Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Customers can touch and see a great product, but services are a bit ethereal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

First of all, it’s now international, so you have startups from every country in the world competing for your customer’s attention and their business. Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

First of all, it’s now international, so you have startups from every country in the world competing for your customer’s attention and their business. Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Customers can touch and see a great product, but services are a bit ethereal.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

October 14: Putting the content into content strategy – effective writing for interactive media. information architecture from a content-provider point-of-view; What is responsive content from a reader and device point-of-view; and How to build landing pages and conversion funnels that win customers.

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Culver City Design Content Writing 105

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. Referring Traffic / Press. make sure you maximize the potential for referring traffic: 1.) Social Media – Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter.This is a separate segment of referring traffic that warrants its own category. Search Engines.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Credit for the writing and research of this article and content below goes to goes to them as well.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. Referring Traffic / Press - The web is interconnected, and traffic flows among sites that interlink. To make sure you maximize the potential for referring traffic: 1.) Make a list of the journalists writing the articles, they’re easy to find on Linkedin and Facebook.

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Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. Print advertising is expensive, but social media is free. A local fishing guide might make friends with folks at the bed and breakfast, each referring clients to each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

release out the door and get some customers using it, or friendly people piloting it then at least there is some validation to the product and some people to speak to about their experiences. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. How much to raise?

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Provide specifics on the customer business model. Budget time and dollars for each.

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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

He had just received notice from a major media organization that they were going to run a very negative news story. I felt it was a hit job on us and didn’t refer to anybody else in the industry. There were no follow-on articles in the tech press or even other online mass media journals. I hope it still resonates.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. Why the name? We don’t compete with banks.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2018

As a long-time advisor to small businesses and startups, I still find many who think marketing is still primarily broadcasting your message to as many customers as possible, hitting them again and again, until it sticks. They don’t realize that customers today are looking for relationships, meaning two-way conversations with your business.

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Marketing Examples Startup Customer 91

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media. Because you throw away the ability to totally control your traffic from social media, and search engine traffic generated by social media as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. An informal writing style is generally recommended. Don’t be shy, I don’t know many CEOs today that write their own speeches and marketing materials. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 135

Blogging Services Search Engine Optimization Web 135

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. Clarity for the team that is building the product, clarity for the customer who’s using the product, and clarity when you’re marketing the product. Topics of the day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly The asymmetric follower model where we also follow news, celebrities and senior executives at companies is one of the reasons people often refer to this as an “interest graph&# because it is an expression of what I care about.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Customer Care Today. They ignore/disrespect the platform. What do you think?

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. This is where the digital media puck is going. Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. The device itself will have no storage.

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