Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology.

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Technology High Tech Startup Social Media 87

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

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

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Ineffective and expensive marketing campaigns. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house. Outsourcing is an expensive solution for poor planning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Use marketing, blogging, and industry conferences to get the message out. The trend toward more remote work, flexible work hours, and outsourcing can eliminate productive work relationships and communication between functions. Building and maintaining a winning work culture is no longer just a function of the office.

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Satisfaction Outsource Study Platform 108

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.

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Startup Training Services Writing 111

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.

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Startup Training Services Writing 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Use the cloud and subscriptions for computing technology. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. You can optimize your website and spread your marketing messages across the world through the Internet.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Commerce Social Media 104

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2014

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are falling deeper and deeper in the hole. Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology.

High Tech 103

High Tech Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 103

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2016

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology.

High Tech 58

High Tech Startup Social Media Entrepreneur 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

This exemplary customer service is just savvy marketing. Self-service technologies, social media, and smart phones have created a new set of expectations for high-tech consumers today. Anticipate this, and use today’s technology to make the experience seamless. You probably won’t get a second chance.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: OceanX is a technology platform, and a company, solely focused on physical subscriptions. 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. That's a big mistake. But that's an illusion.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Emerging Technology: Mobile Engagement: Reaching the Connected Consumer (Miller PR, Avatar Labs). Scaling thru Outsourcing. Marketing: Beyond the Buzzword: Reality of Direct-to-Fan (TopSpin, PledgeMusic, etc.). Social Media: My Social Community is Bigger than Michael Jordan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.

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Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The days are gone when a techie or a genius could build things in his garage and customers would find and buy the product, based purely on the “wow factor” of the technology. New technologies are everywhere today. People have seen so much that they are blasé, or actually fear pure technology. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 111

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.

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Services Startup Training Writing 105

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

Lee Essner: Jukin Media starts with the assumption that you can take any video viral. We have a team of people and technology which scours the Internet, and looks for videos we like and think would be a perfect fit for our Youtube channels. We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral.

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Technology Council

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Offshore Outsourcing is Dying…Long Live Hybrid Nearshore. Here are quick links to the feature articles in this issue: Magnify360 Wins VentureNet Best Of Show 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Building Your Startup “Out Of The Box” PR Tactics. 4 Rules For Email Design In [.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

Since we live in a technical age and since businesses are essentially fueled by technology, it is vital to know who to call on when you need one thing or another. There are various tech savvy groups of people that can assist businesses in their development, implementation and use of technology. Technology.

Web 40

Web Cloud Computing Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio is the founder, and was 30 years old with no background in technology when she started the company. She also had to learn every aspect of running a technology business on her own, teaching herself the necessary skills (social media, SEO, design, some light coding, etc) by simply Googling it.

Design 84

Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. 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.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 1, 2013

Perhaps some insider knowledge on problem-solving, hiring the right engineer, scaling, outsourcing or even footage of Silicon Valley. If that sounds pretty far removed from the actual start-up technology world — wait, it gets worse. And that is just the first episode. It goes downhill from there.

Startup 90

Startup Technical Review Software Review Outsource Development 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

Startup 126

Startup Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Offshore 126

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Outsource services back to the customer. Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. Force original intent thinking. Explore the negative space of possibility.

Entrepreneur 158

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Design 158

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2017

In my role as an advisor to you as an entrepreneur, I always recommend that you move to a more proactive customer service strategy, to include interactive social media campaigns, self-service options on your website, and personalized handling of unique requests. Think “pull” marketing rather than “push” for all services.

Customer 95

Customer Custom Services Technical Review 95

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review IBM 87

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Outsource services back to the customer. Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. Force original intent thinking. Explore the negative space of possibility.

Startup 105

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Ideas 105

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.

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 9, 2010 This is Part 3 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.?

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

Startup 102

Startup Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Offshore Startup Technical Review 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

Offshore 55

Offshore Technical Review Entrepreneur IBM 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2016

Outsource services back to the customer. Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. Force original intent thinking. Explore the negative space of possibility.

Startup 57

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Ideas 57

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Peter Yoder, my long-time film producer, wanted to get involved so we start up Rocksauce Studios to focus on making beautiful, distinctive applications which gave users what they wanted and had a chance to succeed in the market place. What are your thoughts on the exploding mobile industry? Mobile does that. Refinement.

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 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. - First Principles.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

Their expectations of relationship and personalization are taxing businesses today, and their power through social media will kill those who can’t or won’t comply. They are not hesitant to engage the crowd through social media and sites like Yelp to drive you from the marketplace.

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Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 97