Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Customer conversations are easy today, through responding to customers on social media, web live chats, and interactive applications on mobile devices. Try to close on a sale transaction too early. They don’t realize that customers today are looking for relationships, meaning two-way conversations with your business.

Marketing 91

Marketing Examples Startup Custom 91

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

As much of the world has shifted to mobile, smartphones are an important way to reach consumers. However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. The report notes that in general, the companies that prioritize mobile had modest budgets.

Mobile 40

Mobile Sites Custom Customer 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. Quigo set up a system on specific web pages.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. Write it down….

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App).

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

Curtis is the former publisher of the Robb Report, which he sold back in 2015, and has a long history of operating media companies that have published such titles as Home Office Computing, Home Theater, Mobile Computing, Worth, and many others. Talk about what CurtCo is working on? That's what we want to be here.

Media 150

Media Report Advertising Content 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. That ended up as a $200 million sale to Microsoft.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William Chow: What Mobophiles has developed is software that solves the two biggest problems the web space right now, which is slow page load--waiting on the web--and no offline access, which is if you don't have connectivity on the web. It's completely transparent to the web sites we are supporting.

SaaS 127

SaaS Web Google Sites 127

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

It shouldn’t be the place where they ask why you have 8 sales reps and not 6. The best strategy is to let the board member ask his or her question, write it down, tell them it’s a good question and one you’re happy to spend time with them explaining after the meeting but that your goal for today is to address the bigger issue of X.

Guide 196

Guide Startup Metrics Conference 196

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Us passengers book a ride via a mobile app and are able to track how close the drivers are plus see their photo beforehand so we don’t get into ‘cars with strangers’. One way to use videos to increase sales is uploading them to YouTube. In San Francisco they have more economical options like Lyft and Sidecar; think Airbnb.

Startup 77

Startup Conference Google Web 77

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Beast Mobile (Kirkland, WA). How will Beast Mobile cut down the cost of your ever-increasing cell phone bill? Targeted mobile advertising. These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics. Think of looking at a dot graph of your business sales in virtual reality.

Startup 79

Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Personalize a simple web site. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers, or a mobile smartphone app. A simple example might be a mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Something to write your notes, another to set reminders, and one that does both. No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon. We’ve been there. We’ve all been there.

Product 99

Product Ideas Email Organization 99

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. They have built algorithms that automatically crawl the web for the world’s best structured data and use heuristic techniques to ensure the quality of the data.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves. Tim Cadogan: At its root, it's pretty simple. We do that in basically two ways. Tim Cadogan: It's two things.

OpenX 242

OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge. Just as in the mobile battle when Apple goes closed it creates an opportunity for somebody that is substantively open. Imagine how much mobile telco money still exists in meat & potatoes.

Content 386

Content Google Media Hulu 386

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. ThinkNear helps you target mobile ads to consumers at precise locations.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? Every web product ultimately has a bunch of user flows contained within it. See the books I recommend to friends.

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Startup IP Email Report 29