SoCal CTO

APRIL 22, 2010

One of the common questions that I commonly get is: Tony, what inputs should we use as the basis for our matching algorithm? The people asking the above question don’t have that research and they also don’t really know how the matches should occur. How should the resulting algorithm use those inputs to form matches?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

If you are a passionate technologist , it’s easy to forget that marketing is required to sell even the most compelling solution, to cut through the information overload everyone sees today on the internet. If marketing is not your thing, then you need to find a partner or outside expert to help you.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

To help you figure out what’s popular at the moment, we have a couple of clothing store types to give you inspiration, along with their clothing startup success stories. To help avoid fast fashion many of us buy long-life clothing, but there is a whole new market opening up for eco-friendly options. Eco-Friendly Clothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I just finished a new book for entrepreneurs, “ Secrets to a Successful Startup ,” by Trevor Blake, which makes the same points, based on his own real-life experience with three successful startups. Outsourcing can give your startup a more mature image. Startups all need that flexibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Use social media for early marketing. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2020

The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Because forex trading is highly dependant on socio-economic, political, and natural events, like disasters, the market is extremely volatile. And most importantly, they can play in the hot forex market as well. This is a relatively new forex trading method used by beginner investors to match up the success of experienced ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Use social media for early marketing. You will make mistakes.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. Reducing Startup Risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. But trying to use it on call centers, affiliate marketing, or even data entry probably won’t be effective.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2012

If you’ve ever been a trade marketing manager in charge of setting up an exhibition booth for your company in a trade conference or expo, you know the acute pain of trying to source for the right vendors who can build and run your booth at the right price. ” Up to three vendors may respond to each RFP.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. That doesn’t mean that entrepreneurs should ignore business and market realities, under the assumption that success is a random phenomenon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2023

The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

That challenge is a major business opportunity, as well as a risk, for startups. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. The bad news for startups is that your company can lose big if it’s caught in the middle. There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. Muun found a market need but failed to compete with bigger names that provided customers with authoritative content and resources. Both companies suffered from a fatal lack of marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and angel investor, I still see too many strategies leading to failure that are inside the entrepreneur decision realm. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

I was having a second coffee with an ex student, now the head of a marketing inside a rapidly growing startup. His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. Titles in a startup are not the same as what your job is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Use social media for early marketing. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I see entrepreneurs every day who are trying to change the world with a new idea, and startups that are trying to survive their hyper-growth phase by changing processes to meet demand. Here are ten of the key questions that apply equally well to the world of startups and entrepreneurs, as they do to large organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2020

In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. That doesn’t mean that entrepreneurs should ignore business and market realities, under the assumption that success is a random phenomenon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology. Look for a match in culture and values, as well as technical strength. A business startup is not an academic environment, or a big company research organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Here are the advantages I see with this approach: Faster time to market. Marty Zwilling.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2020

Attracting the right customers is the key to success in business, whether you have a new startup or a mature enterprise. As they watched their market share dwindle instead, they realized too late that these segments were already defined, and they needed a new focused brand to attract customers from other segments.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The healthcare space is adapting at a rapid pace and the startup ecosystem is one of the major reasons why this is happening so quickly. . If one looks at some of the most far-reaching changes in healthcare tech over the last decade alone, they will observe a major spike in the role startups play within the healthcare niche.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It’s hard to say if there’s a primary reason why a startup can fail. The reasons for startup failure tend to be a combination of things. Here are five common ways your startup can fail before the end of the first year. Many people don’t realize the tremendous amount of money it takes to get a startup off the ground.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Unfortunately, however, our love affair with startups is unfounded, especially as it relates to those who may be looking to provide, market to or target their product/service to the startup segment. Why We Are In Love With Startups? The most commonly-referenced startup story is fun to tell: Founded by 20-somethings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Great marketing is required to generate revenue and grow every business, especially new businesses which have no brand recognition nor loyal customer base. I also look for a commensurate portion of the plan describing the specific innovative marketing deliverables, beyond the traditional marketing items.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Most of you prefer to ignore the feedback from analysts that your chances of creating the next unicorn startup may be as low as one in five million. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. The big question is how you can beat these odds.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Especially since VC pattern matching may inappropriately label people this way (can’t sell) who are merely nervous or new to their environment. At Homebrew, we keep a list of coaches that work well with startups and then try to help match against need and personality type. Or go to a flea market and haggle.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Marketing is one of the essential sources to intensify the rate of consumers for any business. Marketing generally includes advertising a company or products via media and other sources. In the latest scenario, digital marketing is not an innately novel concept while considering it through a marketing prism.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

The popularity of cost-per-lead advertisements, or CPL ads, is on the rise, and many businesses and companies are incorporating this type of advertising campaign into their digital marketing strategy for a good reason. The CPL One affiliate marketing platform works on a cost-per-lead model. What is the CPL One platform?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Optimizing your operational capability is essential for long-term success, regardless of whether you’re a seasoned firm looking to keep growing or a baby startup still learning to navigate the turbulent waters of entrepreneurship. The post 5 Ways to Function Better as a Business appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American job market has become even more competitive amid the pandemic-fueled “Great Resignation” — the number of employees quitting their jobs peaked in April 2021 and has remained high over the past few months. . As a startup looking to hire your dream team, this news can be exciting. How to build your startup dream team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business. Market research and a business plan should be the focus at this stage. Startup and development stage.

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