SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 -- Innovation. Sustainable competitive advantage comes from the creation and nurturing of an innovation engine that develops and brings to market products and services that provide customer value on an ongoing basis. Techbizconnectoin. Innovation is the creation of customer value through invention.

Competition 100

Competition Customer Custom Product 100

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. but: Something is Still Missing.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 26, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 -- Analyze This: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Properly executed, SWOT Analysis will give you insights into the market for your products and services that were previously invisible. Youll learn new ways to size up the competition and leverage your own strengths.

Competition 100

Competition Help Services Marketing 100

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Competitors, seeing a successful development of a niche, flock into the competitive void with products or services built with a fresh view of the current environment. LivingSocial took in $583 million in capital in 2010 and 2011 with little left in time to show for the investment and tremendous dilution to the founders.

Pricing 120

Pricing Invest Email Competition 120

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 14, 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 -- From University Labs to the Marketplace: The Technology Transfer Engine of Innovation. economy where it has increased productivity and spawned entire new industries. Our economic competitiveness as a nation is dependent on innovation and our productivity.

Enterprise Forum 100

Enterprise Forum Competition Technology Product 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The robot puts the firm in direct competition with Roomba. Evolution's technology has previously been licensed and used in products from Sony, Bandai, Sharper Image, and KDDI. Evolution's Mint cleaner was awarded a Popular Mechanics' Editor's Choice award earlier this year at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show.

Marketing 185

Marketing Idealab Startup Pasadena 185

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Thursday, September 30, 2010 -- Electric Vehicle Roundtable and Drive-a-thon. The Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles (SBCLA),a non-profit organization which provides a professional networking and education forum for SouthernCalifornia businesses and individuals working with sustainable products, services, and processes.

Southern California 100

Southern California Guide Los Angeles Education 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Consumer Reports will test competition vehicles, which must pass pre-race safety inspections, including braking tests, low speed stability tests, and emergency, double-lane change maneuvers as part of the effort. READ MORE>>.

Report 100

Report Competition Education Product 100

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2016

However, if history is any lesson, downturns actually have created some of Southern California's most successful technology companies, whether through forcing those companies to swizzle their business models, by removing competition from the market, or even spurring customers to more readily adopt their products to save money.

Southern California 100

Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Technical Review SoCal 100

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Same goes for television.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Every price comparison out there, whether that's Google Products, Bizrate, or other sites, can find books, but you can only do it one at a time. The act only came into effect in 2010, at which point we built a system to try to find out that information for as many schools as possible. I graduated in May of 2010. READ MORE>>.

UCSD 185

UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

We were acquired in June of 2010, and it's been 21 months now, almost two years. We partnered with the world's largest distributors, Ingram Micro and others, to provide great services, prices, and products to consumers. million products, and let you find the lowest prices on those products. Neel Grover: It's been great.

Sites 210

Sites Commerce Pricing Product 210

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. " 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Now I have.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. Inogen''s products have allowed hundreds of thousands of housebound lung disease patients to leave their homes without the fear of running out of oxygen. The TMP began in the late 1990''s as a single class inside the Engineering College.

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

We're doing our development in El Monte, and we think we'll be operational by the beginning of next year, and full scale by the end of 2010, with product launch in 2011. That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies. What are uses in smart fabric applications?

UCLA 159

UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Go Boulder!

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To legally facilitate startups who want to give top priority to socially conscious solutions, seventeen states, starting with Maryland in 2010, have passed legislation allowing incorporation as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp). Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage.

Startup 101

Startup Organization Entrepreneur Customer 101

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. It’s a cool product and worth checking out. Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost. Redesign/rebrand/evolution of Hello, Chair’s Applanche and Adpinion products.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. But on the other hand if you have a product with a very high gross margin (software, virtual goods, etc.) I believe in integrated products. I love using Yelp’s mobile product. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second.

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Microsoft found this out when their market capitalization, once at $560B, had fallen in 2010 to $219B, allowing them to be passed by Apple, who grew from $15.6B Communication is a challenge in any organization, but it’s a particular challenge when you’re working in a startup, where customers, products, processes, and the team are new.

Ideas 94

Ideas Startup Summary Competition 94

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

In business competitions the clock has rarely expired when you’re told you’ve lost – even in government tenders – key text below. Or frankly, maybe they just believe that your competitor has a better product. I recently repeated this mistake with a company in which I wanted to invest.

Organization 309

Organization Blogging Startup Sales 309

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. How do you stand out?”.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

We launched the first publicly available (German) Beta Version of exploreB2B at the end of 2010. A main goal is to meet other people through the content they publish and find products and services you are looking for. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? When was it launched and where?

Networking 71

Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Warby Parker has been making and selling prescription glasses online since 2010. While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Warby Parker.

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Warby Parker has been making and selling prescription glasses online since 2010. While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Warby Parker.

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. That's the one we'll mass product. We talked with Dubin earlier about the company. It's David vs. Goliath.

Dollar Shave Club 210

Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

That was in 2010, it's all been venture for the last seven and a half years. People welcomed us with open arms, and always wanted us to co-invest, because they didn't see us as competitive. I must have fifty different subscription services, I buy everyone online, I don't drive, I use Airbnb, I try every new product I can, you name it.

Invest 157

Invest Startup Hollywood Echo Park 157

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition.

Southern California 170

Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

According to a recent study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 in the US alone, which is a 15-year high. Building your home base with personal and product traction. Engage your customers through blog comments, product reviews, and personal customer service.

Startup 104

Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. In 2010, we sold the game assets and name PlayScreen, which we had acquired, and formed a new company with some solid financial and technology guys.

Mobile 216

Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. What are GridTest's products used for? Our product has gone to China, Taiwan, Australia, and Europe.

Help 178

Help Startup San Fernando Southern California 178

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Let me assume for this discussion it’s a garden variety 2010 IT or Internet business (as opposed to something requiring capital equipment or a life sciences project). there may be major competitive changes in the market that makes your next funding round hard (e.g. Google suddenly makes your product category free). -

Startup 319

Startup Venture Capital Capital Competition 319

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2010

At any rate, here is my summary of the top ten from my experience with hundreds of elevator pitches, business plans, and executive presentations: “ Our product is truly disruptive technology. ” If your product really represents a paradigm shift, you probably haven’t figured out yet what problem it solves.

Innocal 96

Innocal Entrepreneur Competition IBM 96

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Marketing is considered an art by many individuals because it requires keen insight in how to approach a product, service, or brand, and how to effectively deliver those things to customers. Consumers and businesses, in an ever-competitive marketplace that has been energized by the internet, no longer wants ads that just tell them something.

Advertising 69

Advertising Training Customer Custom 69

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

billion jump in funding over the same quarter of 2010 with a similar number of deals, so it clearly shows a trend to larger deal sizes for fewer startups. Greentech deals had a breakout quarter with deals and dollars up 45% and 145% respectively vs. Q4 2010. Overall, investors put $7.5 That represents a $1.5

Venture Capital 93

Venture Capital Startup Capital Seed Funding 93

InfoChachkie

MAY 11, 2015

In 2010, as part of its “Forever” series, the USPS issued a stamp of the statue of liberty. Mitigating Downside – Unlike the private sector, in which many buyers are focused on gaining a competitive advantage, the fear of loss is often the primary criteria motivating politicians and their appointees. Hey, everyone makes a mistake.

Startup 100

Startup Sales Customer Custom 100