Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2014

Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his recent book “ What’s the Future of Business? Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2021

Networking Reimagined With Plain Sight Founder James Chapman written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. James is the F ounder & CEO of Plain Sight, a localized, social networking platform that connects people with the type of people you’re looking for both online and in physical spaces. Check it out here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2017

Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business? ”. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today. Authority – the guiding light.

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Technical Review Technology Social Media Social Network 137

Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are just a few things you can do by leveraging data analytics: Gain a better understanding of changing customer preferences Discover new business opportunities Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in your operations Minimize and better allocate advertising costs Provide greater customer support through automated chat. 5G Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2023

Create a formidable and durable business model. Your business model is your value proposition. Free” sounds like a great model, but it doesn’t imply value. Make your business model your competitive differentiation, like Fred Smith with Federal Express, or Ingvar Kamprad with IKEA. Innovate or die.

Entrepreneur 253

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( 200 on Wikipedia ), or another dating site/app ( over 1500 in the USA ). Business risks are not just development risks. As a startup advisor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. Ownership.

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Intellectual Property Metrics .Net Social Network 343

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2013

Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his new book “ What’s the Future of Business? Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

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Customer Technical Review Startup Social Media 251

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Create a formidable and durable business model. Your business model is your value proposition. Free” sounds like a great model, but it doesn’t imply value. Make your business model your competitive differentiation, like Fred Smith with Federal Express, or Ingvar Kamprad with IKEA. Innovate or die.

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United States Business Model Government Differentiation 429

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. A business model that works. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Both are networks. Watching the orders come in, or the product moving off the shelf, is the feedback you have been looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( 200 on Wikipedia ), or another dating site/app ( over 1500 in the USA ). Business risks are not just development risks. As a startup advisor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. Ownership.

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Intellectual Property Social Network Metrics .Net 360

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2023

Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. This must be matched with the intellectual courage to change business models multiple times to remain viable, based on real-time feedback from the market.

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Angel Investor Leadership Social Network Startup 297

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

The market and venture capitalists are looking for business, but with a continuing focus on proven business models. Here are some key action items that may give your business some visibility: Start with an investment-grade business plan. Line up a winning team. Make a personal connection, directly or indirectly.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Starting out, you can’t hit every network and outlet full-force. Zappos assumes everyone in the company is on social media and trusts them to participate in growing the brand. Prioritize social networks. As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model. Startup Example: Cloudera.

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Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

Everyone these days wants to simplify their life, so this subscription model works well for personal service businesses, like pet grooming, tutoring, window cleaning, and even bookkeeping. Network model. This model works best where your product or service utility improves as increasing numbers of people join in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs that solve critical health problems. This model is relevant only if you have multiple products and services, each with a different cost and utility. Portfolio pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

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Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Startup 265

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

What’s the hottest trend in business right now? Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? Leveraging network effects. Network effects are the phenomenon whereby a good or service becomes more valuable when more people use it, so there is a relentless focus on building as large a network as possible.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

Online businesses involve sharing transactions and other information on the internet. The business model focuses on using Information Communication Technology to transact, trade, and store essential information. Such online business information is crucial and requires protection. Create Strong Passwords.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Social networking is so last year. The best place to start is to figure out a big real world problem. On the other hand, businesses have challenges they face on a regular basis due to changing industry needs and other regulations. Good examples include: Ycombinator, Techstars, Startup health and Rock health. Kickstarter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Get a real customer and real revenue. Become a visible expert.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Sweat Equity CTO Hire 281

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Utilize Social Media Platforms to Widen Campaign Reach In this day and age, neglecting to use social media platforms as a channel for promoting your limited-time offers and flash sales can be considered a serious oversight.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

This can be done through products, services, methods, processes, business models or governance. . Gov funded social networks: Social networks which are Gov funded, but open-source so we can build and iterate it and avoid surveillance capitalism. Well, here’s a few crazy ideas to get us started.

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Technical Review Software Review Government Algorithm 67

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. You know, could you look at my business plan? Like this show? That's right.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

Yongfook, as he is better known in Singapore’s tech entrepreneurship circle (we first wrote about him in 2009 ), is an avid cook and the former director for Japan-based online recipe network Cookpad in charge of its international business. “The first is Tinytrunk.com which is an e-commerce platform for local shops.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. This is called “validating the business model.” Network to the maximum with investor connections. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Define some intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Technical Review Elevator Pitch 249

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. This must be matched with the intellectual courage to change business models multiple times to remain viable, based on real-time feedback from the market.

Angel Investor 359

Angel Investor Leadership Social Network Matching 359

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Get a real customer and real revenue. Become a visible expert.

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Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 260

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

Hockey Stick 307

Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Revenue 307

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. Problem was, Facebook, Yelp and Groupon were gay enough where a dedicated social network wasn’t entirely necessary.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Moreover, I like inspiring myself with interesting online business models and Wikipedia is a great example of a user-generated content-based website. It led the way to a new kind of business model and changed the game. And he is not afraid to take bold bets on new technologies and business models.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 76

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. This is called “validating the business model.” Network to the maximum with investor connections. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Define some intellectual property.

Angel Investor 224

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Technical Review Elevator Pitch 224

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Get a real customer and real revenue. Become a visible expert.

Intellectual Property 253

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 253

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While chatting about a new product with a friend in person can carry some weight, sharing that same feedback with one’s social networks or online reviews can have much more significant impact for a brand. Instead of capitalizing on causes, make caring a part of your business model. They share constantly.

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Marketing eCommerce Technical Review Social Media 150