Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. For example, consider how many years it took for the market to move from radio to television, or fully accept personal computers on every desktop.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

(STI), a company in the school transportation, safety, and fleet services market. HopSkipDrive, which is led by CEO Joanna McFarland, said it will use the new funding to accelerate growth in new and existing markets and scale its operations to meet growing demand. As part of the funding, Denis J.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

by providing cutting-edge online education to a global population of people looking to make it in the ever-evolving entertainment industry. There’s a community feel even to our education. And the ability to bring education to the world has been our intention from day one.”. Educating the next generation of media talent.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

An empty textbox, demanding to be filled with a concise, compelling summary to impress potential employers is daunting. My time with TFA instilled in me a deep commitment to education, inspiring me to dedicate my life to guiding young minds through the world of mathematics. Do you see anyone frustrated by these empty textboxes?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Covid-19 foisted a hefty set of expectations on the e-learning industry, with companies building tools to help teach people remotely suddenly finding themselves in unprecedented demand. How to mentor women better was the impetus because I did not have female mentors when I started at Ernst & Young,” she recalled.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

Creativebug , the online educational video site for the arts and crafts market which was last owned by Otter Media , the joint venture between AT&T and The Chernin Group, has been acquired by Jo-Ann Stores , the arts and crafts retailer. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. The total experience design begins with a common vision, but then must cross the borders between product, packaging, marketing, customer support, and many other disciplines. In today’s fast paced market, trends and user needs evolve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2021

At some stage of your education, you realize that you can learn faster, and get more satisfaction, in the real world than in a academic environment. They also are not hesitant to fire customers with unreasonable demands, or don’t fit their strategy. The role is a demanding one, and compromise is usually not a winning option.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Relevancy for an early-stage company is the discovery and understanding of the real addressable market for a product or service. 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. A startup must gain balanced traction.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In the latest, "Uber-for-X" startup to emerge in the Los Angeles market, online marketplace Zingy said Wednesday that it has officially launched its on-demand, dog walking service. The startup--led by Tobi Skovron--said its service allows owners to request and book a trained and educated dog walker, to walk their dogs on demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P. It is very important for service companies to use and market peak load pricing, seasonal, and customer scheduling without impacting relationships. If your services business isn’t innovating with the market, it’s falling behind. Carey School of Business.

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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.” He explains that scooter companies have thought about expansion too purely from the standpoint of acheiving market saturation.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? . “In

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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. Irrigation is not generally known as a leading edge market. That''s a big market.

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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

HopSkipDrive said the new funding goes towards expanding into new markets, plus partnerships with schools, districts and counties. The company said it now has partnerships over 200 schools, districts and counties across 13 markets in eight states and Washington DC. According to the company, it has now raised $44M in total funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. The total experience design begins with a common vision, but then must cross the borders between product, packaging, marketing, customer support, and many other disciplines. In today’s fast paced market, trends and user needs evolve.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

Our system works on under-the-table payments of below-market wages for jobs that our non-Hispanic citizens don’t want to do and in a country where people our unemployment rate is already so low that some economists are warning about inflation due to full employment. Ramiro was demanding one thing?—?“visibility.” Invisibility.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

Popular programs like Opportunity Zones, New Market Tax Credits and Community Development Finance Institutions could be used to boost the government’s commitment with private capital, the plan’s authors argue. billion set aside for workforce retraining and education.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P. It is very important for service companies to use and market peak load pricing, seasonal, and customer scheduling without impacting relationships. If your services business isn’t innovating with the market, it’s falling behind. Carey School of Business.

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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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. In the second stage, marketing and sales are highly specialized functions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

Assess customer demand. In the relevant market large enough, and growing fast enough, to make it a profitable opportunity? Education and training roadblocks. Look critically at yourself and your existing organization for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). Providing minimal resources.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Educational technology companies are augmenting the traditional educational system with their online coursework offerings, but they’re also creating a competing universe where students can find alternate learning experiences that may qualify them for a job, even if they don’t have an academic degree.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

I recommend that you look for new or emerging opportunities in new markets. Successful businesses are built around solutions that work, have a market, and are scalable. Many of the business plans I see are built around a dream, with idealistic costs, margins, and customer demand.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

Or do you toss your hat into the ring with an already existing concept, making a clone in hopes to snatch away market share? You have to know your markets, you need to make sure you have qualified people creating the product, and you need to find something that’s going to make you stand-out in comparison to all the other noise out there.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

What type of market, if any, is the right one? Paris has been an important market for the e-scooter industry at large, but the city has chafed against the vehicles, citing safety incidents , some of which were fatal. A spokesperson recently told us that Los Angeles is Lime’s biggest American market today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Relevancy for an early-stage company is the discovery and understanding of the real addressable market for a product or service. 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. A startup must gain balanced traction.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Greg will share his experience on how to Successfully Build and Sell an Effective Social Media Marketing Agency. At the ripe age of nineteen, Greg’s life shifted dramatically as he began his education at the University of Southern California while simultaneously cutting his teeth in the Interscope Records New Media Department.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

Community means more than supply and demand. Although the sharing economy isn’t really new, here are a few of the arenas that Stephany and I believe are still ripe for disruption: Education. It can mean selling through peer-to-peer e-commerce ( eBay ), renting ( HomeAway ), gifting ( yerdle ), or even swapping ( Swapz ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

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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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. Brett Rossman: ConsumerTrack is a performance-based, online marketing company. What is ConsumerTrack all about?

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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. Techand the markets overall--has enjoyed a surprisingly long stretch of prosperity. What was the biggest personal lesson you learned from 2017?

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Specifically, two high school seniors in LA, Dillon Rosenblatt and Tyler Makhani, recently built out an app called Tutors , a platform for on demand tutoring. “As a result of the immense growth and popularity of on-demand services in other major industries, it just makes sense that tutoring will follow the craze.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

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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. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2018

market capitalization, and tech is a growing target for corporate research and development dollars. In 2017, on-demand or “gig” workers grew nearly a quarter — 23 percent — over the previous year. Online Education Is Up. Tech Incumbents Are Essential. In the U.S., Why Tech Startups Care. Gig Workers Are on the Rise.

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