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5 Tactics To Ensure Your Solution Is Customer Driven

Startup Professionals Musings

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. I say again, customers buy solutions, not technology. Look for customer willingness and ability to pay.

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With Bambee, Allan Jones wants to give small businesses HR services their employees can trust

TechCrunch LA

While the business didn’t work out, it put the budding young entrepreneur (and college dropout) on a path that would lead him to launch the Los Angeles-based startup Bambee , a company that lets small businesses give their employees access to the same kinds of human resources services that large companies have.

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Do you really want to be the first to market?

Berkonomics

Over the years, as I managed my several computer companies as CEO or executive chairman, I made the decision to go to market with a brand-new product that had never before been exposed to my customer’s marketplace. Do you have the resources to evangelize?”. Even Apple rarely attempts this, with all its resources.

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5 Generators Of Customer Pain Conducive To Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the current opportunities in alternative energy are the result of these forces, as well as the lack of effective government coalitions to conserve other resources. Therefore, it takes time, sometimes whole generations, of education, communication, and incremental proof to get momentum going and overcome old fears.

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Leadership: Sell the dream while making the reality.

Berkonomics

And that includes potential customers as well as executives and employees. A leadership goal vs. a mantra: I once sat in on a roundtable meeting in which the executive of a company stated his goal as “educate the world.” Note that “Educate the world” elicited little response until the group saw the financial goal.

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Anthos Capital and NBA All-Star Baron Davis back LA-based college tuition savings service, UNest

TechCrunch LA

UNest , a Los Angeles provider of financial planning and savings tools for parents including college savings plans and other beneficial investment vehicles for various life events, has raised $9 million in a new round of funding, the company said. . “To me the investment in UNest is a great opportunity to help my community. .

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SoftBank bets big on a ‘digital Ellis Island’

TechCrunch LA

Crosscut Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Next Play Capital and Owl Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the Los Angeles-based company’s total raised to $50 million since its 2010 inception. the company says. the company says. s SB Opportunity Fund. with a population of 62.8 Image Credits: Welcome Tech.

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