Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹. Local infrastructure providers already have the sites carriers need. Assess On-Net Fiber Optic Maps.

Networking 45

Networking Demand Southern California .Net 45

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Startup 106

Startup Capital Equity Funding 106

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. Rumored to be prepping for an IPO, just inked a deal to launch a new beauty and fashion site with Tyra Banks. which he sold to AOL.

Southern California 228

Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Funding 174

Funding Startup Equity Examples 174

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Ownership.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Who are your ideal customers and market?

Commerce 203

Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Net result and reward.

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. The cost of entry has never been lower.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

Customer Acquisition Cost / Cost Per Acquisition . The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. For example, if it costs $1,000 on Google paid search to get 500 people to visit your site and five of those people purchase an item, your CAC is $200 ($1,000/5).

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Personalize a simple web site. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Publish the site and now you are in business.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis: If you're a buyer looking for original artwork beyond what you can get at a big box retailer, such as an interior designer, or if you're looking for affordable original art, you can come into our site and purchase original artwork through the site, directly from photographers.

Westlake Village 164

Westlake Village Yahoo Commerce Social Network 164

Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Customer Acquisition Cost / Cost Per Acquisition . The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. For example, if it costs $1,000 on Google paid search to get 500 people to visit your site and five of those people purchase an item, your CAC is $200 ($1,000/5).

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Net result and reward.

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. The cost of entry has never been lower.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2014

The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Make your business name one that customers can pronounce and remember easily. Avoid unusual spellings.

Google 117

Google Customer Custom Sample 117

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. The faster the speeds and the higher the quality of your offerings, the more customers you’ll win and retain. Expand your coverage. Dark Fiber.

SoCal 55

SoCal Southern California Help Services 55

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Each has met legal securities minimums for net worth and professionalism, to reduce the risk to entrepreneurs. Most share expertise as well as money.

Angel 106

Angel Startup Venture Capital Seed Funding 106

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. The cost of entry has never been lower.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s hard to be successful in any business when your customers can’t find you, or they find you and still can’t figure out whether your solution works for them. Use plain language (no acronyms) on the first page and every page, to emphasize customer benefits, as well as product features. A guarantee reduces the risk for the customer.

SEO 53

SEO Tips Newsletter Statistics 53

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. She focused on her customer. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Products like Net Nanny and SpectorPro can block or monitor your children’s access to the Internet. We believe we have a responsibility to our customers and our community. For more information about this event or Poogling in general, visit the web site. .&# “What is your address?&#.

Google 115

Google .Net Santa Barbara Email 115

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

Editor''s note: we''re cross running this on our Pacific Northwest site, Northwest Innovation, since part of Rightside''s operations are in Seattle.). We have lots of companies like Namechief, Dreamhost, and Google, as well as lots of others, who use our APIs under the cover to provide domain names to their customers.

Demand 231

Demand HTML Web Media 231

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2013

The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Make your business name one that customers can pronounce and remember easily. Avoid unusual spellings.

Startup 104

Startup Google Customer Custom 104

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Funding 96

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

One way is getting funding from your potential customers. They're raising money from friends, family, customers, equity from strategic partners, and former colleagues. The best way is through customers, the other way is through equity. So can people list companies yet on your site? Does this compete with GoBig at all?

Startup 223

Startup Equity Venture Capital Ideas 223

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Make your business name one that customers can pronounce and remember easily. Avoid unusual spellings.

Company 108

Company Companies Google Customer 108

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 Net income was around $1.4 million, compared to a $7 million net loss in 2008. But LivingSocial is reportedly doing around $180,000 per day in gross revenue.

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Funding 107

Funding Startup Equity Examples 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) – technique used to spread networking worms. My clients and customers use it, and I need to stay in sync. The net is that most companies do dare to put restrictions on social networks “at work.” Contractor, temp, or outsource worker off site. To me, the answers are clear.

Social Network 87

Social Network Networking Tool Sites 87

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

Dave’s Note: This is the first time we’ve had a guest author on the BERKONOMICS site. Many of those investors, individual and institutional, are still licking those wounds; and as a result, investors today want to see a working business model, and customers that are willing to spend good money for your specific solution.

Funding 192

Funding Entrepreneur Startup Invest 192

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

Startup 108

Startup Invest Patents Outsource Development 108

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Once you get to 300-500 customers, it blows up, because it was never intended to scale. Instead, we do this for about a $1000 for a site, in HD quality, supporting eight to 10 participants on a 48- or 52-inch screen. Our future is looking very bright--in the last two months, we've signed up more customers than we ever had before.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Startup 113

Startup Entrepreneur Funding Equity 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. For those who haven't visited your site, what is FitOrbit? Thanks for talking with us.

Media 168

Media Pricing Sites Training 168

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Make your business name one that customers can pronounce and remember easily. Avoid unusual spellings.

Company 92

Company Companies Google Customer 92

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

People looking for an African safari, philanthropic opportunities, Doctors Without Borders, learning a second language, or going to a music festival for the first time, can connect with AdventureLink via any channel--whether that is a local travel agency, through a major online travel site, or through AdventureLink.com.

Web 100

Web Altadena Sites Activity 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

That gives us the ability to monitor the result of campaigns, all the way to the creation of a customer. We've built our revenue and buying model such that we only charge advertisers when they get a customer--or whatever the equivalent of customer for them is, such as is filling out a form to get a sample.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100