Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

What you probably don’t realize is that the term disruptive brings its own set of baggage, implying to investors extra high risk, high market building costs, and a long slow ramp before payback. De Beers produced industrial diamonds, but found a market as well in engagement rings. Focus on a large opportunity in a low-growth market.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We''ve put a spin on this, where you can use your own personalization or custom designs for your own Bluetooth headset, just like you would create a personalized case for your smartphone. I got a lot of pushback--none of them wanted to change their designs, and no one thought anyone would wear a flower. This is a crowded market.

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

Having developed games for the social game market, what do you think makes a game successful or popular in this market? We found a space in the market that we felt there was an opportunity to build a great game. At the time, in 2007, Facebook had just announced they were opening up their API to third party developers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Brandenberg was most recently head of Hydra, and we thought we'd both get some insight into how Meteor is approaching the social games market, how the firm hopes to repeat the success it saw with Neopets, and also what Brandenberg learned from his time at Hydra. Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? Whats interesting is that Ive been seeing opportunities to use social marketing for businesses that typically target Time Poor audiences.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? Give up a box of clothes and receive one in the size you designate.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

This acquisition resolved the surgical robotic IP landscape and allowed Intuitive to dominate the market. Even if your company is not acquired and you elect to access the public capital markets via an IPO, the above tenets remain valid. Design patents make up the majority of non-utility patents. Know Thou Prior Art.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

These are tech launch events designed to see new startups unveiled. SXSW is where Twitter broke out in 2007. To be clear I’m not saying don’t attend SXSW, just not to blow your marketing budget trying to stand out. I’m talking about big, garden-variety, industry-wide, schmooze fests. They will fail.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

KTSi) announced it had acquired the rail assets of Pentadyne Power, and set up shop targeting the use of flywheel technology in the rail market. It's a fairly straightforward system design, and is essentially what Urenco developed. It's a very broad market. Earlier this month, Kinetic Traction Systems, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. When you’re researching a market you can spend a year putting your hypotheses on paper but you somehow never really have a handle on the minute details of the industry until you’ve lived in it.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. To what extent have you been able to leverage your experiences as a brand marketer to effectively address the differing concerns of these constituents, without utterly confusing your message?

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We were crowd sourcing artists and design. That one client, plus a need in the market really drove the product. We provide the software platform, and if a client needs some custom design we can quote them on creative and setup, or they can handle it on their own. Jimmy Hendricks: One, is we were one of the first to market.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

That said, Apple will remain a closed system designed to drive media consumption through a closed iTunes system and a take a toll for media distribution. and Excite in particular as well as all of the Internet companies with grandiose stock market valuations. Torso TV - Television was designed for a mass audience in a single country.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. automation, which is designing automated machinery to assembly cars, food, beverages, packaging, pharmaceutical packaging, and so on. For example, we have a. I am obsessed with automation.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. Clients have included MoveOn.org, Rep.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We need venture debt, factoring companies and public markets. Others should swing for the fences - Some companies are designed to be big, industry changing plays. There is no way for people to keep prices down – it’s a competitive market. In public investing you can get in and out even in a bull market.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2010

Joe Fisher: The reason we're changing our name, is our original name, CFX Battery, was descriptive of our first technology coming to market. As a result, in 2007, our three lead investors -- including CMEA Capital, U.S. One of the usual barriers to entry in markets is cost--how does your technology compare?

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. Demeter Interactive is a digital marketing and communications firm based in Los Angeles, California.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. Demeter Interactive is a digital marketing and communications firm based in Los Angeles, California. Diamond Sponsor.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The alleged First Mover Advantage asserts that companies which are the first to exploit a new technology and/or market have an inherent advantage. In most instances, small companies do not have the financial wherewithal to bludgeon the competition and establish market share through brute force. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Federa added that the entire Solana network is designed to keep fees low in the long term. I think NFTs are just a very new misunderstood market, and I feel that it’s really hard to step back and explain it,” said Megan Manzano, a literary agent working with young adult authors who voiced concerns about Realms of Ruin on Twitter.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

This entry focuses on how you can minimize your cost per customer acquired by systematically establishing the infrastructure necessary to track the results obtained from a variety of online and offline marketing vehicles. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. Demeter Interactive is a digital marketing and communications firm based in Los Angeles, California. Diamond Sponsor.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

We were founded in 2007, with the mission of leveraging video -- which is a much more, exact medium -- to help consumer with this problem. The have to also go to market with a turnkey solution, which is cost effective. Our application is designed to leverage their investment in video, and deliver these guides.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Entrepreneurs can emulate de la Guerra’s strategy and make their adVenture appear far larger than reality and thus increasing its influence and market reach while discouraging competitive threats by creating an industry alliance. We naturally exploited this market reality by allowing alliance members to set up small booths at our conferences.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). And to go with your new glasses and shoes you can hop on youtailor.com and literally create your own matching outfit, making us all designers.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

We recently talked with the firm's CEO and co-founder, Gus Ezcurra , to learn more about the company and what part of the energy monitoring market the company is focusing on. Gus Ezcurra: We started the company about two years ago, in August of 2007. It's a well established market, and those are sold to large industrial customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). And to go with your new glasses and shoes you can hop on youtailor.com and latterly create your own matching outfit, making as all designers.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Cameron Olthuis is an Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur that owns several Internet Companies. His specialty combines social media with search engine marketing to build large media audiences on the web. Lucky is a hybrid – half agency/half production company that writes, directs and produces viral films and branded content. .

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