Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Back in the early 2000s, the Maker Movement took hold in California, based on the emergence of such do-it-yourself (DIY) tools as 3-D printers, and now sites such as SketchUp and Makerspaces have all the tools you need to make almost anything computer related. Meet the new consumer demand for customization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding.

Tips 104

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

A new, Los Angeles startup, Artisan Park , is hoping to help connect artists with customers, by launching an online, name-your-own-price marketplace for art and handcrafted wares. The firm, whose team includes a former SharesPost executive, lets users bid on items posted by artists and artisans, who set a minimum price on their items.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. site in Texas, garnering some of the highest traffic this year on an article.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Through its platform publishers can make between 15% to 20% of gross compared with 5% on an affiliate marketing site. It’s a business that’s been incredibly profitable for the Los Angeles company, which raised $1 million from the LA-based accelerator and incubator, Amplify and a few angel investors.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. We were really focused on customer acquisition.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

El Segundo-based iChange , the online community site focused on nutrition counseling headed by Stuart MacFarlane, has raised another $500,000, as part of an ongoing $600,000 funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. iChange has previously raised funding from business mentoring firm and incubator Momentum Ventures.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones, offers up a online, subscription service which delivers high quality razors to customers on a monthly basis. The new startup, which spawned out of the walls of Science Inc., READ MORE>>.

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Dollar Shave Club SoCalTech Incubator Los Angeles 178

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. A few years ago, I first saw an interesting step in that direction via the classic book “ Entrepreneurial DNA ,” by Joe Abraham , with his assessment web site. External forces (competitors and customers).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg, while still in school, tested the viability of his “ FaceMash ” technology as a business by rolling it out to other students at Harvard as customers. He learned quickly that several pivots were required for business, legal, and customer acceptance reasons. Build a web site and incorporate while in school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We can do about 85 percent of all repairs on the driveway, on site. If we diagnose something major, where a vehicle has to be taken off site, we will take that vehicle and then bring it back when its done. They schedule an appointment, and finally, we come out to a consumers location at home or work. Thanks, and good luck!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

Can tapping the power of the crowd not only help you find customers and help fund your project, but also help you shape your startup idea and find funding? Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames. What is JumpStartFund?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. If you can’t keep up, you are dead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Equity 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Funding Startup Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding.

Startup 123

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

Startup 53

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 53

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

I think, now more than ever, Flippy meets the distinct challenges and can help our customers spur new growth. I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. Our mission is to create that kind of experience for our customers.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

It was a finalist in Marshall ’s New Venture Seed Competition and it has earned a place within IncubatriX, a startup Incubator through USC’s Grief School of Entrepreneurship, which currently houses over a dozen USC startups.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. It's like building a site like Blogger, but with your brand. Is FanMix available now?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

We're also enabling live booking, which will allow you to book and pay on the site for venues. At this point, they have a product, and released a women's line, and are scaling their customer base. But, as you know, there seem to be a huge number of new accelerators and incubators in Los Angeles right now.

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Beverly Hills Incubator Commerce Los Angeles 203

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

Startup 61

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We need to see a company which has already verified their use cases, has customers, has some form of revenue, or something that shows us that they can differentiate themselves, plus have the right team. It seems like that background matches well to the popularity of crowdsourced hardware on Kickstarter and other sites, do you play there?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

Makerspaces and hackerspaces have sites and events, including education and training, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, including lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find.

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Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Makerspaces , sometimes called hackerspaces , have sites and events, including tutorials, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Tool Design Demand 98

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

That allows you, for example, to access your factory in Dubai, rather than having to always fly to the site. Paul Myer: Veracity was originally part of Frost Data Capital, as part of their incubator. We've now exited the incubator and actually have an office at Microsemi. How did the company start working on this area?

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Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124