Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

recently wrote a post talking about how some VCs meddle in operating company decisions or some executive teams are too reliant on VCs to jump in and make hard calls for them. At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. I did this. ” PR.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2012

What is the rule about those pesky non-compete agreements signed upon discharge or sale of the previous company? In that case, you must worry only about information and trade secrets taken from the previous company which are both certainly subject to protection by almost all laws and courts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2021

You may think this is only important to your marketing and sales people, but in reality it doesn’t matter how great your product or technology might be, you won’t succeed if you don’t understand your target customer decision process. Every aspect of your business must be about sales. Even the best technology won’t sell itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

You may think this is only important to your marketing and sales people, but in reality it doesn’t matter how great your product or technology might be, you won’t succeed if you don’t understand your target customer decision process. Every aspect of your business must be about sales. Even the best technology won’t sell itself.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2015

Congress' latest attempt to impose an "Internet sales tax" is just another misguided tax grab that will do more harm than good to American small businesses. As it currently stands, online sellers must collect sales tax in the states where they have, "sales tax nexus." Online sellers are already awash in sales tax complexity.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

In 1995, Lynda wrote one of the first books on web design, Designing Web Graphics. The success of her initial book established her as a thought leader and made it clear that a sizable market existed to educate non-technical enthusiasts about the then-emerging Internet. [04:29] Certain things like sales was a good example.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

We spoke with Andrew about how the company pivoted from its original model after finding a huge amount of traction for its sales software and data, and its ability to guide brokers on the best practices for them to close more deals, which it is now offering as software-as-a-service. But we don't usually have data to quantify that.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Thursday, October 4, 2012 -- Predictable Revenue: Getting To Your First Million In Sales. In this class, Aaron Ross the creator of Salesforce.com's $100M outbound sales team will talk about how to create predictable revenues for your company and hit your first million in sales. ve sold something. See [link] (more)

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Genies is partnering with a handpicked group of creators to design the first set of collections available on the platform, Nigam said. Because each item is an NFT, the original creator gets a cut of the revenue each time that item is resold and owns the intellectual property behind the design , he added. Image Credits: Genies.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Almost anyone who has sold a company has a story to tell about their good deal, the problems with the buyer, a last-minute change of terms, or more. The company of eight was engaged in web design, which, early in the growth of middle-sized business on the web, was hot at the time. The surprise I could not ignore.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. But through nearly a decade of startups I learned that sales comes down to three essential elements: 1. The real test of sales and the topic of my post is “why buy now.” It’s what kills most sales cycles including raising venture capital. I know I didn’t.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But how about listing the basics for designing an excellent incentive compensation program? A sales commission plan should reward a salesperson with a combination of salary and commission up to the expected level of performance, often called a quota. Next, some form of rewards should be designed to be immediate.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

Sarah Paiji had the idea to launch the eco-friendly refillable cleaning supply retailer Blueland after hearing about the abundance of microplastics in the water she was using to dilute her child’s baby formula. Blueland cleaning products/Image courtesy of Blueland.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. The most obvious, is to drive sales. How do you make those events happen? What, exactly, does Event Farm do? It's fundamentally different.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

It also handles the back end as well by automating the posting, sale and shipment of unsold inventory while offering immediate payment to creditworthy sellers. Twenty years ago, if you started a brand, your first hire, outside of a designer, would have been a salesperson,” Murthy told TechCrunch. That’s our vision.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2021

Elon Musk with Tesla and SpaceX may be the most current example of this phenomenon, but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), Joe Costello (Cadence Design), and Howard Schultz (Starbucks). Strive for breathtaking design, as well as function. Design is not just about making things look pretty.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The company’s dental health professionals who are part of its sales channel now totals more than 20,000 people. Burst shares profits with these channel partners and has distributed about $3.5 Indeed, it was through the network of experts that the company arrived at the design for its dental floss. The new product is a $12.99

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2019

Earlier this year, Spartan, the French manufacturer of a silver-lined underwear designed to block EMF radiation from cell phones and wireless routers, relocated to the U.S. Now the company has relaunched as Lambs and is adding a radiation-proof silver-lined beanie to its $29-per-pair underwear already on sale in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Craft a no-follow-up sales letter, after you have positioned yourself as the right expert, with powerful testimonials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2019

You may think this is only important to your marketing and sales people, but in reality it doesn’t matter how great your product or technology might be, you won’t succeed if you don’t understand your target customer decision process. Every aspect of your business must be about sales. Even the best technology won’t sell itself.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

People who live outside of Indiana probably know a few things about it: The Indianapolis 500, a.k.a. But people might not know much about Indiana’s economy and its culture of innovation. Here are three things you probably didn’t know about the Hoosier State: 1. billion in exports during the 12 months ended Sept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2021

In the past, most companies treated customers like yesterday’s news – once they have the sale, the effort decreased. Products must be designed for easy support. Designing for support is now as important as designing for low cost, ease of use, and quality. It was normal to find service as understaffed with no budget.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Sales/Marketing.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

There's nothing particularly unique about what Selz does. Shopify has even partnered with TikTok to facilitate in-app sales for small businesses. Physical Product Sales. Digital Product Sales. Service Sales. Can't match the scalability of the its rivals, but you'll get a great-looking, easy to use sales website.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2012

How do you leverage your years of experience manufacturing and designing furniture for stores like Ikea and Crate & Barrel into the online world, and harness the interest of consumers to purchase their furniture online? As a designer of those products, I've seen in home furnishings over the last twenty years lots of cycles.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2014

Noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously cautioned his design disciples that form should not compromise function. However, for many online startups, form should drive the design process. I hesitate to write about design, as I have never considered myself to be a "color or font" person.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2021

His focus is primarily on improving the results for traditional sales professionals, but I’m convinced that the same principles are equally critical for entrepreneurs selling their startup to investors, strategic partners, and customers. These attributes include the following: Specific moment-in-time indication. Something has to happen.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

They do not know what they do not know which makes a meaningful conversation with a design agency very challenging. There is nothing to be ashamed about being ignorant as we all must start somewhere. Asmita’s are challenging for a web designer; anyway you move you will be damned. Their two biggest fears are cost and labor.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

In this guide: Free Business Tools Best Communication Tools Best Cybersecurity Tools Best Project Management Tools Best Marketing Tools Best Financial Tools Best HR tools Best Sales Tools Next Steps: Moving Forward With a Solution Best Free Business Tools for Startups Not every startup will have a budget for smart software. From its 4.3-inch

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Designed to put automation in the hands of all data workers-from line-of-business users to skilled analysts and data scientists-the human-centered platform transforms how businesses leverage their data assets, optimize their processes and upskill human talent to generate workforce efficiencies, top-line growth and optimize costs.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

According to Julie Ask, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester in this CNBC article , developing a retail app costs about $2 million, plus 80 percent on top of that each year to maintain it. RetailNext data shows that sales over the 2015 Thanksgiving weekend were down by 4.7 MYTH: Development costs are too high.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. For starters you have to realize that fund-raising is a sales process. A brochure is an easy out for you in the sales process without being rude.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The company of eight was engaged in web design, hot at the time. And here were over a million users, with no apparent value to the web designers, except as a community of friends with similar interests. I promised to come see him at his office the very next week. What I discovered was a contradiction that was too intriguing to ignore.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

So talk a little bit more about this effort to be a high school on your corporate campus? We care about consumer electronics, we care about consumer insights, we do a ton of engineering ourselves, and do most of the design of products ourselves. We have sales, marketing, PR, accounting, all in those facilities.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

based company makes money on the sale of the house, managing the rental and connecting homeowners to a lender that will give them money to acquire the rental property. ” Instead, Dietz and the architecture firm Modative collaborated on a new design for a pre-fabricated house. . The Culver City, Calif.-based

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Berkonomics

APRIL 30, 2015

But how about listing the basics for designing an excellent incentive compensation program? A sales commission plan should reward a salesperson with a combination of salary and commission up to the expected level of performance, often called a quota. Next, some form of rewards should be designed to be immediate.

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