Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. The team''s ability to drive significant customer interest without spending a dime on marketing was one of the reasons Jim Andelman and I invested in the company. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

A digital marketing tag is typically also referred to as a page code, which customers put on their websites when they want to deploy certain digital marketing solutions. As an example, if you're deploying Google Analytics, the way you deploy it is copying and pasting a page code on your website, also referred to as a tag.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2021

For publishers, it offers a potentially lucrative revenue stream — especially if the publishers can manage to refer potential customers at scale on relatively big-ticket items. This means that readers could purchase products from retailers that use Shopify's platform without ever leaving the publisher's site.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Jeremy Gocke: With Fliptu, we're aiming to fix the disjointed media and product discovery process for consumers and brands. I like to refer to that as the ultimate brand fan page, or to take the example from the apparel industry, where I come from, a virtual look book for a brand. What is Fliptu? The numbers tell the story.

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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. Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Refer a friend?

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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. Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Refer a friend?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Status of the solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. But it got me thinking about how often entrepreneurs overplay their PR so I thought I’d try to offer some advice and how to play PR with VCs (or more broadly with customers or business development partners).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2018

You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. I was not disapointed. No doubt, he did.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships.

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Startup Guide Help Course 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Today’s platform is built of people, including yourself, followers, and contacts, who can amplify your message through social media and spread it to your target customers. Building your home base with personal and product traction. Make your customers your platform. Using the platform to expand your reach. How about yours?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

According to Patrick Vlaskovits another proselytizer of the term, “Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit.”. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it. It’s the whole conversion flow.

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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. So what’s exciting about this new product? This product is literally too good to pass up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2015

Every new baby gets a name before it is introduced to the world, and yet some entrepreneurs continue to send me business plans with TBD (to be determined) in place of a business name on the front page. Your business name will have the same impact on potential customers. Tricky spellings send customers to competitors.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. How far is the product?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Today’s platform is built of people, including yourself, contacts, connections, and followers, who can amplify your message through social media and spread it to your target customers. Building your home base with personal and product traction. Make your customers your platform. Using the platform to expand your reach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2012

Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.” You can innovate in technology, markets, and customers, but inventing a new business model is a bad bet. This model only works once you have exceeded about one million page-views per month, and spent maybe $50 million to get there. eCommerce model.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2015

Friends and relatives can also help you by referring you to prospective customers. Create pages for your business on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and any other social sites that are used by potential customers. A good website allows you to sell your products and services online. Know Your Target Clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.” You can innovate in technology, markets, and customers, but inventing a new business model is a bad bet. This model only works once you have exceeded about one million page-views per month, and spent maybe $50 million to get there. eCommerce model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2013

You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships.

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Entrepreneur Startup Guide Help 92

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Referring Traffic / Press. Each individual piece of content should have its own distinct URL(title tag), and a unique title (H1 tag) for the page that search engines can read and index. Increase the production of your content.It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”.The

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Let’s assume you run a Customer Support software company. Do you simply begin by asking, “I’d love to understand what your objectives are in customer support? You need to identify a customer problem and talk about how your solution meets the needs of that problem. But DO NOT crocodile into your solution page.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

These highly-regarded workshops teach business professionals the science of usability which ensures that websites, applications or physical products do what they are supposed to do and that their users can succeed with whatever tasks these products are designed to help with. October 13: Usable Usability — Lean UX starts right here.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

He told me this was a service the BBB provided to its customers since they saved so much money on the same service. In most cases these viewings are done by potential customers who are checking on your company’s rating. We also want you to use and understand this valuable product so that you may attract and retain customers.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

When I shoed up with a few pages of conceptual, early stage ideas around consumer finance, it was immediately captivating, and it really lined up with what he wanted to do. That's compared to other financial products, which are designed for managing money, and just feel like work. There are three main components of the product.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

By prints, I am referring to anything that hangs on a wall, whether that's a framed photo, framed canvas, acrylic. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and. the payroll.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.&# Will they? You would never go see an important executive at a customer and then sit around and wait for them to realize how great you are. They just had some time and found your product interesting). Whatever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Fourth floor - real, same-page connection. In the world of entrepreneurs and startups, top floor relationships are everything. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Try something like, “the product costs X dollars, and we sell it for Y dollars.” You can innovate in technology, markets, and customers, but inventing a new business model is a bad bet. This model only works once you have exceeded about one million page-views per month, and spent maybe $50 million to get there. eCommerce model.

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Startup Customer Custom Summary 48

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Referring Traffic / Press. Each individual piece of content should have its own distinct URL(title tag), and a unique title (H1 tag) for the page that search engines can read and index. Increase the production of your content. The more pages indexed, the more traffic you will get. Search Engines. Social Media.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

If the goal is simply to get the basic details (revenue, customers, staff numbers, prior funding) then no judgment is required. So this summer we sent him to work in one of our portfolio companies in product management on our dime. Check the management / team page of the VC to check the level of the person approaching you.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land. A study conducted by Rice University’s Jesse H. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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