Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Many of you have read or at least know the primary thesis of “ Crossing the Chasm &# the seminal book on marketing your products to mainstream consumers by Geoffrey Moore. We like to use new product and gain benefits before our peers. It influenced a generation of tech marketers. We are evangelists.

Marketing 294

Marketing Customer Custom Technical Review 294

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Refer a friend? Are there specific landing pages? Arbitrary new pages? Lists of pages in the interface? What has been captured so far?

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Jeremy Gocke: With Fliptu, we're aiming to fix the disjointed media and product discovery process for consumers and brands. I like to refer to that as the ultimate brand fan page, or to take the example from the apparel industry, where I come from, a virtual look book for a brand. What is Fliptu? The numbers tell the story.

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Refer a friend? Are there specific landing pages? Arbitrary new pages? Lists of pages in the interface? What has been captured so far?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2018

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships. This is where most business relationships start and remain.

Startup 93

Startup Guide Help Course 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. For reference, here is a quick summary of key elements which most investors include in their due diligence process: Key personnel review. Status of the solution.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. In your VC pitch your PR page should take no longer than 30 seconds – Wait. Many entrepreneurs have a PR page in the PowerPoint deck. PR is subtle. Again, I reiterate, it IS important.

Venture Capital 291

Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships. This is where most business relationships start and remain.

Startup 97

Startup Guide Help Course 97

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. I was not disapointed. No doubt, he did.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

According to Patrick Vlaskovits another proselytizer of the term, “Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit.”. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it. It’s the whole conversion flow.

Hulu 111

Hulu Startup Social Media Organization 111

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Most entrepreneurs I know are too busy creating a compelling product to give proper focus to the four phases of building a people and media platform that Hyatt says are equally critical for long-term success: Platform creation prior to launch. Building your home base with personal and product traction. Their startups will get noticed.

Platform 105

Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I wasn’t feeling it.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2012

Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.” This model only works once you have exceeded about one million page-views per month, and spent maybe $50 million to get there. It’s the electronic version of a catalog and shopping cart, and today rarely involves any stock of product. eCommerce model.

Startup 95

Startup Customer Custom Summary 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Most entrepreneurs I know are too busy creating a compelling product to give proper focus to the four phases of building a people and media platform that are equally critical for long-term success: Platform creation prior to launch. Building your home base with personal and product traction. Using the platform to expand your reach.

Startup 104

Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

These highly-regarded workshops teach business professionals the science of usability which ensures that websites, applications or physical products do what they are supposed to do and that their users can succeed with whatever tasks these products are designed to help with. October 13: Usable Usability — Lean UX starts right here.

Culver City 105

Culver City Design Content Writing 105

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

When I shoed up with a few pages of conceptual, early stage ideas around consumer finance, it was immediately captivating, and it really lined up with what he wanted to do. That's compared to other financial products, which are designed for managing money, and just feel like work. There are three main components of the product.

Startup 197

Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Referring Traffic / Press. Each individual piece of content should have its own distinct URL(title tag), and a unique title (H1 tag) for the page that search engines can read and index. Increase the production of your content.It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”.The

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

We create a profile page, which allows referrals to be sent out, to allow businesses to request things from their customers. But, the real value is from the consumer side, because we allow individuals to talk to and refer businesses to their friends, and just to their circle of friends. How far is the product?

Startup 193

Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.” This model only works once you have exceeded about one million page-views per month, and spent maybe $50 million to get there. It’s the electronic version of a catalog and shopping cart, and today rarely involves any stock of product. eCommerce model.

Ideas 92

Ideas Startup Customer Custom 92

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2015

Friends and relatives can also help you by referring you to prospective customers. Create pages for your business on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and any other social sites that are used by potential customers. A good website allows you to sell your products and services online. Know Your Target Clients.

Tips 40

Tips Advertising Training Customer 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

I hunted for their Twitter handle and their Facebook page. These same people love In-N-Out, as I do, but simply can no longer eat a burger a week (yes, I’m referring to me) as they have realized the harm this can do to their health. I switched to Earth’s Best bio-friendly product and guess what happened next?

Social Media 214

Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2013

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships. This is where most business relationships start and remain.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Startup Guide Help 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2015

Every new baby gets a name before it is introduced to the world, and yet some entrepreneurs continue to send me business plans with TBD (to be determined) in place of a business name on the front page. They don’t realize that the name they choose, or lack of it, sets an initial perception of the business that may override all of its value.

Social Media 103

Social Media Customer Custom Startup 103

InfoChachkie

MARCH 14, 2012

His logo, not the blank page, is what represented “a hundred thousand bucks down the drain.”. After much debate, the company agrees on their number one priority: to deliver a compelling product to the higher-education market by the Spring of 1987. And that is by what our product is and how timely we bring it to market.

Startup 229

Startup Press Design Marketing 229

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

By prints, I am referring to anything that hangs on a wall, whether that's a framed photo, framed canvas, acrylic. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and. the payroll.

Santa Monica 258

Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Their SaaS product saves web developers and designers time, while allowing them to create cutting-edge websites. These early adopters pride themselves in creating web pages that are not only functional, but also elegant and aesthetically pleasing. Geo was a lightly veiled reference to Geocities, a Web 1.0

Customer 195

Customer Custom Template Startup 195

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation. It was a question of build versus buy.

Media 162

Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I will also demonstrate how various techniques can vastly improve app performance, such as localStorage and Single Page Web Apps. Single Page Web Apps – JavaScript MVC Frameworks and Prototypical ASP.NET MVCResponsive single page web applications are becoming the norm instead of the exception.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.&# Will they? Don’t be surprised if your logs don’t show that the partner has been using your product. They just had some time and found your product interesting). The Day After (the waiting game begins).

Venture Capital 277

Venture Capital Startup Email News 277

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Referring Traffic / Press. Each individual piece of content should have its own distinct URL(title tag), and a unique title (H1 tag) for the page that search engines can read and index. Increase the production of your content. The more pages indexed, the more traffic you will get. Search Engines. Social Media.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Their SaaS product saves web developers and designers time, while allowing them to create cutting-edge websites. These early adopters pride themselves in creating web pages that are not only functional, but also elegant and aesthetically pleasing. Geo was a lightly veiled reference to Geocities, a Web 1.0

Customer 153

Customer Custom Template Startup 153

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

They’ll make reference calls, call other players in the sector (always being explicit why they’re calling), talk to more team members from the company we’re looking at and do a deep dive on the business model and/or product. Check the management / team page of the VC to check the level of the person approaching you.

Venture Capital 294

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Email Equity 294

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Fourth floor - real, same-page connection. I recommend that you use the top floor or penthouse as the reference point to think about your own business relationships. This is where most business relationships start and remain.

Startup 81

Startup Guide Entrepreneur Help 81

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Try something like, “the product costs X dollars, and we sell it for Y dollars.” This model only works once you have exceeded about one million page-views per month, and spent maybe $50 million to get there. It’s the electronic version of a catalog and shopping cart, and today rarely involves any stock of product.

Startup 48

Startup Customer Custom Summary 48