socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

However, one of the biggest beneficiaries of that boom-- TaskUs (www.taskus.com) has been far lower profile--but has grown from only five employees three years ago, to over a thousand employees today who are helping behind the scenes to power those startups. What caused you to rethink your business and pivot the business three years in?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. I can think of at least five ways that this benefits the business, as well as customers: Products in a purpose culture more readily sell at a premium price. Doing good opens the door to a broader customer base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

When pitching to investors, entrepreneurs always seem to start with a customer pitch, then add a slide or two about the business. In every case, the relevant pitch needs to start by highlighting a real customer problem, then outlining a new solution, with all the features and disruptive technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2015

A successful business has to satisfy customers with a strong team, by helping them solve problems, save money, or experience more pleasure. He concludes that there are five leadership elements that include him, but are not always about him, that lead to success. What have you done for your team and your customers lately?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2016

By default, innovation in every business decreases over time, and continuous innovation requires ongoing initiatives and measures of customer perceived value. Recognize that customers care about the whole experience. When is the last time you listened to customers and clients directly, and acted on their feedback immediately?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2015

Your business name will have the same impact on potential customers. Tricky spellings send customers to competitors. Most startups don’t have the resources, and should be more humble in starting with a name that customers will recognize. Confusion will cost you customers. Skip the new wave of domain name suffixes.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

In November of 2015, Citrix announced that it will spin out the “GoTo” Division, of which GoToMeeting remains the flagship product, as a standalone public company. According to Nielson, Expertcity was a top-five online advertiser for an 18-month period, based on our total marketing spend. I couldn’t spend money fast enough.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

We are across many platforms, and have a whole array of enterprise customers. Fast forward to around 2015, and we decided to shoot all of our vehicles stereoscopically for virtual reality. It was a way for us to go to our enterprise customers, put a headset on them, and show them the imagery in 3D. That's not the case anymore.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. Vendor costs are subject to change, customers are fickle, competitors come out of the woodwork and the economy can take a downturn.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company had a lot of moving parts, and was growing really quickly, and I was number five on that accounting team. We took it to the market in January of 2015. In our first year of selling, we brought on over 50 clients, and last year we had 170 customers, and we now have about 40 employees. What's the next big thing for you?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 28, 2016

During the past twenty five years, software programs utilized by business underwent tremendous changes. Very likely, the next five years will witness some exciting new developments in programs designed to address Business Process Management (BPM). The use of a cloud holds many advantages. Real Time Data Analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Progress through these phases is unpredictable in time, often takes many years, and can only be measured by customer surveys and market penetration analyses. Here are the five key phases: Innovation trigger. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/14/2015. Slope of enlightenment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

If you strategy and plan are not clear even to you, or constituents don’t seem to get it quickly, you can bet that potential customers also won’t get it. Is this a spare-time-only effort that you have been working on for five years, or do you have real skin in the game? What level of stakeholder commitment do you have?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2015

According to many reports , about half of startups fail in the first five years. Investors, customers and partners follow entrepreneurs who are honest and caring. Now you know how the market has changed, what new customers are not looking for or where competitors are not so vulnerable. New levels of business acumen for startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Traction in the marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Five major elements of every business include your people, product, opportunity, money and marketing. Don’t allow your startup to “fail by success,” meaning too many orders delivered and inventory required for big customers, before their long payment cycle kicks in. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/23/2015.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

That is sent to our partners, and they package that item in a Giftagram box, and they get the gift typically two to five days later. We were incubated and launched in Canada in 2014, and at the end of 2015, we launched in the U.S. Who are your typical customers? Jason Reid: It's generally tech savvy professionals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2015

Together they can attract investors, employees and even customers. Most startups need investors, vendors, distributors and industry support at different stages to achieve aggressive customer growth and penetration objectives. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/08/2015. Able to help, rather than be a helper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2015

Angel investors will perk up if you have a prototype or a few real customers, while venture capitalists will likely choose to wait until you have achieved several million in revenue or customer count. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/27/2015. How much do you really need for the next 12 to 18 months?

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Being one small company amongst the sea of thousands of startups vying for customers, capital, and talent, the way to get noticed above the crowd, connect with that next big partner, and raise some capital is to throw your hat in the ring to compete at Startup of the Year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015. Nevertheless, Gilbert said most customers still want to talk to a loan officer and have a consultative discussion. Fortunately, our default rate has always been low, so even during the recession our customers made on-time payments. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015. Nevertheless, Gilbert said most customers still want to talk to a loan officer and have a consultative discussion. Fortunately, our default rate has always been low, so even during the recession our customers made on-time payments. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

In most cases, a term of two to five years should be adequate. If that doesn’t get their attention, it probably won’t get any customer attention either, and that’s the best feedback you can get at that stage. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/16/2015. CDA entrepreneur idea NDA non-disclosure startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2015

Show them that you have done your homework with industry experts and potential customers, and convince them you are not asking for charity or a donation. Be honest with naïve friends and trusting family members, since more than 70 percent of startups fail in the first five years. Build a prototype first on your own time and money.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: com> 4/25/08.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

mPulse was formed in April of 2015, as a spinoff of a company called mobileStorm, which has been in mobile marketing and communications for the last fifteen years. It's a pretty diverse set of customers, who are all driven of our SaaS-based, contact engine we have created. What is mPulse? How did you get involved with the company?

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StartUp Beat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

shouts, the conference maintains a theme that is much like Burning Man, and coincidently the event’s 2015 iteration did in fact hold a Burning Man festival. . Since Disrupt, we sign up about 5000 new customers a day.”. Besides the frequent “ARRRR!!” Discussion panels, 1-on-1 sessions, and keynotes are all a part of the conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, with an estimated contribution of $30 billion in 2015, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. He starts out by outlining five reality checks for the uninitiated who are too quick to jump in with both feet: Community building has to happen before collecting cash.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2017

There's a new Michigan State University study that came out earlier this year, which says that in only five years, a third of the U.S. After about six or seven years of that, in 2015, in the larger WeMo space at CES, we demonstrated something we had been working on. It's getting bigger, and it's a global challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.” ” Here is a three-minute video with Fred answering this question.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The resulting sales volume and cash flow have allowed Amazon to fund a variety of initiatives, including a drone delivery service that should help Amazon attract and retain even more customers, and thereby continue growing. The primary e-commerce change would come in the form of new customer expectations.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I came on full-time with Startup Junkie in 2015, and haven’t looked back! It may sound counterintuitive, but startups are often tight on cash, which doesn’t make them great customers. 5000 list over the past five years. Can you tell us more about Startup Junkie? Lauren James is an omnichannel retail brand.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

There are more and more valves, actuators, and pumps, as well as monitoring platforms, which have become computerized over time, especially over the last four or five years. It will cost you money, or people will steal your money, or it will cost you a customer. In the industrial area, they don't care about any of that.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2015

Now finally, in 2015, the budget is estimated at $5.1 The result was significant damage to five Iranian organizations, and caused significant physical damage to Iran’s nuclear program. Information that is shared may contain protected free speech, personally identifiable information and private email correspondence from customers.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco. It also ensured that the conference’s tight schedule — as many 20 breakout sessions would run parallel during the five-day event, from Sept. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017.

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