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.

Southern California 261

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Find market evidence of customers with means who are willing to pay for a solution. Assemble the resources needed for the business. Even adding money won’t do it – you need to create a committed and engaged team and partners for marketing and sales, as well as production and distribution. Pay attention to the market.

Tips 80

Tips Startup Satisfaction Ideas 80

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. In the relevant market large enough, and growing fast enough, to make it a profitable opportunity? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Startup 94

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2015

What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. In the relevant market large enough, and growing fast enough, to make it a profitable opportunity? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Startup 109

Startup Resource Training Ideas 109

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

The pervasive ability and need to communicate constantly and globally through the Internet and smartphones is incenting everyone to get more out of their own assets and time, and capitalize on the idle resources of others. Community means more than supply and demand. Assets need to move in a community of engaged users.

Marketing 52

Marketing Commerce Social Media Entrepreneur 52

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. The hardest thing about new markets is timing because as they say as an investor, “Being too early is the same as being wrong.”

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. In the relevant market large enough, and growing fast enough, to make it a profitable opportunity? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Startup 57

Startup Resource Training Ideas 57

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Establishing and wielding influence may help you move resources in your direction in a large business. These instincts kill you in a small company, where requiring more resources is a negative. On the other side of the ledger, big company executives tend to be demand-driven by initiatives handed down from the top.

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Startup Company Companies Training 103

Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In today’s market, enterprises of all sizes require high-performance network capacity that is customizable to their bandwidth projections and overall IT capabilities. While both our Dark Fiber and Wavelength Services leverage the power of fiber optic systems for high bandwidth demands, they operate with significant differences.

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Services Class Organization Networking 59

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2013

What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. In the relevant market large enough, and growing fast enough, to make it a profitable opportunity? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Training 97

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2017

Thus every entrepreneur and business owner needs to see their market in that context, understanding the global forces that will impact them sooner or later. Luxury goods can easily flow into or out of emerging nations, changing cost factors as well as demand. Technological innovations disrupt stable markets.

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Social Media Demand Customer Custom 74

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. As with most of Biden’s big infrastructure initiatives, there are startups tackling these issues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. In the relevant market large enough, and growing fast enough, to make it a profitable opportunity? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Training 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

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.

Startup 117

Startup Education Customer Custom 117

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

Establishing and wielding influence may help you move resources in your direction in a large business. These instincts kill you in a small company, where requiring more resources is a negative. On the other side of the ledger, big company executives tend to be demand-driven by initiatives handed down from the top.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Training Technical Review 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

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 traction.

Startup 99

Startup Education Customer Custom 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

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.

Capital 58

Capital Startup Education Customer 58

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now. The stock market reached a new all-time high in 2013, and is finally providing some liquidity relief to concerned investors and startups alike. Next comes sales volume by channel.

Startup 86

Startup Tips Venture Capital Demand 86

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Establishing and wielding influence may help you move resources in your direction in a large business. These instincts kill you in a small company, where requiring more resources is a negative. On the other side of the ledger, big company executives tend to be demand-driven by initiatives handed down from the top.

Startup 105

Startup Company Companies Training 105

Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

These decades are when you have the knowledge and experience, not to mention the contacts and resources, to make a new business successful. They may have the skills, but teenagers surely don’t have the resources—read: money—to start a business, right? Entrepreneurship education is a great start.

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Startup Education Course 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2011

What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. In the relevant market large enough, and growing fast enough, to make it a profitable opportunity? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Startup 94

Startup Resource Training Ideas 94

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard to market demand, then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. The best startups find a way to drive the market with their technology, rather than push their new technology-driven ‘solution’ on the marketplace.

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Technology Funding Competition Entrepreneur 91

Xconomy

AUGUST 29, 2016

As a human resources executive who has worked exclusively in the life sciences for more than 16 years, I empathize with companies that struggle to bring females into the C-suite. I have observed the disparity to be far more pronounced in the life sciences than in fields such as finance, human resources, and marketing.

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Resource Organization Report Demand 69

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Establishing and wielding influence may help you move resources in your direction in a large business. These instincts kill you in a small company, where requiring more resources is a negative. On the other side of the ledger, big company executives tend to be demand-driven by initiatives handed down from the top.

Startup 95

Startup Company Companies Training 95

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I'm actually a Kiwi, a New Zealander, and all of our product and marketing is done out of New Zealand. The education around new products and bringing them to the market is the same in both markets. What is Fuel50? READ MORE>>.

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Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard to market demand, then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. The best startups find a way to drive the market with their technology, rather than push their new technology-driven ‘solution’ on the marketplace.

Funding 88

Funding Entrepreneur Competition Pricing 88

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend a small fortune to protect it before I perform any market validation. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. 4) Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

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Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2010

What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. In the relevant market large enough, and growing fast enough, to make it a profitable opportunity? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Startup 53

Startup Resource Training Ideas 53

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2010

They need to understand that having money is not an entitlement, and not related to the volume of their demands. Sites like MySpace already allow teens to customize their home base with graphics, blogs, and music to make it more attractive to their peers – that’s marketing. The positives include: Learn to make money.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Commerce Blogging Training 87

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Over 150 educational institutions are using our free screenwriting software, and we've attracted writers to our community by providing a free, web-based alternative to expensive screenwriting tools like Final Draft and Movie Magic, which charge $200 to $250 for their tools. The idea, initially, is not to go after the Hollywood market.

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The product has now been on the market for a little over a year. We did very well last year, and started very strong offering both an on-demand and an on-premise product. If you look at education, medium sized companies, and human resources, they don't really have the tools they need to get their jobs done.

Startup 150

Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

The Quigley Report

MARCH 2, 2008

What they are really asking, I think, is "where do VCs get their inspiration about a deal or market space". In my opinion, most of what inspires a VC to get excited about a market comes from rumor, hear say and general media publications. Getting a VC educated about your market space is no easy task.

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Venture Capital Clearstone Startup Education 40

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Rather than shutting down shop, the student simply moved the operations down the hall and continued satisfy the brisk student demand for the consolidated notes. The two Founders then offered their security software for free on the Internet and it quickly became one of the most popular open-source security solutions on the market.

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Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Why cater to a market that makes you eat ramen when you can slap on a suit and get budget for sushi? Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Making Decisions as a Resource Starved Dev Team. Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Keep up the good work.

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41