Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Specialized services, such as accounting, require skilled people, training, and tools, and do not scale well.

Outsource Development

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. You don’t have enough hours in a day, or trained people, to succeed with lower margins in a services startup. Capture your “secret sauce.” Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. You don’t have enough hours in a day, or trained people, to succeed with lower margins in a services startup. Capture your “secret sauce.” Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

Services

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. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

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. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. You don’t have enough hours in a day, or trained people, to succeed with lower margins in a services startup. Capture your “secret sauce.” Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

Services

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

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. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees.

Demand

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2014

Outsourcing can be an extremely cost-effective solution here. Unless you are a trained lawyer, you are unlikely to have the appropriate level of specialized knowledge on all the issues you will need to address. You’ll also be able to measure your progress versus your budget and financial plan from day one.

Startup

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

What that means, in today's world, is even though everyone is totally connected, through Facbeook and thousands of other types of social media, everyone now feels alone and disconnected. They do not have people who are trained to think about what the experience is for the customer on the other side. That's a big mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. You don’t have enough hours in a day, or trained people, to succeed with lower margins in a services startup. Capture your “secret sauce.” Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

Services

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

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. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees.

Demand

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

Today’s generation is accustomed to relationships via social media and texting, as long as social protocols are honored. Provide training and empowerment. Outsourcing your support team to a far-away country and culture is not the way to start.

Customer

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Create and manage your social media presence. Hire and train salespeople. Master social media marketing. If outsourced development is needed, use Guru or Elance. Create your website ( WordPress , Intuit , Weebly , Wix , SiteKreator , GoDaddy ). Get business cards and other physical collateral ( Vistaprint ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

People with the wrong tools or no training. It’s no secret that some people are more productive than others, due to skills, training, or commitment. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Excessive support and return activities.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). Dec 26, 2009). The Dry Run. didn’t sleep that night. was scared and nervous. Developer.

Startup

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. Staff all customer interactions with experienced people.

Customer

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

We believe there are awesome entrepreneurs everywhere, not just in the places constantly covered by the media. Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. We want to help them, and will.

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