YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2014

Versatility and self-sufficiency are great traits for entrepreneurs, but once you start working on your business (rather than in it), you need to have the capacity to step back and oversee all of the moving parts, rather than let yourself get bogged down with technical support and answering the phone.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

Living and working in the SF Bay Area, I have been fortunate enough to be surrounded by people who are incredibly generous with their time and knowledge…Volley offers the chance to open this Silicon Valley dynamic to community after community after community.”. Support reps can create and edit automated answers without any code.

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley Stealth Term Sheet 150

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Social Hybrid AI x human communities – messaging & social apps where bots are treated as equal citizens. Autonomous HR (and IT) Helpdesk – A domain populated with process documentation, ever-changing compliance needs, complex policy application, forms, and natural language communication is ripe for attack by LLMs.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2015

While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect one’s communities on social media with the corporate wallet. Social Ecosystem Health – number of online community members, types of content shared, visitor traffic, interactions, and responses.

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Technical Review Software Review Customer Social Media 100

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

Use social networks to engage with community. FAQs, technical support forums, and other platforms assist customers with product issues. Beyond optimizing one’s content for search purposes, we need to also build engaged communities on social networks and “electrify” them through promotion and link building. Consideration?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Social Media SEO Curation 100

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. I worked with our intern team to look for the Fortune 500 companies making the strongest effort to reach out to the tech startup community.

Startup 114

Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 6, 2012

Dunkle and friend Mitch Gordon, 33, started their online travel community business in 2009 after they met teaching English in Taiwan, and realized there was a clear gap in quality online information about various overseas programs (teach, study, volunteer, etc.). We started work on the project in Taiwan before relocating to Berkeley, Calif.,

Taiwan 144

Taiwan Technical Support Viral Partner 144

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2018

It’s something the financial community – along with government resources, for that matter – needs to think about as it works to help young business leaders consider their financing options. Not all incubators provide financing, but many do, among their other services as “one-stop” shops to support entrepreneurs through the start-up phase.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Incubator Finance Canada 124

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2017

In fact, they’re often willing to contribute by giving product improvement ideas, technical support for other customers, videos, reviews, referrals, content related to your products, and other marketing value; all of which helps you stay in sync, mitigate risk, and remain prepared for whatever the future might bring.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Malaysia Agile Employee 147

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

You should also be sure to offer customer service and technical support, so customers remain happy and continue using your marketplace. This will help you focus on a specific group of buyers and sellers and give you a better chance to build a strong community. . Creating a successful online marketplace takes time and effort.

B2B 131

B2B Developer Business Model Technical Review 131

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2017

Understanding distribution channels is important, legal considerations are good, technical support is necessary and design engineering is fun (well, at least for some people). Funnel Rush is a content development and creative outlet to share his experiences to the greater online marketing community.

Sales 84

Sales Technical Support Channel Distribution 84

David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Summit Fellows.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review SBIR Dilution Silicon Valley 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

However, I’ve noticed as the design community has leaped from font to font, color to color, designs are converging on a theme of minimalism. Many reasons, such as better customer service and more technical support, since everyone on the hosting team is an expert in your software platform.

Customer 78

Customer Portland Oregon Hosting 78

Board Effect

APRIL 23, 2020

One participant wrote , “ Thank you all for the thoughtful and incredible turnaround on this meeting… This was the medicine we all needed – to connect with this community that continues to give us so much – in this challenging moment in history. The best feedback came from those who let us know how successful the content was.

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Leadership Technical Support Restful 85

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I’m especially excited because some of the well-respected investors in the VC community have agreed to be a part of our advisory/mentorship board which will give our program the much-required credibility. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Debjeet Gupta, G220 Ventures ! #13- 13- Educating budding entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 97

Venture Chronicles

JUNE 8, 2010

Clearly there are product components, most notably the customer community pieces that vendors like Get Satisfaction and UserVoice are offering (notice the Feedback widget to the left, I started my own VC community on Get Satisfaction!). The service and support vertical is about $3b a year just in the U.S.

Wiki 46

Wiki Technical Review Reputation Analytics 46

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2013

Explore (Know) – The explore phase is, as it suggests, the place where you’ll conduct your own research such as discovering the elements of an organization’s community, constructing stakeholder maps and uncovering problems that you can make visible. 7 Stages of the Sales Hourglass.

Sales 78

Sales Technical Review Reputation Technical Support 78

Transformify

JULY 23, 2018

There are obvious restrictions when it comes to practical subjects, you’d be a little concerned if a surgeon had become qualified solely on a series of webinars, but it does greatly expand the access of knowledge to the online community.

Technical Support 40

Technical Support Search Hosting Audience 40

siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Technical Support -- Key Accounts Manager. Technical Writer. Community Manager. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer. Web Developer. Platform Software Developer. Sr Developer (JavaScript/Flash). Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. Training and Development Specialist. Software Engineer.

Portland 46

Portland Oregon Technical Cofounder Startup 46

blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Ranging from configuration issues to down time, to unresponsiveness of the technical staff. To pick the best hosting company we tapped into community and posted a question on LinkedIn and asked: What is the best hosting provider you’ve ever had? And best of all, we get Rackspace fanatical support.

EC2 40

EC2 Widget Software Review Startup 40

www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. Twelve years later, I think there is some wisdom in hiring people who have made significant contributions to an open source community project. Fortunately, my approach has worked well in ways that I could not have anticipated.

Hiring 40

Hiring Software Review Coder Illinois 40

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business. Today there are huge communities online, like Facebook and Twitter, which grew in popularity for socializing with friends. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews.

Internet 239

Internet SEM Wiki Viral 239

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business. These are communities wrapped around a website, like Facebook or Twitter. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Social networks. Crowdsourcing.

Internet 224

Internet SEM Wiki Entrepreneur 224

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

China is plowing into this with government support, private and public funding, and a China FDA (CFDA) approval process that favors local Chinese solutions. There are well over 100 companies in China alone focusing in this area, many with substantial financial and technical support. Outside the U.S., Lessons Learned.

China 67

China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

We find and fix bugs in WordPress plugins that we didn’t write and contribute those back to the original authors and the community at large. The IP attorneys would say that we’re bleeding assets, but what we’re actually doing is earning the respect, attention, and sometimes even love from the entire WordPress community.

Intellectual Property 242

Intellectual Property Open Source Bandwidth IP 242

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The larger point here is that in starting a startup, youre not really working on an idea so much youre working on assembling a team of people to implement the idea, learning how to build a business, how to manage customers, marketing and sales, technical support - all that stuff. source [link] ) -- humblest_ever 215 days ago | link. >

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41