Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

I’m a big fan of first creating a real business plan, with five-year financial projections, to convince yourself and investors that you have done your homework. Especially today, when more companies are willing to work through outsourcing, freelancing, and contracting. In these cases, you both win by expanding the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. When globalization or technology shrinks distances (Internet), painful missing needs become evident, and opportunities abound. The impact of global instability.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

Among my favorites were Thanks for Being Late (Thomas Friedman), The Alchemist (Paul Coehlo), The Virgin Way (Richard Branson), Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk), The Five Dysfuntions of a Team (Patrick Lencionithanks Peter Lamson) and The Mamba Mentality (Kobe Bryant). As a result I was able read a lot more this yeara record 32 books.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. There's a frustration in the market, because the Internet doesn't work as well as it could.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Most of the solutions in our market are for lots of doctors, and are on-premise solutions, and are really designed for bigger physician groups and hospitals. It''s easy to use, portable, quick to implement, and it''s now being used by more than 20,000 doctors, which is five percent of the U.S. doctors in small offices.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend a small fortune to protect it before I perform any market validation. Once you prove that a substantial, addressible market segment is willing to pay a price for your solution that exceeds your costs, you can consider a licensing strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer. At the same time, you can never let up on the work and the sweat required for continuous innovation, exemplary customer satisfaction, and staying ahead of competitors: Marketing is a never-ending challenge. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2013

examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn. Here are five key post-recession strategies that both of us recommend to all of you: Pursue repeat business. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. I was there for five years, helping them to rebuild their technology from a legacy system, and use cloud-based technology. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. My cofounder and I came up with this concept, and had been talking for awhole about how fragmented the overall market is for online ordering. We did not anticipate that in terms of what we needed to adapt our product to the market.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

Evan Britton: I''m an Internet market guru. I love the web and love Internet marketing. We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Google will syndicate ads to a site with five visitors or 50 million visitors, the challenge really is getting good quality traffic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2012

examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn. Here are five key recession recovery strategies that both of us recommend to all of you: Pursue repeat business. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

For those who may be living under a rock and have no idea what SXSWi is, its five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Scaling thru Outsourcing. Marketing: Beyond the Buzzword: Reality of Direct-to-Fan (TopSpin, PledgeMusic, etc.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer. At the same time, you can never let up on the work and the sweat required for continuous innovation, exemplary customer satisfaction, and staying ahead of competitors: Marketing is a never-ending challenge. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

We had more than 700 resumes, short-listed 65, interviewed 16 in one-hour meetings had 6 full-day interviews including a presentation by the candidate on a selected market opportunity and we did 3 finalist dinners to test cultural fit. THE FIVE C’S. MBA fine, but not required. It’s either part of the DNA or it’s not.

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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. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

At the time, when we were an agency, it was quite a crowded market. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

When I get funded,” the entrepreneur thinks, “I can build a prototype, hire a development team, go to market, scale more quickly, and beat my competition.” If you raise an angel round consisting of five investors who put in $100K each, that’s five people you have to answer to. All problems will go away.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

If you look at the numbers from Comscore, we are doing about half the number of uniques that Maker is doing, but we''re doing it with only five channels, versus their 50 thousands channels. Collectively, we now have a billion and a half views, and we have nearly six million subscribers to our channels, and 450 million views a month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

As a current Angel investor, I can attest that any investments in startups are more risky than the commodity markets, and you shouldn’t expect to see any return for five years. This is not a get-rich-quick vehicle for consumers. Proceed at your own peril. Good-cause crowd funding. Software crowd sourcing.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

John Tomich: We've been around for five years. The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

We can’t undo the last five years… but we can make smart, massive investments in the climate infrastructure of the future,” wrote Donnel Baird, the chief executive and founder of BlocPower. The Biden Harris Climate announcement is literally a plan to save the American economy and save the planet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2010

examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn. Here are five key recession recovery strategies that both of us recommend: Pursue repeat business. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

One in five emails can go missing, and that's complicated by the way the Internet hands off emails from web applications to the end user. This is one of those services that when you create a new company, it makes sense to outsource things. It can be deceptively easy to set up your own, SMTP server, to send email on behalf of that app.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist.

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Frank Addante

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Starting five companies, I have been fortunate to have worked with many different types of people. A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. My next five posts will be focused on 5 tips that I put together for dealing with the tech resource challenge: 1. Outsourcing 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

For example, at any given moment in your business, you may be limited by development, marketing, or sales. Evaluate outsourcing as a quick solution to break the constraint. Smart entrepreneurs make these five steps an iterative process and a way of life, attacking one growth constraint after another.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. My postings will start with a quick synopsis on each of my first five startups. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. Build your own Startup Death Clock - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , November 1, 2010 A few months ago I created a fun device at WPEngine to focus everyone's attention the most important thing. This post is an accusation.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I connected a market (very cold people) with a solution (very warm cars) and after that, there was no turning back. A BIG THANK YOU.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 9, 2010 This is Part 3 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.? Novel and creative campaigns like the recent YouTube campaign from Old Spice purportedly demonstrate the power of social in marketing. If you do a lot of pitches, spend the six minutes to watch this.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. What about outsourcing?

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