Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 15, 2019

The telecommunications industry is under increasing pressure as customers demand high speeds and data transport, as well as implementing big data initiatives for their businesses. To keep up with demands, carriers are investing billions of dollar in infrastructure and service enhancements to help them grow. Expand your coverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

For example, it may seem quicker and more effective to hand your service desk employees the store policy manual, and tell them to follow the rules, rather than spend time coaching them on how to really listen to customer feedback, and use their strengths to build customer loyalty. Your people will expect more coaches than bosses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). ” Harsh, but reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Custom 114

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2013

They have worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated. Customer service. Who better to run your customer service than an experienced professional with a little gray hair, who is firm but calm, soft-spoken, and credible around your customers? Angel investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

They have worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated. Customer Service. Who better to run your customer service than an experienced professional with a little gray hair, who is firm but calm, soft-spoken, and credible around your customers? Angel Investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. This team is talented. They wanted advice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Al Gore, by just talking about it, still seems to be leading the way in monetization, having amassed an estimated net worth reported recently as around $300 million. Another approach is simply repurposing used items, or simply passing them down to less demanding users, like the ecoATM story with used cell phones, tablets and MP3 players.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2014

At a small company, if you''re constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation. On the other side of the ledger, big company executives tend to be demand-driven by initiatives handed down from the top. The axiom applies to all matters, tiny to large.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. Once you get to 300-500 customers, it blows up, because it was never intended to scale.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. You've got to know best practices in demand generation. What is CareerArc? That's been very effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

They have worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated. Customer Service. Who better to run your customer service than an experienced professional with a little gray hair, who is firm but calm, soft-spoken, and credible around your customers? Angel Investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation. On the other side of the ledger, big company executives tend to be demand-driven by initiatives handed down from the top. The axiom applies to all matters, tiny to large.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2011

At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead creep rather than value creation. On the other side of the ledger, big company executives tend to be demand-driven by initiatives handed down from the top. The axiom applies to all matters, tiny to large.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. CallFire’s business model focuses on providing complete application solutions to businesses, while its open API enables applications to be customized in virtually any fashion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead creep rather than value creation. On the other side of the ledger, big company executives tend to be demand-driven by initiatives handed down from the top. The axiom applies to all matters, tiny to large.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

People are demanding more and more experiential opportunities out of their leisure holidays. It's the first year that baby boomers have been eligible for retirement benefits, and there are people with discretionary income, even in these economic conditions, who are demanding these experiences. Thanks for the interview, and good luck!

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For people who are serious about losing weight and improving their fitness, the way to do that it to use a dedicated expert--a trainer, a meal planner, or dietician, who can work with you on a daily basis and create a custom plan. The trainer makes you a daily, customized meal plan and exercise and activity plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

is a lot more of: Show me how youre going to commercialize this technology, I want to understand how it makes money. Well, that technology came from an L.A. Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently? Register Now!

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

You do not want your IP lawyer to learn the prior art associated with your technology on your dime. In order to enhance its value and reduce the risk of someone easily circumventing your solution, you cannot abdicate responsibility by relying solely on an IP attorney to translate your technology into a patent application.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller. Developments Blog. October 5, 2012.

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