TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The former President of ExactTarget and later chief executive of Salesforce Marketing Cloud has made billions of dollars building products to help support customer service and now he’s back at it again with his latest venture MetaCX. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product. Midwest rising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

For example, I’m an introverted product guy who doesn’t care so much about building the personnel relationships needed to keep a motivated team. Many smart people I know fall into the category of “idea” people. Ability to organize and motivate individuals into teams. Build business relationships and a personal brand.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

To build it, weve hired some amazing people, including Nick Kim, who is now leading platform development at Crosscut. Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. mobility and transportation, space tech, and esports.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2020

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The initiative has paid big dividends in customer loyalty and advocacy, as well as employee team spirit. Category expert – show me that you know what I need. It’s not enough to have everything in a given category. That means investing in people, and building trust in your expertise and information provided.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2021

The sheer number of entrants in the category — and the capital they’ve raised — points to the opportunity for several winners if companies can walk the tightrope balancing cost at scale and quality replacements for free range food. Early Stage is the premier ‘how-to’ event for startup entrepreneurs and investors.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

The process for retailers and brands to liquidate excess inventory hasn’t changed very much, if at all, and while some retailers were able to build operational infrastructure to service the off-price channels, it continues to be a constant pain point. The equity will go toward hiring more talent to join Ghost’s 25-person team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2023

Every business organization, large or small, has a variety of individual and team member types that factor into your ability to innovate and change the business to meet evolving customer needs and competition. You should team up with intrapreneurs to land their ideas and translate them into the language that the company can understand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. When was the last time you set a challenge for your team that pushed all of you to deliver more than you thought was humanly possible? People who shape the future, like Steve Jobs, did this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The challenge is to transform and hardwire your entire team to think in these terms, rather than the default focus on distinct towers of product quality, closing the sale, or fixing a complaint. Make sure the team understands the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ will follow. It requires brand-building at its best. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

According to the Cleantech Open, the teams are competing for up to $50,000 in cash and in-kind services in their region, and a grand prize of $250,000 in cash and services nationally for the best business plans and investor pitches for their firms. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The idea was that Boulevard could build a pretty large business catering to the needs of a niche industry that hadn’t traditionally been exposed to a purpose-built toolkit for its vertical. Through those months of interviews the two developed the booking management and payment platform that would become Boulevard.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. The last area my team is responsible for, is what we call our site merchandising tools.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. The last area my team is responsible for, is what we call our site merchandising tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Your fundability with investors now depends primarily on the execution capability of your team. But to prevent confusion with basic R&D, these costs should never be called out the major category in your use of funds statement to investors. Thus the best entrepreneur strategy for funding is to build solutions, not technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2023

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements to their own team, to investors, and even to customers. Use three generic categories, and relate your position to a key player in each. Pointing out flaws in others does not give you strength.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2021

If you are in this category, I recommend you take a look at a new book, “ Work Better Together ,” by Jen Fisher and Anh Phillips. Team members should all realize from personal experience that proper health care and life balance are key to long-term results, so look for that balance. Longer work hours mean greater productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Nevertheless, we can all benefit by understanding a collective view from investors on the high-risk elements that every new business has faced historically based on the team, as well as in the marketplace. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. Hire the right team.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. In other words, if it seems this obvious to us then it must be this obvious to many other investors and probably to many other teams gearing up to compete. 6SensorLabs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Which category are you in? Seek input from the team, as well as mentors. Don’t try to carry all the weight on your own shoulders, as team members are likely closer to the customer, and my have some real insights. Look at every challenge as an opportunity to learn and provide leadership to your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

In addition to total sales, you need to look at categories and trends at lower levels. A good way to start this activity is to participate in industry conferences, and build relationships with peers and other leaders. Trust your intuition and team input as weak signals. Establish and evaluate metrics at multiple levels.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket has built itself as a profitable but quiet giant that underpins the fuel that helps companies in all of these categories by becoming one of the critical companies building bridges between food producers and those that interact with customers. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

Some are really inventors, who view the challenges of building a business as a necessary evil. The Builder loves building a business from the ground up. Some might say that Elon Musk epitomizes this category. They build strong expertise, but often struggle to stand out in a crowded marketplace of competitors. Opportunist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Your fundability with investors now depends primarily on the execution capability of your team. But to prevent confusion with basic R&D, these costs should never be called out the major category in your use of funds statement to investors. Thus the best entrepreneur strategy for funding is to build solutions, not technology.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The investment firms and executive teams behind the Los Angeles-based delivery liquor delivery company, Saucey , along with Inception Companies, the backer of marijuana distribution company, Emjay , have formed Pacific Consolidated to merge their two companies and build what’s likely the largest “vice” company in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. We like to be able to see the concept.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Moving forward, All Raise will continue building and launching new products tailored for women in tech, add additional folks to the small but growing All Raise team and determine how they can better reach women outside of VC hubs.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

Chill Front Page is a socially curated, front page of video, in around eight categories. The concept, pretty simply, is using all of our data from our walled experience, explicit posts from consumers, and serving up to people the most interesting videos across different categories, like sports and shopping. It's all very lightweight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Despite the fact that most of the CEOs I advise would claim to be in the first category, when I dig deeper I find that at best they are fast followers , due to the time consuming challenges of transforming any business in this digital age. Is your strategy as a business leader to be a first-mover or a follower?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We had worked at another organization together in online marketing, and learned every aspect of the business, from closing new deals, on-boarding new clients, to building media plans. Brett Rossman: We have got a great team, of very smart, very passionate people, who are very good at what they do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Nevertheless, we can all benefit by understanding a collective view from investors on the high-risk elements that every new business has faced historically based on the team, as well as in the marketplace. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

Startup 126

Startup Sites Technical Review Social Media 126

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons. I know this category has gotten a lot of press. Some of them are beautifully designed and have exciting teams so I know why investors are pumped up about the teams they’ve backed.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

” The wider plan — coronavirus pandemic willing — is to start building out a network of physical clinics to go alongside the telehealth service, expanding out from the initial clinic in LA. She says the team is eyeing other locations in California to potentially open up later this year.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2017

We are also launching beverages and coffee, two new categories, next month. With brands today, as you probably know, every consumer category is being massively disrupted by the long tail. We have a sales team now of just around fifty inside sales folks, who are out there aggressively marketing and prospecting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2020

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements to their own team, to investors, and even to customers. Use three generic categories, and relate your position to a key player in each. Pointing out flaws in others does not give you strength.

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