Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

You need a faster and more flexible on-demand hiring strategy, based on the current gig-economy of remote freelancers, contract personnel, and specialists. You all have to deal today primarily with on-demand customers in an on-demand economy.

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Competition Startup Demand Training 168

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2018

Santa Monica-based Bird , the on-demand electric scooter rental service backed by Valor Equity Partners, Index Ventures, Craft Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, Tusk Ventures and Upfront Ventures, may be seeing even more competition in San Francisco, after reports that Lyft is hoping to launch its own, electric scooter service in the city.

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Competition Santa Monica Demand Equity 100

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Place your cash bets behind proven demand. The term, “demand pull – cost push” was created by the great economist, John Maynard Keynes, to describe the two primary drivers of economic inflation. Push the costs into market niches where you seed your marketing, and experience the pull of customer demand as a result.

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Demand Resource Pricing Study 136

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

There could be more demand for electric vehicles post COVID-19 crisis, believes Energica founder Livia Cevolini. One of those is greater demand for EVs after the pandemic. Before the health crisis shutdown most of Italy, Energica had already seen larger demand for its high-performance e-motos, with a price range of $17,000 to $23,000.

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Technical Review Competition Demand Sales 277

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based on-demand scooter rental service Bird will have to compete against both Uber and Lyft in its fight for the San Francisco market. According to The Verge, both companies have applied for electric scooters in San Francisco, and are hoping to operate electric scooters there.

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Competition Demand Equity Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2015

San Diego-based 2pointb , a new startup aiming at the on-demand transportation market, said over the weekend that it has launched a new, mobile on-dnd ride and transportation app. 2pointb faces some serious competition from Uber--which just raised $1.2 billion in a funding round--as well as Lyft, which just raised $530M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the user-generated content venture of Richard Rosenblatt, has new competition this afternoon, from Yahoo , after Yahoo announced it would acquire content publishing firm Associated Content. Tags: demand media associated content yahoo.

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Yahoo Demand Content Media 150

Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2022

Especially for those of us producing forms of media for consumption, from books to movies to music to games to blogs to podcasts and more, our customers expect delivery in the form of bits over the Internet upon demand, usable on a multitude of devices, and sometimes stored and available in the cloud at no additional cost. Blame the Internet.

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Custom Customer Demand Blogging 156

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 26, 2022

At the time, the company raised $2 million, and Alexandrov said about the perceived competition, “The level of competition in this market in the U.S. On-demand grocery startup Food Rocket launches in the Bay Area, goes up against delivery giants.

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Funding Demand Los Angeles Competition 246

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

On-demand, delivery startup Schlep and Fetch (www.schlepandfetch.com) wants to be the place you contact first to get practically anything delivered for you, whether that's a food order or something you forgot to pick up from home. Bryson Strauss: We are an on-demand delivery service. Need something--anything--delivered in Los Angeles?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 6, 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009 -- Leadership on Demand a.k.a. In today's economic environment, business leaders must seek every possible competitive advantage and the most powerful advantage is ensuring that the right people are leading the way. Executive as a Service". Business as usual is usually a path to mediocrity.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Lyft just launched its own on-demand, electric powered scooter program in Santa Monica on Tuesday morning, as the on-demand scooter business continues to heat up. Lyft has some stiff competition in Santa Monica--the home of Bird--which already has scooters from Bird and Lime.

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Santa Monica Demand Competition Services 140

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Every business owner and entrepreneur like you I work with wishes they could better predict product demand and sales, for managing inventory and long-term business planning. I was impressed with the analysis and recommendation offered in a recent book, “ Trust the Plan: Demand Management For Business Leaders, ” by Greg Spira.

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Metrics Demand Statistics Sample 81

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2021

Two startups won a total of $25,000 in prizes last week at the Sunstone Innovations Challenge at CSULB, a startup pitch competition involving student teams from CSU Long Beach. According to Sunstone Management, four teams from the colleges of health and human services, business and engineering participated in the finals.

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Long Beach Seed Funding Startup Competition 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2019

The startup, led by CEO Rich Banning, is harnessing an "on-demand" workforce to sweep up scooters from the streets, for inventory checks, and also says it has specialized mechanics working on maintenance of the scooers.

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Long Beach Santa Monica Competition Demand 133

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2019

According to an unconfirmed report on Wednesday, Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter rental startup Bird is in the midst of talks to acquire another, on-demand scooter company, Scoot. The deal has not yet closed, and financial details of the potential effort were unclear. READ MORE>>.

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Report Santa Monica Demand Competition 113

TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

What does the role demand? Increasing competitive advantage? What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The answer is: it depends. The role of a CTO varies as the company matures.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 20, 2018

We dive into the crucial process of gathering and analyzing information about markets, industries, and products in their competitive spaces. This, in turn, can generate significant growth for companies and brands who seek to stay on top of competition and in demand. See [link] (more)

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Research Marketing AMA Competition 100

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

And if that new strategy is proved to be true, the five-hundred-pound gorilla in that niche just moved out of the way of many of its smaller competitors, leaving a market that will surely see a scramble for new competition in the near future.

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Resource Competition Examples Custom 156

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As inflation rates spiral and consumer demand takes a hit, business owners are forced to be more mindful of their bottom lines than ever. It's competitive though – last year 18,000 applicants competed for only 12 slots. There's no denying that 2024 is a challenging year to run a business. Apply here Deadline: Monthly 5.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Competition 194

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Crowdfunder , the Los Angeles startup led by CHance Barnett, has launched another crowdfunding event aimed at the local industry, saying Wednesday that it has launched CROWDIMPACT LA , a pitching competition which will award $20,000 in a top prize to a winning social enterprise company.

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Startup Competition Demand Los Angeles 215

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The secondary effects are changing the nature of businesses: traditional retail and restaurant experiences are being replaced by on-demand delivery; Transportation-as-a-Service is now viable and cities are partnering with startups to deliver competitive options for mass transit.

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CalTech Entrepreneur Demand Mobile 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage. That’s a real competitive edge that you can use in your marketing and positioning. The anecdotal evidence is growing that consumers are willing to pay a premium for sustainability, and have started to demand a discount for ‘un-sustainability.’

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

According to OpenX, the new product combines real-time-bidding (RTB) and ad network demand into a single auction system, which can help publishers maximize their advertising yield and increasing competition for their inventory. OpenX said that such customers as YP, TVGuide.com, and the New York Observer are already using the product.

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OpenX Product Advertising Demand 159

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

eCommerce for example grew 39% just last year - so there’s simply more demand. This is accomplished through aggregated, anonymized competitive benchmarking, market-level performance data across the major social and ad platforms, and curated news and conversation from industry leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2021

Career survival today requires thinking and acting like an entrepreneur starting a business, staying nimble and resilient, willing to pivot, and supersensitive to the market realities of supply and demand. Regularly assess and refine your competitive advantage.

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Startup Entrepreneur Demand Competition 143

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2022

A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” My reaction is, if there is no competition, then there is no market demand for your product, so why are you building it?

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Ideas Startup Tips Competition 145

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. The result will likely be business demands that you can’t meet, loss of key personnel, potential lawsuits, and certainly not the fun lifestyle you expected.

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Technical Review Startup Innocal Offshore 138

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2016

Los Angeles-based ridesharing service Opoli --which faces rather daunting competition from Uber and Lyft--is hoping to break through the ridesharing noise, with an offer of $5 for a trip to LAX. Opoli offers up iOS and Android apps which let users book both on-demand and reserved rides.

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Demand Competition Los Angeles Pricing 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

Every one of you business leaders I know struggles with the competing demands of finding and keeping employees motivated and satisfied, versus building and enforcing a set of repeatable processes that work. People-centric leaders realize that the right motivated and accountable people are their real competitive advantage.

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Satisfaction Demand Resource Competition 154

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For new entrepreneurs and startups, I recommend an initial focus on these six steps from the very beginning to set the right culture and save the tremendous cost of a transformation and risky competitive catch-up later: Start with an overriding top-down focus on customer experience. Set the expectation for continuous improvement.

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Customer Custom Startup Competition 106

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Interestingly, that demand has grown a lot during the pandemic, with demand for new homes as much as four times higher than demand for buying “existing” homes. ” That subsequently has put more of an emphasis on the sale of older homes to meet demand.

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Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers. Foster a culture of constant dialog with customers, experimentation, and multiple pivots required to stay competitive and responsive.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 20, 2019

The feature illustrates how Postmates, one of the earlier entrants to the billion-dollar food delivery wars , is trying to remain competitive by appealing to price-sensitive customers. In return, these customers get the food delivered for free, eliminating a major pinch point for potential Postmates users.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

So the team was busy enough trying to operate a new warehouse, meet increased demand for grocery delivery and keep workers safe in the process. Hall also noted that the company opened a new, larger warehouse in Oakland just a few days before shelter-in-place orders took effect last March. Image Credits: Good Eggs.

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Southern California Orange County San Diego Commerce 318

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Imagine the room in which several graduate business school student groups have gathered, tasked with coming up with an idea for a business plan competition. It is the process of leaping from a need to an eloquent solution that creates demand and ultimately success in the marketplace. A thought exercise.

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Startup Ideas Custom Customer 156

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

Evidence is growing that consumers are willing to pay at least a small premium for sustainability, and have started to demand a discount for “un-sustainability.” Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage. Doing good opens the door to a broader customer base.

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