Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Today’s customers are overloaded and overwhelmed by too much information, so making a decision is a challenge. You may think this is only important to your marketing and sales people, but in reality it doesn’t matter how great your product or technology might be, you won’t succeed if you don’t understand your target customer decision process.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 15, 2021

The company plans to end 2021 with eight locations, in particular eyeing the Denver, Seattle and Los Angeles markets. If you are in the market looking for 10,000 square feet of industrial warehouse space, you are effectively pushed to the fringes of the real estate ecosystem and then the entrepreneurial ecosystem at large.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Great marketing is required to generate revenue and grow every business, especially new businesses which have no brand recognition nor loyal customer base. Yet, as a business consultant, I still find many of you business leaders relying primarily on your technology, word-of-mouth , or location to attract necessary customers.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 20, 2020

Wix has announced a limited-time half price sale on its website builder plans, with a 50% off deal beginning today and ending on Wednesday. The half price sale is open to new users and anyone currently using Wix's free plan. With the deal, budding website owners will be able to save 50% on all Wix pricing plans. 50% Off Wix.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

As a consumer, I rarely pay attention to your marketing pitch, but I certainly always remember a exceptionally positive total experience with your team, based on a memorable set of interactions from first contact to discussions with friends. Incent and reward employees who delight customers. That approach still is meaningful today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Traditional marketing may be adequate for linear growth, but it likely won’t catapult you to Amazon’s unicorn status , or make waves in the business world. For example, I usually hear about an aggressive marketing budget, with a plan to penetrate a few big retail chains, and some videos to catch your attention on YouTube.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction. Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 9, 2019

“There is an increasingly advantageous global marketplace available with highly trained practitioners offering quality healthcare solutions at affordable prices and, although medical and dental tourism is a safe and cost-efficient solution, the current market is extremely fragmented and challenging to navigate.

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Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. There are lots of ways to define how to market well, including the four P’s of marketing (1): product, price, promotion and place. These are still the driving focus behind most marketing courses, and deserve to be so.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

He’d be a bit amazed with the quick fancy math work, and I would have yet another piece of the puzzle helping me to gauge the total size of the industry in annual revenues and the growth and size of competitors. The source of this information was typically the purchasing decision-maker for a friendly customer or candidate customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2022

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. In my experience, the top candidates will include the following: What if you have to cut your targeted price? Pricing is always a tricky issue.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? People were building.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal has launched a new suite of products this morning, saying that it is looking to help small and medium sized businesses attract, capture, and convert more customers. Pricing on the new tool was not announced. reachlocal marketing software leads management launch advertising saas'

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers. They help hiring managers raise the bar for every interview.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 28, 2020

And despite the collapse in fossil fuel energy prices, Shao said that Amply’s value proposition still makes sense. “Raw electric energy is half the price on average as fossil fuels,” Shao said. The lowest price of extracting a barrel of oil right now is $20… and then you need to add processing and distilling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2019

Today’s customers are overloaded and overwhelmed by too much information, so making a decision is a challenge. You may think this is only important to your marketing and sales people, but in reality it doesn’t matter how great your product or technology might be, you won’t succeed if you don’t understand your target customer decision process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Too many business owners still think of “ customer support ” as an after-sale process to rectify customer problems with completed transactions. With the advent of instant communication and social media, customer service starts at the first hint of interest by you, and never ends for repeat customers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In the age old world of real estate, it''s often referrals, friends, door to door visits, and sometimes shopping carts which help connect home buyers and sellers with local real estate agents. In other words, we help you find the agent who will sell your house the fastest and for the most money, based on their stats.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. He has helped many companies with this problem, and as an advisor to startups, I see the same common themes leading to growth slowdowns. Prices begin to decline quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Have you ever noticed that some of your business owner friends get all the bad customers, and yours all seem fairly reasonable? I’m always amazed that, in my role as a business advisor, bad customers somehow seem to gang up on certain businesses. For your business to prosper, don’t associate good service only with high-price products.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 19, 2018

She also serves on the board of Shoes of Prey, a custom shoe company currently aimed at the women’s market. Now she’s taking an ops position at one of the biggest players in the sneaker market. Along with StockX , GOAT has brought a huge amount of access and pricing transparency to resale sneakers, a billion-plus market.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. A study in 2013 showed that 61 percent of marketers found it hard to generate high-quality leads. Pricing: Valet – up to 1000 leads/month, $49.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2021

Businesses which ignore this contract are excluded from consideration, despite maybe having a logically better product or price. Viral marketing” and “word-of-mouth” are tools of disciples in business today. Luck and timing are inevitably less certain than product build schedules or marketing programs. Timing is everything.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

According to Image Metrics, the new tool is aimed at marketers, helping them to implement augmented reality (AR) effects for marketing initiatives. Pricing on the new tool was not announced by Image Metrics. The company said its tools can be used with existing iOS or Android apps, or standalone. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2021

Santa Monica-based a href="[link] Cycle, a developer of software for market research, said it has rolled out a new tool to help with ongoing issue tracking for companies using continuous product development. Pricing was not announced. Pricing was not announced.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2013

We caught up with CEO Jordan Ramer , who has previously been at NanoH2O and Aerovironment, to hear more about how EV Connect is hoping to make it easier for companies to offload all of the issues behind installing electric vehicle charging stations for their employees and customers. Who are your customers - parking providers?

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

LawKick''s online site lets people answer a few questions about their legal issue, receive custom price quotes from lawyers, and helps them find the best fit for which lawyer to hire. lawkick legal marketplace help lawyer attorney market' Both Chasin and George were former law students. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2019

According to the company, it has integrated with LinkedIn's Matched Audiences API, which will help marketers target prospective customers and increase response rates with more relevant advertising on the LinkedIn platform. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, or an inadequate revenue model. Target market. Production.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2020

According to TrackStreet, it is developing brand protection technology, which uses artificial intelligence and automation to help brands monitor brand, MAP (minimum advertised price), and resale pricing violations. The company says it already has customers such Domestic, Mercury Marine, Smuckers, The Weyco Group, and Zeiss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In the last few years I have seen a popular business model emerging which embodies a greater focus on social and environmental responsibility, and a new requirement for trust and sharing, as well as customer and community collaboration. The days of mass production and commodity pricing as an asset are gone.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But today a startup that’s tackling a different aspect of the market — addressing the supply chain that subsequently turns the wheels of the bigger food distribution machine — is announcing a big round of funding as it continues to grow. It is currently is the company’s biggest customer.).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2020

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. In my experience, the top candidates will include the following: What if you have to cut your targeted price? Pricing is always a tricky issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Doing business is a human process.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2014

Too bad, as they would be well served to study Dirty Franks marketing plan, which has withstood the test of time. Franks didn''t need a sign, let alone a marketing budget. Hurry Up And Stop Marketing. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. say) ‘We’re the market leader in blah.’

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