Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

Tips 161

Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media. Long-term sales.

Media 95

Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The second bullet, getting feedback from customers is most often not valid either. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites.

Technical Review 338

Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 338

Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

With content management systems like WordPress , getting a site up and running is no big deal. A contact form is one of the first interactive elements that most novice bloggers learn to use on their site. Nowadays, you’ll never run out of choices when it comes to contact form plugins that can easily be integrated into your site.

Tool 39

Tool Custom Customer Sites 39

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media. Long-term sales.

Advertising 66

Advertising Marketing Startup Framework 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media. Long-term sales.

Marketing 100

Marketing Social Media Framework Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media. Long-term sales.

Media 101

Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues.

Guide 349

Guide Startup Mobile Framework 349

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues.

Guide 296

Guide Startup Mobile Framework 296

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.”. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Be Simpleminded.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Framework Custom 279

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. I just saw an interesting step in that direction via a new book “ Entrepreneurial DNA ,” by Joe Abraham , with his assessment web site. External forces (competitors and customers). But none have any lock on success.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Mentor Framework Web 96

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. Of course websites like Reddit and HackerNews try to weed out such behavior. ” Me? Underbelly.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Innovative.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

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. Happy customers tend to spend more, more often and tell their friends. This is where the Golden Circle comes in.

Startup 78

Startup Design Custom Customer 78

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2011

Vanilla is forum software that powers discussions on over 400,000 sites around the world. We removed all of the features and bloat that plagues other forum software, and created an addon framework so the forum owner can use Vanilla as the basis on which they can build their vision of how their community should appear and function.

Startup 58

Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Framework 58

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We're all using enum types here and there, we're all using the collections framework. The iterable.spliterator() method is critical when it comes to stream performance, but writing a custom Spliterator from scratch is a non-trivial task. We've had enum types in the language for more than a decade. forEachRemaining(.).

Java 330

Java Class Ideas Writing 330

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

John Busher, Harry Balls – a humorous site offering reviews and information about mobile apps, primarily indie games. What’s the most valuable kind of customer? Half of Marmalade’s customers use it as a porting platform, while the remaining 50 percent use it as an app development framework.

Mobile 71

Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Join our panelists as they discuss how location-awareness is influencing every aspect of mobile marketing -- from campaign creation, to ROI-tracking, to custom ad units and messaging. When will we reach a tipping point in the consumer psyche in regards to making purchases through a mobile Internet site or an App?

Mobile 40

Mobile Media Case Study Advertising 40