Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

Based on their years of experience as successful executives and productivity consultants, they and I agree that focusing on these key positive elements will more likely get you the accountability you desire: Set clear and high standards of performance. Provide coaching and training on ownership discipline. Moran and Michael Lennington.

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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.

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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. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground. Status of the solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

In that critical first minute, no one needs to hear that you have a passionate dream of changing the world, introducing new disruptive technology, or a product with more features than competitors. Focus on quantifiable and relevant specifics, such as “reduces your cost by 40 percent,” or “increases productivity by 50 percent.”

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Southern California Edison Blog

APRIL 21, 2020

Network speeds are closely tied to an organization’s ability to stay productive and remain competitive and profitable at all times. In a world shifting to a work-from-home reality, employees using VPNs to access secure data remotely require networks with enough bandwidth to prevent slow page speeds and general downtime.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

From a marketing marketing perspective, that allows filmmakers to quickly and easily promote their films through social media and build a fan base, and incentivize fans to support their films by offering access to exclusive content, livestream video chats, and production updates, as an example. That's great training for the startup world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Brad Phillips entrepreneur media training meet the press startup'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

In the IAB study that revealed the graph above, brand advertisers indicated that their number one objective in online advertising was “creating awareness&# followed by “creating purchase intent&# or “likelihood to recommend&# the product. It shows that our eyes are trained to focus on the text, not the ads.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Give them the iPod not Microsoft Office products. I would then have as many pages of analysis as required to show the detailes of my review. If you can pick up a product and use it with no manual it is well designed. I review many products every week. Leave the audience wanting to learn more. Less is more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. How to respond to media in a crisis.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. I almost don’t want to tell you because I love the product and would love for them to stay under the radar screen from investors. Nobody had any sound logic on why Klout would be successful. 500px is in Toronto.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Continuous improvement applies to the business model as well as the product. Every team member needs the motivation, training and authority to make day-to-day decisions without review and approval. In operationally excellent businesses, productivity and results are measured at every step in the value chain, not just at the end.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. If you look at the career sites and pages out there right now, they look like they were built a decade ago. Among those is accessibility of the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

For example, as a potential investor, I regularly see business plans that lead with pages on the technology, and only abstractly relate to customer value and improving the total customer experience. Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product. All team members must share the same mission, vision or core values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

Another approach is to diversify and broaden the product lines and services. My take on all this is that entrepreneurs see some light at the end of the tunnel, and the light is no longer a freight train heading straight at them. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

A good answer might be “We have several patents on the base technology, which is so robust that we expect to roll out new products every year for the next ten years, always staying a step ahead of our competitors.” Remember that cars compete with trains, so alternative solutions, or doing nothing, are real competition. “We

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2016

The most effective and productive team members are positive, driven and want to be measured by results rather than hear work hours, perks or stock options. Here are the key process steps I recommend Create a one-page job description on the position you want to fill. Provide required team integration, training and ongoing coaching.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2015

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. Learn as much as you can about each customer and their current product or service providers online. Know Your Target Clients.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

They recommend up-sells and cross-sells of products. Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. Banner ads were never very effective on web pages so it baffles me that it’s the preferred method of advertising today on mobile devices.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The sign up page for the event is here & there is limited availability. It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. Consider some simple examples.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

There was an opportunity to capture htose advertiser dollars, and do it by serving up a product that was compelling to both advertisers and consumers. That makes the model for content work a little better than just breaking news, where someone just comes in for one page and leaves. Investment banking was a great training ground.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground. Status of the solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2010

A good answer might be “We have several patents on the base technology, which is so robust that we expect to roll out new products every year for the next ten years, always staying a step ahead of our competitors.” Remember that cars compete with trains, so alternative solutions, or doing nothing, are competition. “We

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

Play it in the background while you otherwise remain productive (or listen to it while you update your FB page, your call). In real-world training scenarios (over two weeks), on the phone selling, we cut 75% of them. Click here to listen to the Audio File. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Paige’s responses.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. “I ended up on the front page of the Business Section of the Financial Times. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime. Do product meetings yourself. ” 6.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Now I don’t get any.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Understand Personality Types – One of the benefits of working for a big company (Accenture) was that we had lots of speakers come in and train us in topics like leadership, creativity, presentations, strategy, etc. We had a training session from somebody who put up the four-quadrant graph you see above. Most of them sucked.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2015

It’s really easy to manage, to understand and to train your employees. Bindo takes any complexities and simplifies it for the user; leading to less training time for employees and a great user experience. No overcrowding of buttons and features on each page, just a smooth and sleek layout for users.

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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. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

It’s a bedrock assumption in American economic policy that innovation and entrepreneurship drive job growth and lead to greater productivity, efficiency, consumer choice, and wealth. To that end, Democrats say they will invest in “high-quality STEAM classes” (STEM plus Arts) and computer science training, among other priorities.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. The training becomes “adaptive.&#. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Assistly’s main competitor is ZenDesk, whom I’m told also has a great product. 12.5mm in Series C. 2.2mm in Series A.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Despite the importance of creativity, there seems to be almost no focus on teaching it, encouraging it, training at it & incorporating it into our daily routines. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. I rewrote the page 7-10 times.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

JULY 20, 2010

For an introverted person, it turned out to be a fun and productive process. Within the past two years, I discussed the topic of networking with multiple people and I received generous feedback from the attendees of my workshops and training sessions. I find myself thriving on building relationships and helping others. Manal Richa.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Sites like Amazon.com are good at fulfilling products, but I want to learn from other people who are passionate about being green, who are interested in helping and sharing with other people. My son was learning about things in school, talking about global warming, and I read the first two pages of a book by Paul Hawken, and it sold me.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Determine a pricing system for your product(s). Hire and train salespeople. List your products on online marketplaces.

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