Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

Customers buy from people, not from a company, at least at early startup stages. It’s especially important to highlight your uniqueness in some easy to remember way, so people will think of you and what you do, in case they need your product or service. Enchant your customers. Next, do the same to brand your company.

Startup 98

Startup Tips Customer Custom 98

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Startups should begin by selecting just a few of the vast array of social media offerings out there, and customize based on results. Ask yourself where are the influencers in your market, the majority of your target customers, and what type of interaction will be most productive to your business?

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Sales is simply defined as income from customer purchases of goods and services, minus the cost associated with things like returned or undeliverable merchandise.

Metrics 100

Metrics Technical Review Sales Customer 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2013

Real job performance is more a function of productivity than hours worked anyway. Continuous improvement is the key to quality production. A constant increase in the quality of products and services, including more innovation and creativity, all lead to a healthier business. Improve customer service.

Startup 93

Startup Tips Entrepreneur Metrics 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Every new startup needs to fight the urge to get the product out, and then start selling it. In business, “most important” means time to market, customer service, low cost, and beating your competitors. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. Temper theory with reality.

Tips 102

Tips Help Startup Blogging 102

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I wasn’t feeling it.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. Beat the competition.

Startup 92

Startup Tips Satisfaction Entrepreneur 92

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. They have more knowledge of what a student's life is about, which is much better than a one page resume.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

According to Patrick Vlaskovits another proselytizer of the term, “Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit.”. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it. It’s the whole conversion flow.

Hulu 111

Hulu Startup Social Media Organization 111

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. In the online world, you need a solid connection between your domain name and your product, brand, or business. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. They bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products.

Slides 399

Slides Startup Conference Writing 399

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn? Customer Care Today. These are the top linked domains from Facebook pages. Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved. They ignore/disrespect the platform.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The continuing rise in the price of fuel, combined with the ongoing evidence of global warming, has highlighted the need for alternative energy sources, and green products. Unless your volumes are in the millions or higher, the difference between manufacturing cost and customer price better be 50% or greater. Margin is everything.

Startup 86

Startup Tips Venture Capital Demand 86

InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd. When the data are viewed in light of startups established by educated and experienced entrepreneurs, the success rate of such ventures increases substantially. Product Name. Retailer?

Startup 243

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Statistics 243

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining. Attendees will learn a method for evaluating and improving products and services in a truly lean and agile way – a way that. October 13: Usable Usability — Lean UX starts right here.

Culver City 105

Culver City Design Content Writing 105

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

He went out and found a developer and built a product. 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 CEO had 60-page Powerpoint presentations analyzing every micro detail of the business. But then something awesome happened.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The company’s analytics comprehensively monitors customer behavior over multiple networks, including location-based mobile networks.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. 49:35-51:30).

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". It was really no longer than a page um. every three weeks.

Newsletter 233

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

This was a chance to blow open the story on their companies, to address a room full of potential investors, mentors, partners, customers, and press. To learn more about all the companies, be sure to visit 500 Startups’ official demo day page. They showed very impressive average customer repurchases.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. It won’t be easy.”.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. Having a clear focus means it’s easier to communicate what your product is and who it’s for. Here are two examples.

Startup 78

Startup Design Customer Custom 78

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? Along the way many things came together: being able to find the right people, getting great customers, having lots of luck, being in the right place at the right time.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

That affiliate passes that to the advertiser, and minutes or hours later will call the potential customer back at their phone number. Because of a combination of factors--the wrong number, the person is no longer there, etc--only half of those result in a successful reconnect with a potential customer. It's invisible to the visitor.

Advertising 113

Advertising Networking Santa Barbara Startup 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I have some educated guesses. He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. Apple had a store.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. The problem is that the average value of products that sell on affiliate networks is sub $100.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". It was really no longer than a page um. every three weeks.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. a month for two Genies, and unlimited users or customers.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

This move is indicative of the possibility that the traditional ways of going about making a living through a college education, an entry-level position at a firm, and steady promotion through the ranks is a dead model. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. Customer service is free.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Echo - is the next generation commenting system.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The app was mainly to educate people what was going on in the world. Our most popular product is our Facebook app. Any event or artist can add this to their Facebook page and they can see all the photos and videos from the audience. It would bring more people to use our product when the content is more relevant.

Social Media 94

Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Simply click on the title of the panel you like and you will be taken to their SXSWi panel picker page. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Matthew Clough is a social entrepreneur and creative professional who has dedicated himself to helping children get the educations they deserve in Tanzania, Africa. He is the founder of Benson Backpacks , a company that sells backpacks and supports children’s educations in Tanzania with each purchase. Ryan Born – Founder of AudioMicro.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. The bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products.

Startup 362

Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

They also come in many different types from syndication formats like RSS and Atom to custom API streams. There are also efforts emerging, such as WebFinger , to make metadata about people more open and easily obtainable instead of relying on profile pages on proprietary social networking services or poorly supported microformats.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29