Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 23, 2015

A company''s Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a beloved metric slavishly tracked and reported by product marketing and customer support executives of both established and nascent enterprises. The higher a company’s NPS, allegedly the higher its customer satisfaction. If you ask a consumer "will you recommend us?" Wrong Question.

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.Net Startup Satisfaction Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2022

You may think it’s great that demand exceeds your supply chain, but customers only remember it as a loss of your credibility, and will tell others. Proactive customer communication should be your first recourse, followed by cost and service concessions. The result is low productivity, mistakes, and poor customer experiences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2012

You can’t succeed in your new startup if you can’t win customers, and the new Internet-empowered customers are tough. Bloom’s “ The New Experts ,” that today’s customers are armed with three lethal weapons – instant access to information about every potential purchase, immense choice, and real-time comparison of competitive prices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

You can’t succeed in your new startup if you can’t win customers, and the new Internet-empowered customers are tough. Bloom’s “ The New Experts ,” that today’s customers are armed with three lethal weapons – instant access to information about every potential purchase, immense choice, and real-time comparison of competitive prices.

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Custom Customer Competition Metrics 88

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What are your key Startup Metrics ? Refer a friend? What’s their specific need / pain? Tell me about the business.

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Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What are your key Startup Metrics ? Refer a friend? What’s their specific need / pain? Tell me about the business.

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Detailed roadmap of features you plan to build Detailed customer information Salary information Any other information you wouldn’t want seen or know by your competitors or a larger audience In short, there is nothing in your deck that should give you pause or make you feel like you can’t just send the damn file to somebody.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2020

These days, customers expect to hear and see social and environmental value from a new business, rather than just a new technology or profit. Even if you don’t have previous businesses to reference, relate examples of your problem solving ability and determination in other contexts. Relate a higher purpose to your business proposal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! Customers have long included some of the biggest names in social commerce and online gaming plus startups like TopSpin, Local Response, Maker Studios, StockTwits and the like. End of story.

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Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. Well, Snapchat has made it so that anyone can create and upload a custom filter to any area they want.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost?

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Is Automated Advertising the next-generation Customer Relationship Management (CRM)? CRM companies like Salesforce.com used to refer to themselves as Sales Force Automation (SFA) companies. It later expanded into customer service management, marketing, etc. Let’s start with the first form of CRM. The benefits are clear.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. And VC’s are tough customers. They’ve “seen it all.&#. during your meeting.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

If this is the case, offer to make a meaningful introduction to a potential customer or partner of one of their portfolio companies. In particular, references from senior executives at the investor’s portfolio companies are especially effective. Yes, I am advising you to sandbag your prospective investors.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

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. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). Metrics availability.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. The whole reason for PBW’s is to drive incentives of a partner or customer to help you succeed. Common Mistakes.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

If you don't want to use Guava, then wrap the modifiable Enum{Set,Map} instances in Collections.unmodifiableSet(set) or Collections.unmodifiableMap(map) and throw away the direct references to the modifiable collections. It beats RegularEnumSet in all important metrics: Query speed ( contains(element) , etc.) forEachRemaining(.).

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Java Class Ideas Writing 330

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

This can be a great way to test your product and get customer feedback. Customer financing can minimize your risk, providing more cushion to meet your milestones. Examples of milestones: traction as measured by user numbers and user engagement; financial metrics such as cash flow and revenue. Crowdfunding. Vendor funding.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Lifestyle businesses are typically looked upon with derision by investors, as they generally do not have economic metrics that lead to large exits. According to Wardog, “We registered the domain www.standuppaddlesurfing.com on October 21, 2005, before the sport was even referred to as ‘standup paddle surfing.’”

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Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

MW: It’s a geeky reference to a type of sequel statement where you’re doing a “left join”. That portion we call data aggregation where you are looking at one metric across a lot of different data sources. MW: We love the customers in LA. MW: We’re right now at that crucial spot where we’re onboarding our first customers.

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