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. Lack of follow-up after a sale can cost you more customers than poor service or poor quality.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We're here to help them solve the problem of compliance and retail policy enforcement, and to understand what people are saying about their products next to their buy buttons, what kind of reviews they are getting, and to understand other things that influence sales. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2009

Financial impact of the sale was not disclosed. Xirrus, which manufactures hardware which combines multiple wireless access points and switching in a single device, said the college is replacing an existing Wi-Fi network with its hardware. Tags: xirrus education wifi wireless hardware. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Tech.Co

MAY 13, 2016

Be prepared to be inspired, amazed and educated on how these evolving technologies will impact your business for the better. Additionally, there are many networking opportunities during TECHSPO LA including the highlight TECHSPO Networking Dinner Reception. The TECHSPO floor is free to attend…we hope to see you there!

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Tech.Co

APRIL 13, 2015

Such in-depth experiences led to positive results and productivity thus creating profitability in every aspect including running a mortgage real estate firm and financial network with lucid, comprehensive, and administrative judgment to innovative projects.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. It's a hands-on kind of education.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Once you put your offer in, you enter your credit card, and you commit to the sale. Once that offer is accepted, that make the sale, and the retailer handles the transaction just as if it happened on their own website. We take a commission on the sale, and everybody is happy. Retailers only pay us if the sale happens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2022

Technically speaking, in the United States, a non-profit corporation or association is one which has been exempted from Federal income taxes by meeting the criteria set out Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, most notably religious, educational, and charitable entities like the Salvation Army. unless it relies wholly on donations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

For example, in the sales silo of my former organization, it was common to point to marketing or development as the source of a sales issue, but communication across to these organizations took forever, and agreeing on a common solution was difficult. Sharing the same space also facilitates creativity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The more revolutionary the solution, the more important it is to educate customers on a solution’s existence and value. Multiple decision makers required to close a sale. These fears need to be offset by good marketing, education on benefits, and successful case studies. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

We only operate in Los Angeles County and parts of Ventura County, and from here, we're going to gradually build our network across other areas around Los Angeles as we expand. It's not something that you could put a million dollar infusion or major investment into and be able to skyrocket your business quickly. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Even adding money won’t do it – you need to create a committed and engaged team and partners for marketing and sales, as well as production and distribution. Odeo began as a network where people could find podcasts, but iTunes began taking over the podcast niche. Choose a business model that will win in the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody. You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. A couple of quick stories / examples: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2013

Mommy bloggers are one of the most influential social networking resources that lead to increased awareness and sales. Their influence is strongest in the area of child education, products aimed at children or parents, parenting, and many other family oriented industries. Complete this quick form or email sales@zodiac805.com.

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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. Lack of follow-up after a sale can cost you more customers than poor service or poor quality.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MAY 15, 2011

April 25, 2011, Irvine, Calif — Tech Coast Venture Network (www.tcvn.org) is hosting the OC Technology Influencer Mixer & Summit 2011, an historic two-day event with partners CompTIA, the world’s largest technology association, the Technology Leadership Political Action Committee and Ingram Micro. About TCVN.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. For businesses like this, finding new ways to drive more of these high-value inbound sales calls is key. You’re right.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year. Search Meets Social = Commerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2014

Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, “ The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age ,” and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. Sell yourself as the expert, and business sales will follow. People buy from people, and in a startup, you are the brand.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. We then add things like ratings, and then shipment data.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

on all the computers and established a network using Novell. Don’t forget that long after you forget the CAPM pricing model, how to do regression analysis or how to calculate NPV without a spreadsheet – your network should endure. I am a very big believer in education and especially higher education.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

To start, New Media Expo (NMX) is the first and only industry-wide conference, tradeshow and media event dedicated to blogging, podcasting, social media, social networking, online video, music, Internet TV and radio. Here’s the catch: to qualify, your company MUST be less than two years old and making under $1 million in sales. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age , and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. Sell yourself as the expert, and business sales will follow. People buy from people, and in a startup, you are the brand.

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Entrepreneur Startup Content Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Idea management. Innovation is not a one-time thing.

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Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2019

Technically speaking, in the United States, a non-profit corporation or association is one which has been exempted from Federal income taxes by meeting the criteria set out Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, most notably religious, educational, and charitable entities like the Salvation Army. unless it relies wholly on donations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In the US alone there are 30 billion inbound sales calls every year. Higher education. Calls are changing but not dying. We love to streamline and text people. Not so fast.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Companies want to see their social media investment drive sales.” Close The Sale. Unlike first-generation social media solutions that focus on building awareness at the top of the funnel, Fan Appz’ Personalized Marketing Platform helps brands close the sale. Siegal added,“Social data holds the key.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

But it’s kind of hard to say “don’t plant near the big trees” when you just completed a big sale to Microsoft building an app that they should have created and dominated. This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.).

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