Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Ever wish you could run your own, internal "YouTube" site for your business? Orange-based media storage provider Apace Systems said this morning that it has shipped an appliance product which allows companies, schools, governments, and others to create their own private YouTube site. Now you can. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

It would not be handling the expensive hardware that is part of its required sale at all, other than to recommend alternatives and charge for coordinating the purchases of differing supplier products, oversee the installation. What if the hardware manufacturer had serious problems with product quality on site?

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JUNE 8, 2011

In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team.

Technical Review 118

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Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

Not at all, a direct sales force is the most expensive channel to take a product to market. To sell enterprise software, sales employees are trained to sell through channels. Then, enterprise sales managers assemble pricing rules to ensure their pricing integrity is protected and all channels have a level playing field.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Specialized services, such as accounting, require skilled people, training, and tools, and do not scale well. Minimize one-time sales in your business model. Global considerations include culture differences and translation.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you. There is a rather new term for those large, individual investors who are usually former entrepreneurs made rich through sale of their previous ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We're here to help them solve the problem of compliance and retail policy enforcement, and to understand what people are saying about their products next to their buy buttons, what kind of reviews they are getting, and to understand other things that influence sales. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For our interview today, we sat down with Kevin Anderson , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), the developer of a cloud based enterprise point of sale solutions for venues and events. What does Appetize do? We're really an enterprise solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s always tempting to think that more product variations will satisfy more customers and lead to new sales. 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. Daily updates from the top and documented processes are critical.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

And a natural sales person. There were online tools to book this stuff but the Internet booking sites were early. When he was 7-8 my wife used to sit down with him to do homework and train him the importance of getting it done early and well. ” Great sales people are trained to “ask for the order.”

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Their executive training program was unparalleled, providing a sturdy foundation for young and highly motivated buyers. What factors led you to consider augmenting your retail channel with direct, online sales? Muther: We were very careful when launching our first eCommerce site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Training and coaching. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions. Idea management. Build and manage a pipeline of ideas. Observe and measure.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Does this look like a Facebook page, or is this a separate site? Jeremy Gocke: Fliptu is a separate site and community. Right now, we're a strictly Facebook Connect site, where what we're trying to do is to enable consumers to pull in all of their interests and likes into a single dashboard. It was the same issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Too many business owners still think of “ customer support ” as an after-sale process to rectify customer problems with completed transactions. Customers expect you to provide access via their mobile devices, as well as being responsive to sales and support questions on social media and multiple Internet channels and partners at their whim.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. Demand Media. The now-public. The company recently reported record. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Training and coaching. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions. Idea management. Build and manage a pipeline of ideas. Reward your people.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. What is the site all about? I originally started a local coupon site for my Irvine neighborhood, CheapIrvine, where we were distributing 15,000 coupons a month. How did DealPerk.com come about?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2019

Provide training and mentoring directed at career growth. Employees need to see career growth and investment in the people around them, and feel all have access to the training and guidance to get the same opportunities. Enable employee or customer shared ownership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

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Frank Addante

MAY 9, 2012

Would you ever go to your sales team and say? Enterprise software is a completely different world when it comes to sales. Not at all, a direct sales force is the most expensive channel to take a product to market. In enterprise software people are trained on selling through channels. It’s just like hiring a new sales rep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). Training and coaching. They benchmark their ideas against competition, use metrics to track acceptance, sales growth, and return on investment. Net result and reward.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

They''re mostly C level executives, and households with incomes of over $200,000 a year, which makes advertisers on our site such as Neiman Marcus, LVMH, Mercedes, Ritz Carlton, and Mandarin Oriental a big component of our business. We''re aggressively hiring, which is great news for the local industry, in marketing, sales, and engineering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In the move to online commerce, one of the latest areas of interest by online retailers has been the use of online video, to showcase products and provide training and instruction. The specific experience of the consumer is a video instruction guide, which is either on a manufacturer's web site, a retailer's website, or on a smart phone.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

million for a social networking site 18 months ago. It was 2003 and I was training for a marathon so I was in great shape (yes, I know this was YEARS ago but I did complete it in 3:57). I was looking for a person to head up my UK sales team. But as a sales person you have to be able to build rapport. You raised $1.5

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JULY 28, 2014

Editor''s note: we''re cross posting this on our Texas site, as Fonality is split between Culver City and Plano, Texas. Typically we have one owner, and they have three offices, and lots of really young sales people. You can even listen in, as a training technique, to those calls. What does Fonality do?

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MARCH 1, 2013

The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. We knew there’s a better personal training experience to be had, so we set out to create one. We just found this hole in the fitness industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2015

Social sites are a great way to advertise your business. Create pages for your business on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and any other social sites that are used by potential customers. You also need to have a business website or optimize your current site. Perfect Your Pitch. Collaboration.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The project was to recapture energy from rolling stock, and placing trackside flywheels mostly near the station, so that the power recaptured from rolling stock could be used to accelerate that train, or the next train. This was deployed at some customer sites, was it not?

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. For those who haven't visited your site, what is FitOrbit? Thanks for talking with us.

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