Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Explore partners and M&A to solidify your strategy.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Last week, we talked about layoffs and the Winklevoss rock gods. Crypto lending protocol Celsius isn’t fire burning, but it did freeze all customer withdrawals this past weekend , citing concerns about its own liquidity amid “extreme market conditions.” Welcome back to Chain Reaction. crash redux. pic.twitter.com/AacdhK3cw4.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Santa Monica-based Fair , the subscription vehicle service lead by startup veteran Scott Painter, is laying off 40 percent of its staff, according to reports , and also is replacing its CFO. Fair allows customers to subscribe to gain access to used cars, and does not require them to sign a long term lease. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

The firm said its Q4 was "a record quarter" for the firm, which provides software-as-a-service tools for helping business teams manage projects and work. Garcia said that with the economic downturn and layoffs, he suspects there's been a push towards more virtual workers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2013

It''s far less expensive to nail down repeat business from your existing customers than it is to land new ones. Now is the time to reap the benefits of those good customer relationships that you''ve been cultivating. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Focus on your core competency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2012

It's far less expensive to nail down repeat business from your existing customers than it is to land new ones. Now is the time to reap the benefits of those good customer relationships that you've been cultivating. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Focus on your core competency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2013

If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. It could be a natural disaster, like a flood or wind storm, or loss of key personnel, equipment failure, or a major customer complaint on the Internet. On the other side, your new customers expect a free trial period.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2016

If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. It could be a natural disaster, like a flood or wind storm, or loss of key personnel, equipment failure, or a major customer complaint on the Internet. On the other side, your new customers expect a free trial period.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

In your own startup, you might experience lean times, but you never will be crushed in a stampede, like a middle-manager in a corporate layoff. State the anticipated name of your product/service. Customer Problems/ Pain Points. State the problem/ pain points of the customers clearly. Who is the customer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Perhaps a simpler way to think about culture is to think of it in terms of how an organization makes choices, how it develops its values, its ethics, how it trains, recognizes and rewards its associates, its spirit, and not to be overlooked, how it treats its customers - both internal and external. Their on time ratings are excellent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2010

As I mentioned in a previous article , it's far less expensive to nail down repeat business from your existing customers than it is to land new ones. Now is the time to reap the benefits of those good customer relationships that you've been cultivating. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 6, 2013

You got flash sales and group sales sites coming to us and basically have the same general business idea: shoot out a couple million emails to potential customers, saying they have tickets that are on sale. Like I have said earlier, many people don’t know about the services we offer. We don’t sell junky seats at last minute.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. Plus, we will provide resume writing services. Josh Stomel: We're seeing more and more layoffs every day. What's the idea behind the site? So to understand this correctly--when you show a resume, you also show ads?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 6, 2013

We had flash sales and group sales sites coming to us with the same general business idea: shoot out a couple million emails to potential customers saying they have tickets on sale. Our “pick-your-price” model benefits both the industry and you, the customer. I had to close the doors of businesses and layoff people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and most often operate remotely (from anywhere in the world) in this age of the Internet. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and are a growing part of this new “ age of the entrepreneur ” that I discussed last week. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

If you do massive layoffs (RIFs) you can assume that you will need to repay your loan since the intent of the loan is to protect jobs. They have regulations that dictate things like KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti money-laundering) and other regulations designed to avoid abuse of our financial institutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs. The days when these roles were stable careers for company employees are gone. Today we are seeing a rapid transition to independent specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs. Marty Zwilling.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We bypass the middle person for services and information. It won’t be long before another round of layoffs comes, and these new tools will create new jobs to fill the gap. We will enable segmentation of the population to produce customized messages and actions. We take courses on-line. We are learning to use new tools.

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