Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Innovation is not a random walk into the unknown. Ownership.

Entrepreneur 101

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. initials take on meaning as follows: Zealots, disciples, and influencers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. initials take on meaning as follows: Zealots, disciples, and influencers.

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Marketing Social Media Framework Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. initials take on meaning as follows: Zealots, disciples, and influencers.

Media 101

Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

But the most important metric has been the deep and lasting relationships that have been built with startups and also between senior executives. The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. 23 companies have gone through Launchpad LA. Each company will receive $50,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2019

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? A responsible entrepreneur promotes both loyalty and responsible consumption by educating consumers so they can make more informed decisions about their purchases, based on ecological footprints, and other sustainability criteria.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

Startup 108

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

Startup 56

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Speakers listed: Brock Pierce – Digital currency pioneer investing in Bitcoin, games, and online gambling businesses; Clearstone Global Gaming Fund. He doesn’t see many digital media VC firms in the space and makes it a point to invest in and work with companies who engage more deeply with content. Projection for 2014?

Startup 95

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. Assigns tasks. Already covered. But seriously. Assign away.

Tips 365

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Updates could be as exciting as closing investment deals, or harrowing as the news of losing a co-founder. We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language. Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? A responsible entrepreneur promotes both loyalty and responsible consumption by educating consumers so they can make more informed decisions about their purchases, based on ecological footprints, and other sustainability criteria.

Startup 104

Startup Entrepreneur Examples Satisfaction 104

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. If you’re an angel you invest your own money and you have nobody to answer to except your spouse. If you invest it in startups you’re a VC professional money manager.

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Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2017

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? A responsible entrepreneur promotes both loyalty and responsible consumption by educating consumers so they can make more informed decisions about their purchases, based on ecological footprints, and other sustainability criteria.

Tips 55

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Examples 55

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Invest more in training and optimizing the usage of existing staff. Metrics, such as time-to-completion on individual tasks and workload balance, can provide a clearer understanding of how your resources are deployed, and how effective they are at certain tasks. Explore Outside Help.

Training 40

Training Outsource Organization Resource 40

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Back in January, at the annual TechZulu Startup Forecast , our panel of industry leaders and investors spent a healthy dose of time discussing the ongoing JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) and the investing sphere at large. This all, circling around 2008, a shy year for startup investments. Fundraising Frustrations.

Invest 83

Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2013

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? A responsible entrepreneur promotes both loyalty and responsible consumption by educating consumers so they can make more informed decisions about their purchases, based on ecological footprints, and other sustainability criteria.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Startup Examples Satisfaction 98

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. Disruption of Education. “Online education is truly going to kill us.” Internationalization of Technology.

Venture Capital 403

Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. They saw we were highly educated in that space, and because of my background, knew we understand traditional media and were able to address their issues. Fascinating story.

Startup 190

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Either you’re not a good leader and he shouldn’t be investing at all, or he has no clue what it takes to build a startup.&#. They’re easily impressed when you’re selected for TechCrunch50 but not easily engaged in a detailed discussion about your conversion metrics. I guarantee this is a bad VC.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 297

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. We provide traffic analytics, cross-tabulated across demographics, A/B testing to see how an audience is using certain pages, and engagement metrics. We're going through the education process right now. What's the idea behind Sometrics?

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. We provide traffic analytics, cross-tabulated across demographics, A/B testing to see how an audience is using certain pages, and engagement metrics. We're going through the education process right now. What's the idea behind Sometrics?

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The plan better include some specifics on how this will be spread across multiple digital and traditional marketing channels, and metrics to measure which are providing the best return on investment. I recommend realistic examples of cost savings and return-on-investment testimonials from early users.

Product 86

Product Marketing Education Examples 86

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2013

On a regular basis, at least once a quarter, you need to take a hard look at all your key metrics. Workplace health promotion is not, as some might think, a charitable gesture towards employees but an investment in the company. Quarterly business reviews. Quality improvements. Continuous improvement is the key to quality production.

Startup 93

Startup Tips Entrepreneur Metrics 93

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Metrics availability. At some point it will be quite obvious whether the super angels’ investments and strategy succeed or fail. Dave McClure's Investment Thesis - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , July 31, 2010 I’ve been a fan of Dave McClure since I met him some time ago. Not so bad. Performance. Angel vs VC? -

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217