Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] The second story involves a founder who is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2013

Most every business can take advantage of continuing, recurring revenues from its customer base. We immediately recall the razor and blade analogy to illustrate the point when planning product development and release. Email readers, continue here.] Think of the portion of fixed overhead covered by recurring revenues.

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Berkonomics

MAY 1, 2014

So I went to visit a number of customer CEOs, told them my story, and asked them to advance some amount against their future billing from me. In return, I said, I would give them more time than originally contracted for, and certainly would treat the relationship as special from that moment on. Email readers, continue here.]

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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. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Email updates frequently.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2014

Outsourcing can be an extremely cost-effective solution here. Not only will you avoid adding to overhead costs at this early stage, but you’ll save management time — and free yourself to focus on developing your business. At a minimum, you should engage a lawyer to draft and/or review every contract you enter into.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is defined as the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. Email readers, continue here.]

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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. And fifth: Competitive risk.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Having paying “Customers” is what makes the cash register roar. An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Second, how to get leads.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2014

Southern California has a growing number of companies in the customer relationship management area, including a fairly new company in the area, Pipeliner CRM (www.pipelinersales.com). Who are your customers? The good thing is, after almost two years here in this space, we have over 128 customers in the U.S.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time.

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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 in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. What enabled you to get that first customer on board? We were really focused on customer acquisition.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

For our startup interview this morning, we caught up with Satish Varma , co-founder of Torrance-based Clorder (www.clorder.com), which is developing restaurant ordering software. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. One, is pay-for-performance, which is the transactional model.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Thus, during the recruiting process, we look for evidence of the applicant’s ability to: work autonomously, effectively communicate via chat and email and a willingness and ability to collaborate, despite being unable to walk down the hall and park themselves in a compatriot’s office.”. FastSpring. They could work on their own terms.”.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Solution – Identify the competencies that are critical to your startup's success and develop them internally. For instance, technology startups should maintain key development resources in-house, rather than relying exclusively on third-party, contract labor. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

However, habitual discounting at a startup is self-defeating, as it reinforces your customers'' proclivity to delay their purchases, patiently waiting for you to reduce your prices. Some of these tactics include: Total Cost Of Ownership – Price is only one element that determines the total cost incurred by customers to deploy your solution.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 29, 2012

Once the tour concluded, the group returned to Ron’s office where he notified them that he would initially sign them to a development deal. He made it clear that this approach would allow the band to re-cut a few of their demos, which he would use to persuade the label to sign the band to a full-fledged recording contract.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We've only got 40-45 people, versus if you look at a Verizon or AT&T, where they have tens of thousands of people having to support their network and provide customer support. Our customer support is in-house, and we have a light-touch customer support model, and we don't have to manage a massive network.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Business package policies are inexpensive and rather comprehensive tools that should be contracted by all companies with any assets to measure and protect. Email readers continue here.] It took weeks for the team to assemble code from various sources such as customer sites, beta test locations and demo machines.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. He would do anything he could to capture people’s email addresses because he knew that they served as a valuable tool for future marketing purposes. His email list became his power. He would occasionally give away free music in exchange for email addresses.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : TestFlight helps developers build better apps. We developed it for ourselves. TestFlight does simple, elegant, over the air distribution of apps that are in development and haven’t been made available in the App Store yet. In the development world, it is always about patterns. That’s our goal.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Pick an internal email system ( Gmail , Outlook ). Choose an email system to connect with customers ( Constant Contact , MailChimp , Sendgrid ). Set up your computer and network.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

To make it easier to explain, we come from a part of the world where there's been email, display, retargeting, programmatic, and social advertising, which allows us to heavily leverage data, testing, and optimize real time results, so marketers can make good, informed decisions. We build on those audiences, and find others that look alike.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2012

What you do know, is every ticket is not only guaranteed, and not only authentic, but we'll provide live customer support. Ticketing and league development rolled up under me. So new fan development was a critical thing. So, I'm intimately familiar with all of the ticketing contracts, which was critical.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Lots of thoughts here.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Lots of thoughts here.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Her company has since signed a contract with Central Desktop. Central Desktop’s angel was amusing without alienating potential customers. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Recently, Santa Monica-based Geodelic (www.geodelic.com), the venture backed developer of location-based, mobile apps, has sharpened its focus to provide real-time offers, and has partnered with mobile operators like Verizon and Korean Telecom to offer up its services to those firm's customers. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to help develop tools to secure the power grid. OT networks had a parallel development track with IT systems, but had primarily been focused on industrial applications. Thanks for the time today.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

If you need to keep calls, texts and emails confidential, than this is the product for you. ” It’s a compelling thought – especially when you consider the alternative: 2 year contracts, overage charges, hours of dealing with customer service reps. Sell it as needed and remove the need for long term contracts.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. Can you convert your model without losing your customer base? We immediately recall the razor and blade analogy to illustrate the point when planning product development and release. Call it the Netflix effect.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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