socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Santa Monica-based PatientPop , which develops healthcare practice management software, has rolled out a new product, aimed at helping independent healthcare providers compare themselves to other local competitors. READ MORE>>.

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Tool Santa Monica Competition Google 133

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan &# and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I would love to say that I’m the productivity guru. OK, before you all tell me about Google Voice, let me say the following.

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Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. Let new technical insights drive innovative products. For Google, this has led to self-driving cars, based on work with Google maps and artificial intelligence.

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Artificial Inteligence Google Startup Organization 114

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. At this point, we’re a little over 400 people, and we manage upward of $500 million in spend on Facebook and Google, including Instagram and YouTube.

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Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2022

Equally often, I see startups who are on the road to implementing an idea, but haven’t figured out what problem it solves – the business plan waxes on eloquently for 20 pages about how great this product and technology is, but never gets around to defining the problem (investors call this the “solution looking for a problem” syndrome).

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Ideas Startup Tips Competition 145

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. Commoditize complementary products. Compensate for low profit by aiming for maximum reach.

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Develop Development Platform Mobile 138

Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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Competition Social Media Web Commerce 64

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Who would not want to join the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Their computers then merge your ads with search results when users search words imply an interest in your products. SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. Cost per click (CPC).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2022

In my experience with business leaders, real innovation thinking is rare, compared to the urge to add just one more feature to an existing product, or make a small tweak to an existing business model. I call this linear thinking , and it’s a sure way to be ultimately overrun by your competition. BlackBerry was left behind.

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Competition Examples Custom Customer 139

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. Let new technical insights drive innovative products. For Google, this has led to self-driving cars, based on work with Google maps and artificial intelligence.

Artificial Inteligence 165

Artificial Inteligence Google Startup Organization 165

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. What are your thoughts on the Google announcement? But, that's only a small percentage of the whole population who might buy their product or services. Media is exploding.

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Google Advertising Media Startup 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. Commoditize complementary products. Compensate for low profit by aiming for maximum reach.

Mobile 126

Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much.

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Help IP Content Google 133

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Look for and reward quantum changes, like cutting cycle time in half, in your processes, products, and services.

Startup 126

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2021

Intuitively, many entrepreneurs and businesses believe that the key to faster growth and success is more products, features, and markets. Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Just ask J.C.

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Startup Resource Entrepreneur Metrics 154

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media.

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Technical Review Startup Innocal Offshore 138

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2021

Most entrepreneurs dream of achieving the exponential expansion of a Google or Amazon, but few investor pitches I see outline any strategy beyond simple marketing to make this happen. Incent friendly competition with prizes. Deliver edgy product demonstrations. People love to compete.

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Search Engine Optimization Artificial Inteligence Organization Social Media 158

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

In another attempt by a Southern California company to attract talent, Santa Monica-based BetterWorks just became the latest firm to dangle a cash bounty to people for product or engineering hires. product or engineering positions -- plus provide one free year of Betterworks services to that person's company or organization.

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Southern California Startup Santa Monica Los Angeles 191

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire GRP Partners 359

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

The funding, a Series C, will be used to continue expanding Boulevard’s product and engineering teams and to build out more tools targeting an ever-wider set of users in the bigger wellness and beauty sector (those product additions are typically big — it most recently added a whole new payments feature).

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Help Startup UCLA Tool 195

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. Plan to deliver a family of products, rather than a one-trick pony. Even a great initial product, with no follow-on, won’t keep you ahead of competitors very long.

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Resource Metrics Entrepreneur Technical Review 121

Frank Addante

JULY 20, 2012

If you want to manage a hyper-growth company, start with a great product. The best product wins. With a great product comes great customers, and with customers comes revenue and profit, which in turn can be used to build more great products. That’s why I believe so strongly in a product-driven organization.

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Product Company Companies Organization 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Sponsor some friendly competitive events with prizes.

Marketing 170

Marketing Examples Startup Custom 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

How will work productivity and quality be impacted, and what effect will it have on personal careers, job satisfaction, and work-life balance? In my experience, a great office culture will enhance every team member productivity, as well as personal satisfaction. Communicate your desire to achieve work-life balance for all team members.

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Satisfaction Coach Activity Sites 85

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. We also have a mobile version of the product, Idrive Lite, which is primarily used to back up contacts.

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Southern California Google S3 Services 133

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network. How many places online do you need to update that data -- is that just Google and Apple, or are there really that many other places? Google triangulates a lot of information. Where we really want to focus, is on product.

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Google Santa Monica Networking Software 113

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

For me it is a useful shorthand for a very clever set of product features that in my mind would be hard to remain a stand-alone business or themselves to generate enough revenue to justify the company’s existence. Just sending messages is a utility product and Apple killed that, not me.” . Google has Google Voice.

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Company Companies Gogii Cloud Computing 295

socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At productboard we aim to bake best practices of product management straight into the interface, so you can improve the way you manage your products right out of the box. In the meantime, we’ll continue publishing thoughts and ideas we’ve learned from great product managers here. Why has product management be so slow to adapt?

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Technical Review Metrics Ideas Product 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2019

Equally often, I see startups who are on the road to implementing an idea, but haven’t figured out what problem it solves – the business plan waxes on eloquently for 20 pages about how great this product and technology is, but never gets around to defining the problem (investors call this the “solution looking for a problem” syndrome).

Startup 80

Startup Ideas Competition Demand 80

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell.

Startup 147

Startup Pricing Sales Statistics 147

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention, and high revenue per employee. Understanding competitive early mover requirements.

Organization 94

Organization Invest Custom Customer 94

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers. If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it.

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