Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Have you set the right price for your entree, and correctly included all costs? You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Domain knowledge and experience is a huge success factor.

Startup 112

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 112

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Some objections are real and they end up becoming changes to your product, your service plan or your pricing / bundling. As a founder, when you’ve been dealing with these kinds of objections for a couple of years it becomes natural and you easily handle objections on price, product & competition without much thought.

Sales 289

Sales Startup Training Pricing 289

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations. Solution development and delivery.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Have you set the right price for your entree, and correctly included all costs? You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Domain knowledge and experience is a huge success factor.

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

With the advent of instant communication and social media, customer service starts at the first hint of interest by you, and never ends for repeat customers. For example, the days are gone when simply replacing a purchase or giving your money back was considered premium service. Technology enhances experience, not impedes it.

Customer 84

Customer Custom Company Companies 84

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Marketing shapes the concept, branding, packaging, pricing, and positioning.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How profitable is my product or service? What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs?

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. I used an analogy I heard from Michael Dougherty (founder of Jelli) recounting what First Round Capital told him, “sometimes you’re on the local train and sometimes you’re on the express train.

Venture Capital 308

Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

The days of pushing new and marginal performers into customer service are gone. A mission of superior customer service is more than words in the board room or words in front of customers. It must be written down, with measurable team objectives, validated by metrics and compared against competition.

Customer 55

Customer Custom Startup Coach 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations. Solution development and delivery.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Have you set the right price for your entrée, and correctly included all costs? You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Domain knowledge and experience is a huge success factor.

Startup 81

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Marketing shapes the concept, branding, packaging, pricing, and positioning.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Most people have heard of Foursquare for local nightlife and Airbnb for rooms, but other nationally recognized sources for local services are still hard to find, including social media, local news, advertising, and event calendars. I still hear often the dream of a free service to users, supported by advertising, per the Facebook model.

Advertising 63

Advertising Content Social Media Satisfaction 63

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Have you set the right price for your entrée, and correctly included all costs? You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Domain knowledge and experience is a huge success factor.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations. Solution development and delivery.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Marketing shapes the concept, branding, packaging, pricing, and positioning.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Marketing shapes the concept, branding, packaging, pricing, and positioning.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Have you set the right price for your entree, and correctly included all costs? You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. then you can start writing a recipe. But don’t practice too long.

Startup 96

Startup Writing Metrics Marketing 96

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

Southern California 150

Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

It’s usually a spreadsheet or PowerPoint (deck) of the upcoming changes to a product or service. We have customers from so many different industries like software, financial services, healthcare, and media. Semick: We’re a very metrics driven company, and we have been from the beginning. I get enough of those from my kids.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2011

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Have you set the right price for your entree, and correctly included all costs? You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. then you can start writing a recipe. But don’t practice too long.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Metrics 91

InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

Professional service providers are incentivized to foster your business, as a portion of the funds you raise will go toward payment of their invoices. Such follow-up are akin to a train whistle. The dynamic of a competitive atmosphere allowed him to sell his cars at their list price while increasing the velocity of the sales process.

Venture Capital 236

Venture Capital Capital Research Customer 236

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

If we rewind to 8 years ago, it was me in San Diego training for my second marathon and I was trying to start another company at the time. Metrics are important for any fitness buff and MapMyFitness does the job well by providing necessary data such as calories burned, distance traveled, time spent on workout, etc.,

Social Media 83

Social Media Activity Startup Help 83

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

It’d been a big year in tech, and the different supporting parts of team TZ – so what better way to kick off the festivities with an inaugural train-bound journey, courtesy of the good people at Amtrak. Erin Chase – Favado , combining price comparisons with grocery shopping.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In all cases, you need customer support, formal processes and training in place. As an entrepreneur, make sure you understand your direct and indirect costs, staffing requirements, margins and metrics to make sure these elements are in place. Product distribution or service delivery. Smart startups have these in place early.

Pricing 100

Pricing Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup 100