Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

It’s called showing good service to your most loyal customers. So if you liked this article, please find that nice little Tweet button near the top and share the love or share your own viral tips in the comments section below. And you need to work your comments section if you want people to share your content and turn up again.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2012

Article first published as Five Business Tips From The Beatles on Technorati. In the list below, I have compiled some of my favorite lessons from Come Together , combined them with a few of my own Beatles inspired startup tips. Your startup should strive to offer as much value to its customers as possible. What’s Your B7?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Richard’s Startup Tips. 1) Give Your Customers (And The Media) What They Want. If you do not have the ability to connect with your employees, customers or other stakeholders on an emotional level, be sure that at least one member of your core team possesses this vital characteristic. . free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

My article 5 Time-Tested Success Tips From Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos was so well received, I am sharing five more pearls of wisdom from Mr. Bezos. We know this is a feature that’s good for customers. This encouraged them to deploy logical, common sense solutions that were in the best interest of its customers. Let’s do it.’”

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Along with your cash, customers and employees, a healthy startup culture will prove to be one of your most precious assets. . Bill’s advice reflects Microsoft’s hardnosed culture, which encourages internal competition and a ruthless pursuit of the truth. As noted in Core Values , the culture of your startup is entirely in your hands.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

But it's also about operations and customer relationships." It devised made-to-order factories that allowed customers, for the first time on a large scale, to individually configure a personal computer. Along with Amazon, Dell was also an early pioneer of web-based customer service. " [Tweet this quote].

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

When enhancing your value proposition, ask the same question a newcomer would ask, "what is the best way for users to interact with the new features, irrespective of the existing customer experience?" " Even if this quote is apocryphal, it remains instructive.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here are some tips to consider while prospecting and interviewing candidates for your first employee: Don’t Hire Your Clone. They may not be a salesperson by title — but they should be able to effectively pitch and sell your product to customers. What should you look for in hiring your first employee?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I recommend his tips for creating and maintaining that sweet spot: Define a personal declaration of purpose. The challenge of every business is to create a win-win relationship between business owners, partners, team members, customers, and the community at large. Delight and deliver value to your customers.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

They must compete with tens of thousands of other performers who are all pursuing the same customer dollars. At the outset of their careers, they are forced to market themselves with little to no budget and differentiate their product so that they gain adequate attention without alienating too many potential customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

As a starting point the more you’re on their mind the more likely they’re out advocating on your behalf when they are out talking with senior executives at potential customers, future potential investors, potential employees, biz dev partners, journalists and all of the other constituencies where investors should be helping you.

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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. - First Principles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

If customers don’t know you exist, you can’t solve their problem, they won’t buy. Getting customer attention often takes more innovation today than solving the tough technical problems. Talk to real live customers in addition to marketers. Avoid the use of jargon, big claims, and special promotions.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Leveraging LLMs to help users fill in text, whether it’s by providing starter content, samples, or highly personalized tips, makes their lives easier. So instead, we fill it with a completely custom blurb, written just for him: Hello! Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

I saw some practical tips for business leaders under pressure a while back in the book “ The Outside the Box Executive ,” by Richard Lindenmuth, a seasoned interim CEO, who has stepped in and revitalized more than his share of struggling companies. Everyone has to pull their weight in the same boat. Practice the eight out of ten rule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Based on my experience as a business advisor, I recommend that every business owner and entrepreneur focus on the following tips to provide a better work culture: Invest in integrating new technology, not just forcing it. Spend more time mentoring and coaching your team. Giving orders and assignments is not coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

Compelling in the sense that you solve a real problem a target group of potential customers has with a product that is significantly better than the alternatives on that market. My most read post on marketing tips highlights this – please pay attention to tip #4 – you can’t have great marketing for bad or mediocre products.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

ReachLocal said that Bizzy will allow users to connect with local businesses, receive exclusive offers, invitations to events, tips, and news from their favorite businesses. Zorik Gordon, CEO of ReachLocal, said in a statement that the new site is a "separate, unique place" for local business owners to communicate with their best customers.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 10, 2012

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 -- Custom Software. For many companies, custom software provides the edge they need. Improved productivity and efficiency leading to cost reductions, easier to use services leading to increased customer satisfaction and retention, a new needed product or service that is not available anywhere else.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. We learned this weekend that it was named after his East Hampton home.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 14, 2021

A security lapse at online grocery delivery startup Mercato exposed tens of thousands of customer orders, TechCrunch has learned. The company fixed the data spill, but has not yet alerted its customers. Send tips securely over Signal and WhatsApp to +1 646-755-8849. How to respond to a data breach. Know something, say something.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists. Investors don’t invest in services startups. Word-of-mouth does not scale.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

If you’re needing some tips to jumpstart your strategy and attract female consumers, take this advice from these female startups founders. “Focusing on emotion is key when communicating with female customers. Most importantly, humor can get customers talking about your product or service. Connect With Your Customers.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The company used its overdraft protection service and money management display to shift customers’ focus away from the total balance that their account would show by giving them a sense of how much was actually left in their accounts once debits were included in their statements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Identify customer executives who need your solution. Many savvy entrepreneurs are able to convince high-potential customers that investing early in a high-value solution, perhaps through an advance on royalties, is in their best interest. Reach out to your biggest fans for investor leads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2019

Image via Flickr by jardenberg Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. To get to the core of what’s relevant to customers, you need to know them well. The eye is just as important as the mind when it comes to customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

Simply, this is identifying a customer need which has economic value to them if they can solve it. ” and if you can’t persuade enough potential customers they have some pain that needs fixing you probably should stick to your day job. Teams usually start with terminology that is very insular and less relevant to customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. How many customers will have any idea what this means to them? You need to clearly convey what makes your startup the only choice for your customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists. Investors don’t invest in services startups. Word-of-mouth does not scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

In a two-minute video clip, you can introduce yourself, show your passion and the engaging personality you need to win over customers, partners, and employees. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Executive summary glossy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

As I visit the websites of many startups, as well as more mature businesses, I still too often see a “contact” page offering nothing but a sterile form for customers to submit, never to be heard from again. Customers are not all like you, and they have choices, so a “one size fits all” customer service is no longer a viable option.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In designing GUI interfaces for people coming from the green-screen world we built applications that would be great for desktop publishing, not customer service reps. It is beautiful in its simplicity (although I think I could give them a few tips to improve usability if they ever asked. Design for the novice. Configure fo the pro.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Whether this is your first, tenth or hundredth holiday dinner, here are our top 10 tips for your Thanksgiving turkey: 1. I''ve built several tech companies from the "third bedroom," all of which delivered mind blowing customer experiences or "delight." Plan ahead if you’re cooking a frozen turkey. Now, I''m a coffee guy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US. 10x the experience.

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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. He makes a convincing argument that it’s time for every company to get prepared for the next customer generation, or your company is heading toward life support.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money. I am a VC. I hand out money. How differentiated is that?

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