Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

In their recruiting process, they actually have a key insider designated as a “bar raiser” involved in ever interview, to make sure that the bar is never lowered due to any bias or pressing business urgency. Incorporate AI-powered data and metrics systems. They help hiring managers raise the bar for every interview.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Now, if your web site is not clear and clean, or you don’t have a chat robot for a product question online, you may be abandoned as providing poor customer service, just as certainly as having to wait in a long product exchange line after the holidays. The marketing metrics covers support as part of experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

It’s not that they’re particularly negative but the fact is that supporting roles at investment firms are designed to show the partners the risks in deals and the “upside case” always requires huge assumptions to be believed. Kai taught me that the key metric to whether a sales process is going well is “engagement.” Wait, there’s more!

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time). 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.

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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. Web analytics, pretty clear. Steve Belin , Product Manager , Fandango.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What options do we have? How do we balance those options?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We had some investors very interested but wanted us to validate some metrics, so we spent time building things to prove those metrics. It's not just the design, but making it easier to use, making it more stable, and adding tons of improvements around the listening experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Simply defining yourself as a marketing specialist, designer, or project leader minimizes the stigma of the consultant role. Adopt a project-based revenue model with metrics. A client relationship suggests that the consultant is in charge, whereas the customer designation recognizes the more modern model of the customer in control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. Create an integrated conventional marketing and social media strategy. Social media does not stand alone; it must be integrated into a balanced marketing strategy.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Quality tech news from around the web. Some more on metrics design and quantification. So they do everything, all the time, which really means they do nothing.

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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.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2015

While in the past a clothing designer may have opened up a brick and mortar store on Main Street, she now opens her store online and reaches a wider audience. That may sound like a lot, until you consider that the metric is gross revenue, not profit. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sadly, this is not the case.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. It’s a clutter-free, haggle-free, hassle-free solution to self storage. Bill received his B.S.

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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. Web based shipping service Ordoro. The eCommerce Game Goes to Austin. Texas and eTail.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

We launched with a web app, so we are only web-based. One guy was a designer, two guys were Ruby engineers, and I included – not an engineer. My every day is trying to fundraise, reaching, re-reaching out, and trying to keep people updated with metrics. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. ML: I do.

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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. The answer was yes, and we also saw that we could begin to play at web scale, be hosted in the cloud, be scalable in an extensive way. We're using Elastic Beanstalk.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

LIFT10: Workshop on Hacking Venture Capital - Fred Destin , May 7, 2010 This morning at the excellent LIFT Conference I gave a two hour workshop on " Hacking Venture Capital " designed to give entrepreneurs a hands-on experience of (a) pitching and (b) negotiating with detailed debrief and tricks of the trade. What should I do?’.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. We worked with an enterprise web analytics application that was very, very expensive and very, very complicated. Tell us how you got the name?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Q Manning – Rocksauce Studios , mobile ap designers and developers.

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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 existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What options do we have? How do we balance those options?

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Design-wise, here are some things to consider: What’s your “event&# hierarchy and what level of granularity do you want?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

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. and tips for buyers looking for logo design. Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business.

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