TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

At launch, there will be nearly fifty retailers on the site including shops like Buck Mason, Le Labo, Parachute Home, the Venice Beach boutique, Coutula 12th Tribe, Timbuk2, Zadig & Voltaire, Supervinyl and Urbanic. . Shops can also offer customers a choice between on-demand delivery, in-store pickup, or non-contact curbside pickup.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Swagbucks site allows users to register and then play games, shop online, search the web, and conduct other activities on the web in exchange for loyalty points "Swag Bucks" -- which can be redeemed for prizes and awards, including Amazon gift certificates, products, or cash. The site says it now has 4 million registered users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In today’s world, with a pervasively connected and constantly updated Internet knowledge base, online self-learning is always available and more productive. I know very talented inventors who have been working on the same technology for 20 years, and still want to do more research to make sure it’s perfect before selling a product.

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Knowledge Base 153

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Watching the orders come in, or the product moving off the shelf, is the feedback you have been looking for. Start even before the product is ready. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Your own learning should be the biggest inspiration of all. A business model that works.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Amazon Studios , the content development effort being run out of Amazon.com's Los Angeles arm, the People's Production Company, has set the first four projects being developed by the company. According to Amazon, it has selected one children's show and three comedies as the first four content development efforts at the company.

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Content Los Angeles Media Angel 145

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Ultimately they accept the responsibility of “the buck stops here,” meaning they live by their own decisions, and never make excuses. Great entrepreneurs seek out critical customers and industry experts, and actively listen, but are not afraid to trust their own judgment as well. Willing and able to do a little bit of everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

The only thing you can't delegate is “the buck stops here” role. Finally, every entrepreneur needs to set aside their fear of delegating. If you do it right, as outlined above, every task will likely be done better than you could do it. That can only be done by the person in charge, and it better always be you. Marty Zwilling.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Based in Los Angeles, GIGXR now owns flagship products including HoloPatient and HoloHuman, mixed reality training programs for medical schools that operate on the new Hololens 2 headset. Australia, and the United Kingdom, will continue to receive support from GIGXR for their augmented reality-influenced curriculum.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Let Your Competitors Chase The Quick Buck. As I discuss in Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop , there are situations in which a startup can generate profitable, near-term revenue that does not support, and may even undermine, its long-term strategy. Thus, smaller meetings facilitate efficiency and accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

With pervasive access to social media, customers no longer differentiate poor product repair and replacement from a poor shopping experience or customer usage satisfaction. My recommendations always include adopting a customer mindset, as well as the following steps: Accept today’s definition of relevant customer support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2019

In today’s world, with a pervasively connected and constantly updated Internet knowledge base, online self-learning is always available and more productive. I know very talented inventors who have been working on the same technology for 20 years, and still want to do more research to make sure it’s perfect before selling a product.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2010

This month we are pleased to feature Brian Buck of fOXX Pedals! Kicking out cool, furred-out products to enhance our first love. Down in the fOXXhole, our first love is music. Our second love? And were not talkin just the Tone Machine, Foot Phaser, or Fuzz Wah Volume either. Come join us at our new location! See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2022

The buck stops here.” Selling is a learned skill, and takes effort, just like building a product. Successful entrepreneurs have to work well with people, whether they be partners, investors, employees, suppliers, or customers. You must do it alone. But the dichotomy is that there are things that you have to do alone. Learn to sell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2022

In reality, your customers care more about your product and service, so feedback on product shortcomings or service glitches are meant to help your business, not hurt you. Every startup founder has to remember that the buck stops with them, and they must learn from every mistake.

Help 131

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We had a great fireside chat with Brock Pierce and had a panel with Richard Wolpert, Jim Andelman, Mark Mullen, Peter Liu and Buck Jordan. Alon Goren: I am loving all of the ai products out there and use x.ai We also got the LA VC community involved as well which was a lot of fun. What's the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2020

A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. All the decisions of the business must be made on your own, better known as “the buck stops here.” Beyond the obvious advantages mentioned above, there are some additional advantages that get mentioned often. Staffing challenges.

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Competition 122

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

It is in her blood to see this journey through and try to launch her product or service to the world. Does your investor eat, sleep, breath your industry or product? I want to wake up in the morning on weekends thinking about the company, the product, their positioning. Does she live your journey?

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Venture Capital Startup Course Entrepreneur 373

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2009

San Diego-based Websense , a developer of web filtering and security products, said yesterday afternoon that the firm has seen "strong cash flow" in the first quarter. Bucking the overall economy, the firm said that it is increasing its expected, full-year cash flow from operations.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Of course it makes no sense to have great people management and a crappy product. – while the other might want a quick sale and pocket some bucks while the tech market is hot.

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Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2013

It’s easier than dislodging well-recognized existing products, and waiting for customer change, even if your solution is better. Buck the conventional wisdom. Save your bucks and get notice without expensive advertising. Challenging convention can open the door to competitive advantage.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Startup Advertising Social Media 117

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

According to some sources , 47 percent of workers feel that office politics take away from their productivity, and is one of the top 10 stressors. We all have to learn the hard way all the tactics to use and avoid to be productive within the complex network of power and status that exists within every business, large and small.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

However, his first-hand knowledge of how software is created, tested and commercialized facilitated his execution of Microsoft’s initial strategy, in which it leveraged its operating system to create a suite of business productivity solutions. His advice is essentially, "buck up, it’s called work for a reason."

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2015

In today’s world, with a pervasively connected and constantly updated Internet knowledge base, online self-learning is always available and more productive. I know very talented inventors who have been working on the same technology for 20 years, and still want to do more research to make sure it’s perfect before selling a product.

Startup 114

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Knowledge Base 114

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. We want to delight the end user, and want to create a really, highly addictive product here.

El Segundo 169

El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

The best ones bring in more executive leadership so you can appropriate allocate resources across sales, marketing, product, engineering and support. You finally need to start planning your product roadmap a bit further than your 2-week sprints so that the rest of the organization has a chance to preplan for new features.

Startup 381

Startup Resource Venture Capital Activity 381

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

in my eight startups, I was CEO and Founder once, meaning the buck stopped with me unequivocally…the role of the CEO is so different than the role of an operating exec, they’re not even on the same planet. Throw them out and make them be product managers or something in a startup to get a feel of a company. Relevancy Is Relevant.

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Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur SaaS 239

InfoChachkie

MARCH 14, 2012

You know, Jesus, a hundred thousand bucks down the drain.”. His logo, not the blank page, is what represented “a hundred thousand bucks down the drain.”. After much debate, the company agrees on their number one priority: to deliver a compelling product to the higher-education market by the Spring of 1987.

Startup 229

Startup Press Design Marketing 229

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2012

It’s easier than dislodging well-recognized existing products, and waiting for customer change, even if your solution is better. Buck the conventional wisdom. Save your bucks and get notice without expensive advertising. Challenging convention can open the door to competitive advantage.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Advertising Social Media Competition 101

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

At Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix), our VP of Product and Customer Experience led a number of teams during his seven-year tenure including Professional Services, Customer Service and Product Management. Don’t Chase The Quick Buck. The Two Pizza Rule.

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Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Can you accept the fact that the buck stops with you? Experience managing projects, people, and finances is as important as deep technical product development skills. Every good business is a positive collaboration between many people with different skills and objectives, with an effective leader to bring their efforts together.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 104

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

In reality, your customers care more about your product and service, so feedback on product shortcomings or service glitches are meant to help your business, not hurt you. Every startup founder has to remember that the buck stops with them, and they must learn from every mistake.

Entrepreneur 99

Entrepreneur Startup Help Mentor 99

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

We've raised a couple of million bucks and business is going great. The challenge and amazing journey of being an entrepreneur is you go through these amazing cycles, at every stage, from pre-product, pre-revenue, pre-everything to even at my last company with a few hundred people, there are new and exciting challenges at every stage.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Software Review Mogreet Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2019

The buck stops here.” Selling is a learned skill, and takes effort, just like building a product. Successful entrepreneurs have to work well with people, whether they be partners, investors, employees, suppliers, or customers. You must do it alone. But the dichotomy is that there are things that you have to do alone. Learn to sell.

Satisfaction 78

Satisfaction Startup Ideas Entrepreneur 78

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

But then you can springboard from there to your next gig and you’ll be an experienced startup employee with functional experience at sales, marketing, product or whatever roles you played.” The first job you take may not work out financially. I’ve said this to recent graduates from university.

Startup 409

Startup Invest Venture Capital Writing 409

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2013

A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. Entrepreneurs are driven to offer a new or better product at the same cost, or an existing product as a lower cost. All the decisions of the business must be made on your own, better known as “the buck stops here.”

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Study 101

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2015

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. Exploit your product and service differences. You must be able to highlight these differences between your products and services, and those of your competitors.

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