Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. Investors are looking for breakthrough solutions to fund. Take a deeper dive into your idea before you declare.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This is media exposure from a neutral third-party, such as an unpaid news story on your product or service to highlight innovations or social value. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. Earned media. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform. Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success.

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Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2018

Turning these into statements instead of questions provides a framework for the sales presentation from the highest levels of collateral materials and marketing support, to the salesperson on the front line. Is your product or service one that responds to a customer need, real or perceived? An example of how not to do it.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

As I outlined in my talk, I believe the greatest Internet companies created over the past 15 years have been “deflationary” meaning they are driving down the prices or goods & services. An obvious example of this is oDesk. I described that phenomenon in this post. But what else?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This is media exposure from a neutral third-party, such as an unpaid news story on your product or service to highlight innovations or social value. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. Earned media. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This is media exposure from a neutral third-party, such as an unpaid news story on your product or service to highlight innovations or social value. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. Earned media. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This is media exposure from a neutral third-party, such as an unpaid news story on your product or service to highlight innovations or social value. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. Earned media. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power. Continuous customer service innovation. Exceed customer expectations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. ” Here are some examples: 1. It’s just like my book example. Where does it get even grayer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Initially the computer did basic functions like “screen validation” (making sure that you didn’t enter non-sensical data into fields, for example) and could take over functions like compiling your software code so you could check for errors before submitting it to the mainframe. He’s right about this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Our third-party seller business is an example of that. At Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix), our VP of Product and Customer Experience led a number of teams during his seven-year tenure including Professional Services, Customer Service and Product Management. Be Stubborn And Flexible. “We

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In several cases, Association CEO’s are assessing strategies, products, & services as for profit executives do at global enterprises. The underlying premise is that in today’s marketplace “people no longer buy products or services. For example, the Association now: Maintains an Alignment dashboard focused on Industry performance.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

For example, we've been testing out local search for features phones, specifically, and we're starting a click-to-call prototypes, and even doing application marketing. We've been a recognized innovation in Southern California, and we're now ramping our development of compelling consumer products, fueled by accelerator services.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

We then made groupings of the common features of each piece of logic so we could figure out what “shared services&# we could build so that we could have reusable code. I’m never right the first time so I spend time adjusting my frameworks. This is bottom-up planning. But applied correctly and this is golden.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

As revenue comes back from the platforms and services they've monetized that content on, we automate the disbursement of payments to everyone at the same time. An example was Rob Thomas, the Producer of Veronica Mars, where we helped him partner with Kickstarter to help fund the Veronica Mars movie. How did you start the company?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Earlier this year, Nervana began offering its AI technology in the cloud to business customers , using a software-as-a-service model. Nervana says the souped-up capabilities of its Neon software framework enable it to run 10 times faster on Nvidia processors—faster even than Nvidia’s own software framework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2016

For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform. Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. So to give you a concrete example: let’s say you’re considering whether to raise $3 million vs. $5 million. When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. 25% dilution).

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. For example, you can earn points for reducing your speeding, and those points can be redeemed at brick sand mortar and online retailers, and also other reward programs. Tell me about Connected Travel? That's the hard part.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We don’t know just how often this occurs, but judging from the calls we get there are lots of anecdotal examples. A high-performance application will be able to service a large number of requests simultaneously, staying ahead of the incoming demand so that any short-term queuing of requests remains short-term. Framework Benchmarks.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

This could involve moving to a bigger office, readdressing your core data systems or launching new services. The process of building requires hiring smart team members, providing the grounding and standardization of robust processes and services, pushing your business out to market, and setting your targets high.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

A financial model forces you to think through all of the variables that affect the potential profitability of your business from staffing and professional service requirements to sales and marketing costs. For example, when do you expect to start selling your product? Give insight into your business model. Validate your assumptions.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. Explain to me how your service works? and the E.U., Daryl Bernstein: Yeah, we have.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

The names “Embark” and “Journey” relate to how our products are used by companies who have distributed workforces that go out to all sorts of places “in the field” where they provide services. As an example, Banking Machine Services is a company that maintains thousands of ATMs across Southern Africa.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

While we entertain startup strategies such as being lean or agile, it’s impossible to ignore that, for example, LA has a culture of entertainment , Nashville that of music , New York, a culture of finance and fashion , and Silicon Valley, indeed, a culture of disruptive innovation. Web based shipping service Ordoro.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

We found that when a consumer is downloading a piece of software--for example, a photo editing application, we could actually make a recommendation to the user via the installer. For example, if they're downloading a photo editing tool, we can recommend a good photo storage service or photo plug-in that works with that software.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Here are two examples. Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. Having a clear purpose adds some real meaning to your work, and a cause that people can rally around.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

Operating in this space, Ryan and James were essentially at ground zero for working with the ones who created the crowdfunding framework. ” And in the same vein, neither is SeedInvests’ services. Where SeedInvest Sprouted. Ryan reminds us: “Remember, crowdfunding from angel investors isn’t for everyone.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For example, Waze tapped into its community during Hurricane Sandy to help the White House and FEMA identify which gas stations had power. The service is currently available in five markets with more to come this year. How important are services to the mobile app economy? years, I’d hope we’ve learned something.”

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

This includes support for Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and over a dozen additional services. Look for the link that says "Create a basic application" - this will allow you to try the service for free. A Helpful Login Class Some code examples are provided by JanRain Engage. We can come back and add some more later.

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