Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices. Few people are paranoid about something they want and expect.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. Mobile devices deliver “bottom of funnel” sales opportunities that deliver real & immediate economic results. Bottom of the sales funnel. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Morning in VC.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

I’m guessing that means you … and if it doesn’t, you need to rethink your marketing and sales strategy. Her articles have been published by the Hot in Social Media, Yahoo! Thinking Aloud Alicia Lawrence Google page rank search engine social media social network WebpageFX' Small Business, and PR Daily.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Or on a sales campaign you’ve finally gotten your project sponsor to take you to the “executive committee&# where decisions are made and budgets are agreed.

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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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

You might have scratched and clawed inside your social network to get the first 10, but that doesn’t scale to 100 (though it might scale to another 10), and just because you were successful convincing customers one at a time to convert through hour-long Skype calls doesn’t mean you can convert 100 customers self-serve via Facebook ads.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

But it’s kind of hard to say “don’t plant near the big trees” when you just completed a big sale to Microsoft building an app that they should have created and dominated. This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2013

In the age of the advertiser supported social network, one person is trying to flip the script and create a paid social network. Dalton Caldwell, founder of App.net spoke at SXSW with a session called “ Is There An Alternative To Ad-Supported Social Networking? Leading a 20-person sales team. “I

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices. Few people are paranoid about something they want and enjoy.

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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. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

A simple example might be a mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

These CEOs are in the business of helping other CEOs, filling employment needs, sales software, and Twitter streams. Benioff : Marc Benioff, leader of Salesforce.com, has plenty to share on business, sales, startups, and software. FuelOnline : Fuel CEO Scott Levy has been working in social media and SEO since 1997.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. LinkedIn – Leveraging each person in the company’s network. Salesforce.com – Sales lead and sales pipeline management.

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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. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? 40% of our revenue is coming from remnant banner ads served by ad networks. 10% of our revenue is coming from direct sales of our banner inventory. Everybody thinks if I build this cool app people will come and use it.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As brand marketing practitioners, we too read many great marketing and sales blogs with great interest. Today we are listing out a few of those sales and marketing blogs that we highly respect and we believe that they will benefit you too. 10 Top Marketing And Sales Blogs We Love! Social Media Examiner. image via Flickr.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect the social web with the corporate wallet.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

How-to and Tutorials: A slightly more indirect approach than the traditional product video, How-to and tutorials let you portray the usefulness and appeal of your product or service while avoiding an overt sales pitch. Something ideal at the early stages of the buyer’s journey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Some sites to check out: CoFounderNetwork.com PartnerUp.com Namesake.com - more of a social network, but still a good way to network TechCofounder.com Foundrs.com Startuplinkup.com Cofoundrs.com You can try finding folks via [link] StackOverflow.com Oh, and often there are forums for particular technologies where you can look.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If you’re an e-commerce site, you’re probably always looking for new ways to generate more sales. And if you can find influencers to promote your e-commerce on social media, you may be able to achieve this goal. Take a look at your social networks. First of all, which social network are you launching on?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2017

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices. Few people are paranoid about something they want and enjoy.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2020

A web developer created every website you read, social network you belong to, and web app you use. Developers need to work with engineers, sales and marketing staff, customer support staff, and even CEOs and other executives so they need to understand far more than how to code a website. The 3 Layers of Web Development.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 22, 2024

In the interconnected digital landscape, a single recommendation from a loyal client can ripple across social networks, reaching a vast audience. Enhanced Profitability According to Forbes , acquiring new customers often entails substantial costs in terms of marketing, advertising, and sales efforts.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The automated sales option helps you take repetitive tasks off your head. Marketing tools such as custom gift cards, product reviews help sellers increase their sales. Social network integration, Facebook selling, Facebook ads, Google ads, discount codes, and coupons, and other enticing options are interesting ways to retain customers.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

Social listening tools like Radian6, Google Alerts, and Trackur may also help you to learn what’s buzzing on social networks. Use social networks to engage with community. Here are several steps to do so: a) Build Social Communities. Consider too the unique characteristics of each social network.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

Intrigued, Boris reached out to Mike Murchison and learned that he and his co-founder David Hariri were building a social network to help others solves problems online. . With Mike and David ferociously developing product and doing sales, they launched the Ada bot with early customers like Medium, Kik and Wattpad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

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. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose.

Silicon Valley 149

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. And Social. Summary version? No chart was good. My prognosis?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. SMBs account for 54% of all US sales. What’s the ARPU of a business on a social network? Next-Gen Networking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

You get all the mainstage talks and the most popular breakouts, along with access to live Q&A, moderated chat, and a conference social network. All passes are on sale now, and you can compare them here. You pay per screen, so sit down with a couple of friends and split the cost. Apply to volunteer here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

They monetize via high-priced advertisements during the prime-time airing on TV, via syndication to international audiences or less-watched channels after the original series has run and via DVD sales in retail channels. Of course it’s their right to do so and there is so much money involved you can hardly blame them.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

million in sales every year for just a 1-second page delay. 500ms increased response time means 20% less traffic for Google , 100ms increased response time decreases Amazon sales by 1% The impact is quite real. Web Application such as Web Mail or a gated Social network. Pages may not have much dynamic content on the page.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Forums will likely still be around for the foreseeable future, but many companies are now finding it more advantageous to leverage social groups. Facebook Groups and LinkedIn Groups are just a few of the many social networking sites that allow individuals and companies the ability to set up topic or brand communities.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Seeking customer feedback need not be solely a post-sale exercise. Social networking sites. You may want to seek feedback not only from your existing customers, but also from previous customers. Try and find out why they have stopped buying from you, and what you might be able to do to win them back. Text messages.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Social Commerce. More than 2 billion people use social networks(8), such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Their popularity has prompted some social networking “stars” – including bloggers and YouTube favorites – to cash in by accepting advertising on their channels or selling their own products online(9).

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