Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2017

But very few are talking about how to measure your results and return on investment (ROI), and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. Measuring message delivery in social media is a lot like measuring it in classic advertising, so classic metrics apply. Get attention and reach your audience. Project the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, only a few people today still think of Amazon as an online provider of books and related goods, now that they have exploded their business world-wide into every product arena, added web services (AWS), television and film production (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain (Whole Foods), and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2013

But very few are talking about how to measure your results, and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. Jim Sterne, who has written many books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his book titled " Social Media Metrics."

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren''t indicative of the long term.”. If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase. Web-based businesses must compete in the blinding light of total transparency.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. The real question you should be asking is "When I've built this product and show you the following metrics, would you invest?" Investors demand more than that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization. Incorporate AI-powered data and metrics systems. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers. They help hiring managers raise the bar for every interview.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

I was recently asked by an organization, "Tony, what topics can you cover?" Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

how should you organize teams in a startup? 8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. what is the difference between a “pivot” or a “double dribble” (changing your business completely)? 00:45 Intro to Eric.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Michele Ruiz: BiasSync provides a solution for companies, state and federal agencies, school districts, and organizations to assess and manage unconscious bias in the workplace. You have to have at least fifty people in an organization, because the reason is we provide anonymized, aggregated data. What is BiasSync?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? How can we address this risk? Accounting?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Now, if your web site is not clear and clean, or you don’t have a chat robot for a product question online, you may be abandoned as providing poor customer service, just as certainly as having to wait in a long product exchange line after the holidays. The marketing metrics covers support as part of experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. I’m starting to spend my time evaluating companies that can help brands simultaneously build within the fortress but also maintain social value in the open web. On the open web.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com), which develops web application firewall software, just inked a big, $35M series C funding round a few weeks ago, and now has plans to dramatically expand its hiring in Los Angeles. They have helped to continue to scale the organization.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. Since we started our free site last week, we've organically grown faster than we ever thought we would. We now have around 500,000 businesses, and 1 million by the end of the week, where people can check in and get points.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In this case, if enough people enter your organization with a self-serving mindset, such people will eventually dictate that selfish behavior is the norm and it will become part of the de facto culture. But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren’t indicative of the long term.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Kai taught me that the key metric to whether a sales process is going well is “engagement.” I tried it, it worked incredibly well and meeting with people (in person, in a web conference or on the phone) is ALWAYS better for you to understand their buyer needs and them to better understand you.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2010

According to its web site, Concern helps those with the most extreme cases of poverty. Last year, Twestival Global raised about $250,000 for Charity Water ; a non-profit organization who’s mission is to bring clean and safe water for people in developing nations. The event also brought about 17,000 people together around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Since then, the monthly subscription model has become the norm for a wide range of products and services, from web applications, to hardware, and services of all types. Selling products to education organizations, or the government, is never simple. They know you exist, but any change is painful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2013

Of course, for a price, there are many marketing organizations and gurus willing to come to your aid. Use social media in concert with a web site and offline media. entrepreneur startup metrics marketing sales business' The planning is done, and now it’s time to execute. Pursue and intrigue prospects who respond. Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The whole point of delegating investment decisions to a GP is to empower them to organize their firm to win deals and get stuff done. Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Quality tech news from around the web.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. There are lots of things you can do with data if you can clearly organize it. How do you generate all of your data? Thanks, and good luck!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. Define relevant metrics and measure. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? That same post said that finding part-time, consulting CTOs is fairly hard. How can we address this risk?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. Define relevant metrics and measure. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. Define relevant metrics and measure. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

The answer was yes, and we also saw that we could begin to play at web scale, be hosted in the cloud, be scalable in an extensive way. We then actually went to the leader, Amazon, and we're in the web services group. We're working on how quickly we can provision servers, and what those metrics are, and it's been fantastic.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

Dell announced over a year ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. Define relevant metrics and measure. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

On the other hand, when looking up the ‘user experience’ definition, it has a different set of authors and is very web focused. see it as the end-all-be-all when they are still looking at target groups and traditional metrics. ” What’s harming the business? .”

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's the idea behind the site?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. We worked with an enterprise web analytics application that was very, very expensive and very, very complicated. Tell us how you got the name?

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