Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Robert Blatt: We say to people that we do customer experience for multi-location brands. Our platform enables them to manage the digital representation of their locations, and engage with consumers in paid, social, and search, to improve that customer experience. So what does your customer look like nowadays? ,p>

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. We help our customers weave together all the data across all of their data streams,” Lunsford said.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations. You need influencers more than advocates. This part isn’t new.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. John Greathouse : Albert, thanks for taking the time to chat.

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MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Our product was built specifically for the mid market, and we've been riding the wave of IT budgets, which are starting to open up, and companies are really quickly signing up because this is a big pain point, from their perspective. He said, this is great, and said they were really interested in getting more enterprise customers.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

In contrast, companies that are rapidly growing often rebrand in order to more accurately reflect the expanded scope of their target market and product set. As Wired magazine pointed out in a January 2013 article , "It’s a Hail Mary pass for a company that held 44.5 A Band-Aid On A Gushing Artery. GoToMy Rebranding Campaign.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. Maybe they just don’t care.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

to hear about how the program is both helping the studio tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community, as well as helping those startups find new customers in the media and entertainment business. When we saw the great success that they were doing, we started our own program in 2013. What''s your big goal for the program?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations. You need influencers more than advocates. This part isn’t new.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Jon Kraft: One of the things we''re doing, is a lot of testing, early--not just the product, but testing the market. We''re really taking that to heart with Thrively, going out and exploring a range of different kinds of business relationships, marketing approaches, customer acquisition techniques, which we''re really excited about.

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MAY 12, 2014

Local manufacturing on the other hand can produce quality and more complex products, but the costs is what prevents many taking this route. SYNCFAB , (Synchronized Fabrication) is a platform to bring hybrid 3D printing and connect inventors and designers with manufacturers and material specialists to bring back local manufacturing.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

Nelson Paez : For the past four years, Dreamhammer has been developing a software product called BALLISTA, which is what we refer to as a drone operating system. We knew there would be a need in the commercial market, and prepared for it by building a viable, commercial-off-the-shelf product. Where are you now with your product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations. You need influencers more than advocates. This part isn’t new.

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JUNE 30, 2016

He's now hard at work at a new company, Kaleo, which is tackling the enterprise, knowledge sharing market�and already has an impressive list of Fortune 500 customers. We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. We raised our seed money in 2013, and we stayed local.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

It is the most viable way to not only get project funding but more importantly to get customer validation. Technological Product. Consumer Product. Cause related campaigns (only for certain crowd-funding platforms). Statistics show that 60% of projects on crowdfunding sites fail to reach their funding goals. Web Series.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow , the turnkey interactive food ordering platform, just raised $3 million in additional funding to launch new products and expand national operations. ChowNow offers restaurants a suite of customized branded interactive apps to make online ordering a snap. ChowNow came out of incubator LaunchPad LA.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Featuring its new games, Infinity and Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved , their space seemed the most active with long lines forming and people patiently waiting for a free custom shirts and Infinity figures. Watch Sony’s brilliantly simple video that proves that in E3 2013, Microsoft was pwned. Photo Credit: Digital LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

One team, a travel company that has built a discovery and planning tool that will make it easy and fun for travelers to find and book trips, was a winner of not just the New Venture Seed Competition in 2013, but also recently won the first day of the Lavin Lean Model Startup Competition in San Diego State University.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3 This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Analytics will soon drive nearly all business decisions for any company that wants to remain relevant to its customers.

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JULY 22, 2016

What's your product, and what is it used for? Gabe Grifoni: At Rufus Labs, we are focused heavily on building wearables and technology in a wearable platform for the enterprise. We're focused on a product which makes for a more efficient, safer, workplace. When we talk to customers, we hear about these pain points.

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APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp was launched online in Beta in January of 2013 and our startup team is based in Los Angeles. Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production. Who are its founders?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. The differentiator is going to be customer experience.”. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. You’ve built a great business, your customers love you. And those who have gone through the process, know. Introducing SeedInvest.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

I had helped launched music products at Nokia, and they put us together. where we'd like to roll out to in 2013, under the DinnerDate.com brand. We've created another business on the back end of the restaurant platform, and have been offering a beta of that business at EveryOccasion.com in Orlando. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Our headquarters are in Berlin, but we have platform users from all corners of the world. The result was a social platform especially built to serve the needs of Business-to-Business interaction and networking. Who are its founders? How does it work?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One way to do so is to ensure that when your customers share their experiences with your products and solutions, they do so with the passion and intensity of a soulful kiss. I work for Hubba, a Toronto startup that has built a sharing platform that takes a unique "big data" approach to data management for brands and retailers.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Date : Thursday, October 24, 2013. Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming. Time : 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

One evening during the holidays in 2013, he was kicked in the face while sleeping on the street, which knocked his two front teeth loose, impacting his livelihood as playing music is his main means of income. Employees of companies on that platform can automatically contribute directly from their paychecks each pay cycle.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

All photos are taken from the 2013 LA Auto Show. Customers know what works well and are frustrated by the lack of innovation in the industry. Auto-interfaces are clunky, and when a lot of these big tech companies IPO’d, a lot of them developed products that were endemic to the car industry – navigation, social graphs, etc.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One way to do so is to ensure that when your customers share their experiences with your products and solutions, they do so with the passion and intensity of a soulful kiss. I work for Hubba, a Toronto startup that has built a sharing platform that takes a unique "big data" approach to data management for brands and retailers.

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