Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. They drive the market, rather than the other way around. Input = output.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I’ll put my money on one of the originals in the social media marketing game, my friend Lon Safko, who just published his Second Edition of the bestselling book, “ The Social Media Bible.” Factor in the fundamental shift to ‘pull’ marketing taking place across the world in media and advertising. Implement metrics and analytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2013

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities, where people relate to and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. They drive the market, rather than the other way around. Input = output.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

We had a team of five MBA students working very hard on the product, and worked to hire a design shop, Siteplex, who helped us with the design, and the people on the did all sorts of things--from operational integration, to outlining the market strategy, to basically everything else. We found the goat is a great conversation starter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2012

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities, where people relate to and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. They drive the market, rather than the other way around. Input = output.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2015

A survey by the Webs Small Business Digital Trends revealed that 63% of small business owners are using digital strategies in their overall marketing efforts. An integrated digital marketing strategy can do that and so much more. These two forms of marketing are meant to work hand in hand. Pull your audience with content.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

Not only that, it has also improved how we communicate with others via our social media networks, e-mail addresses and voice chats. It has also improved the everyday services that we usually encounter—from banking, booking plane tickets, and even conducting business and the bigger picture of retail marketing.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

AltspaceVR has created a virtual replica of NBC’s Democracy Plaza in New York’s Rockefeller Plaza, the backdrop for network anchors during the debates and on election night. The use of biological metrics and neuroscience in marketing is starting to expand to political research and campaign strategy-making.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities, where people relate to and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. They drive the market, rather than the other way around. Input = output.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Of course, when you’re talking about enabling/emerging technologies, as Brock Pierce puts it, “Market timing is critical to success.”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code. It's very easy to implement, and we're also starting to sign up partners not in the application space but who are traditional social networking sites. We're going through the education process right now.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code. It's very easy to implement, and we're also starting to sign up partners not in the application space but who are traditional social networking sites. We're going through the education process right now.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

He found it was extremely difficult to raise money and had a limited network. As quickly as the bill began to pass new regulatory statutes, Chance was able to build up an active network of accredited investors. In addition, they aim to educate entrepreneurs on important topics like: Defining a lead investor and how to find one.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

I second his list of top innovation challenges and strategies to capitalize on untapped global startup opportunities: Create new markets rather than disrupt existing ones. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Target a global market rather than a local from day one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Meeting people and talking about your ideas won’t get you very far.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

I second his list of top innovation challenges and strategies to capitalize on untapped global startup opportunities: Create new markets rather than disrupt existing ones. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Target a global market rather than a local from day one.

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Ideas Venture Capital Software Review Technical Review 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Meeting people and talking about your ideas won’t get you very far.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Startup IBM 122

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Meeting people and talking about your ideas won’t get you very far.

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Ideas Startup IBM IBM 115

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Meeting people and talking about your ideas won’t get you very far.

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Ideas Startup IBM IBM 53

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below.

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