Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. If your presentation requires an explanation of RSS vs. ATOM always best to say, “let me quickly state how RSS and ATOM are different.

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Venture Capital Sales Slides Startup 275

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. You can probably get loads of information on Legal Zoom also. Get customer input. Interview customers to better articulate their problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Right now our social graph (whom we are connected to and their key information like email addresses) is mostly held captive by Facebook.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. We discussed (for ~1hr) how to approach getting the first set of enterprise customers. Want to start up in France?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Engineers typically evaluate ideas differently than people engaged in sales, who in turn will consider ideas from a dissimilar vantage point from those responsible for product development, customer support and marketing. It should generally be deployed only when the CEO has sensitive information that is not known to the larger group.

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Tool Startup Ideas Resource 255

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Ostensibly, your purpose is to learn general information about the company, its culture, etc. Although you will not have a formal boss at your startup, you will remain accountable to investors, partners, customers and your employees. You should also have coffee or lunch with one or more employees of your prospective employer.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

Our customers benefitted from this and saved thousands over the years as a result. But later in 2011, new customers slowed, appointment bookings slowed and average appointment time dropped. We immediately informed our board and shareholders that we were forced to halt operations. I was wrong. We missed payroll. It was over.

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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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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

A tiny mobile screen leaves little to no space for advertisements and makes it nearly impossible to fill out information when purchasing a product or service. If that's not enough, advertisers who get inbound calls from customers see much higher conversion rates and also much higher average order values from calls than they do from clicks.

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Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2013

An efficient way to qualify a potential customer is to determine the size and availability of their budget. This information helps me determine who will an impact the buying process and who is just along for the ride. Startup sales require high velocity. Startups must follow a similar philosophy. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

They must compete with tens of thousands of other performers who are all pursuing the same customer dollars. At the outset of their careers, they are forced to market themselves with little to no budget and differentiate their product so that they gain adequate attention without alienating too many potential customers. Share and Enjoy.

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Tips Startup Entertainment Entrepreneur 204

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Give people a way to draw custom geographic boundaries to specify their area of interest. Topic customization. Subject matter granularity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Give people a way to draw custom geographic boundaries to specify their area of interest. Topic customization. Subject matter granularity.

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Startup News Sites RSS 94

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it. Your customer blog probably won''t morph into an international bestseller. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. Our customers can sign up, and they can get full access to our API, where they can create campaigns to target public officials. It was a pain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2010

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Give people a way to draw custom geographic boundaries to specify their area of interest. Topic customization. Subject matter granularity.

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Startup News Sites RSS 52

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Preliminary Information What are bots? all you have is the web statistics provided by your web host or a free web statistics and analytics service you wont be able to get the information you need to block the bot. You can learn of new articles and scripts that are published on thesitewizard.com by subscribing to the RSS feed.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Coping with and getting value from the expanding information volume of social media.

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

It is generally a soft touch at the beginning of the development process, perhaps identifying 1-2 early alpha/beta customers to help flesh out use cases to be built upon over time. Information Arbitrage by Roger Ehrenberg. While I know I can add value, I also know when and how I can add value. Lack of confidence? Camaraderie?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Provide all this information in an About page. Refresh it often.

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Customer Custom FAQ Technical Review 160

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2013

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Provide all this information in an About page. Refresh it often.

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Customer Custom FAQ Technical Review 99

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Provide all this information in an About page. Refresh it often.

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Customer Custom FAQ Technical Review 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2011

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get it remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Provide all this information in an About page. Refresh it often.

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Technical Review Customer Custom FAQ 90

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Provide all this information in an About page. Refresh it often.

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Customer Custom FAQ Technical Review 79

InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

Central Desktop’s angel was amusing without alienating potential customers. I wanna share all my information with you…in the cloud” to “If you tweet an angel good, I tweet you good, too” - as memorialized in a number of Facebook posts and tweets, including this one. His lines proved evocative - from “Hey, come over here.

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Marketing Conference RSS Angel 209

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2023

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Provide all this information in an About page. Refresh it often.

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Web FAQ Marketing Technical Review 96

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Specific Steps for Static Sites For each page that needs share links, you’ll need to paste the HTML above and replace replace everything with double square brackets with the information from the page. API call could handle shortening the URL for you, I prefer to create one before I post and add it as a custom field.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Sherman felt that helping them sort through the confusing and often misleading information about what is safe to put in, on, and around their families would be the best way to help effect change that would be good for children and also good for the planet. Subscribe to RSS. Idea Mensch.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. Back to Top « Customer Service. Customer Center.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Better do that when you actually need this information, or run a cron job for this purpose. Use possible input ($errSrc, $errMsg, …) from the caller to customize the error page. canonicalServerName; /* if used w/o path add a slash */ $rootPath = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]; $includePath = $rootPath."/src"; All errors are mine.

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