Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

In addition to obvious economic challenges, the emerging generation of customers is determined to radically change the rules for customer engagement. Their expectations of relationship and personalization are taxing businesses today, and their power through social media will kill those who can’t or won’t comply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

In addition to obvious economic challenges, the emerging generation of customers is determined to radically change the rules for customer engagement. Their expectations of relationship and personalization are taxing businesses today, and their power through social media will kill those who can’t or won’t comply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Outsource services back to the customer. Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. Force the innovator’s dilemma on competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Social media facilitates marketing and sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

For example, I used to regularly hear pitches for the next great social media site, usually focused on a special interest or niche , such as photography, cooking, healthy living, or a thousand others. Initially, you may be able to do everything in your startup, including product development, marketing, and shipping orders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Outsource services back to the customer. Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. Force the innovator’s dilemma on competitors.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2014

Outsourcing can be an extremely cost-effective solution here. Not only will you avoid adding to overhead costs at this early stage, but you’ll save management time — and free yourself to focus on developing your business. At a minimum, you should engage a lawyer to draft and/or review every contract you enter into.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

For people who send things out, it's a chance to be in front of your customer. We're working with some very large, extremely well known CPGs to help them establish that direct selling channel, and help them create a relationship with their customer. You need to understand what it means when a customer receives a product.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

For our startup interview this morning, we caught up with Satish Varma , co-founder of Torrance-based Clorder (www.clorder.com), which is developing restaurant ordering software. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. One, is pay-for-performance, which is the transactional model.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Social + Location + Mobile = The Perfect Beer (Untapped). Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks). Scaling thru Outsourcing. Strategy to Get Your First 100 Paying Customers (bigMETHOD, Mixergy, Appsumo, Zaarly). Social Media: My Social Community is Bigger than Michael Jordan.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Having paying “Customers” is what makes the cash register roar. An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Second, how to get leads.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

When I published This Remote Working Experiment Failed And Succeeded on the Wall Street Journal last year, I had no idea it would generate so much social media attention. Dan is now CEO of Mobile1st , makers of Mobilizer, the mobile customer experience optimization platform. A version of this article previously appeared Forbes.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

And a big factor is how big is the Founder Developer Gap. There’s a funny phenomenon where often the best sounding technical people are often the worst developers. I would suggest if you are thinking about what you really need for your startup in terms of technology, you also take a look at: Startup CTO or Lead Developer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2016

Outsource services back to the customer. Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. Force the innovator’s dilemma on competitors.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. We then acquire those videos directly from content owners.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The Most Important Panel You’ll Ever Attend event will be starring an all-star panel of top entrepreneurs from all sorts of industry offering their success to bring on their first 100 paying customers and 1,000 core fans. The hardest part about being a business owner is how to attract those initial paying customers.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Create and manage your social media presence. Choose an email system to connect with customers ( Constant Contact , MailChimp , Sendgrid ). Master social media marketing.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

I joined ranks with an Austin App developer, taking the role of Creative Director and setting up their design team and process. There was a distinct disconnect between apps developed by stand-alone companies, such as Gowalla or Path, versus what “work for hire” companies were producing. It simply makes more sense.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We’re Living In The Dark Ages Of Social Media - rosskimbarovsky.com , August 9, 2010 If you believe the media and social media “experts&# , we’re living in the Renaissance of social media. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. The Dry Run.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Laura Brashier – Founder of 2date4love.

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