Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Join a startup incubator. Are you ready to start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Be willing to work at all organization levels. It also highlights all aspects of required customer service, satisfaction, loyalty and referrals to peers. Many consultants today are hard to contact between scheduled meetings, due to their formal communication processes. Leadership by example works at all levels of a company.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. The thing that fuels this success is the amazing organizations and people from around the world who align and support the mission to build businesses. The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2016

It’s very fashionable these days to declare yourself a social entrepreneur, working for the good of society, the environment and a better life. Most social entrepreneurs don’t like to talk about making money, but often they still ask for help finding investors. federal income tax (Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Join a startup incubator. Are you ready to start?

Entrepreneur 105

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Almost every entrepreneur and new business owner I mentor is certain that his/her idea has a very high probability of success, and all find it hard to believe that ninety percent of startups ultimately fail. I once met with an entrepreneur who had developed a new algae strain to cure world hunger and make him rich.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product. Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Join a startup incubator. Are you ready to start?

Startup 128

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InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

According to Tige Young, Founder and CEO of Tui Tai Expeditions , entrepreneurs should de-emphasize ROI and focus on a more accurate measure of wealth, Return On Life. I became acquainted with Tige, when I was researching examples of exemplary online customer service. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha served a lengthy tenure fulfilling multiple roles at Wells Fargo, most recently as VP of Consumer Financial Services, where she led the mobile payments strategy and implementation for the credit card business. She has created a successful model to bridge entrepreneurs, investors and the federal government.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

According to Tige Young, Founder and CEO of Tui Tai Expeditions , entrepreneurs should de-emphasize ROI and focus on a more accurate measure of wealth, Return On Life. I became acquainted with Tige, when I was researching examples of exemplary online customer service. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Apply for contests and business grants.

Startup 87

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Instead, I worked at a small software startup where I reported directly to the Founder and CEO. The Founder was kind enough to mentor me for several years, allowing me to experience all the roles involved in running a software company, including: sales, marketing, support and product development. Don''t Always Look Up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

They are location aware, which is important in personalizing the service offering. But on the other hand if you have a product with a very high gross margin (software, virtual goods, etc.) Try reading a bunch of reviews, checking 5 different restaurants to try and compare the differences. That’s why Yelp is effective.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. As we know, developers always give their product a code name. A member of the Young Presidents Organization YPO – since 2003. Ernst & Young – World Entrepreneur Awards – FINALIST (Annex 13).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

Perhaps the most misused terms I see these days from entrepreneurs involve CAC (customer acquisition costs) and LTV (life time value) and a lack of understanding these critical components is driving many companies to premature failure. So I spend an inordinate amount of time with entrepreneurs focused on payback. LTV is imprecise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Join a startup incubator. Are you ready to start?

Startup 53

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 53

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The nearly 300 members of TCA collaborate with each other on due diligence and then make individual decisions regarding potential investments. TCA is a not-for-profit organization. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist. Exploit your product and service differences. Now all we hear about is providing the best “customer experience.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

According to the Harvard Business Review , acquiring a new customer is anywhere from five to twenty-five times more expensive than retaining an existing one. Another approach is to add services that are related to your current product line. Problems in any of these areas will stall growth. Pursue strategic alliances and partnerships.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

Al is a repeat entrepreneur, who last founded Integrien, and was SVP and GM at LowerMyBills. As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. We caught up with Al recently to hear about his latest startup.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

Thus, entrepreneurs must consistently balance expanding their bandwidth via delegation with the more efficient, but non-scalable tendency to complete tasks themselves. Due to their lack of practical experience, this delegation/efficiency tradeoff is especially acute with respect to hiring Interns.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks is trying to make that whole part of your life more efficient, and much more manageable and organized for everybody. We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Organizing a group of friends is hard! The Startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

CapLinked lets entrepreneurs focus on what they do best, while making sure their investors always stay in the loop. SimplyEvents is a social media website that enables a community of members to shout out location based events and stay connected by tracking fellow friends, family, public figures, organizers, bands, artists etc.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Entrepreneurs constantly have to capture the attention of larger companies. These people are employed to keep entrepreneurs out, maintain order and reduce disruptions. Fortunately, every organization has multiple points of entry. Review the person’s publicly available information from social media sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

It’s a great survival strategy for small companies or entrepreneurs, and a good expansion strategy for even the largest companies. As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. Possible investor.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. RT @OEInnovation #SBF why I live in #LA: intersection of #beach #tech #entrepreneur #entertainment. & Code Monkey Hackathon song (VIDEO ABOVE). & #celebrity to pull off anything! Kindling’s: L.A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

It’s a great survival strategy for small companies or entrepreneurs, and a good expansion strategy for even the largest companies. As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. Possible investor.

Startup 90

Startup Examples Customer Custom 90

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Tactics which can increase your customers’ lifetime value are discussed in Pour and Stir – Part III. It does not happen.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Folksonomy.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. First, for those not familiar with DreamHost, talk about what your company does?

Software Review 238

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. Marty Zwilling

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