VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2011

Chicago-based Dotomi provides marketers with three main advertising products: 1) A retargeting platform that enables real time updates of a site’s banners and creatives based on the user’s profile and previous sites he visited. Other investments by Goldfinger include can be found on his Linkedin profile.

Angel Investor 87

Angel Investor Chicago Retention Cofounder 87

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 31, 2013

The golden rule of word-of-mouth marketing: Be nice to thine customers and, lo, they shall be nice to you in return. This is the power and the glory of Word-of-Mouth marketing and it starts and ends with great customer service. In short it referes to how people respond to a positive action with another positive action.

Lean 90

Lean Chicago Retention Advertising 90

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This can include location, industry, customer target market, and business goals. Referrals (generating direct customer referrals and new revenue channels with fellow local business owners). For instance: Which insurance plan should I provide for my employees in Chicago? Next-Gen Networking.

Social Media 185

Social Media B2B North America Media 185

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. Customers value and benefit from the convenience, price, and selection of Amazon, which is why the company is, by a wide margin, America’s largest bookseller.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2016

Wraps and packs used to combat cellulite and reduce water retention. Natalie Tessler set her Chicago-based Spa Space in a location surrounded by office buildings. A happy, relaxed customer is more likely to be in the mood to want to buy products that can remind them of their spa experience. Step 2: Finding a great location.

Small Business Administration 60

Small Business Administration Hiring Employee Design 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

As I started talking to people who were in healthcare organizations, patient care and retention came up over and over. Everyday I am proud of the work our team does and of the success our customers have had making the change. I knew that I could help with those issues with what I knew about marketing. 9- Out of Necessity.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Detroit Software Review Florida 102

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. Recruiting & retention will be different outside the Valley. eBay and others.

Silicon Valley 313

Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

The list of industries where the marketshare leader still haven’t learned how to use software to accelerate their customer acquisition, improve their customer retention, increase their customer satisfaction, lower their manufacturing cost, shorten their supply chain etc, etc is long and impressive.

Software 107

Software Silicon Valley Los Angeles Columbus 107

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

#7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. Photo Credit: Steven Randall. Photo Credit: Kelly Bedrich.

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 115

conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

What will work for you depends on your industry, product and customer. In one of the experiments done by University of Chicago and MIT, a mail order catalog was printed in 3 different versions. Note: His freemium plan actually converted 12% more, but had the lowest retention. more at the supermarket? Suggested price.

St. Louis 111

St. Louis Portland San Diego Sales 111

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. The tools which you find restrictive I consider a huge timesaver (which paying customers tend to appreciate)… they allow me to rapidly prototype and get solutions to customers. lorf: NET supports JAVA.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

And Does He Think Chicago Is a Good Place for Entrepreneurs? He’s someone I really consider a ‘good egg’ as we’ve enjoyed the stories of his own entrepreneurial journeys and strongly held opinions on Chicago coffee. HW: When we first met you had founded Belly , a B2B2C loyalty/retention startup. It was our flywheel.

Chicago 78

Chicago Venture Capital Miami Employee 78