Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

With today’s interactive social media and the real-time Internet, both customers and employees see inside your company easily, so you can’t hide your real company culture. At the same time relationship perceptions have become the biggest drivers to customer loyalty and employee engagement. Maintain a customer-centric focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” This is a very important to do when you first start a company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2023

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. Interact with employees and customers on a regular basis. Never be too busy to talk to real customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2020

The idea has four principles guiding and underlying every business: Higher purpose. Recognizing the interdependent nature of life and the human foundations and business, a business needs to create value with and for its various stakeholders (customers, employees, vendors, investors, communities, etc.). Stakeholder orientation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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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

MAY 9, 2022

Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver exceptional experiences to their customers. Keep your team happy to create engaged customers. Build relationships and stop surveying customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2013

So he made hand-made batches in a bucket and drove it to customers in his van. When his packaging suppliers tried to get him to change his product to make it less hot or more sweet for American customers he refused, “ “Hot sauce must be hot. He had a guiding principle for the company.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Creating a gerat company in a relative vacuum is an exercise in complete trust that the entrepreneur knows what’s best for the customer, perhaps even without interaction with such a customer. The first step : Involve potential customers early. The first step : Involve potential customers early. Take feedback seriously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver memorable experiences to their customers. Keep your team happy to create engaged customers. An unhappy team member can’t create an engaged customer.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The concise guide is here. You need to segment your audience and find a way to get your highest quality customers over to O&O (owned & operated) inventory where you can get higher CPMs, sell merchandise and capture more customer information. You can earn the right to ask for customer information and remarket to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. Minimize Any Custom Work That Will Not Feed Back Into Your R&D. While I’d like to say that you should never do custom work that changes the scope of your product that’s not wholly realistic.

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Software Review Software Services Companies 321

Eric Greenspan

MARCH 11, 2010

Long time Make It Work customer and Santa Barbara resident Rob Lowe joined Twitter today. I’ve known Rob for years, both as a customer and a fellow parent at local schools. I spoke to Rob today guiding him to his very first tweet which he successfully sent about an hour ago. His profile is @robloweprofile.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2013

Irvine-based Local Corporation , the operator and publisher of online local business guides, announced this morning that it has appointed Frederick G. Thiel to its board. Thiel was previously Managing Partner of the Software IT Group of Triton Pacific Capital Partners, a private equity firm.

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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. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2019

A global pharmaceutical company based in France has licensed software developed by San Diego digital health startup CureMatch that aims to help cancer doctors customize the combination of drugs they prescribe to patients based on mutations in cancer DNA. It calls the guides it produces PreciGENE reports.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2011

According to the firm, which is headed by Kim Folsom, its platform now allows manufacturers and retailers to upload video instruction guides to a company's Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn pages. ShowUhow is venture backed by Syncom Ventures, and raised a round of capital back in August.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

In our business lives we’re having to deal with decisions that could have lasting impacts on our companies without any compass to guide us in the direction we’re heading . It feels a bit like choosing a fork in the road amidst dense fog and with nobody to guide us what to do. Don’t insulate yourself?—?handle

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2016

Near the conclusion of our discussion, I asked each CEO to name any non-obvious metrics by which they guide their businesses. He started by stating, “We track customer success.” In other words, are we measure whether or not we are truly making our customers more successful.”. You can follow John on Twitter: @johngreathouse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2019

Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver exceptional experiences to their customers. Keep your team happy to create engaged customers. Build relationships and stop surveying customers.

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Customer Custom Training Satisfaction 84

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The firm said it has launched a new product, Reel Qualified, which it says will offer tools to engage customer prospects, capture leads, and track visitor interactions. ShowUhow started by providing hosted video manuals and product guides to retailers, which it continues to offer to retailers. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers. It’s my guide to understanding when you’re being gamed. Customers seldom buy on price.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

Irvine-based CrowdStrike announced this morning that it has expanded its managed threat hunting service, offering up new levels for customers needing guided response and remote incident management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The MAPP career test was one of the first comprehensive career tests online for consumers, with over 8 million customers. You'll get a wealth of information to help find the right career that matches your unique assessment profile. Leadership Motivation Assessment. This one tells you how motivated you are to be a leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Social Media Technical Review 85

Berkonomics

JANUARY 4, 2018

His reaction would guide me to increase or decrease my estimate appropriately. The source of this information was typically the purchasing decision-maker for a friendly customer or candidate customer.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

Have you conducted Problem, Solution and Feature Interviews with customers? See Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction. Have you Documented Your MVP for Your Developer s? Have you looked through Things You May Have Forgot in Your MVP and provided answers to these? Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

You don’t always know what customers are going to go crazy for until you show them something new and gauge their reaction. The post Be a Unicorn: The Ultimate Guide to Marketing Your Startup Like a Pro appeared first on TechZulu. Marketing, however, is not always about what we as consumers need, but what we deeply desire.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2015

Agoura Hills-based TouchCommerce , the provider of customer engagement services and software, reported today that Total Gym Fitness has been using the company''s solution on smartphones. TouchCommerce says that Total Gym has been a customer for five years. TouchCommerce is led by Bernard Louvat. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2012

BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and. Incubators, Part I - In February, we put together a guide to the list of (then. As 2012 turned.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2015

Agoura Hills-based TouchCommerce , the provider of customer engagement services and software, reported today that Total Gym Fitness is using the company''s solution on smartphones. touchcommerce total totalgym customer support sales conversion chat guide mobile' Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

You put your price into our gauge, which has the colors red, yellow, and green to help guide consumers in making the most appropriate offers. The customer gets a great price, and the retailer gets both a new customer and a new sale. Plus, they also get to acquire a new customer. It''s almost a lead generation process.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

Last week, Los Angeles-based Chill (www.chill.com) made a stab at that, debuting a new front page meant to guide user to the most interesting videos on the web, through an easy-to-use interface. What's interesting, however, is that we've found that we have two customers. What's the biggest challenge you've seen working with video?

Startup 254

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Creating a new product in a relative vacuum is an exercise in complete trust that you know what’s best for the customer, perhaps even without interaction with such a customer. The first step : Involve potential customers early. The third step: Reiterate and return to customers for comments. Involve your customers early.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2012

In our Insights and Opinions section this morning, Matt Crowley , a startup attorney and author of Getting in the Game: Guiding Your Startup Through the World of Venture Capital and Angel Investors , talks about networking skills. He had customers, but was a one-man band, struggling to raise money. Networking skills aren't obvious.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Packaging, pricing & discounts – In the early days of my first company we always had “list prices&# we quoted to customers and of course we were always willing to negotiate based on who the client was, how important the business was to us, who the competition was and how well the deal was negotiated. I was the laggard.

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