Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Customers today quickly get beyond these, and put a competitive priority on the experience of others, reflected in reviews and social media, and their own total experience with your sales process, delivery, returns, and support on their schedule. These have the vision and the resources to fund long-term digital success.

Competition 142

Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Cloud Capital--has managed to coax those equipment rental yards into the digital age, and how the company has tackled other challenges in focusing its business. Really, we're the sales and marketing arm of those companies. Cloud Capital. Those need to be in place before applying capital. BigRentz is based in Irvine.

Startup 174

Startup Metrics Customer Custom 174

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. The problem is that stakeholders, like marketing and sales, don’t know what the latest version of the roadmap is. I’ve been there.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), probably won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world.

Startup 97

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 97

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. The best CEOs realize that they must transition from being individual contributors to team builders and adjudicators who settle conflicts of “resource allocations.” As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

Startup 109

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 109

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

Startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, such as potential partnerships, new products, entering emerging markets, etc. In addition, an artist’s stature dictated the extent to which promotional resources were applied to particular songs.

Ideas 187

Ideas Resource Technical Review Startup 187

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is now one of the key marketing tools, but not the only one, so the challenge is to manage the resource tradeoffs effectively by constantly assessing payback versus cost. Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. Don’t forget the metrics and analytics.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

Sites 59

Sites Startup Technical Review Oracle 59

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. ” I believe firmly in capital efficiency in the early days.

Funding 150

Funding Venture Capital Startup Marketing 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

Startup 102

Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

The latest evidence of the city’s dynamic startup ecosystem is the recent announcement by Citrix to investment significant resources in the Santa Barbara Innovator’s Program. Lifestyle businesses are typically looked upon with derision by investors, as they generally do not have economic metrics that lead to large exits. What's SUP? –

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2012

Rather than a sigh of relief at the sale, you must redouble your efforts to improve the relationship while the customer is first using, consuming, enjoying, and relying on the product or service they purchased from you. You need a reliable system of metrics to measure your performance here. Your keep-or-lose moment. Marty Zwilling.

Customer 93

Customer Custom Startup Competition 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. Try to capitalize on your strengths, rather than trying to fix all your weaknesses.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Rather than a sigh of relief at the sale, you must redouble your efforts to improve the relationship while the customer is first using, consuming, enjoying, and relying on the product or service they purchased from you. You need a reliable system of metrics to measure your performance here. Your keep-or-lose moment. Marty Zwilling.

Customer 88

Customer Custom Competition Metrics 88

InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

Capital Cards. We pooled our resources and each invested $50 into the adVenture, which we named Capital Cards, due to our proximity to Washington, DC. We quickly built upon our meager initial capital by buying and selling cards that otherwise would likely have ended up in landfills. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

Pricing 138

Pricing Advertising Marketing Startup 138

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We give visibility to the location, status, and history of resources in healthcare. We change the paradigm, and we only do an entire institution, the entire hospital or enterprise--every square foot--anywhere resources can travel. But, we're not focused on an exit--we're focused on profitability, which is a key metric for management.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. It would take 2 years to catch up but believe me they have the capital to do so.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

My every day is trying to fundraise, reaching, re-reaching out, and trying to keep people updated with metrics. We haven’t had any capital to really test customer acquisition strategies. ML: Being an entrepreneur, especially with very little resources is like a rollercoaster. What about the good times?

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

" Revenue doesn't pay your bills, GM does  —  @msuster 2/ Founders obsess with revenue as a vanity metric. Founder focus is the single most important resource that needs to be spent wisely  —  @msuster 9/ Don't spend undue time at conferences.

Software Review 242

Software Review Technical Review Pricing Metrics 242

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

Put simply – you need enough users in a segment who care about what you’re doing to dictate investing further in the product or in sales & marketing resources. I see many companies these days just race to raise capital. They see capital raising at the success validator. You need product / market fit.

Startup 401

Startup Customer Custom Technical Review 401

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Gather resources and skills for the journey ahead. Smart entrepreneurs prepare for their business marathon by building a support team around them, honing their skills, and assembling resources in anticipation of stretching their comfort zone beyond past limits. Define and use metrics to measure your progress.

Social Network 94

Social Network Startup Ideas Entrepreneur 94