Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

CES is a prime time for gaming companies to showcase their latest tech: There’s always a collection of the newest PC cases, the latest mobile tricks, gaming laptops, and gaming headsets. The post CES 2016 Gaming: What You Missed and Shouldn’t Have appeared first on TechZulu. Laptop gamers, rejoice!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

I suspect the exuberance for an IPO is still being driven by the highly visible successes of several companies a few years ago, including Facebook, Yelp, and Twitter. In fact, IPOs are down again this year, with just 31 companies going public in the U.S. These include the following: Taking a company public is an expensive process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

Many entrepreneurs assume that everyone will love their solution as much as they do, so they tune their marketing focus based on their own needs and wants. Expanding your market into these areas requires thinking outside your personal box. Identify your built-in biases and define compensating development and marketing strategies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

One theme I saw repeatedly this year was companies continuing to do things the same way, ultimately getting the same results. Companies that took bold steps to try and change or increase the positive trajectory of their businesses were either successful or failed -- but all gained learning. www.science-inc.com).

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since 2013, when Elon Musk released his white paper for an emerging mode of transportation using low air pressure within a tube, companies around the world have answered the call to build the next generation of futuristic transportation. Fortunately, this article is your ticket to understanding the state of the industry as it stands today.

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LATechDigest

JUNE 13, 2016

Reaching Hispanic Markets. LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 6, 2016. LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 6, 2016. LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 6, 2016. RECESS Finals Competition Wrapped at CTRL. LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 10, 2016. Kathleen Milbier (@kath4short) June 8, 2016.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

We caught up with CEO Chris Nicholson to hear about how the venture-backed company is using smartphones to change how we interact with health providers. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Certainly that has been the strategy of many companies, and has worked in the past, but today’s customers and workers are looking for more. With the pervasive and instant communication of social media and the Internet, businesses can no longer hide behind the mask of their own hype, either inside the company or outside.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Investors are looking for a concise description of your product or service without technical jargon or fuzzy marketing terms with value quantified in customer terms. This is also the place to first mention patents and any other differentiators that put you ahead of competition. What are your specific marketing and sales plans?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Offer incentives or competition. There is nothing like friendly competition or an attractive reward to bring out a new base of un-edited ideas. New” companies, like Uber, can build billion dollar valuations, and start acquiring older companies seen as much larger. This approach works best if you make it a quick effort.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2016

Camillus, who has studied this challenge for years at Harvard and with several Fortune 500 companies. These normally require an innovative new business model, non-linear thinking for marketing, sales, and distribution. In mature companies, no one wants to risk the existing market share or sunk costs.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Our interview this morning is with Brad Stewart , the new CEO of Los Angeles-based Fair (www.fair.com), backed by Softbank, which has been in the midst of reinventing the company after some setbacks in its initial efforts to create a subscription-based model for automobiles. Brad Stewart: The company had two previous lives.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. Then, Amoruso started a company called Girlboss that was likened to “Linkedin for Women.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

The fact that entrepreneurs tend to think outside the box with passion and persistence is a big positive, and it's clearly the reason many large companies now fund or buy successful startups for new innovations rather than depend on internal projects. First-to-market is a key competitive advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. Market Size.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Although Arena of Valor didn’t quite take off in Western markets, it has done well in Southeast Asia in part thanks to Tencent’s publishing partnership with the region’s internet giant Garena. That raises the question of whether Tencent can replicate its success in overseas markets where its social apps are largely absent.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company. The culture of a large technology company is to rely on internal development or large, stable, and proven external vendors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Many companies, including Patagonia and Zappos, have used their social focus to enhance their business, but highlight financial return when talking to investors. Target market sizing higher than $10 billion. Sales projections are less than one percent market penetration. Skip the hype. None of these cases are credible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Use every marketing channel available.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Even businesses with highly specialized market segments will find it more effective and simpler to focus on who customers are as people, rather than the “what” of their demographic attributes. Customer value statements must come from customer feedback to other customers, rather than from your marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Unlike sites of the past that were deemed illegal, the current crop of election sites appear to well positioned to exploit the unprecedented focus Americans are applying to the 2016 election cycle. We, on the other hand, operate as a fantasy sports company, similar to DraftKings and FanDuel. Fantasy Pollster. Roy Wood Jr.,

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

For 2015, there were 133 information security M&A deals, according to 451 Research’s Tech M&A Outlook 2016. In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market. It’s why this market segment is so attractive to venture investors. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. Why is this happening?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

exabytes per month at the end of 2016, of which half was video. Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Look beyond today’s requirements for entire new market opportunities.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2019

The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion. Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance. Some of these platform companies, taken together, now have a shared nickname: “FAANG,” which.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Seek evidence of market opportunity to balance your passion. These days, there are over 150 credible market-research companies online sizing opportunities, including Nielsen and Gartner. The average overnight success for a startup takes six years, say marketing expert Seth Godin. And he is an optimist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

zettabytes by the year 2016. Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

For example, at any given moment in your business, you may be limited by development, marketing, or sales. These days, there are many companies around the world, with the skills and equipment you need, ready to assist with development resources, marketing programs, or call centers immediately.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

If you're an employee in a big company, sometimes it can feel like you're not sure when your career is going. How did you start the company? We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) versus New Zealand?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

Secret sauce' or competitive advantage is not clear. They know that showing market traction will attract big companies, like Apple or Google, who can easily overrun the best startup. Market is new or unproven, or your solution is 'disruptive.' Go-to-market strategy is missing or not clear. Minimize both.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

It’s like trying to sell a home still being built at next year’s dream market price. Patents filed, even provisional, as well as trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets count as barriers to entry and sustainable competitive advantages. Get premium for billion-dollar markets with double-digit growth rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Statements about your product’s amazing capabilities or your service commitment, or testimonials about how awesome your company is, are generally not stories because they don’t relay events. They are just someone’s opinion about impact which still belong in marketing collateral, but won’t make you memorable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

Usually, no competitors means no market -- or it means you haven’t looked. If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget. Some entrepreneurs believe that being first to market will keep them ahead of competitors.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

What's the secret to creating a profitable, successful, physical subscription based business--and to do that at the scale of large, consumer product goods (CPGs) companies? xWe spoke with a few companies in the recurring revenue area space, ahead of the Recurring Revenue Conference ([link] which we are helping to sponsor next week.

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