower- and middle-class families looking for ways to start saving for their children’s education, she said. “To me the investment in UNest is a great opportunity to help my community.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 7, 2014

Interview potential customers, hold focus groups, meet with existing customers. Attend trade show education sessions. Create metrics for customer acquisition, retention, conversion, reach, or anything that helps you to better understand the effects of your changes to the program. Hire consultants. But listen!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

This person was educated at the best US schools and had worked for a top-tier strategy consulting firm – one of the big 3. The company had less than $5 million in revenue yet we had a multi-tab spreadsheet doing activity-based costing on our customer service staff, operations and technology. Analysis Paralysis.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 14, 2014

Early meetings with potential customers will yield enthusiasm for a “free test” of the new product. I recall the introduction of artificial intelligence into the hotel reservation process, a “one-up” on the airline method of yield managing the price of airplane seats.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

On Tuesday, Haptik announced it has acqui-hired Convrg, a Los Angeles-based startup that develops chatbots, to serve customers in North America. Many players including Coca Cola, Oyo, Samsung, Tata Group, and KFC use Haptik’s chatbots in their customer support services. 60% of all software is bought in the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Your concept has to be understood by customers and investors in 30 seconds or less, and everyone needs to immediately see how awesome it would be, or that they would be nuts not to have it. I’m looking for the “hook” right up front, or I lose interest quickly, just like every customer and investor these days.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 7, 2012

Unless an investor specifically asks you to educate them regarding your space, focus your pitch on why you and your team are uniquely qualified to exploit the opportunity and turn the idea into a lucrative, self-sustaining business. Informal Education – Consideration of a Grubstakee’s formal education was usually irrelevant.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The city is one of the most dense conglomerations of Shopify customers with over 10,000 merchants using the company’s technologies in the greater Los Angeles area. Like Apple, Shopify is staffing its store with experts on the platform who can walk new customers or would-be customers through whatever troubleshooting they may need.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2019

Los Angeles-based financial automation software developer BlackLine is taking aim at the college and university market, saying on Thursday that it has partnered with higher education software and services firm Ellucian. The companies said Ellucian works with more than 2,500 educational institutions in more than 50 countries.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend some of my precious capital to protect it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. Assigns tasks.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2014

Over the years, as I managed my several computer companies as CEO or executive chairman, I made the decision to go to market with a brand new product that had never before been exposed to my customers marketplace. Read the rest of Dave''s essay, Do you really want to be the first to market? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

The customer gets a great price, and the retailer gets both a new customer and a new sale. You can walk into any audio/video store, including Best Buy or Home Depot, and negotiate with the sales or customer service representative. Plus, they also get to acquire a new customer. It''s almost a lead generation process.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Both investors and customers have told us we stand out for our ability to consistently deliver on new content, new partnerships and improving core metics. We've been fortunate to have a few big positive moments as a company but what really defines our success so far is a relentless focus on moving toward key goals each week and month.

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Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

The company grows in value to its customers and to prospective buyers of the business, but without any dilution of control or ownership for the founders. How refreshing! In general, grants are made to individuals, companies, businesses, organizations or institutions that are working toward serving the greater good or a greater cause.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Interview potential customers, hold focus groups, meet with existing customers. Attend trade show education sessions. Create metrics for customer acquisition, retention, conversion, reach, or anything that helps you to better understand the effects of your changes to the program. Memorize your use of “LALA”. But listen!

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Marketing Metrics Education Resource 156

TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

.” Fika Ventures focuses on the greater B2B ecosystem but has also supported companies solving social issues within housing, education and healthcare. Ho cited an investment in WeeCare , a startup that helps people launch curriculum-based home daycares within their own homes, as an example.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2022

Customer perspective: Ratings of customer satisfaction, statistics of customer retention, market share and even brand strength. Learning / growth perspective: Measures of employee satisfaction, employee turnover, employee education and skill advancement. The result of this effort? Email readers, continue here…].

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One, is with cause marketing, engaging your customers around causes; second, is employee engagement around causes, and the last is corporate social responsibility, companies working with vendors or other folks they work with, and the public in general. Ryan Scott: We focus on a couple of things. We like to call ourselves a cause integrator.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value.

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