TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Canoo is locking in final contracts with its vendors and is going to be in production with prototypes before the end of the year. Canoo began life as EVelozcity back in 2017. Now, Canoo is rounding out its executive team and pushing forward with plans to bring prototype vehicles to market by the end of the year. operations.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Things have already plunged so quickly at the signal of a recession that insiders fear a lengthy bear market could hit crypto far more brutally than expected — tearing tokens to lows far below the highs of the 2017 bull run. Crypto markets were down pretty bad last week (though admittedly, it’s only been downhill since then).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

I pointed out that the storage market in the US alone is ~$30 billion / year and there is no dominant provider — the largest player has < 10% market share. So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a trusted image (Amazon.com, Ebay).

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Los Angeles-based AvantStay has been around since 2017 and had only raised $25 million in the last four years. “Customers are starting to meet the demand from an experience perspective in rental homes,” he said. “Customers are starting to meet the demand from an experience perspective in rental homes,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 26, 2019

Of the top reasons given in the survey for what honestly seems like a pretty poor decision, increasing productivity was the biggest, given by 38 percent of those who had gotten high at work. The runner-up was “to help pass the time,” at 36 percent, and “to cope with the demands of the job,” at 28.7

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

There's lots of noise in the on-demand tutoring space, especially connecting people virtually, however, in my experience, it's in the best interest of consumers to get in-person, local tutoring. If you look at the other players, I believe, on-demand tutors will never exist. What is HeyTutor? Here's the reason why.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

Back in 2017, the New York Times opinion section was graced with an article entitled: Jerks and the Start-Ups They Ruin. “Some startups have seen demand skyrocket, so they’ve had to quickly scale, attract investment, and respond to client demand. Saying No To Startup Bros.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017. I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. That being said, we were getting inundated with inquiries regarding where to find our product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2017

As a business owner, you have to take a hard look, with your customer hat on, at what you promise and imply to your customers in your advertising, marketing materials, and your customer service. The reality is that a good customer experience today is more important than a premium product. Being unreasonably demanding of others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized. These ideas can grow quickly into real products. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2019

Sensing a more inclusive, gentler approach to parenting following World War II, Ruth marketed Mattel’s revolutionary commercials directly to children. Less than ten years after the conclusion of World War II, toy weaponry was a popular product segment. Mattel’s 2017 sales were $1.6 Image credit: Reuters. . .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The “product” value is difficult to quantify, the costs are nebulous, and entrepreneurs have to clone themselves to scale the business.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

just past the AMC Center) , the virtual reality game-maker Survios planted its first flag in the market for location-based gaming. It’s a matter of survival thanks to the persistent lack of demand from consumers. . But that’s still a far smaller market than the 10 million game consoles that were sold in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2017

Here are some approaches that both of us recommend to get you started: Take a basic product and make it special (upgrade). Fields) are examples of what were once pedestrian products that have driven successful new businesses. Offer a no-frills version of a high-end product (downgrade). Take a broad-appeal product into a niche.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

There are others, like LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. I see lots of new software put together on a shoestring as a “proof of concept” – but then gets rolled out to customers “asis” due to lack of time or money to “harden” the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2017

It's a line from an old movie "Field of Dreams" which is still leading to the demise of too many startups, led by entrepreneurs who really started their business to build an exciting new product or service. Most struggle with the idea and practice of marketing and sales, and see these as a necessary evil, if even required.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

Our system works on under-the-table payments of below-market wages for jobs that our non-Hispanic citizens don’t want to do and in a country where people our unemployment rate is already so low that some economists are warning about inflation due to full employment. Ramiro was demanding one thing?—?“visibility.” Invisibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2017

Thus every entrepreneur and business owner needs to see their market in that context, understanding the global forces that will impact them sooner or later. Luxury goods can easily flow into or out of emerging nations, changing cost factors as well as demand. Technological innovations disrupt stable markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2018

As a business advisor, one of the things I see most often as a drag to productivity and growth is employees who, despite their best efforts, can’t change things that they know are hurting the company. Market changes happen rapidly and regularly these days, requiring a realignment of skills, processes, and approaches to keep up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2019

Rich Branning is the CEO and co-founder of Sweep (www.sweepcrew.com), a company that handles logistics, maintenance, and other heavy lifting required for on-demand scooter companies like Bird, Lime, and others. Rich Branning: We started Sweep in the Fall of 2017, when Travis first dropped scooters at the First Street Promenade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2017

For example, you probably never knew that both Facebook and YouTube started out as dating-site experiments, but pivoted to something more unique when that experiment failed due to an apparently over-crowded market. Leaders need to reward experiments, rather than demand fixed processes. It’s up to you to make it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

More than ever, businesses need to take full advantage of automation, data, and analytics to run their business more productively and competitively. Certainly it’s important to optimize current operations, but in this age of rapidly changing demands and competitors, it’s more important change quickly as the market changes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

If you are approaching a recognized venture capital group, or even an accredited angel investor, a non-disclosure agreement is counter-productive. I also recommend that you practice explaining your concept in marketing terms through social media, networking opportunities, and crowdfunding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2017

It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Anything you or your team knows about the market today may change tomorrow. Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. Markets and needs change so quickly these days that the view we had last week can be out of date today. Assign innovation projects to production organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

Think of value propositions as bundles of services or products that create benefits (value) for customers. Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Yet the 2017 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. She outlines the potential benefits of “workships” (work relationships) evolving into friendships and romances as follows: Improve communication and productivity. in sociology, and is a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. But all good things can be overdone.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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