Berkonomics

JUNE 10, 2021

But the real reason to do this is to allow most everything else to fall into place once the critical issues are worked out. Take for example, solving key technology problems that prevent a product from shipment, or from scaling to large production. It is true in every business, all the time. An example to make the point.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Monrovia-based AeroVironment said this morning that it is scheduled to begin installing its home, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations this fall, after receiving Underwriters Laboratories listing on its products.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.” Are our users addicted to our product? But if users don’t come back to your product directly and often I question whether you have a sustainable product / company. Are we making their lives better?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2012

What If You Fall Out of Love with Your Startup? Well, this happened to Andrew Draper , the co-founder of Manpacks , the popular web-based service that delivers men’s essentials, including underwear, razors, condoms, grooming and other products from top-name brands.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2023

The company dooms itself to a slow death over the passage of time as customers desert to newer products. And yet, there are many companies where the cost of product renewal and R&D are just too high to keep up with competition. [Email readers, continue here…] Well, there are two problems here.

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Berkonomics

MAY 20, 2021

There are many ways to fall into this trap. Most often it is the time of the chief architect of the product or service you provide, or of the best developers of that product. An easy way to fall into time bankruptcy. But first, identify what those critical resources are in your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2019

Most impression amplifiers fall within one of these seven major categories: broadcasting, signaling, storytelling, materializing, committing, comparing, and creating scarcity. As you create an innovative product, put an equal effort into a compelling vision. Impression amplifiers: actions to get attention and credibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan &# and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I would love to say that I’m the productivity guru. Admittedly I also fall into this trap.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The company, led by CEO Annette Kleiser, says it has recently completed safety and efficacy testing on its first product and will submit a license application for the conditional approval of the vaccine this fall. Source of the seed funding was not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2021

Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Entrepreneurs with the mantra “if we build it, they will come,” and executives who don’t communicate their expectations, fall into this category. Wait and hope for a miracle. All that’s left is to commit and deliver.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Enhancing Front-End Product Search We also developed a front-end search tool that revolutionized the way users search for products. Even if certain categories aren't predefined in the database, users still receive relevant product suggestions. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. Yet most of the startups I see these days are providing a solution that is easier to use, more fun, or more productive.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2017

Playa Vista-based Wemo , the smart home products brand which is owned by Belkin International, announced this morning that it will be connecting its products to Apple's HomeKit. According to Belkin, the new connection will come via the Wemo Bridge for HomeKit, which it says will ship in the fall. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 17, 2020

As the company said, there are no other methods available on the market that can allow for the creation of complex products from animal cells. Unlike the 3D bioprinting process used by its Russian partner, Beyond Meat uses plant-based products exclusively to make its faux chicken meat. ” Image: Beyond Meat. .

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We fall into the habit of looking at weekly or monthly reporting, and react to trends by holding meetings, changing processes after the fact. Production slowed or stopped? Perhaps we’d use a real time dashboard, one in which all information is fed from direct input from processes in motion. Call center getting behind?

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Grocery delivery startup Good Eggs is announcing that it has raised $100 million in new funding, and that it’s planning to launch in Southern California in either the summer or fall of this year. Image Credits: Good Eggs. Glade Brook’s J.P. Van Arsdale is joining the company’s board of directors.

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Xconomy

APRIL 2, 2020

Flagship Pioneering founder and CEO Noubar Afeyan didn’t know a global pandemic was in the cards for 2020 when he and his team laid out three new thematic areas of focus for the company last fall. On Thursday the Cambridge, MA-based venture capital firm, best known for starting and spinning out biotechs, announced it had added $1.1

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

According to EDF Renewable Energy, it has signed an agreement to supply Kimberly-Clark Corporation with 120 MW of wind energy from the Rock Falls Wind Project in Oklahoma, the first use of utility-scale renewable energy by the Kimberly-Clark. Image: construction at EDF Renewable Energy's Rock Falls Wind Project.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Your attention span sorely reduces to nil, and your quality of input and insights fall as the long day progresses. When to call it a day and become personally productive? Staggering, if you take into account the lost production time of those present, not just the salary cost. And the cost to the company of those meetings? .

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

headquarters in Ontario, California, said today that it has launched into the commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market, with its first product dedicated to commercial use. Yuneec says it plans to ship the new H520 this fall. Yuneec International , the Chinese drone maker which has its U.S. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2019

The two said they expect the facility to be complete in the fall of calendar 2019, with production beginning in 2020. The flash memory facility, being build in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, will manufacture 3D flash memory. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Sam's Club is adding 372 autonomous floor scrubbers, which are manufactured by Brain Corp partner Tennant Company, beginning this fall. San Diego-based artificial intelligence and robotics company Brain Corp says it is expanding its deployment of its technology to Sam's Club. According to Brain Corp., Brain Corp. Brain Corp. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. An agile business doesn’t wait for their current product line to fail, before planning some enhancements. If you organization routinely thinks in terms of months or years to make any change, it’s falling behind and probably already obsolete.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Leaders who are able to optimize these find multipliers of 20 percent up to nine times the average productivity. Time investment standards fall directly on the CEO. Organizational silos, limited spans of control, and too many layers of management can dramatically reduce the productivity of even your best people.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2020

Pasadena-based robotics developer Embodied , led by Paolo Pirjanian, the former CTO of iRobot, said this morning that it has launched Moxie , the company's first product. Embodied's website said the robot will ship sometime this fall, and will cost $1,499. The company is currently taking reservations for $50.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Startup Boost says it is looking for companies with the right team, a minimum viable product, customer traction, and viable plan for going forward. The program said that its last program, in Fall of 2018, attracted over 120 applications for its eight spots. Applications for the program will close on March 15th. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JULY 27, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] This is not to bend this insight into a claim that a company should wait to develop new, groundbreaking products and services until a customer asks for them. All companies whether service or product-oriented must fight to gain and maintain quality of product, or fall to the bottom of the competitive heap.

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2020

The two specifically said that the robot will be used for autonomous frying, to help enhanced production speeds, improved labor allocation and an added layer of health and safety in the cooking process. White Castle says is hopes to have Flippy deployed later this fall. Financial impact of the win was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

But the real reason to do this is to allow most everything else to fall into place, once the critical issues are worked out. Email readers, continue here…] Take for example, solving key technology problems that prevent a product from shipment, or from scaling to large production. It’s true in every business, all the time.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2017

San Diego-based renewable energy project operator EDF Renewable Energy says it has put a 154 megawatt (MW) project in Oklahoma into commercial operation for consumer products giant Kimberly-Clark Corporation. EDF RE says the Rock Falls project is located in the Kay and Grant Counties in northern Oklahoma.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Will the marketplace accept your product? Is there a market for your class of product at all? If you are big enough to have a dedicated product manager, that person is a good candidate for this ongoing task, as is a marketing manager, who should be attuned to the changes in the environment. Second is product risk.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2022

Quality” products and services…. should not be positioned as “cheap,” or your potential customers will question your message from the start and will be more critical of the delivered product than if offered as one or the other, but not both. Fast” applies to either service speed (including delivery) or product manufacturing time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap. Working the circuit of big groups of strangers is minimally productive.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2017

Brea-based TP-Link , which develops both networking products as well as a line of connected, color-changing light bulbs, said it has tied its TP-Link Smart Bulb line into Amazon Alexa. TP-Link rolled out its Wi-Fi connected light bulbs last fall. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. Making Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Possible. Moving beyond the Internet, we have spawned companies with breakthrough technologies in robotics, renewable energy and automotive design and production among others. Diamond Sponsor.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall is garnering some excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! Spotlight: LA Tech Fall will take place Thursday, October 27, at 6pm. Still Time to Submit Your Company!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see.

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