Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

That’s a win-win-win deal, since the ease-of-use attracts more people to the new site, it enhances the Facebook brand, and it simplifies the customer interaction. Here are the other reasons to use this strategy: It reduces common costs and customer learning curves. There's an opportunity for follow-on sales to existing customers.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Overall, according to Gartner, the SaaS market will top $22 billion by 2015. Thanks to the increasing modularity of SaaS, entrepreneurs can now "snap in" a scalable solution that increases their efficiency while enhancing customer satisfaction. The result: they had more than 20 enterprise customers on Day 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Does it mean the right thing from a customer perspective, societal impact, maximizing business returns or personal benefit? Another article indicates that 80 percent of customers continue to base some portion of their buying decisions on their perceptions of the company’s ethics. Set the bar high on standards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Treat a startup as a customer, not a client. A client relationship suggests that the consultant is in charge, whereas the customer designation recognizes the more modern model of the customer in control. It also highlights all aspects of required customer service, satisfaction, loyalty and referrals to peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Creating an innovative new business is guaranteed to test your skills, patience and determination, and you need to derive satisfaction from the journey, as well as the destination. That means practicing non-defensive listening to key advisors, team members and customers. You can’t solve a problem if you don’t see one.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We took it to the market in January of 2015. In our first year of selling, we brought on over 50 clients, and last year we had 170 customers, and we now have about 40 employees. He said, this is great, and said they were really interested in getting more enterprise customers. So I said, okay, I'll go make that happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Investors, customers and partners follow entrepreneurs who are honest and caring. Now you know how the market has changed, what new customers are not looking for or where competitors are not so vulnerable. Don’t let the destination be your only measure of satisfaction. A successful rebound requires learning from each iteration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Don’t allow your startup to “fail by success,” meaning too many orders delivered and inventory required for big customers, before their long payment cycle kicks in. Don’t wait for your worst case scenario where no customers show up, and expect that slashing the price will solve the problem. Word-of-mouth marketing doesn’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In fact, both customers and investors often avoid the perceived high risk of innovative technology pitches. Customers don’t like new learning curves or dealing with unstable solutions. Early adopters love new technologies, but mass market customers want solutions, not technology. "If

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2016

Entrepreneurs understand that every aspect of customer satisfaction and business requires a sense of urgency to win. If career growth and job satisfaction are your objectives, just pretend that you are an entrepreneur and your career is your business. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/30/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2015

By prioritizing customer need and value first, you will more likely achieve the satisfaction of seeing your paradigm shift become reality. Technology opportunities require effort and money, so they should be driven by value to customers, rather than the intellectual challenge.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Currently, the search engine has more than 200K up-and-companies giving new startups exposure, whilst offering them potential partners and customers which could boost their company’s success. In 2015 they connected more than 5000 companies to clients in over a range of industries via custom search projects.

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