Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Email readers, continue here…] A great idea often fails from the inexperience or inability of management to bring the idea to market.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And that certainly counts for customers too, although the customer jungle drums don’t communicate quite as fast as the virtual water cooler system, even with today’s many ways of posting negative reviews about company behavior. People working together with only the customer in mind. Culture done right.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2020

Common to all bottlenecks are three factors: [Email readers, continue here…] . The bottleneck itself strains to keep up with demand, often to the point of reducing its own efficiency in the process of attempting to keep up with demand. The three common factors making a bottleneck.

Organization 156

Organization Demand Satisfaction Training 156

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Venture capitalists sometimes make an error in directing their portfolio company CEOs to push resources to the limit and scale the business to immense size quickly, all to seize market share. Experienced CEOs often make it a habit to scale because of demand, reducing risk and mating cost to growth in revenues.

Venture Capital 156

Venture Capital Social Media Invest Marketing 156

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Marketing Demand 100

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

The two-ounce bottles will be donated to local restaurants and bars that remain open for delivery, so that employees can use them and distribute them to customers. After that, we’re going to meet the demands of Canada,” INKSmith CEO Jeremy Hedges told the Canadian news outlet Global News.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Email readers, continue here…] Are you ahead or behind the market with your product or service? Second: Market risk. .

Outsource Development 120

Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 120

Berkonomics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Over the years, I have often heard the complaint from CEO friends that they have become so swamped by the demands of their growing businesses that they feel themselves further and further from the center of their industry, no longer at the forefront of information and competitive development. First, speak to your customers often.

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Marketing Demand Media Entrepreneur 120

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Well, even though that acquisition is still playing itself out on the field of battle, it appears quite clear that the new parent has directed its new subsidiary to abandon the lower end of the market and focus upon the larger sales, corporate customers, and major brands. Been skewered for slow customer service?

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

“Quality” products and services should not be positioned as “cheap,” or your potential customers will question your message from the start, and will be more critical of the delivered product than if offered as one or the other, but not both. Email readers, continue here…] But beware. Red Adair said, “…pick any two.”

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Email readers, continue here.] Third: Management risk. Second: Market risk.

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Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 200

Berkonomics

APRIL 21, 2010

Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. . I created the term “time bankruptcy” almost thirty years ago when the computer software business was young, and I was a software developer building a young company based upon quality first. Email readers continue here.] Time bankruptcy.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 31, 2013

And that certainly counts for customers too, although the customer jungle drums don’t communicate quite as fast as the virtual water cooler system, even with today’s many ways of posting negative reviews about company behavior. Email readers, continue here.] Now that’s showing faith. Actions always speak louder than words.

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Southern California Customer Custom Demand 176

Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2013

Email readers, continue here.] The bottleneck itself strains to keep up with demand, often to the point of reducing its own efficiency in the process of attempting to keep up with demand. A bottleneck in your organization’s flow of product or service can happen, shift, or disappear quickly.

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Organization Demand Satisfaction Training 222

Berkonomics

MARCH 19, 2015

As your business grows more complex and there are more employees to manage and more customers to care for, slowly you will notice that more and more time of your chief innovation officer or system architect or R&D department is spent focused upon enhancements in response to needs of the user base.

Cloud Computing 120

Cloud Computing Resource Tool Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media.

Marketing 82

Marketing Demand Startup Customer 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2020

They don’t seem to realize that investors can be the most demanding bosses your ever had, since it’s their money you are using and potentially losing. I have to explain that if you really want to exercise total control of a new venture, they you need to do it without external investors, bootstrapping your way with your own resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media.

Marketing 104

Marketing Demand Startup Customer 104

Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

Comfort and community are two of the main aspects that the business seems to strive for, offering modern clean environments with all mod-cons, as well as regular community events for customers, including networking meetings. To provide support and motivation, our members-only email newsletter has become the LABS Stay-Insider.

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Berkonomics

MAY 21, 2015

Venture capitalists sometimes make an error in directing their portfolio company CEOs to push resources to the limit and scale the business to immense size quickly, all to seize market share. Experienced CEOs often make it a habit to scale as a result of demand, reducing risk and mating cost to growth in revenues.

Venture Capital 120

Venture Capital Social Media Invest Marketing 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. People who believe the former believe that you should see the market demand before too many people know you’re “in market.” Sometimes?—?best

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2015

If you’re planning to launch the latest version of a device, for example, make sure you’ve adequately allocated resources to keep up with the demand. The goal here is to show your customer your brand’s value, while offering an extra incentive for them to purchase over the holidays. 3 Take advantage of email.

Social Media 40

Social Media Entrepreneur Resource Tips 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media.

Marketing 91

Marketing Startup Demand Customer 91

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

We are also pushing out updates all the time to our customers. Enterprise are quite constrained from the resource point of view, and they really don''t have the cycles to understand OpenStack at a deep level. One of our customers has 6,500 separate and distinct applications. That''s very powerful, if you think about.

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CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

Currently, social media is the least used of all customer interaction methods. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes.

Social Media 106

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA. The minute a customer hired us to deal with their transitioning employees, the first thing we could do is sayhey, it's not all bad, there are over 150 companies looking for someone just like you in your area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2010

More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media.

Marketing 55

Marketing Startup Demand Customer 55

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Startup Social Network 115

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

With the Identity Theft Resource Center® reporting a 30% increase in privacy breaches in 2013, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Why is everyone so paranoid these days? Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks.

Entrepreneur 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2017

With the Identity Theft Resource Center® reporting a 40 percent increase in data breaches in 2016, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Why is everyone so paranoid these days? Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup Symantec 54

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I've watched businesses operate throughout my career, and saw that so many times business users struggle with relatively simple applications, where they can't get them build, can't get them to work, and where they have to kludge together an email system to route things to get things approved. That's been helpful with growth.

Startup 150

Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). We need to market to that customer to make them aware of our product or service. Choose that market.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only.

Social Media 104

Social Media Media Marketing Social Network 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only.

Social Media 88

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 88

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

At the time of founding, our iHub’s main focus was renewable energy because of the abundant sunshine in greater Palm Springs, the reliable wind in the San Gorgonio Pass, and the geothermal resources at the Salton Sea. If you are interested in having your ecosystem featured, shoot an email to monica@engine.is.

Startup 119

Startup Technical Review Patents Services 119

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. Ask satisfied customers to spread the word on yelp, tripadvisor, Angieslist, etc., Customer service is free. Out-do the big-shots and other competitors when it comes to customer service. Moonlighting can pay the bills.

Startup 92

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates. More general resources are: Tracy Williams at Olmstead Williams for PR. To be in tune with the times we call it the Daylight Transport Strategic Saver program: we give you 8 ways to save using LTL.

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Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150