Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. Yet it is the one element that too many entrepreneurs focus on only as an afterthought. To get to the core of what’s relevant to customers, you need to know them well. Educational.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Meet GIGXR , the new owner of all of the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a subsidiary of the education and media publishing giant, Pearson. The serial entrepreneur had been in discussions with Pearson for the better part of a year to acquire the company’s VR and AR assets.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

“The Disney Accelerator has provided The Walt Disney Company incredible opportunities to connect with and be inspired by many talented entrepreneurs from all over the world,” said Michael Abrams, Senior Vice President, Innovation, The Walt Disney Company. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. An entrepreneur looking for a sure thing will never innovate. It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. Search Meets Social = Commerce. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

It was difficult to make the transition to a “top down&# thinker but as a senior executive – and as an entrepreneur – you’re far less effective without this skill in your arsenal. I often go into meetings with portfolio companies with a structure worked out of what I believe the critical issues are.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2015

But what most entrepreneurs fail dramatically at is to celebrate the moment. To celebrate with your customers, who worry over continuity and look to you for assurances that the transition will not negatively affect them. The do as all good entrepreneurs do. Many fail multiple times. Some fail in the first year of the attempt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2021

I often wonder whether you as the entrepreneur have worked as hard on your pricing strategy as you have on your innovative solution. If your innovation is real, it brings added value to the table, so most customers, especially early ones, are willing to pay a premium over competitive products.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 7, 2014

How should you become the best marketer you can be, even if you are a first time entrepreneur or a seasoned CEO? Interview potential customers, hold focus groups, meet with existing customers. Attend trade show education sessions. There’s an answer for that. The title of this insight helps us find a formula: LALA.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 13, 2022

What most entrepreneurs fail dramatically at is to celebrate the moment. To celebrate with your customers, who worry over continuity and look to you for assurances that the transition will not negatively affect them. Then do as all good entrepreneurs do. and consider those whose exits were not so great. Take a long breath.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

But once you start selling products, all of these pale in comparison to the level of customer experience you provide. Here are the top ten suggestions from John and others for how to create a culture of extreme customer focus in your organization: Create a customer service vision. Exceed customer expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

What I want to hear is an innovative marketing and growth strategy that will set you apart in the minds of investors, as well as customers. Today’s customer is especially attracted to companies like TOMS , who donates a pair of shoes for every pair they sell, or Patagonia, with its support for grassroots environmental groups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2014

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are falling deeper and deeper in the hole. Only one component of running a business is managing technology, but it is a critical component, so no entrepreneur can afford to ignore it or totally delegate it.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Many entrepreneurs encounter a similar dilemma. Thus, entrepreneurs must decide when to stop listening to the Sirens’ song of a quick buck and position their company to take advantage of long-term, sustainable business models. However, in the long run, entrepreneurs always benefit from delivering Maximum Utility for a fair price.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2019

Successful serial entrepreneurs know that their relationships are valuable assets worthy of careful nurturing – employees, investors, customers and suppliers are loyal to entrepreneurs they trust and trust is built on honesty and integrity. Michael Bloomberg, American Entrepreneur and Politician.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Only one component of running a business is managing technology, but it is a critical component, so no entrepreneur can afford to ignore it or totally delegate it.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

I recently answered the question “ What are good ways to raise your children to be entrepreneurs? ” I believe that you cannot teach someone to be an entrepreneur, but that you can teach entrepreneurs. Every entrepreneur is faced with making something out of nothing. Note: This is part I of a five part series.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. In my view as an advisor to new ventures, the Maker Movement is an integral part of a new age of the entrepreneur. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2012

Did you ever wonder how a new entrepreneur knows how to “do the right thing” for his business? Translating that into business value, a study by Wirthlin Worldwide concluded that 80% of customers still base a good portion of their buy decision on their perception of that firm’s ethics. Endeavor to beat, not meet, industry standards.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 7, 2012

Skilled entrepreneurs bring ideas and money together by building a bridge of trust. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s always valuable to meet new prospect clients face to face, rather than just by phone or email. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I often talk about what I’m looking for when I meet with an entrepreneur. Above all else I’m looking for a genuine passion for what the entrepreneur is doing. You need a great concept in which you will build something that is truly unique and that will be valued by your customers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Like most people, he started out by hiring contractors, based on the feeling they get when meeting with the contractors. Every contractor in our network goes through a very thorough vetting process, and we meet with every one of them in person, speak to their references, to make sure they are hardworking, reliable, and trustworthy.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

It's really Match.com meets LinkedIn for your business. We got really serious after the success of that customer, who wanted to make this technology available for all of its employees across the globe. Anne Fulton: I've always been an organizational psychologist crossed with a serial entrepreneur. This is like my fifth business.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Moreover they add that road transport can still be cheap, green and fun as people share a ride, meet friends, save gas and money and reduce auto emissions! Users can choose who they want to travel with, how much space and comfort they need, where they want to meet and what they’re willing to pay. Any user stats? info@carpooling.com.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

Ross Richmond: This summer, we decided to seek investment, so we could grow and meet the consumer demand we were seeing. We had a customer at REI, and they were calling us from the store. Any customer or user across the country is able to rent their gear at Coozie Outdoors. Customers take very good care of our gear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2017

Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. Yet it is the one element that too many entrepreneurs focus on only as an afterthought. To get to the core of what’s relevant to customers, you need to know them well. Educational.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2021

In my current role as a consultant to entrepreneurs and small business owners, I’ve accumulated my own list of insights on how some people get more done. they still find time to meet and compare notes regularly, and are avid readers of business books. Once you have learned, your top- priority task must be to educate others around you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Optimize the total customer experience.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. We had a lot of meetings with investors about our forecasts, but it ended up we blew through our year one forecast. So we had to raise capital to meet orders. but internationally. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

If this gentleman was such a pivotal player in the early days of the PC revolution, why is he essentially unknown to most entrepreneurs under forty years old? Few young entrepreneurs know about Mr. Kildall’s contributions because of his behavior, not Mr. Gates’. Tags: Corporate Culture Entrepreneur Partnerships The Fringe.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I’m often asked about the differences between being at a VC and being an entrepreneur and whether I prefer one or the other. You come together as a team one day per week (the “Partner Meeting,” which for most firms is on Mondays) and mostly share the news & information from your portfolio companies or evaluate new deals.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. I'm glad to meet everyone. What's the best way to approach you as an entrepreneur?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Academia's arbitrary, bureaucratic structure, combined with its predominant focus on theoretical issues, causes many entrepreneurs to depart college early. I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup.

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