Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. As I like to tell people who ask about Bird, “consumers have literally voted with their feet.”

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

In numerous interviews throughout the past two years, Weiss and other executives have emphasized the company’s focus on its direct-to-consumer online shipping model and obsession with iterating the customer experience based on feedback.

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CTO Hire Layoffs Commerce Email 197

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even Hot, Flat & Crowded.”

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Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The B-Corp status is meant to reduce investor suits, and gives consumers an easy way to spot genuine social commitment, without assuming it is a non-profit. Of course, investors still require a profitable business model, and the potential for high returns. Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2021

This, of course, is potentially game-changing news for Shopify users. Consumer tech, for example, is a perfect fit for affiliate marketing with 60% of consumers buying electronics on Prime Day 2020. But, it also represents another swipe at Amazon's near-monopoly control of the affiliate marketing space. Considering Shopify?

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Marketing Buzzfeed Guide Platform 179

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. Some will heed my call to move out of gaming into other creative and fun consumer services.

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Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2018

For most consumers with a credit card, many of those cards have a feature called "price protection"--which promises to provide you with cash back if prices drop on an item you've purchased. We give consumers money back when prices drop post-purchase. So far, we're getting consumers millions of dollars back. What's Earny?

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Pricing Startup Email Incubator 145

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Of course you want your customer to come back, but the best ones also become your evangelists in bringing their friends to you, and broadcasting their positive experiences to the world through social media. Of course, both you and they will make mistakes, which are the best learning experiences. Capitalize on the multiplier moment.

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Customer Custom Startup Course 146

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2021

It is complexity theory made manifest and only serves to show that scalable, data-driven solutions rapidly deployed across large industrial markets are our only hope in correcting the course,” wrote Vaughn Blake, a partner at the energy-focused investment firm Blue Bear Capital. Next generation chips may be consuming as much as 1.5

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Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

These are still the driving focus behind most marketing courses, and deserve to be so. Then there is the four C’s, the consumer-oriented marketing model (2). The four Cs: Consumer, cost, communication and convenience. This is considered to be the producer-oriented model. This makes sense too, and surely deserves time.

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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.” According to marketing surveys , 76 percent of global consumers believe it is acceptable for brands to support good causes and make money at the same time.

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Organization Startup Pricing Customer 143

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2014

Quippi offers up the ability for consumers here to purchase gift cards--not for U.S. We caught up with CEO Michael Aleles to learn more about the company and its quest to serve consumers in what has been a consumer unfriendly market. That was really one of the missions of our company, to act for the social benefit of consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Of course you now book when you want and even choose your restaurant based on availability at the time / day you want and you can book on your mobile phone at 2am or 8pm. and of course I use "we" loosely as the hard work of course was the entire MyTime team sans me]. As long as they didn’t lose the book or make a mistake.

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Development Team Review Course Mobile Writing 324

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We look at stage, geography and of course sector. They make little pods that test food so the potential consumer can know what is in his or her food before consuming it. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers. And I’m sure they had no idea what they were fathering with that effort which eventually became ARPANET, and then of course, the Internet itself. And innovation is what creates value. The Internet and AI – new opportunities for innovation.

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 156

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

Make sure the inspiration that launched your vision isn’t lost in the course of a pivot or market change. Of course, you may need to realign that vision to your team, your investors, and all the other players. False starts or obvious mis-steps will derail even the best pivots. Revisit your startup vision and values.

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Social Media Startup Framework Course 143

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2013

The new service is a big expansion for Docstoc, which has been slowly growing out its small business resource tools, which range from online legal and other documents to business licenses, from online education courses to e-books. READ MORE>>. service recommendation review yelp business small docstoc expertcircle'

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Software Review Services Santa Monica Resource 208

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

What we are creating is less of a consumer magazine. Many, of course, are skeptical of natural care practices because they can be untested or dependent on unscientific principles. “We’re the antithesis of Goop,” Berlincourt, a fintech veteran who previously led marketing and product at Simple Finance, tells TechCrunch.

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Guide Research Seed Funding Journal 241

socalTECH

JULY 26, 2012

The startup, founded by David Hauslaib and Tom Balamaci, operates a subscription service which ships out three-course, frozen meals to people which have been developed by top chefs. The firm is aiming at consumers who don't have time to cook, but would like to get restaurant quality food at home on short notice. READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners Funding Seed Funding Course 145

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand.

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Web Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising 117

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

Of course there was good and bad to this also. Neither caricature of course was correct. It was better for consumer and producer for this type of use case and you could still privately message people like an IM platform (or DM in Twitter, PM in Facebook). Second, there is one big innovation that the market hasn’t talked about.

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Social Media Snapchat Media Blogging 240

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). They’re primarily thinking about 7 AM?—?7

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Content Netflix Platform Mobile 244

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

Of course, it could be your level of experience, or the quality of your team, but the difference is often more related to the lifecycle stage of the market you are trying to enter. Of course, getting money doesn’t assure success. Now is the time to fund your startups touting these capabilities.

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Marketing Startup Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 174

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

We wanted to come to California, and Los Angeles in particular, where the consumer is around, and we''re close to the end users that we''re interested in, and also where there is an exciting, emerging, and under-served tech community. Arjan Schutte: The consumer segment we care about is the underbanked, nontraditional customers.

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Capital Startup Los Angeles Invest 183

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Also, research from Hawk Incentives found that 40 percent of the surveyed consumers say it makes them "feel smarter" when they can find better deals. Of course, it always pays to adapt these evolving customer principles to your own strengths, to cater to the ever more sophisticated, powerful, and demanding consumer.

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Demand Customer Custom Startup 126

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price. Of course reciprocity matters so they would all leap into action.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Steve Reich

OCTOBER 9, 2012

You get bombarded with Facebook requests–P&G wants me to “like” their consumer products, as if Tide is my best pal. But once in a while, someone gets it right and delivers a social experience that benefits the consumer instead of companies promoting a product. How do consumers like it?

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Course Social Media Examples Content 77

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

When businesses and consumers use a cloud service provider like Amazon Web Services or Apple’s iCloud, their data, photos, and music don’t get processed in the misty skies above us, as a poet friend of mine once assumed.

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Cloud Computing Web Course Services 56

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. They all seem to have slightly similar journeys, like they run consumer brands, maybe [have] slightly problematic racial politics, and some kind of takedown piece [is written about them]. And who cares?

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Startup Netflix Los Angeles Innocal 280

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2023

Of course a profitable model isn’t required if you intend to rely totally on donations, or have deep pockets to fund your socially conscious efforts yourself. Both of these are purpose-driven businesses that boast high growth, high loyalty, and very low employee turnover. You can find dozens more on the Conscious Capitalism web site.

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Startup Capital Guide Entrepreneur 92

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands. Robert Blatt: We, as consumers, are doing everything on mobile today.

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Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers. And I’m sure they had no idea what they were fathering with that effort which eventually became ARPANET, and then of course, the Internet itself. They could send only the “LO” of “LOGON” before recording the very first crash of the Internet.

Artificial Inteligence 256

Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 256

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

The huge leap forward for YouTube was UGC (user generated content) but this emerged into new stars, new ways of producing content and new ways of consuming it. In a world of time-shifted media and consumers distracted by multiple media options – being able to rely on reaching a consumer when you want to matters.

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Snapchat Advertising Media Platform 150

Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2018

Sometimes, companies do this by creating demand where none existed before, such as for Listerine in the early days with a campaign to eliminate halitosis, the dreaded bad breath that consumers had no name for and did not think of as a need before that most successful advertising campaign. Why buy it?”. Why buy MINE? .

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Sales Customer Custom Pricing 226

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Of course not. Where else are consumers going to find your product, if no one else is offering it or if other companies offer it, but haven’t found the right niche audience? Why Is niche marketing important? This is easy. You’ll have less competition. You’ll save money.

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Marketing Resource Advertising Social Media 266

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Of course it takes time to roll out new scooters and replace existing inventory but this is already having a dramatic effect on the underlying business. there is no viable business running on commodity consumer scooter hardware. In the scooter market, the consumer is the driver. Simply put?—?there It’s too lucrative not to.

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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Bill Parkes, Chief Digital Officer of nFusion, will discuss the changes that are already underway, the changes coming soon, and how both consumer and B2B marketers need to adjust their approach now to influence the rapidly evolving purchase decision process.

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Social Media Media Technology Council TCOSC 113