Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Either way, very few startups can afford to forge new markets or create a product that does not fit into an existing class of increasing demand. Certainly there were resources available to point the company toward the information. A story of a company that couldn’t see far enough ahead.

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Berkonomics

MAY 21, 2015

Venture capitalists sometimes make an error in directing their portfolio company CEOs to push resources to the limit and scale the business to immense size quickly, all to seize market share. Experienced CEOs often make it a habit to scale as a result of demand, reducing risk and mating cost to growth in revenues.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

VCs want you to raise the “appropriate” amount of capital, which I would define as what is reasonable given your progress to date, your resources and your needs for an 18–24 month period. Every VC wants to fund a deal that seems to have too much demand. Having too little demand leads to bankruptcy.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Email readers, continue here.] Either way, very few startups can afford to forge new markets or create a product that does not fit into an existing class of increasing demand. . Certainly there were resources available to point the company toward the information. That’s a valuable lesson. The trend is your friend.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. You've got to know best practices in demand generation. If you're not quick you're not there.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. People who believe the former believe that you should see the market demand before too many people know you’re “in market.” Sometimes?—?best

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Despite these abundant resources, the team's ineffectiveness was reflected by the company's dismal 11% market share. And then they said one thing that most marketers go their whole career never hearing, 'Listen Steve, price is irrelevant, it is speed that matters.' We had been pricing our graphics cards to be a low-cost provider.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. What price will your customer ultimately accept?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2014

This takes both time and bandwidth which are becoming ever more limited resources in our ever-busy, on the go lives. With your phone or tablet being plugged in, we lose direct access to our device in the event of an incoming text message, email or call. This simple solution opens the door to several detrimental potentialities.

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Entertainment Social Network Software Demand 93

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. However, direct mail has all of those components.

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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. It's amazing how rare it is for professionals to return phone calls and emails promptly, show up on time, or finish a project for the price quoted. Making cakes, making baby clothes, or making birdhouses, for example.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Ran gold Resources Ltd. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

It's a comprehensive program with national sales training, HTML emails, a very cool interactive Flash landing page about the 8 ways to save, brochure and presentation for the sales people, extending reach via social media, etc. More general resources are: Tracy Williams at Olmstead Williams for PR. Not one of these ways is low rates.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He’s been steadily emailing me for the past 18 months with ideas for local entrepreneurs I “have to meet&# and has been egging me on to spend more time in Seattle. I’d bet if one is disciplined about investing here you’d see significantly better pricing than chasing deals in the overly competitive Bay Area corridors.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter as a company has encouraged this by granting DataSift “re-syndication rights,” which means that the company can ingest the full Twitter fire hose and resell subsets of it to other parties who want to consume a smaller stream, which is more cost effective in data licenses and in IT resources needed to consume the data.

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