Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. For the VPN industry specifically, we will see a lot of new providers as the barrier to entry is extremely low, and demand is high. Wireless Global Connections. The large U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

After wrestling with recalcitrant homeowners, husbanding their parcels of land to keep their property values high, the state’s leadership passed a law that increased the availability of new rental units and put more money into homeowners’ pockets in 2016. When you can match that latent supply with latent demand.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

I think, now more than ever, Flippy meets the distinct challenges and can help our customers spur new growth. This was in mid-2016, and the decreasing costs of robotics and computer vision made me think that the process of making a burger could be fully automated. The demand is there. Coli, they become Chipotle.

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Businesses are driving that growth, winning customers and expanding their operations. To find scalable Ethernet services that can handle increasing demands as you grow, you need to evaluate providers and services on a specific criteria set that’s designed to accommodate growth. In 2016 alone, over half of U.S. trillion. ¹.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

As we went from a small band of missionaries hell bent on making our idea a reality, raising capital, getting press, and selling to customers – we were all having fun. We built a business with $36 million in bookings and real customers who relied upon our service. So we as a board kicked off a search for the next CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Diagnosing and understanding the customer problem. This means all business people, especially entrepreneurs, need to get beyond the presentations and the experts, to actively listen to real customers. They need to ask customers the difficult questions, and really understand costs versus benefits, as well as competitive alternatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

It doesn’t matter how dedicated and capable you are, there are only so many hours in a day, and as your business scales, you need to count on others for help. Now you have real customers who can quickly turn off hundreds of potential customers if you ignore their feedback. Trust your gut, and ignore naysayers.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. Our customer is not the building owner or tenant, it's the utility. Explain what that peak demand problem is for the utilities?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

According to various reasonably credible reports, including his authorized self-titled biography “ Steve Jobs ,” by Walter Isaacson, he often ignored customer input, berated team members, and misused key business relationships. Bringing innovation and real change to the market does not mean demanding the impossible from your team.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 19, 2016

I wrote a one page business plan and create this logo: My business idea was simple, I wanted to help people “make it work” in their business using technology and building operational software solutions. I was overwhelmed with that choice, but as I scanned the article published in the Star Tribune, APRIL 11, 2016 — 11:07AM.,

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Harris writes: “The figures, dating back to 2016, paint a picture of a company desperate to meet over-ambitious autonomy targets and one that is willing to spend freely, even recklessly, to get there. I hired a pedicab during my stay and the driver confirmed my observations: they’re waiting much longer for customers now.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Department of Energy to help develop tools to secure the power grid. However, in the last ten years-- especially with the power grid--regulatory agencies have started to demand that those systems be able to be monitored for compliance. Frost came up with the concept to help lock down those networks, because no one else was.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2016

Customers are acclimating to change faster than ever before, technology is evolving very rapidly, all markets are instantly global, and the cost of entry is lower than ever. They make a long-term strategy come alive for customers. This helps people move away from the way they used to think, to a new frame of reference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Like startup investors several layers deep, parent company executives often demand approval rights and exert their power, without understanding the issues of starting a new business. In enterprises, performance objectives are usually tied to internal processes, rather than beating competitors, customer acquisition, and revenue growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud. So we expect 2016 to be a bumper year. But the one I was most attracted to was Latino.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2017

With the Identity Theft Resource Center® reporting a 40 percent increase in data breaches in 2016, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Why is everyone so paranoid these days? In addition, there is a real business opportunity here for startups. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

Most advisers agree that only serious and established entrepreneurs will likely qualify or survive the more rigorous accelerator programs, while first-time entrepreneurs at the idea or early implementation stage will benefit most from less demanding local incubator programs. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 05/25/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Crowdfunding is the hot new vehicle for raising money to support your entrepreneurial efforts, with over 1,250 website platforms around the world to help you, according to a 2015 industry report. Get professional help to validate the plan. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/17/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2016

On the positive side, friends and family probably won’t be as demanding on your financial projections as a professional investor, and they likely will be satisfied with an initial offer of a convertible note (loan with option to convert to equity later), so you don’t have to give away the store before you get started.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. But for creators seeking to monetize their following, these newer platforms may be more attractive to some creators, since they already have built-in tools to help them monetize their followings. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Amazon recently announced that it would be adding 100,000 temporary workers to help deal with its projected holiday crush, a 25% increase over its 80,000 seasonal hires in 2014. Naturally, the stores that can best cater to these interests will have an inside track on gaining new and returning customers. Images via shutterstock.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. With the help of Visit Rapid City, Logar’s presentation convinced the ICPC Executive Committee to do a site visit. Rapid City, South Dakota. Burgess agrees.

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