Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

If this is your first foray into the entrepreneurial arena, with no track record in business or technology, your best and perhaps only supporters will be that class of investors known in the trade as friends, family and fools (FFF). The technology is now embodied in a solution that can be replicated to reliably solve a real customer problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone.

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Entrepreneur Class Startup Resource 110

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. More we are taught in marketing classes. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. C=Customers, and more customers. Existing customers have low acquisition costs, addressing the “D” in the equation.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In the age old world of real estate, it''s often referrals, friends, door to door visits, and sometimes shopping carts which help connect home buyers and sellers with local real estate agents. In other words, we help you find the agent who will sell your house the fastest and for the most money, based on their stats.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

The pandemic also helped as artists who were cut off from their audiences began to explore alternative ways to reach fans — and make money. “ We were targeted to a small number of very premier customers. “ We’re helping creators make money and build a business on top of video. ”

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

And yet, such relationships properly used and never overused, can quickly and precisely help a CEO cut through delays in government agencies, speed the process of product planning and ultimate release, aid in positioning in the market and help the CEO avoid a myriad of mistakes that could prove costly in time and money.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Whether the partner is a supplier looking to gain a lock on your business as it grows or a customer looking to create a competitive barrier through use of your product, such an investment typically carries fewer restrictions than from a professional investor and less oversight. Professional angels: This is the arena where I work and play.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. And build great business they have.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

How do you get access to customers? 15:00 Hire somebody who will punch above their weight class. how can you evaluate a good sales person? how do you know one when you see them? How much to compensate them? how to structure the comp plan. getting past the assistant. when to call. is it OK to call an exec on his mobile phone.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We’ve listened carefully to our business customers to develop this program,” said Jakki Krage Strako, chief commerce and business solutions officer, in a press release. One distinct element of the service is USPS Connect Local Mail, which offers affordable First-Class mail, with documents capped at 13 ounces. Helping Local Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

GrubMarket , which provides software and services that help link up and manage relationships between food suppliers and their customers — which can include wholesalers and other distributors, markets and supermarkets, delivery startups, restaurants, and consumers — has picked up $120 million in a Series E round of funding.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2018

According to Quest International, it has expanded its existing European headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, in order to accommodate more customers. Quest says the expanded facility helps service and distribute Class I, II and III medical devices along with devices from industries such as industrial, aviation and government.

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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. Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product. . “MetaCX sits above any digital product,” McCorkle says. Midwest rising.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

Ksenia Yudina initially founded the company to provide financial planning and services to lower- and middle-class families looking for ways to start saving for their children’s education, she said. “To me the investment in UNest is a great opportunity to help my community.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 3, 2022

With it, customers can quickly use contactless payment, giving consumers an easier shopping experience while helping sellers use the Square system with even less friction. Their system genuinely is top of the class for any small business, so it's worth considering with or without Tap to Pay.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Companies all around the world use Trello to help manage projects and coordinate team tasks and responsibilities. Timeline also works on the Trello Android and iOS apps, helpful for keeping abreast of your work on-the-go. The Table view is helpful for work that covers multiple teams or when boards simply get too big to manage.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

San Diego-based ACTIVE Network is expanding its footprint in the parks and recreation management market, reporting this morning that it has signed up the cities of Phoenix, Portland, and Denver as customers of its ACTIVE Net software. Financial impact of the wins were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

They are always overlapping, so in essence, we have a freshman and senior class, so teams can collaborate, and get the benefit of the peers before them. Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that. What we do, is regional customer discovery for teams, typically academic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Most colleges have now added classes in entrepreneurship to include the necessary business focus to technical majors that usually drive innovative ideas. Mark Zuckerberg, while still in school, tested the viability of his “ FaceMash ” technology as a business by rolling it out to other students at Harvard as customers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2013

SHIFT''s flagship product is the SHIFT Open Marketing Cloud, which it says offers up "best-in-class" marketing apps to marketers, to help them reach customers on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. SHIFT said it has now raised $14M in funding. SHIFT is led by James Borow. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Commerce.Innovated--which is run by Silicon Valley Bank and MasterCard--is a "virtual accelerator" aimed at helping startups in the commerce area. Commerce.Innovated said this is its fourth class for the accelerator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Surface your prototype, get customer feedback, make corrections, and iterate until you get it right. Being open is the new business culture around the world.

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Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas 105

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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Artificial Inteligence Class Burbank Software Review 100

Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. And finally: C=Customers, and more customers. Marketing should provide a pool of ready to listen customers, no matter what the price or complexity of the product.

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Marketing Demand Pricing Customer 201

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. Ariel understood her customer?—?the

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Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

This could happen when a board votes to take in new money at terms that would be unfavorable to the class of investor represented by the board member. There is no legally mandated requirement that members of the board help a corporation to grow. How about legal requirements for board meetings?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Surface your prototype, get customer feedback, make corrections, and iterate until you get it right. Being open is the new business culture around the world.

Search Engine Optimization 174

Search Engine Optimization Ideas Custom Startup 174

Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2018

There are five major classes or niches a company should examine and make its own in calculating positioning in the marketplace. Here are a few examples to help you. Mercedes offers a premium automobile with its customers expecting luxury first, quality second, service third, and price a distant fourth. The five major niches.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Techstars Disney Accelerator class of 2015 was announced yesterday. StatMuse is developing an artificial intelligence platform to help sports fans explore data using simple, natural language. HYP3R enables businesses and brands to identify influential customers at their locations and engage them in real time, when it matters most.

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Artificial Inteligence Class AMA Platform 40

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. What is Retina Go?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. out of 5 in both Helpfulness and Clarity. Challenging. for Easiness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Don’t create solutions looking for a problem , since investors ignore these, and customers other than early adopters will be hard to find. Customers buy solutions, not technology. Prototype your solution for customers, and discount friends and family.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

We connect YOU (the passionate enthusiast) with expert video and our active community to help you embrace and practice your wellness passions. You can completely customize your Grokker experience into collections to create your own series of exercise and/or recipe how-to videos for easy access. What can people do on Grokker?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2021

Great entrepreneurs remember that great design motivates and excites customers, often even more than function. Entrepreneurs who depend on the ‘traditional’ learning process (schools, formal classes, practice problems, and risk-free iterations) are doomed in breaking the paradigm. Customers buy from people, not companies.

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