Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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Social Media Small Business Media Technical Review 289

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. 83 percent of online users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase.

Technical Review 315

Technical Review Founder United States Technical Support 315

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

In today’s fast moving marketplace, needs, competitors, and costs change rapidly, so even if you were right, two years later the wave has moved on. Use social networking to start the wave. It won’t cost you your whole funding pot to start some momentum, or to realize that your original strategy needs major tuning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2019

One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. 65 percent of online users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase. Social networking penetration by Boomers has now caught up with the other age groups, reaching about 80% across the board.

Technical Review 299

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Here are a few specifics on how to be part of the solution, without the costs, rather than part of the problem: Put a personal face and address on your site; don’t hide behind an “info” email address. Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks.

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Security Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Network 251

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. Six out of 10 Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase. Social networking penetration by Boomers has now caught up with the other age groups, reaching about 80% across the board.

Technical Review 296

Technical Review Entrepreneur United States America 296

ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2022

The cost of starting a business decreases every year, which is especially important for an online business; to start, it is enough to have a computer with an Internet connection. The required minimum for any company now is a website and accounts in social networks. Personal interests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The cost of entry has never been lower. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. Half of the Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, an 88 percent growth from the previous year. Social networking penetration by Boomers has now caught up with the other age groups, reaching about 80% across the board.

Technical Review 281

Technical Review United States America Technical Support 281

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

The cost of entry has never been lower. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Now the price is closer to $100 if you are willing to do the work yourself. Start simple.

Startup 252

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. It’s a myth that social networks and their technologies are creating new approaches to marketing. One is known as ‘Mr.

Marketing 234

Marketing Software Review Technical Review Social Network 234

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It’s common knowledge by now that social networking is an important way to connect with customers. Consider developing special offers—like a 10 percent off coupon—that can be shared on social networks, encouraging your current customers to spread the word with their friends and family.

PR 229

PR Social Network Web Development Incubator 229

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2017

If clients want to get a roughly estimated cost to develop an app , company provides them with a quote in 1-3 days. An app developed to promote a special offer would cost about 5 times less while long-term projects with several app versions for different platforms can be estimated up to $20,000. Platforms (Operating Systems).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

He told me in some combinations of device / OS / network they are crashing 4 times per 100. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. Now you can two levels to get your cost-to-acquire down.

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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts.

Internet 294

Internet Web Affiliate Advertising 294

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.). Our inability to cost-effectively educate large numbers of people to compete in the future world where software really does begin to eat the world (in Marc Andreessen’s wise words).

Silicon Valley 299

Silicon Valley Technical Review Early Stage Cofounder 299

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

Here are a few specifics on how to be part of the solution, without the costs, rather than part of the problem: Put a personal face and address on your site; don’t hide behind an “info” email address. Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks.

Security 195

Security Technical Review Social Network Software Review 195

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. Put yourself on the site.

Startup 263

Startup Affiliate Advertising Technical Review 263

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

The cost of entry has never been lower. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world.

eCommerce 196

eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

In today’s fast moving marketplace, needs, competitors, and costs change rapidly, so even if you were right, two years later the wave has moved on. Since you can predict that your first iteration will somehow miss the mark, speed and cost of pivoting are critical. Use social networking to start the wave.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

With the pervasive internet, and global social networks, it’s easy to be visible and connect to your customers, and they expect it. Business leaders with wide relationships are able to more quickly find and close on alliances to fill gaps in their product line, increase distribution, and reduce costs through common components.

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Technical Review Software Review Cofounder Social Network 218

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress. 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. Become a visible expert.

Intellectual Property 281

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Sweat Equity CTO Hire 281

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers. Veritas is making a low cost, residential wind turbine. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 307

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The world has changed a lot lately and just about every aspect of a technology company – and especially a web-based company – can be “moved out” to a web-based application provider at a lower cost than doing it yourself. LinkedIn – Leveraging each person in the company’s network. Your mileage may vary.

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Technology EC2 Mobile Startup 251

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. Put yourself on the site.

Entrepreneur 241

Entrepreneur Affiliate Advertising Technical Review 241

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress. 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. Become a visible expert.

Intellectual Property 260

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 260

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress. 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. Become a visible expert.

Intellectual Property 253

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 253

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts.

Affiliate 221

Affiliate Advertising Technical Review Social Network 221

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

With a humongous 75,000-square-foot space in SoHo, WeWork bills itself as “the physical social network,” a place where people can get connected and work live and in person. Creatives searching for a coworking spot in Phoenix can check out Co+Hoots, offering possibly the most cost-effective office space in downtown Phoenix.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. In most cases, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is adequate, with projection formulas for revenue, costs, and cash flow over the next five years. Network to the maximum with investor connections. Define some intellectual property. Close at least one initial customer.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you buy them food (pizza, donuts, coffee) or free stuff (tech gadget, big monitor, t-shirt), they will love you for it far beyond the cost of the actual item. Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. You are selling them, but be subtle.

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Fractional CTO Southern California Startup Mobile 349

VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

High User Acquisition Costs: The landscape for acquiring new users has become increasingly complex and expensive. The flattening of the mobile adoption curve and Apple’s deprecation of its Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) have elevated customer acquisition costs significantly.

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