SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. How Unique Is A Unique Visitor? -

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Pricing Acquisition Customer Custom 150

Berkonomics

AUGUST 4, 2016

Steve Jobs, who was known to be in charge of each detail in design. Elon Musk, who obsesses with metrics and constantly asks for employees to feed him their concerns but makes bold moves on his own. The world loves bold leadership.

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Satisfaction Metrics Resource Email 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In fact, the first challenge is to build a strategy, put together a budget, and define measurement metrics. Put your customer at the top, rather than technology. Set specific objectives, budgets, and metrics for each one. My advice is to keep it simple but memorable, and pick something you can highlight with pictures and videos.

Marketing 96

Marketing Metrics Social Media Content 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Make your service deliver process “happy.” Service people need this as required team support.

Startup 154

Startup Training Customer Custom 154

socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2017

He introduced me to Wavemaker, also in LA, and also Halogen Ventures, which is led by Jessie Draper, which invests in women-run technology companies. They know that every photo will be linked back to the caterers, planners, design companies, and venues that produced the events.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review Metrics Startup 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use?

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using product metrics to build the right features in the right way Avoid the biggest pitfall of using product metrics… “Focusing your team’s efforts around a high-level business metric like churn is a bit like a general who sends troops into battle after voicing the strategy: ‘Let’s win the war!’” Read more… ??

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Technical Review Metrics Ideas Product 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 23, 2013

marketers now have the power to create social media campaigns with no development or design skills required - just drag and drop. Digging deeper behind the scenes we are presented with a powerful analytics solution enabling marketers the ability to track success metrics down to the minute. With PromoJam 2.0, With PromoJam 2.0,

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Platform Metrics Social Media Marketing 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Technology enhances experience, not impedes it. The marketing metrics covers support as part of experience. If your marketing metrics and budget ignore the fact that you have call center queues thirty minutes long, or no coverage of online reviews or social media, your customer service is not keeping up with competitors.

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Customer Custom Company Companies 84

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

I also read - The Difference Between Apple and Microsoft Marketing that tells us: Apples marketing is designed for Time Poor buyers, while Microsofts is designed for Time Rich buyers. I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Open to potential career pivoters and professionals of all levels, the panel consisted of the following panelists, whom entered their positions from backgrounds ranging from business to engineering to design. Jay Stakelon , VP Product Design, Fullscreen. Cauri Jaye , Panel Moderator and Project lead @ Sony Pictures ; Rhubarb LLC.

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Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Make sustainability a key design objective for every step.

Startup 88

Startup Demand Training Customer 88

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. So it makes me laugh to this day when I talk with a journalist or potential investor in the company and they ask flippantly, “How is MakeSpace a technology company?”

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Shape your business by design, not by default. Focus on your passion and your vision of what you want to accomplish, and make that come alive in the design and delivery of everything you do. Use your knowledge of evolving needs and technology to add more value than competitors, and introduce clients to each other to build partnerships.

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Social Media Pricing Technical Review Demand 56

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

I find that well-designed teams work very effectively this way, despite the challenges. Virtual teams need a tool-acquisition process, training program and support contact for all technology provided. Clear objectives and metrics are established early. As with all elements of business, finding the right people is the first step.

Product 100

Product Startup Tool Paramount 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

Reiss started with service design in the 1980s and thinks a lot of the things done then are the same things that people are doing now. It’s a whole bunch of different things including service design…that are all part of the UX.” ” Some call it service design or experience design or product design.

Social Media 101

Social Media Design Los Angeles Media 101

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Quinton Alsbury: The way the application is designed is fairly agnostic to any particular vertical or operation inside a company. The visualizations themselves are designed around data navigation, and the generic concepts and analytics processes that we know people are doing inside companies. How do customers use your product?

Mobile 170

Mobile Oracle Startup Content 170

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Leverage information technology. Find an IT person you can trust, and plan how you will acquire, implement, and utilize computer technology to run your business. Product development process.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

The site looks to be very well executed, where did you get the technology expertise to pull off the site? There were lots of people very intent on the execution of the product, really looking into the details of design and flow. James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering.

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UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Leverage information technology. Find an IT person you can trust, and plan how you will acquire, implement, and utilize computer technology to run your business. Product development process.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Make your service deliver process “happy.” Service people need this as required team support.

Customer 92

Customer Custom Startup Services 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Leverage information technology. Find an IT person you can trust, and plan how you will acquire, implement, and utilize computer technology to run your business. Product development process.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

LATechDigest

MAY 12, 2016

With our refined machine learning technology and massive data set, Cornerstone leads the field in people analytics,” said Adam Miller, founder and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. Users can easily create, manage and execute accurate headcount plans through a simple and intuitive design. Cornerstone Planning.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Product Artificial Inteligence Organization 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Leverage information technology. Find an IT person you can trust, and plan how you will acquire, implement, and utilize computer technology to run your business. Product development process.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. It depends on the business, people, technologies, etc. Each situation is just a bit different.

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Technical Review Technical Advisors CTO Coach Startup 170

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. So while the simplest way that people often evaluate stocks is by P/E ratios (price-to-earnings), one also needs to look at other metrics such as the PEG (price-to-earnings-growth). [of ” Harsh, but reality.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Such cultures, those industries, are what drives investment, talent, and success to those locations, as the entire ecosystem is designed to foster growth therein that very culture. Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics. Outside of cattle, boots, and oil, are Texas’ industries readily apparent? Texas and eTail.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

We wanted to bring the beauty of data visualization, of actionable insights to people in a very easy, very fast, very simple but very well designed way. We're working on how quickly we can provision servers, and what those metrics are, and it's been fantastic. We said, in addition to being B2B, can we also do B2C?

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Decide what to measure and create metrics. Design your invisible competitive advantage. Every company has different strengths and goals, yet each can publish internally their innovation canvas of technology, leadership, people, structure, rewards, and metrics that sets them apart. You only get what you measure.

Develop 135

Develop Development Startup Metrics 135

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Yet, I couldn’t duplicate what I had very easily, so I went back to the drawing board and came up with a new design and Cojoin is that new design. That portion we call data aggregation where you are looking at one metric across a lot of different data sources. The second problem is an attribution problem.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Game changing technology here!). Morgan Intrator – Yoursigma, combining technology with classroom learning. Charles Michael Yim – Breathometer , combining smartphone technology with safe alcohol monitoring. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need? How can we address this risk?

CTO Coach 231

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Decide what to measure and create metrics. Design your invisible competitive advantage. Every company has different strengths and goals, yet each can publish internally their innovation canvas of technology, leadership, people, structure, rewards, and metrics that sets them apart. You only get what you measure.

Startup 97

Startup Metrics Competition Organization 97

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. As featured in technology and news publications: Are you new? First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Aggregate metrics. Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Decide what to measure and create metrics. Design your invisible competitive advantage. Every company has different strengths and goals, yet each can publish internally their innovation canvas of technology, leadership, people, structure, rewards, and metrics that sets them apart. You only get what you measure.

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Startup Metrics Organization Ideas 81