Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

Natalie Kaminski, CEO and cofounder of goBaby.co , an on-demand rental marketplace for baby gear that helps reduce stress of traveling with little kids, is hyper-focused on gaining the trust of mothers. “Focusing on emotion is key when communicating with female customers. Connect With Your Customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This is not the total opportunity out there, and not the total target market, but the subset of customers who have and will spend the money you need to cure their pain. That means educating targeted supporters is key, even before you start to sell. Selling too early triggers customer defenses and drives them away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared leadership (member and customer led).

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Organization Social Media Examples Customer 126

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Services Social Media Technical Review Media 128

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

Assess customer demand. Do customers really need what you want to do, or might they see it as “nice to have?” Education and training roadblocks. Look critically at yourself and your existing organization for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). What personal support resources are available?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Find market evidence of customers with means who are willing to pay for a solution.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Apparently with a physical storefront where it can convince customers of the wonders of on-demand mobility. Educate them on the benefits, educate them on safety, and provide helmets.” “Lime would have an opportunity to control the narrative, engage with the local community, and invest in Santa Monica.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Silicon Valley is focused on disrupting established industries, but in many parts of the world, innovators must create new sectors, such as education, health care, financial services, and energy. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. Education: More students and different classes. Technology won’t solve this one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Many customers now actively seek out new technologies, rather than wait for many others to try it first. Steve Jobs proved it with the iPhone, and Elon Musk can’t produce his electric cars fast enough to keep up with demand. Too many founders still focus their product design and selling efforts only on direct paybacks to the customer.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

This is not the total opportunity out there, and not the total target market, but the subset of customers who have and will spend the money you need to cure their pain. That means educating targeted supporters is key, even before you start to sell. Selling too early triggers customer defenses and drives them away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Here are some of the key indications that you might be a good match for a lifestyle business, for you to compare and consider against your own objectives and strengths: Enjoy interacting with customers and products every day. If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Most controllers out there now are timers, which basically do not react to water demand. Instead, we run a model in the cloud based on the weather and calculate actual water demand, and we adjust the schedule on a daily basis. We do see the biggest demand in spring and summer, but we don''t think that is insurmountable.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Organic Academia. All-Star Alumni.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 14, 2020

Today’s education providers put a larger emphasis on internet-based learning styles to help diversify their education, which requires ever-increasing network bandwidth for schools and their students. Schools using this setup receive a full wavelength that can be customized to fit their unique network traffic needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Many of the business plans I see are built around a dream, with idealistic costs, margins, and customer demand. Every successful business requires a focus on providing solutions, business management, and customer service. Successful businesses are built around solutions that work, have a market, and are scalable.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

We started with just a few tents, and saw an immediate consumer demand, and we've grown steadily from there. Ross Richmond: This summer, we decided to seek investment, so we could grow and meet the consumer demand we were seeing. We had a customer at REI, and they were calling us from the store. How did you connect with Science?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2016

Under Bob’s leadership, his school was also named a Distinguished School by the California Department of Education, earning an unprecedented score of 10 out of 10. Demand Customer Centricity. Bob successfully managed his constituents by never forgetting that his ultimate “customers” were the students he was serving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. Makerspaces and hackerspaces have sites and events, including education and training, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our annual conferencefocused on educating our community on growing valuable tech enterprises-- set a record with over 500 attendees and our best attendee feedback to date. We are seeing SaaS companies more and more are competing against other SaaS companies and experiencing more churn, price resistance and customer demand for customization.

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Capital Southern California SaaS SoCal 124

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared leadership (member and customer led).

Organization 52

Organization Social Media Examples Customer 52

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Assess customer demand. Do customers really need what you want to do, or might they see it as “nice to have?” Education and training roadblocks. Look critically at yourself and your existing organization for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). What personal support resources are available?

Startup 94

Startup Resource Training Ideas 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Silicon Valley is focused on disrupting established industries, but in many parts of the world, innovators must create new sectors, such as education, health care, financial services, and energy. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers.

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Ideas Venture Capital Software Review Technical Review 124

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

As we went from a small band of missionaries hell bent on making our idea a reality, raising capital, getting press, and selling to customers – we were all having fun. We built a business with $36 million in bookings and real customers who relied upon our service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared leadership (member and customer led).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2017

According to Small Business Trends , over half of the existing small businesses in the US already have international customers. Luxury goods can easily flow into or out of emerging nations, changing cost factors as well as demand. Culture changes can increase or decrease demand for existing products and services quickly.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Regardless of whether it’s an educational institution or government agency, network downtime not only halts productivity but can be financially costly. With Switched Ethernet, customers can also choose to diversify their cable route to maximize uptime and further increase the reliability of their ethernet services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

This is not the total opportunity out there, and not the total target market, but the subset of customers who have and will spend the money you need to cure their pain. That means educating targeted supporters is key, even before you start to sell. Selling too early triggers customer defenses and drives them away.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

At SCE Carrier Solutions, our team of experts knows that no two organizations are alike; as a result, we work with our customers to pick a fiber optic solution that best suits their particular needs. SCE Carrier Solutions works to educate our customers on selecting a fiber optic solution that best meets their demands.

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Services Class Organization Networking 59

InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

The gowns are then dry cleaned and readied for the next customer, in the spirit of the emerging sharing economy in which goods are communally used multiple times. We keep our eye on a handful of metrics, but we’re focused on customer satisfaction. We will be moving into other categories based on customer demand.

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Design Customer Custom Satisfaction 208

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Shared leadership (member and customer led).

Organization 57

Organization Social Media Customer Custom 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Optimize the total customer experience.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. That''s when we started looking at credit repair, online education, and others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

This is not the total opportunity out there, and not the total target market, but the subset of customers who have and will spend the money you need to cure their pain. That means educating targeted supporters is key, even before you start to sell. Selling too early triggers customer defenses and drives them away.

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Startup Education Customer Custom 99