Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Based on my own experience in large companies, as well as small ones, here are seven key strategies I recommend for building the teams and culture that will drive business success: Admit to yourself and others that you need help. We all need to be humble and recognize that what we need to know about technology and the market changes daily.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

To help you crush your next investor meeting, we asked top VCs and tech leaders to share their best pitch advice. One of the biggest turn offs for investors are founders who don’t know the basics of their business, especially their market and customer. Founders are understandably very passionate about their product and startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most admired entrepreneurs, primarily because of his humble style and his growth from a regular person background to a current net worth in the neighborhood of $200 billion dollars. It allows investors to come into alignment with customers. Focus relentlessly and passionately on the customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With business teams now getting back together in the workplace after primarily working remotely during the pandemic , it’s an ideal time to implement change and make sure your team is feeling a renewed sense of satisfaction, high engagement, and maximum productivity.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2019

com), which is developing analytics software which leverages mobile phones for data on customers. The way we've done that, is by going out and aggregating a bunch of data sets, to help businesses better understand and better serve their customers. First, how do you build the product you are trying to build for that market.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

What Cham rarely tells people – he’s both private and humble – is that he started making some small co-investments with me in tech firms starting with Maker Studios where he was one of the earliest investors. I reached out after the event to learn more. They make a great pair.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

The current Covid-19 pandemic has had an epochal effect on businesses, and even the humble office space has taken a blow, with millions of us now working from home. With these offices now empty of workers, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Labs would put these efforts on hiatus until its customers return. pic.twitter.com/jLMWstXiH8.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

The longer I do this the more humbled I become. Not the kind of false, humblebrag, “I’m always ready to learn” kind of humble but the “who the f**k knows” and “G-d I hope I’m right” sort of humble. It forces the founder to spend time in front of customers. Your CAC stinks.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2014

August Scott began her Zappos career in their customer support call center. 10. Be Humble. "I I started in the call center, in the customer loyalty department. I love assisting our customers and I realized early on about Zappos that the opportunities are endless. Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Jeff Zwelling is the co-founder of Convertro (www.convertro.com), a Los Angeles company focused on helping companies track how their marketing efforts are leading to sales conversions. That's important, because it allows marketers to re-invest and give credit to that marketing event, so they can buy more of it and get more customers.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. 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.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2011

Following the 360-review, we devised an effective way to help the Founders expand their strategic effectiveness while ensuring that all of their prior responsibilities are appropriately fulfilled. . I = Technical Customer Calls. A = Product Strategy. D = Overseeing Product/Feature Stories. C = Product Coding.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 4, 2011

The story begins with the unwitting, future customer relaxing and reading the paper. He is so confident in his green eggs and ham product that he cannot help but smile. He asks the Prospect if he would like the product “here or there”, pointing to two spots on the ground while displaying his winning smile.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 29, 2012

Attitude – During the early stages of their careers, emerging entrepreneurs must conform to their customers’ realities. The band failed to realize that Ron was their customer. Industry veterans know each other and freely share information about up-and-coming products, companies and people. Small World – Every industry is small.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

He’s also candid, humble and helpful. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. It’s a cool product and worth checking out. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Such playground friends serve to ensure the startup’s ongoing viability by providing resources, access to customers and technology and market validation. Creating an effective alliance requires a delicate balance between humbleness and hubris, as described more fully in Humble Pride.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. If you look on our site, the Humble Twin is the first inventory we had. That's the one we'll mass product.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In United States, people use more than $26 billion on flower products. Christina used the gap and decided to support local flowerers by purchasing and selling their flowers at a cheaper price to customers. Creating a Difference through Outstanding Customer Service. More than 83 thousand people earn a living from the industry.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. out of 5 in both Helpfulness and Clarity. Challenging. for Easiness.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. 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.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2012

As any long-time reader of this humble blog knows, I am an ardent Beatles fan. They differentiated their product with subtle, unconventional techniques, such as the use of the B7 chord in I Want To Hold Your Hand. In essence, the Beatles offered a product with a higher value proposition as compared to many of their counterparts.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Product : You should build a product or a prototype. You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product. Great companies are built by having great products. And a great product starts with the founder. There are other ways you can get help.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. However, it is my hope that this article will help you avoid learning the following lessons the hard way. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

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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. Free product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Here are some recommendations on how to keep the rate low, and help your startup to prosper at the same time: Measure it and manage it. Be humble and offer to clean all the offices, if you can use one for free. That may mean waiting till you have a product before you add salespeople.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. Towards the end of 2006 I realized that EC2 was transformative and that people needed help understanding it as well as tools to work it. From day one we focused on customers.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

According to Doug, “ productivity fell dramatically whenever the surf was up.”. This humble innovation resulted an entirely new line of footwear, the Teva sports sandal. Three decades later, it has matured into a multi-hundred million dollar product category. UCSB alum Doug Otto had two.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Here are some principles on how to do that, and help your startup to prosper and live another day: Measure it and manage it. Be humble and offer to clean all the offices, if you can use one for free. That may mean waiting till you have a product before you add salespeople. Which would you bet on?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. Ask your customer why you lost. It’s brilliant, reflective & humble.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. Ask your customer why you lost. It’s brilliant, reflective & humble.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2009

About four to five months after that, we decided to go ahead and put it into a chassis, and see if we could come up with an actual product. It handles more customers per square foot, using less power and space. How far along are your products right now? What we've allowed our customers to do is think differently.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

I became acquainted with Tige, when I was researching examples of exemplary online customer service. We''ve got this incredible idea that really matches up taking the Tui Tai and making this amazing expedition adventure cruise product. Just the look in their eye, knowing when you''re helping someone out. We can start something.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Customers know what works well and are frustrated by the lack of innovation in the industry. Auto-interfaces are clunky, and when a lot of these big tech companies IPO’d, a lot of them developed products that were endemic to the car industry – navigation, social graphs, etc. ” THE CAR AS A PRIVATE SPACE.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

I became acquainted with Tige, when I was researching examples of exemplary online customer service. We''ve got this incredible idea that really matches up taking the Tui Tai and making this amazing expedition adventure cruise product. Just the look in their eye, knowing when you''re helping someone out. We can start something.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2015

Traditional brick and mortar stores might say, “We don’t need likes and shares, we need customers.” Focus on customers. Small and traditional businesses have amazing stories and humble beginnings. If you are selling beauty products for example, Dove commercials are a good example. Share them. The key here is exclusivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Here are some principles on how to do that, and help your startup to prosper and live another day: Measure it and manage it. Be humble and offer to clean all the offices, if you can use one for free. That may mean waiting till you have a product before you add salespeople. Which would you bet on?

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