Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

So Bayen resolved to be more of a sourcing partner for new customers rather than developing a credit and lending business hmimself. it would have been a platform called LennyBike, which would have been a subscription service for customers to get access to a bicycle for $30 a month and those payments would then count toward building credit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Customers now put big value on experience, social impact, empowerment, and feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Never mix up what you like with what your customers will buy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2023

Not all innovations have to be as disruptive as the Netflix digital download was to Blockbuster’s DVD business. Both authors are recipients of numerous academic and management awards for leadership thinking, and I will summarize here their key strategy insights, combined with my own experiences: Lead with a focus on finding customer value.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Canoo has beta cars on site at its Los Angeles headquarters where prospective partners and customers can test out the vehicles, which were made by an undisclosed contract manufacturer based in Michigan. The company intends to go to market with an entirely new business model by providing customers with its cars for a monthly subscription fee.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Customers now put big value on experience, social impact, empowerment, and feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Never mix up what you like with what your customers will buy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It reportedly paid a hefty $230 million to acquire the podcast publisher and network startup Gimlet Media, and has also acquired the podcast monetization platform Anchor for an undisclosed price. That’s because the acquisitions make Spotify a publisher, as well as platform. Spotify Acquires Gimlet Media and Anchor.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

Maybe even as big as Netflix’ seemingly permanent mistake of not allowing Netflix subscribers to send a “your friend Arden thought you’d love this movie. Click here to watch it for free” link to their non-Netflix friends. Facebook is a big, smart company. But they’re missing a huge opportunity here. Shameless plug coming here.)

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

Along with GoToMyPC, companies like Netflix, Classmates and ZoneLabs were learning from each other. Fast-forward two years – DataPop has not just radically transformed search; its creative optimization platform is now matching all modalities of online ads to consumers’ intent. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Share and Enjoy.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

That is, businesses are using APIs like crazy to stay competitive and communicate with both partners and customers more effectively. They’ve built products that have completely transformed industries, like the AT&T M2X Internet of Things platform. “If

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. Nguyen is founder and CMO of Fanhouse , a creator platform that just raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz. . What does that even mean?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful. The remaining 20 percent are independent film-makers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Quintype thinks that digital publishing – which relies on platforms such as wordpress, drupal and other CMS platforms – has been stuck in the dark ages. Here are four that are blazing trails right now: Quintype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Never mix up what you like with what your customers will buy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

At their annual developer conferences, Google I/O, held last month, and Apple’s WWDC, last week they both announced updates to their development platforms. Customer experience is a high priority for both companies. Two customer-focused announcements stood out: the reviews API and the customer case studies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2016

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Never mix up what you like with what your customers will buy.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2018

The insurance industry is an old industry, with a lot of contradictions--it's one where the more claims insurers pay to help customers, the less money the insurers make--and it's also one that hasn't been disrupted much yet by technology. However, overall we'll be customizing that out. They are fixed and constant, regardless of loss.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

You have Genius on iTunes, NetFlix''s recommended movies, Facebook or Twitter. We''ve made it so people can customize us to only turn on movies and TV, and don''t have to see anything with music and books, for example. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

According to many experts , getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000. Sellbot helps online sellers sell through multiple platforms. In the end, 3 startups were awarded prize money for their spectacular business ideas. The event ended with three final panels.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We give way 500Mb of free data to all of our users, and users can also early additional, free minutes for connecting to their friends on the platform and participating on partner offers and promotions. 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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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

Companies like Google, Facebook, eBay, Xbox Live, Hulu, and Netflix would have been seriously hurt as they hemorrhaged dissatisfied customers who would likely refuse to pay extra to just bid on select items on eBay, or watch “House of Cards” on Netflix. Companies like Etsy and eBay aside.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation. That's where we come in, we've been connecting our customers to help deliver packages, testing kit delivery, and moving essential workers. They book through Swoop, which leads to those operators.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth. That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube and other content streaming sites have all but obliterated the independent DVD rental business of yesterday. Yes, Netflix has a huge arm in the rental business and Redbox is pretty popular, but you’ll find the titles are probably pretty limited if you like the good indie stuff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

According to many experts , getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The conference brings about panelists from across the platforms in film, television, new media and tech. The entire film industry seems to be on board with Ultraviolets new concept of giving customers a digital library of the films they purchase. To give consumers comfort in streaming.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2015

Since its inception in 2010, EAT Club has scaled its service in the Bay Area, delivering more than three million meals to allow thousands of companies like Netflix , Tesla and Cisco to find their workplace zen. The company redefining workplace lunch with personalized meals and snacks that are always on time, launches today in L.A.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial. Read more: peHUB.

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