InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

It may seem hard to believe, but even in 2016, there remain a number of successful consumer brands that are not sold online. I thought it would be interesting to understand the challenges and concerns of entrepreneurs who began selling online for the first time in 2016, so I sat down with Heidi Muther, COO at Z S upply , LLC.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. However, before these dreams become a reality, what price will the online consumer expect to continue pay for private carrier service as our online dependence increases?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

If you can’t provide a memorable customer experience, your startup won’t survive very long these days. You now need more than loyalty from your customers -- they need to be your best advocates. The days of pushing new and marginal performers into customer service are gone. Every job on your team drives your customer experience.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 4, 2016

Here are our five predictions for the most important healthcare trends in 2016. In 2014, 83 percent of healthcare organizations were already using Cloud technology for some of their processes, and that number is expected to continue growing through 2016 to improve patient care. 3-D Printing. Virtual Healthcare.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 -- Disrupt Your Market to Grow Big and Grow Fast. He believes that price, product and features are not the differentiators upon which customers make their decision. Cal Lutheran Center for Enterpreneurship. Tom White, Director of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 31, 2015

We can’t give you a recipe for success, but here are 10 ways to lower your startup’s expenses and free up capital in 2016. Good credit, bulk purchases, or cash payments may qualify you for a lower price. The post 10 Ways Startups Can Reduce Expenses in 2016 appeared first on TechZulu. Take advantage of the Cloud.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

“In addition to the obvious use case for Shipwell customers who own warehousing, landlords can use Shipwell to become effective facilitators for their tenants,” according to Chawla. ” It hasn’t been a straight road for Traff and his co-founder Gregory Price. When he sold that business he moved back to the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

After wrestling with recalcitrant homeowners, husbanding their parcels of land to keep their property values high, the state’s leadership passed a law that increased the availability of new rental units and put more money into homeowners’ pockets in 2016.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, its unique-for-the-industry monthly subscription model has helped it maintain healthy profits from its loyal customer base in 2023. Source: gumroad.com Gumroad really started to take off in 2023, smashing revenue records for three months straight, a feat that was attributed to a price hike it carried out at the start of the year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

To win, you need to think outside the box to deliver a better customer experience, business model, and new positioning. It takes extra effort and focus on some special techniques, including the following, to get the edge you need over your competitors in customer attraction and retention: Set order-of-magnitude goals.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

We also saw a few of our portfolio companies grow steadily, notably one that made a risky/painful pivot in 2016 that is just starting to show exciting results. We are seeing SaaS companies more and more are competing against other SaaS companies and experiencing more churn, price resistance and customer demand for customization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. The more revolutionary the solution, the more important it is to educate customers on a solution’s existence and value.

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Businesses are driving that growth, winning customers and expanding their operations. In 2016 alone, over half of U.S. Your business likely uses just as much, if not more, video, voice, and data to communication with colleagues, customers, and partners. Request Custom Pricing. trillion. ¹.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. They have high-priced property and zero innovation. It tested our beliefs about pricing, products and marketing overall of our service. It worked perfectly.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We're really focused on the consumer getting the right car at the right price. In 2016, that represented a couple of unique concepts. There are lots of transaction costs which occur both on acquisition of customers and on returns, and those costs are real, and must be considered in how we price the products.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2016

By 2016, the video had been watched over 218 million times. Many companies unknowingly Rickroll their would-be customers by improperly aligning their products’ capabilities with their marketing messages. According to marketing guru Guy Gabriele, brands live in the minds of customers and prospects. Find out what they think.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Diagnosing and understanding the customer problem. This means all business people, especially entrepreneurs, need to get beyond the presentations and the experts, to actively listen to real customers. They need to ask customers the difficult questions, and really understand costs versus benefits, as well as competitive alternatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

The right channel for marketing and distribution is one of the basic “four Ps” of business (product, promotion, price and placement). The most common channels in use today include e-commerce, direct to customer, wholesale to dealers, and value-added resellers. Always use analytics and listen directly to customer feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

By profit, I simply mean offering a product or service to customers for a price that exceeds the total costs associated with the solution, thus providing some basis for recovering sunk costs and generating a return for stakeholders. Solve a painful problem for customers who have money to spend.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

I think, now more than ever, Flippy meets the distinct challenges and can help our customers spur new growth. This was in mid-2016, and the decreasing costs of robotics and computer vision made me think that the process of making a burger could be fully automated. Speaking of customers, can you talk about who they are now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

This confuses customers, and dilutes your marketing impact. You need a new and innovative addition to get customer attention, and stand out above competitors. Hone your definition of target customer demographics. Change competitive positioning and pricing to improve traction. Adapt to an emerging customer need or pain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2016

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Relationships are a function of customer culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Investors want to hear about customers with money who have a painful problem that you can solve now. Investors are looking for a concise description of your product or service without technical jargon or fuzzy marketing terms with value quantified in customer terms. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/03/2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. The US market is worth more than $25 billion and Europe is the same.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

I like his set of action items, and have added a few of my own for measuring early traction leading to growth: Turn initial customer goals into measurable traction metrics. These need to go beyond the traditional revenue, cost, and volume metrics which may not yet have data, and can mislead you about real customer acceptance.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). That number is projected to GROW to 70 billion by 2016 (Source: BIA Kelsey). People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. I don’t want to speak to customer service reps!! Not so fast.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The following pledges of $45 pre-order the Latitude charging case (for the iPhone 6 or 6s) at the discounted price, with delivery in March 2016. Those who want to pre-order the Latitude case for the iPhone 6 Plus or 6s Plus may pledge at the discounted price of $54, with delivery in March 2016. Campaign Page: [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Until a new brand has national recognition or high promotion, it won’t be found or used by local customers or out of town visitors. You need metrics to show dominant penetration of the relevant customer demographic, added value over existing media, and real customer testimonials of value. Anyone can do it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Lead with your intent to offer the solution free to customers. Of course, customers love free, but investors hate it. In reality, fundamental changes in technology frighten away more customers than they attract, and take longer and more money to come to fruition than any investors wants to commit. Skip the hype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

An initial revenue surge, or a major cash advance from investors often leads to a mentality of building a large customer base at any cost. On the other end of the transaction, customer support, returns, and transportation can add up. Prices need to be reviewed to cover total costs and margin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2016

With today’s interactive social media and the real-time Internet, both customers and employees see inside your company easily, so you can’t hide your real company culture. At the same time relationship perceptions have become the biggest drivers to customer loyalty and employee engagement. Maintain a customer-centric focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2017

percent growth in 2016. Their prices are high and hard to lower. You have none of these pains; you're sipping cash with no overhead and lots of time to devote to coddling new customers. " As a startup, you have more control over your customer base. They're eating cash. Technology progresses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Many entrepreneurs are so passionate about their new startup idea that they can’t believe any intelligent being, investor or customer wouldn’t react just as excitedly after a quick introduction. You have to persuade the right partners to join and build the solution, the right investors to fund it and the right customers to buy it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, the Facebook business model of offering a product free to customers while gaining revenue from advertising was born out of the need to survive as a business while offering a fun service. If you have a great product and need customers, find a partner with many customers who needs a new product.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Bryan Biniak: Connected Travel was founde d n 2016. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. They view it as their customer's data, which is very simple and straightforward. Tell me about Connected Travel? A lot of the time people understand that it's innocuous.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

When top tier investors compete for a piece of the action, the price can go up exponentially. If you don’t yet have a hundred investors knocking on your door, it’s time to put more focus on viral marketing, closing customers, and exponential growth. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/29/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

You will be controlled by your customers, investors, lenders – and you are personally responsible for answering to all of them, all of the time. They will get you interest from investors and lenders, and you will receive better financing, prices, terms, and conditions from business suppliers and professional services.

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